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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Enactive"”.
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Enactive Democracy
… formulation of proxy claims. What I call `enactive democracy' takes practices and forms of life themselves as objects of reciprocity and attends not to speech but to the reasoning that inheres in embodied practices when norms of conduct are establish, contested and modified …
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Amplifying Actions - Towards Enactive Sound Design
… dissertation aims to set the foundation for Enactive Sound Design. It is focused on sound that engages sensorimotor experience that has been neglected within the existing design practices. The premise is that such a foundation can be best developed if grounded in transdisciplinary methods …
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A Rhetoric of Fields: Orientationalist and Enactive Essays for Writing Studies
… methodologies and texts as orienting and enactive tools in and beyond traditional disciplinary, institutional, and curricular contexts.</p>
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On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography
… transdisciplinary perspectives. It develops an enactive approach to cosmography, contending that processes of visualizing and interpreting the cosmos iteratively shape ‘views’ of the ‘world.’ The archetypal trope of the heavenly sphere is examined to demonstrate the significance of its …
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Gestural minimalism : developing a pictorial model in light of Deleuzoguattarian and enactive theories
… philosophy of becoming and Varela et al.’s enactive model of cognition. The aim was to integrate it to my own pictorial practice, which, before engaging in this research, was only based on geometric abstraction and, which I considered was too static and representational. Consequently, a …
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Enactive Agnosis: The playful use of form as a bodily activity of (not) knowing
… these ideas into the overarching concept of enactive agnosis. Enactive agnosis is offered as a methodology and a mindset in the realms of action research, arts-based research and healthcare change. A pragmatic, realistic, playful approach that recognises, enables and enacts ‘not-knowing’ and …
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An enactive inquiry into mathematics confidence : a case study of nine pre-service primary school teachers
Many learners and teachers of mathematics experience a lack of mathematics confidence. Research has posited that beliefs teachers have regarding mathematics, including their level of mathematical confidence, impact greatly on their practice of teaching, and hence on the confidence of their …
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A New Framework for Enactivism: Understanding the enactive body through structural flexibility and Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of flesh
The enactive approach to cognition and consciousness offers a valuable alternative to the standard approaches dominant in the sciences of mind. As an embodied account, enactivism incorporates theoretical perspectives on the body from phenomenology, cognitive science, and biology, which provides a …
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Predictors of General Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Educating Autistic Students: Enactive Mastery Experiences, Vicarious Experiences, Verbal/Social Persuasions, and Physiological and Affective States
… are four principal sources of self-efficacy: enactive mastery experiences, vicarious experience, verbal persuasions and physiological and affective states. This study examined these sources within the context of educating autistic students. The results offer several practical implications for …
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Sculpting behavior : a tangible language for hands-on play and learning
… theories of how learning progresses through enactive then iconic and then symbolic representations. This thesis present an example system and set of design guidelines to create a class of tools that helps people transition from simple-but-intuitive exploration to abstract-and-flexible …
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Learning to draw: an active perceptual approach to observational drawing synchronising the eye and hand in time and space
… models of expert drawing behaviour with enactive perception theory (Noë 2004), observational drawing practice and pedagogy, the thesis concludes that drawing is both an action and a form of perception, finely-tuned for detail by the coupling of the movements of the eye with those of the …
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Enacting Cognition: Actor Education and the Performance of Everyday Life
… “embodied cognition” (Lakoff and Johnson) and “enactive cognition” (Varela, Thompson, and Rosch), the author conceives of human thinking and being as “enacting cognition”. Enacting cognition is the dynamic synthesis of objective knowledge and personal understanding. It is the experience of …
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Possibility of the impossible: exploring third order change towards responsible banking
… third order change as a ‘form of embodied enactive ethics’ in the context of shareholder capitalism, and the possibility of organizational transformation when it comes to mainstream banking, through narrative based inquiry into the ecosystem of realities of the remittance economy and …
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Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
… by different kinds of experiences, including enactive perception, mental scanning and imagining. An elicitation-based study with pictures representing static linear extensions was conducted with speakers of the same three languages. All pictures followed a two-by-two design: the object either …
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Metatheater in the French Baroque: The Boundaries of Cognition, the Power of Spectacle, and the Horror of Violence
… neurophenomenology, cognitive linguistics, enactive theories of mind, and also theories of formalism, politics, aesthetics and violence, this thesis brings together literary studies and cognitive science in a way that inquires not only into the mind but also other issues important to the …
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Mobile Technology for Language Learning and Instruction: Investigating Beliefs and Attitudes of Indonesian EFL Preservice Teachers
… and other influencing elements of self-efficacy: enactive mastery, vicarious experience, and physiological arousal. Finally, this study presents implications and recommendations which can be a reference to optimize the integrated mobile technology for class instruction and identifies which aspects …
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Second-order learning in developmental evaluation for community-based sustainability
… DE with a conceptual architecture drawn from the enactive cognitive science paradigm, rooted in an explicit accounting of complexity. Using this base, a prototype DE framework was designed and provisionally field-tested in the form of a set of prompts to be used with CBS practitioners to augment …
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A qualitative study investigating the sources of teacher efficacy beliefs
… beliefs are formed from four sources: enactive mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion and physiological and affective states. Considering the potential importance of developing positive teacher efficacy cognitions, there has been a lack of research investigating …
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Issues in objectivity and mind-dependence
… the argument, I elaborate a distinction between enactive and essential dependence on mental phenomena, arguing that both kinds of dependence may obtain without impinging on an entity's reality. In Part III, I address the question of objectivity and mind-dependence: I argue that certain kinds of …
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The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A philosophical reflection for graphic design)
… are coupled are brought into focus through enactive conceptions of mind within the cognitive sciences, describing how mind and meaning are emergent within an autopoietic organism-environment system. This provides a framework in which the affective dimensions of matter can be more fully …
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