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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Interdisciplinary dissertation"”.
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A Multilevel Analysis to Examine Interdisciplinary Research Experience Among Doctoral Graduates and Its Effect on Career Outcomes
This study was designed to explore the impact of interdisciplinary research on the likelihood of a doctoral student obtaining a faculty job upon degree completion. Additionally, this study examined the important individual and institutional components of socialization that contribute to differences …
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Discipline and savagery : the spectacle of the post-apartheid South African school
… African semiotic of order and disorder, this dissertation traces representations of school discipline through examples of colonial and apartheid to key contemporary discursive practices. In this interdisciplinary dissertation three contemporary sets of texts are analysed: the department of …
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"Fandom and Co-Production in King of the Dot's Battle Rap Scene."
This interdisciplinary dissertation documents the performances of fans of the professional battle rap league King of the Dot (KOTD), the biggest battle rap league in Canada and one of the highest viewed platforms for battle rap in the world. By collectively tracing and articulating battle rap’s …
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Art and the development of dialogic skills: an ethnography of art in Waldorf teacher training
… emphasise the use of art in education. This interdisciplinary dissertation demonstrates how Waldorf teacher trainees are prepared to work with art in the school classroom. It does that by documenting the ways that three different art media are introduced to students in a Waldorf teacher …
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Living in two worlds: An investigation into the identity of Arab Muslim Women in contemporary Great Britain
This interdisciplinary dissertation draws upon Islamic, socio-cultural and legal studies to present an original investigation of an under-researched minority group, namely Arab Muslim women living in Great Britain. It investigates the const•uction of a social identity which is challenged by …
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Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
This interdisciplinary dissertation in statistics, economics, and social science methodology derives a methodological approach for economics from philosophical principles, identi es barriers to its adoption, and presents tools and methods for overcoming those barriers. It addresses aspects of …
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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
… women mourners defy easy classification. This dissertation will map Victorian mourning conventions against alternative models of mourning offered in literature by Thomas Hardy, Anne Brontë, Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell to argue that in Victorian Britain and America, the repressive and …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
This interdisciplinary dissertation examines the relationship between exile and collaborative authorship in the films of blacklisted American director Joseph Losey and British-Jewish playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter. During the 1960s and early 1970s, they collaborated on the celebrated British …
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From Animals to Algorithms: Comparative Psychology for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
… explain nor predict their behaviour. In this interdisciplinary dissertation, I argue that a comparative psychological approach can help. Comparative psychologists have created methodological tools for studying the behaviour of another class of complex system, non-human animals. While many have …
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
… U.S. foreign policy in Latin America? This dissertation presents a detailed examination of the contexts surrounding both the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions and their struggle against imperialist-driven interventions by the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. I argue that through …