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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"History and philosophy"”.
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Industrial Arts in the Junior High School
… this paper has been two-fold. First to trace the history and philosophy of industrial arts from antiquity to the present, with emphasis upon the present. Second, a program for the small Junior High School has been proposed that is in accordance with the modern day purpose and objectives of …
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A Guidance Handbook for the Elementary School
… of this paper is to formulate a guidance handbook for use by the writer on the elementary school level. To accomplish this purpose the writer has discussed, in abbreviated form, the history and philosophy of a guidance program and has called attention to the role of participants, especially …
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Tracing Social Science: The Manuscript Review Process
Manuscripts and reviews submitted to the American Sociological Review between 1977 and 1982 and professional-biographical characteristics of authors, editors and reviewers were examined to identify and describe factors influencing the decision to publish or reject manuscripts. Following a review of …
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Evolution of natural medicine and biomedicine and their future roles in health care
… thesis investigates whether the natural medicine and biomedicine professions could cooperate for the benefit of patients within an integrated medical model. The investigation contains a substantive narrative and historical overview of the evolution of medicine. This provides a background to the …
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The Classification and Annotation of Free and Inexpensive Health Teaching Materials
The purpose of this paper is to classify and annotate free and inexpensive health teaching materials that might aid the health teacher in choosing those materials that would best fit a particular teaching situation. Since the health teacher has such an excellent array of source materials, the …
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Values in Action: Simplicity, Completeness, and Carefulness in the Development of the Systematisations of Chemical Elements
… Ivanovich Mendeleev, Julius Lothar Meyer, and John Newlands – emphasised different values when developing their systematisations of the chemical elements in 1863-1875. While no chemist emphasised just one value in the course of establishing of their systematisations, I argue that Newlands …
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Gaston Bachelard's scientific philosophy: an approach to science and technology studies
The contributions of Gaston Bachelard to the history and philosophy of science are not very well known in the United States. This thesis traces the particular characteristics of Bachelard's epistemology within the context of early twentieth century French culture and science. Bachelard began his …
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Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility
… dissertation is centered on problems within the history and philosophy of biology. The project identifies the philosophical roots of the current ecological movement and shows how a version of philosophical naturalism might be put to use within contemporary ethical issues in biology, and aid in …
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The development and analysis of the Global Citizen Award as a component of Asia University America Program at Eastern Washington University
… report is to document the research, development, and analysis of the Global Citizen Award and its introduction, pilot, assessment, and revision as a cunicular component of Asia University America Program at Eastern Washington University. The Global Citizen Award is a merit-based and optional award …
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Juegos de poder en las organizaciones empresariales de la globalización: estudio crítico y comparado de las aportaciones de su escuela académica homónima
… delve into the patterns social organizations, and more specifically business organizations, are following. They are becoming more de-institutionalised systems where employees are disaffected. This research was developed by focusing on literature pertaining to New Management schools of thought. …
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Magic and possibility: medievalism and the idea of the occult
… which the notion of medieval or premodem magic (and the occult or hidden) is articulated and theorized within the humanities. While anthropology has frequently contended with the issue of magic's problematic agency within scholarly discourse, the historiography of magic has been less …
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Perceptions Of Secondary English Teachers On Using English Curriculum To Meet Social And Emotional Learning Goals
… ELA curriculum as it may relate to social and emotional learning (SEL) goals. The problem explored was the rise of adolescents’ mental health concerns (CDC, 2019) and the role of secondary schools in attempting to address these concerns. The literature on this topic explored the mental …
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Cervical Cancer at the Crossroads. An historical ontology of evidence in cervical cancer prevention
… interrogates the clinical, epistemological and ontological implications of complex changes in the practices of cervical cancer prevention. Since the post-war period, women throughout most western countries have undergone cytology-based screening to detect and treat cellular changes before …
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Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Critical Theory
This thesis examines Michel Serres’s philosophy of limits. Its aim is to trace limit formations as operative functions of thought, which perform interdisciplinary translations between philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory. In order to pursue this aim, a number of Serres’s works …
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Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Biblical Authority: An Alternative to Content-Based/Supernaturalist and Function-Based Rationalist Models
… examines Friedrich Schleiermacher’s understanding of biblical authority and argues that, as an alternative to strictly supernaturalistic and rationalistic models, his understanding allows the New Testament to speak authoritatively in Christian religion in an age of critical, historical …
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Once upon a time : how stories start
… of works of fiction with the aim of understanding, from the writer’s viewpoint, what are the techniques and the challenges in beginning to tell a story. It brings together theory and practice, through a review of the history of openings in literature and critical writings on the subject, …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
… psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the 'origin story' told by CBT proponents of their own history and the early development of …
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Gestalt Biometrics and their Applications; Instrumentation, objectivity and poetics
… is about the relationship between human bodies and instrumental technologies that can be use to measure them. It adopts the position that instruments are technological structures that evoke and manifest particular phenomena of embodied life. However, through their history of association and use …
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Equal Opportunities on Ice: Examining gender and institutional change at the British Antarctic Survey, 1975-1996
This dissertation examines the recent history of an institution with a rich and varied heritage and a proud culture. In recognition of the limitations of this project, due to both the inevitably subjective research process and the constraints of research at the master’s level, I would like to begin …
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