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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Historical Inquiry"”.
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Marvin S. Pittman: A Historical Inquiry of His Life, Legacy and Leadership
<p>This dissertation is an inquiry into the educational leadership style of Marvin Summers Pittman, April 12, 1882-February 27, 1954. Pittman was a transformational leader with a vision to set goals that sometimes appeared to be outside the box during his time as an educational leader. Pittman …
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An Historical Inquiry into Thomas Jefferson's Influence on the American Educational System
… look at the influence of an important American historical figure, Thomas Jefferson, on the institution of the American Educational System. Thomas Jefferson was involved in many decisions involving the traditions, practices and institutions of many educational establishments of his time period. …
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The recipe book and the construction of female domestic identity: a historical inquiry
… to which we attach importance. Specifically, the inquiry explores the cultural mores surrounding the practice of cooking and writing food. It considers the interplay between public and private, male and female, self and other and the significance of the domestic space in each case. It asks how the …
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Space, History and Mobility: A Historical Inquiry of Seoul as a Mobile City From 1970 to 2000
… and facilitate mobilities are enmeshed in the historical making of the modern city. In particular, in contextualizing multiple forms of mobilities in varied efforts of producing space, I analyze how Seoul has been a city of mobility and how people in Seoul has experienced and perceived the …
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Structures of Accumulation and Security: Understanding Contemporary Farm Attacks Through Autoethnographic Reflections and Historical Inquiry of the Cape Colony
… methodology of microhistory and autoethnographic inquiry. This study seeks deeper insights into the enduring patterns that characterise settler colonies, particularly in relation to the perception of persecution of the settler group. Through the lens of autoethnography, personal reflections are …
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The Effects of Training, Modality, and Redundancy on the Development of a Historical Inquiry Strategy in a Multimedia Learning Environment
… on students' ability to apply and recall a historical inquiry strategy. Fifty-six students were randomly assigned to three treatment groups, which differed according to the presentation mode combination used to present the strategy instruction. Specifically, students received the instruction …
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A Historical Survey Of The Town Of Walkerville Ontario, 1858-1922, Including An Evaluation Of The Influence Of Hiram Walker And His Sons In The Growth And Development Of The Town Until 1922
… has a two-fold objective. Fundamentally it is a historical inquiry of a general nature into the origins and growth of the former Town of Walkerville which was amalgamated into the present City of Windsor in 1935. Secondly, it is an attempt to assess the influence of Hiram Walker, from whom …
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A history of Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters
The purpose of this qualitative historical inquiry is to investigate the performances of Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, TX from 1972 to 1980. Austin Ballet Theatre was an amateur ballet company performing classical and contemporary works at the Armadillo World …
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Teaching the Voices of History Through Primary Sources and Historical Fiction: A Case Study of Teacher and Librarian Roles
… century. Empathy for the human participants of historical times has been deemed by a number of educators as important for the development of historical understanding. The classroom teacher and the school librarian both have a prominent stake in creating educational experiences that foster the …
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Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features
… electronic social matrix, this cultural-historical inquiry explores the technological construction of human being (e.g., cyborgs) and sociality in the America Online cyberscape. A two-tiered critical-hermeneutic method enables exploration of the broad rationalizing historical narrative …
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Walking the City of Cape Town: (un)happiness
… research moves between philosophical analysis, historical inquiry, and lived urban encounters. The apartheid city provides both archive and laboratory: its spatial legacies, student protests, and affective atmospheres constitute points of encounter through which happiness is reimagined as an …
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The simulation of selfhood in cyberspace
The first part of this paper is a socio-historical inquiry into various conceptions of self and selfhood from ancient to postmodern times. Part two is the product of ethnographic research conducted on the Internet which examines the simulation and evocation of selfhood in Cyberspace. Specific …
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Later Nineteenth Century Marriage And Divorce Law: The Changing Historiography Of The Law And British Women's History
… between these two related but separate areas of historical inquiry. Women's and later gender history has tended to focus more on what women's lives were like and their roles both inside and outside the home. Legal historians and scholars in general have focused primarily on changes in marriage, …
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Understanding historical empathy in the classroom
Historical empathy is a topic that is decades old in history education research, but has been stunted in it’s implementation due to a lack of conceptual clarity, and a lag in balanced research grounding the term. Also, classroom practices and pedagogy have had some implementation missteps that have …
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Building history : learning with archival photographs
… It is rare for students to engage in authentic historical activities - analyzing multiple documents to look for similarities and variations and ultimately assembling interpretations of past events. In this thesis, I present a set of tools, called Image Maps, that allow students to conduct …
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Knowing History: A Study of the Construction and Implementation of Historical Knowledge from Theory to Practice
… examine the construction and implementation of historical knowledge from theory to practice. By investigating how scholars, curriculum developers, and classroom educators define and enact historical knowledge, I trace how knowledge moves between the spheres of theory and practice. Manuscript One …
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Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
… women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment was advertised for and viewed during the 1920s and 30s in the United States of America. This new source …
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Economic structure and individuality: an essay on contradiction
… theory in toto is put to the ultimate test of historical inquiry and verification. This historical investigation seeks to explore the development of capacities and the structure of activity (use-time) in the Advanced Capitalist Countries since the mid-19th Century. Contra the deskilling …
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