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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Humanizing"”.
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Humanizing Computational Literature Analysis Through Art-Based Visualizations
<p>Inequalities in gender representation and characterization in fictional works are issues that have long been discussed by social scientists. This work addresses these inequalities with two interrelated components. First, it contributes a sentiment and word frequency analysis task focused on …
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Legal education in crisis: healing and humanizing Canadian law schools /
… for the future are offered. The dehumanizing aspects of the law school experience in Canada have rarely been studied. It is hoped that this thesis will fill a gap in the research and provide some insight into an issue that is of both academic and public importance, since the …
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Humanizing autonomy : social scientists' and engineers' futures for robotic cars
Highly automated cars -- unlike robots in factories -- must operate in existing social spaces, which are complex and hard to control. Unlike household robots, these systems are also fast and dangerous. The fundamental problem of getting robots to interact in the world will be getting them to do the …
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Humanizing Digital Experiences: Three Essays on the Design of Digital Entities
Marketing and branding efforts have shifted from broadcast media, as in magazines or television, toward bi-directional/conversational media. Firm representatives are increasingly digital, and thus dynamic, autonomous and personalizable. Rooted in the shift in marketing practice, this dissertation …
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EDUCATING HUMANIZATION: AN EXAMINATION INTO THE HUMANIZING PEDAGOGIES OF PAULO FREIRE
… in for his larger interests in alienating and humanizing cultural action. Finally, I argue that Deanna Fassett and John T. Warren's critical communication pedagogy can be a generative framework through which teachers and researchers can recognize and arrest the alienation of the ontological …
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Humanizing English Language Arts Content Using a Social-Emotional Learning Approach
<p>In light of an increased focus on the importance of soft skills to academic achievement and success later in life, educators are looking towards social-emotional learning (SEL) as a means for addressing the diverse needs of students. This qualitative study was aimed at understanding how …
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Farmer, miner, builder, trader : re-humanizing the distributed infrastructures of Bitcoin
The concept of bitcoin is powerful and charming. Social scientist gurus, transnational corporations' CEOs, and mass media journalists all emphasize that cryptocurrency will lead humanity to a future of increasing extraordinary financial and spatial decentralization. However, although bitcoin has …
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Humanizing the city : festivals as a human adaptation of public space
… the festive events highlight strategies for humanizing space in the city. The urban design principles highlighted by this research include adapting spatial containment, restructuring movement, exposing meaning and commonality, attracting density of people, removing separation of uses, …
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The Applications and Implications of a (Re)Humanizing Praxis for Early Childhood Educational Contexts
<p>Dehumanizing preschool policies and practices and a lack of access to affordable, (re)humanizing early childhood educative experiences threatens to exacerbate the opportunity gap and deleterious preschool-to-prison pipeline. The purpose of this study was threefold; foremost, it aspired to …
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Humanizing the Migration Experience: The Stories and Struggles of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children from the Northern
<p>This research paper explores the migration journey of unaccompanied immigrant children (UICs) from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America to the United States, focusing on the reasons why children leave their home countries, the challenges they face during their journey, and the …
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Humanizing Urban Waters : Civilian led Water Corps to Strengthen Decentralized Water Systems in Western India
Over the past century, we have witnessed global water-based displacement owing to the climate crisis, and displacement caused by large scale water infrastructure such as dams, long-distance pipelines, promenades and river fronts. Urban waters have infamously been presented as disruptors within …
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A Humanizing Pedagogy and Curriculum: Lessons from Chicanx/Latinx Student Testimonios in A High School Ethnic Studies Classroom
… distill concrete lessons for educators to bring humanizing teaching approaches the classroom, teacher-student relationships, and their students’ lives. Using a methodological approach grounded in testimonios , pláticas , and encuentros , and drawing on my seventeen years of ethnic …
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Decision-making, tacit knowledge, and motivation in semi-professional practice: Humanizing the environment through anthropomorphism in clinical laboratory science
<p>The clinical laboratory science field requires an abundance of technical knowledge; however, the importance of implicit or tacit knowledge gained through observation and practice is often discounted in this field, even though it is a critical part of reflective thinking, critical thinking, and …
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Stories as theories: co-building critical and humanizing literacies’ spaces with Adivasi (indigenous) and De-notified tribal (DNT) youth in central India
… with student participants, a critical, humanizing, and decolonizing literacies’ classroom space, where Adivasi and De-notified Tribal (DNT) youths reclaim their spaces for counterstorying, especially in environments where their voices and agencies are overbearingly marginalized. This …
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Moving Toward Humanization in Education: Teacher Models in K-12 Settings
… from the experiences of teachers who engaged humanizing practices. Grounded in disability critical race theory (DisCrit), this study examined how teachers used a humanizing approach to meet the needs of Black, Latinx, and disabled students. Using a qualitative narrative inquiry approach, I …
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Equalizing Postsecondary Transition for At-Promise Youth Receiving Special Education Services: A Chance to Succeed
… after being introduced to a justice-focused, humanizing intervention to facilitate postsecondary transition for APYRSES. The conceptualized intervention was grounded in liberatory educational frameworks and drew from critical, culturally affirming, sustaining, and humanizing theories that …
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Crisis public relations : a case study of the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses by the San Francisco Mayor's Office
… through the use of diverse spokespersons and a humanizing focus. Five major implications emerged from the study. First, crisis planning is essential to the effective management of crisis situations. Second, humanizing controversial messages to target audiences can be very effective. Third, …
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“We All Kind of Just Want to be Accepted as We Come”: A Critical Comparative Case Study Exploring Professionalism Discourses in an Urban Elementary Teacher Preparation Program
… for changing the policy to make it more humanizing in the future. Participants were three diverse elementary student teachers at the research site. Data sources included: the program’s professional attributes policy; open-ended survey responses from participants; focus group interviews; …
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An Analytical Bibliography of Recent Writings on Mass Media (Particularly Television) That Have Special Significance for Secondary School Teachers of English
… are remiss if we neglect this major means of humanizing.
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… and performative processes by which the humanizing of “the human” is carried out, undermining the humanist notion of texts as objective mediators of moral or ethical truth. Instead, the stage prompts encounters with an array of human-adjacent entities, the unhumans of my title: …
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