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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Intellectualism"”.
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The effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on students' intention to cheat.
… the effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on undergraduate business students' (N = 485) intention to cheat in their academic studies. A descriptive research design was used and data was collected by means of a self-administered, cross-sectional survey. Hierarchical multiple …
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… The thematic focal points of my essay will be intellectualism, the problem of ethnocentrism, the absolutist-relativist dichotomy, and the relevance of human embodiment for conceptions of moral justification. The works of Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger …
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Toppling the ivory tower: Coded communication in American political discourse
Anti-intellectualism has a long history in U.S. public debate, and in the 21st century it is not uncommon for politicians to emphasize themes of anti-intellectualism in their public communications. This study proposes a new approach to understanding how anti-intellectualism is communicated in the …
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DISCUSSING THE RACIAL ASSOCIATION WITH BLACK MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALISM IN PROVIDING EQUITABLE HEALTHCARE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
… propose that if we focus on improving the public intellectualism of our country through social media, we are then all fighting for the survival of black women throughout pregnancy and post-partum.
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Dislocating the Body and Transcending the Imperial Eye (I): The role of Abaphantsi, through iiZangoma, as pioneers for transformative research methodologies and organic intellectualism
In this study, I establish myself as both researcher and respondent and I use the literal and figurative interpretations of the word ‘body' to discuss how canonical epistemological paradigms, through their construction of indigenous knowledge systems, construct African bodies and how this impacts …
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Socratic Ethics in the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic
… ethics in the Protagoras and the Gorgias is its intellectualism and that the Republic represents a correction to, or deviation from, such intellectualism, and 2) to offer an alternative account of Socratic ethics in these dialogues. The alternative account this dissertation proposes is that what …
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Practical knowledge and abilities
… of a position that combines aspects of both Intellectualism and anti-Intellectualism. An entailment from knowhow to a certain sort of ability is defended, and it is shown that the present view preserves the possibility of appealing to know-how to block Frank Jackson's "knowledge argument" …
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Disrupting Traditional Narrative: Navigating Preservice Early Childhood Education Through Hospitality, Time and Dialogue
… 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 professionalization and …
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God's Glass Ceiling: Women's Education in Christian Fundamentalist Higher Education Institutions
… expressed great suspicion towards education and intellectualism. Fundamentalists insisted on a literal interpretation of the Bible. Moreover, they created fundamentalist universities and colleges so that parents could send their sons and daughters away to school without worrying that their …
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Wayfaring Strangers: A Case Study of Rural Developmental Writers in the Missouri Ozarks
… Using Richard Hofstadter's concept of "anti-intellectualism" as a theoretical lens, I explored the attitudes of students towards writing and academic culture. This exploration was conducted by means of questionnaires, interviews, writing samples, and several experimental courses.</p> <p>Using …
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Contrastive knowledge how
… how, I develop a viable alternative to the intellectualism/anti-intellectualism debate, and I outline a hybrid model of acquisition of knowledge how. The third chapter raises an objection to the contrastive account, about the much discussed thought experiment involving Mary, the color …
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Infinite Art: The Problem of 'Making' for a Christian Metaphysics
… of Platonic ‘productionism’ and Aristotelian ‘intellectualism’ in Middle Platonic thought impacted the evolution of the Deus Artifex concept in patristic and medieval Christian thought. Among the Church Fathers, tensions emerge over the question of God’s immanent relative to his transitive …
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An analysis of the role of culture in the tradition of Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions into English
… that they also have capacity to transmit intellectualism that advances human progress and knowledge beyond human boarders. Words such as ubuntu, imbizo and lobola have broken bonds of linguistic superiority. But is it possible to translate the linguistic superiority into English without …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Impact of the Narrative (encoded meanings and creative interventions)
… and the anchorpoint between social-histories, intellectualism, and the political landscape. This socio-political composition is also positioned as a cultural marker with narrative functioning as a mechanism for memory recall. Wallpaper operates within the context of this project as a …
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The Political Thought of the Chartist Movement
… education, and the religious basis of Chartist intellectualism. Chapter Two turns to Chartist political theory, in particular, the Chartist interpretation of the British constitution. It is shown that Chartists drew on a sophisticated conception of the common law that rooted the British …
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Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932
… and political groups. In addition, it encouraged intellectualism as it published short stories and poems in addition to circulating reviews of newspaper columns and books. </p> <p>The Brawley Book Club ensured that the purpose and goals of the newspaper were not in vain as they consumed the …
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Taking Back Control: Memes, Trump, 4chan, Gamergate, and the Rise of the Alt-Right
… it has instead fostered tribalism, anti-intellectualism, and reactionary politics, manifesting in right-wing populist movements across the Western world. Methods Drawing on contemporary meme-theorists such as Ryan Milner and Whitney Philips, and citing news articles, memes, and …
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… of time; and (3) the nature of Socratic intellectualism and its relationship to error. I show that Socrates uses elenctic questioning in order to avoid the self-forgetfulness in the face of time that allowed both Alcibiades and Critias to become so vicious, even while intending to do the …
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The Rhythms and Rituals of a Sacred Epistolary: Expressing my Experiences in Holistic and Embodied Ways
… of Black feminist scholarship and public intellectualism. It sets the foundation for a study that not only interrogates historical and contemporary forms of knowledge production but also reimagines them through the praxis of personal and communal liberation.</p> <p>The anthology presented …
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