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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Instrumentalism"”.
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Democracy, Instrumentalism, and Power as a Trust: On the Foundations of Political Instrumentalism
… dissertation, I explore the theory of political instrumentalism and its application to the justification of democracy. I suggest that because of the dominance of intrinsic accounts of the justification of democracy in contemporary democratic theory, political instrumentalism has been wrongly …
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The impact of instrumentalism on British counselling and psychotherapy
This thesis explores the impact of instrumentalism on the praxis of counselling and psychotherapy in Britain, and is based on an ethnographic study of responses to state and organisational authority in the form of the social actions of therapists within several therapy-based institutions. Following …
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New perspectives on instrumentalism : stratagems, subversion and the case of cultural diplomacy
<p>This thesis examines the emergence of 'cultural diplomacy' within UK cultural policy to explore the policy-making process.</p> <p>The literature review in Chapter Two observes that instrumental cultural policies are largely discussed in philosophical and binary terms, rather than being …
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Navigating psychological disruptions on the move: Instrumentalism, Altruism and Reattachment as Strategies for Sense-Making among Migrants
The aim of the research was to examine the degree to which the psychological disruptions that develop in migrants following relocation to a host country and the associated responses can help the migrant shape their identities and the relations with both host country and the former homeland. This …
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The extent and relevance of instrumentalism, constructivism and critical realism in high school physical science textbooks : a critical study
Instrumentalism is a philosophy of science which holds that scientific theories are merely useful fictions for making computative predictions. Its pragmatic purpose of 'saving the appearances' downgrades the role of theory in science. Realists, on the other hand, take the implications of theories …
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International Student Mobility in Higher Education in China: Tensions between Policies and Practices
… the policies and practices. At the policy level, instrumentalism is the primary ideology driving the Chinese government and the university’s approach to ISM; but from the perspective of international students, educationalism is representative of their primary motives for studying in China. In the …
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Disrupting Traditional Narrative: Navigating Preservice Early Childhood Education Through Hospitality, Time and Dialogue
… as theoretical and ethical counterpoints to the instrumentalism and anti‑intellectualism that persist in preservice early childhood education, particularly within practicum contexts. The inquiry begins with a critical analysis of the neoliberal discourses embedded in contemporary processes of …
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Ethnoconfessional Nationalism in the Balkans: Analysis, Manifestations and Management
… forms of social constructivism and instrumentalism, consistently fail to both understand and predict its appeal and success in southeastern Europe. The dissertation concludes by arguing that there are severe limitations to the extent to which outsiders can manage the outcome of …
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Ethical climates and ethical behavior
… caring, service, law and code, independence, and instrumentalism -- and four behaviors -- lying, stealing, failure to follow orders, and being an accomplice to a crime -- was tested in a multi-unit, commissioned sales, organization. Drawing extensively from the work of Victor and Cullen …
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Understanding Creative Partnerships: An examination of policy and practice
… arts in education who were displeased with the instrumentalism at work in much of New Labour’s education policy. The aim of this thesis is to understand Creative Partnerships by examining the discourse that constitutes the programme, and by offering an empirical enquiry into a project that took …
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An Instrumentalist's Guide to the Perpetuation of Human Individuality
… but that are also relevant to Dewey’s instrumentalism. Through close textual analysis, I will seek to highlight elements in Dewey’s philosophy that can be used to ensure the continuation of one’s individuality. The following question will thus serve as a guide throughout this inquiry: …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… can have with animals. These are a relation of instrumentalism, paternalism, and companionism, respectively. Such relations rest along a spectrum, but I will argue that companionism is the ideal. After making and defending such conceptual distinctions between human-animal relations, the next …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
… by our fossil fuel economies and lifestyles. The instrumentalism of such activities can be traced back to our modern metaphysic, where inanimate matter becomes object and falls away from ‘man,’ the knowing, active subject. In this thesis, I specifically address how this division of passive object …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… can have with animals. These are a relation of instrumentalism, paternalism, and companionism, respectively. Such relations rest along a spectrum, but I will argue that companionism is the ideal. After making and defending such conceptual distinctions between human-animal relations, the next …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
… by our fossil fuel economies and lifestyles. The instrumentalism of such activities can be traced back to our modern metaphysic, where inanimate matter becomes object and falls away from ‘man,’ the knowing, active subject. In this thesis, I specifically address how this division of passive object …
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Why do students miss lectures? : An exploratory study of a faculty at a post 1992 university
… psychoanalytical perspective. Low immediacy, instrumentalism, expectations, isolation, discomfort and goal ambiguity, are argued to be the important influences on disinterest, disquiet and disengagement. This thesis presents empirical evidence supporting disinterest, disquiet and disengagement …
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
… in politics. I argue that her rejection of instrumentalism in fact prepares the ground for exemplarity as a non-instrumental kind of standard appropriate to plurality and natality. Chapter Two clarifies the objective axis of exemplarity: how exemplary appearances disclose emergent norms that …
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Evading Representation: The Literature of Contemporary U.S. Anarchism
… a theoretical orientation an anarchist literary instrumentalism, which draws extensively on Deleuze and Guattari’s work on representation and the possibilities of a non-representational philosophy. This approach takes anarchism’s critique of representation as the basis for a new approach to texts …
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Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
Abstract The dominance of instrumentalism and utilitarianism in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose that research has to move from exploring transfer effects of artistic …
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