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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Historical Theory"”.
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The Politics of Choice and Institutional Development in Global Environmental Regimes
… this dissertation develops a distributive historical theory that connects the micro-foundations of state choice to the macro-processes of institutional development. I argue that distributive conflict over the terms of cooperation in a regime provides dissatisfied states with incentives to …
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Responsibility, History, and Authenticity
… regarding whether responsibility is historical. The focus is on what makes one’s values, desires, beliefs, and other springs of action authentic or “truly one’s own”, and what effect, if any, past manipulation has on authenticity. In this thesis, I present and attempt to clarify …
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Expert teaching: what matters to expert teachers? A cultural-historical perspective on relational expertise
… has been under-researched. Drawing on cultural-historical theory, this study considers teachers’ own understandings of expert teaching, and how their motives relate to their teaching actions. The study focuses on 9 expert secondary school teachers in one secondary school in England to discern …
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Preparing first-time workers for a digital economy: a case study of a South African learnership programme for IT support technicians
… work environment. Informed through Cultural-Historical Theory (CHT) this case study examines the experiences of seven participants employed by an Internet Protocol Company (IPC) in Gauteng who were enrolled in a SETA-accredited IT Technical Support programme. This study used semi structured …
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Alternate theoretical perspectives on the literacy documents of a teenage mother
… unwed mother. Narrow concepts of agency have historically been part of a stigmatizing view of teenage pregnancy defined in terms of adolescent sexual activity and welfare dependence. In understanding her situation the study examines the concept of agency in models of the learner. In a …
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Vygotsky and play : a critical exploration of theory and practice
This study describes a critical exploration of theory into practice. Two principles of Vygotskian cultural historical theory: mixed age play and enhanced home- school links, already integrated into practice in Zolotoi Kluchick (Golden Key) programme schools in Russia, were adapted and implemented …
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Political violence in the American South: 1882-1890
… percent at any given election. The prevailing historical theory is that the threat of violence was a form of de facto disenfranchisement that prevented blacks from turning out to vote. Both historians and political scientists assume lynching to be the method through which the white population …
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Meeting and Minding: early interactions and learning who we are
… a ‘second person perspective’) and cultural historical theory (specifically Vygotsky’s late writing on perezhivanie, the social situation of development, sense and meaning). Engaging with these different ways of seeing how infants are helped to fit in and to stand out has informed my …
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Oral history and human rights: the archive and disability at Winnipeg's Oral History Centre
… anticipating being able to make use of my historical training. While this has occurred to some extent, I do not feel historical theory, specifically theory that informs the practice of oral history, has had its potential fully realized in the discipline of human rights. While at the OHC I …
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Productively Undoing a Doctoral Study: Ethically Researching Early Childhood Education and Care in the Majority World
… of Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological systems theory, Vygotsky’s socio-cultural historical theory, and post-colonial theory the study was designed to collect data by ethnographic observations in the school and wider society, along with participatory methods with the children (such as drawings …
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Finding Onesimus: Recovering the Story of a First-Century Fugitive Slave
… purpose, this project challenges a popular historical theory for Onesimus’ flight, the so-called <em>Amicus Domini</em> theory. This is the theory that Onesimus fled his master Philemon with the premeditated intention of seeking out the Apostle Paul as a peacemaker in a conflict Onesimus was …
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A cultural-historical analysis of Grade 9 History curriculum and its pedagogical resources for learners' conceptual development
… for concept development. Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory and the work of Neo-Vygotskians are used as the theoretical framework for the analysis of data in this study. The findings show that the CAPS document offer guidance to teaching resources on the necessary knowledge forms required …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
… to the metaphysics it rests on and the historical attitudes that it constructs and maintains. The dissertation is divided into three main parts, each with a number of subdivisions. Part one sketches the history of academic Eurocentrism and demonstrates that it is built on a combination …
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Impacts of host biology on the urban eco-epidemiology of West Nile virus
… by vector-borne diseases, which runs contrary to historical theory on the selective pressure of disease on social behavior. Furthermore, my findings highlight the importance of fine-scale studies of the ecology of vectors and hosts for understanding spatio-temporal heterogeneity in disease …
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STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THEIR LEARNING EXPERIENCES WITHIN AN INCLUSIVE SECONDARY MATHEMATICS SETTING
… the internalization of socio-cultural-historical factors, and the compensatory re-organization of brain functions, all as mediated through socio-cultural-historical processes. Findings suggest secondary students with disabilities 1) are heterogeneous in ability levels, strengths, …
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A Full-Wave Investigation of the Use of a 'Cancellation Factor' in GW-Airglow Interaction Studies
… the non-specialist of this field. It reviews the historical theory and observation of atmospheric GWs, and also emphasizes the role of atmospheric GWs in producing the reversal of global temperature gradients at the mesopause. At the end of this chapter, the motivation for calculating the CF is …
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
… possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical task.</p><p>The speculative philosophies of Augustine, Kant, and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined …