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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Critical engagement"”.
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A Critical Engagement with Piratical Opinion
A study of the intellectual property crime commonly known as ‘file sharing’ using the file sharing websites on which users display their activity and post comments. As a guide I will use a meta-theoretical framework first developed by Roger Sibeon and then expanded by Tim Owen to help focus the …
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Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar: a critical engagement
This thesis examines the relationship between two major twentieth century theologians, Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. It seeks to show how their meeting, resulting in von Balthasar’s seminal study The Theology of Karl Barth, goes on to influence von Balthasar’s theological development …
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Mauri oho, mauri tu, mauri ora: Enhancing Maori health and wellbeing through a critical engagement with social marketing
… Based on the transformative aspirations of critical theorists and emerging theories of kaupapa Maori, I incorporate the holistic constructs of Te Ao Maori while minimising the impact of the externally imposed mechanistic and functional metaphors dominating the contemporary formulation of …
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Engagement Paper for the Documentary "The Nation of Women"
… of my film, The Nation of Women - and of the critical engagement paper – is this unique matriarchal culture, its historical resilience, its ongoing gradual erosion prompted by globalization, and its attempts to adapt and survive its consequences. This critical engagement paper first reviews …
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Running To and Away From Reflection Animated Auto-Ethnographic Video
This critical engagement paper accompanies my Video Poem, Running To, and Away From Reflection. This autoethnographic experimental documentary in the form of a video poem is both research and documentation of my assumptions, insights and memories. These were triggered by the Restrictions of the …
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Art of Play in Zones of Conflict - The Case of Israel Palestine
… divisive political rhetoric, is the stifling of critical engagement. This practice- based research project investigates play as a tactic used by artists from within the region to counter this impact by re-igniting participants’ critical engagement. Framed as ‘critical play’ (Flanagan, 2009) the …
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CRIME, CRIMINALITY & SOCIAL REVOLUTION
… this exposition of Fresco’s true beliefs, a critical engagement is presented. His ideas are contrasted against that of other prominent social scientists. Specifically, this study discusses Fresco work and the subject of ‘crime’. Finally, the usefulness of Fresco’s work is scrutinised.
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A complex orientation to embodiment in online education: making online educational spaces more engaging and more socially just
… exclusion from power and resources; and creating critical engagement around embodied relationships of labor. I analyze how embodiment is meaningful for online educational spaces; and then suggest ways to negotiate new design strategies and pedagogical practices with complex understandings of …
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Breaching the walls: (un)restricted access - the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
… "past" memory, perhaps too well, limiting its engagement with the transience, fluidity, conflict and contradiction that are traits of the contemporary city. The land on which the Castle sits has been heavily impacted by the Foreshore reclamation, growing transport infrastructure, the …
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Falling Between the Cracks: Compound Identity Discrimination Within Primary Healthcare
… attribution errors placed on PCPs, and critical engagement with identity from patients. From the emergent themes, I develop a theoretical framework for PCPs to recognize the diverse lived experiences and knowledges of patients by providing a novel approach to anti-oppressive health care.
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The import of the sensation of the abyss
… creative production is the modus operandi for my critical engagement with the subject matter. The claim that research and creative practice inform one another dialogically is exemplified by a discussion of the role of research as a tool for contextualising my own visual art practice, as well as …
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A Discourse Analysis of University Internationalization Planning Documents
… twenty years. However, most research that looks critically at internationalization in higher education is conducted outside of the U.S. In order to address this gap, Foucault’s framework of biopower and governmentality were applied to a discourse analysis of the ways in which Big Ten …
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Seen and Heard: A Visual Testimony of Purity Culture Using Qualitative Photovoice Methodology
… by integrating visual storytelling with critical reflection, emphasizing the importance of participant voice in research. The implications for practice and future research center on fostering spaces that encourage autonomy, healing, and critical engagement with religious and cultural …
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Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century
… porosity that fundamentally undermines critical assumptions of stable, legitimate social organization, such as consent, the "natural" primacy of the family, and "natural sociability." Thus the novel, as the following chapters argue, a popular literary form derogatorily associated (in …
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MOCI : Museum of contemporary information
… where the issue is no longer access but one of critical engagement. The built environment should not only respond, but it should play an active role in guiding the way that communities adopt and employ new technologies. There is an opportunity to provide a context which promotes personal …
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ON THERMICITY.TECHNOCULTURES, SUBJECTIVITIES, AND ELEMENTAL AESTHETICS
… understanding of thermal phenomena. Through a critical engagement with the history of thermometry, this research introduces the concept of thermicity as a theoretical framework that acknowledges the co-existence of aesthetic, experiential, medial, and cultural dimensions of heat. By analyzing …
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Legitimacy and Continuity in The Horn: A Conceptual Analysis of Alex de Waal’s Political Marketplace
In this dissertation I critically engage with Alex De Waal’s understanding of the nature of legitimacy in the Horn of Africa and the concept he formulates to understand it and explain political behaviour in the Horn: the political marketplace. Through this process of critical engagement, I clarify …
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Acting out: a performative exploration of identity, healing, and wholeness
… OUT through its usage of performance method, and critical engagement with Black feminists (see hooks 2004; Lorde 1984) offers for both author and reader a chance to find love, affirmation, and create whole and boundless self-identities.
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Multimodal textbook design : analyzing the construction of the discourses of pharmacology
… However, it does not prepare the student for critical engagement with the changing social realities and relations of power in a post-Fordist society. The value of the study is two-fold. Firstly, it reiterates the importance of critical reflection on the various aspects of a curriculum. This …
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