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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Interpretive Lens"”.
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Toward a definition of Christian identity: Using the interpretive lens of creation, fall, and redemption in Christian counseling
… fall, and redemption, that will function as a lens for our later discussion on identity. With each theme of redemptive history, we look at the biblical narrative, the image of God, and a psychology of the theme. Chapter 3 focuses on identity. This chapter provides a survey of the modern …
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Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman'
… Afrikaner subjectivities through the interpretive lens of ordentlikheid - an ethnicised respectability - at the intersections of gender, sexuality, class and race. Framed by the theoretical perspectives of Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Butler, the study employs discourse analysis …
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Essayons: French as a Second Language Teacher Beliefs and Experiences of Technology-Enhanced Practices
… understanding of these influences. Through an interpretive lens, I explored the context of four FSL teachers in an urban school board in southern Alberta. In an instrumental multicase study, qualitative data were collected through semistructured individual interviews, and analyzed using …
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Associate-Candidate Relationships: A Study of Teacher Education Field Experiences
… the perspective of teacher candidates. Using an interpretive lens, I explored the associate teacher-teacher candidate relationships of 5 teacher candidates at a mid-sized university in Southern Ontario. In this instrumental multicase study, the 5 participants described 13 pairs of relationships …
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Transcending we/they: a qualitative formative evaluation of the transformative potential of an in-district leadership development program
… 1997) theory of transformative learning as an interpretive lens, culminating in four findings: aspiring administrators experience a shift in perspective on educational issues that can be disorienting; belonging to a cohort offers needed validation; the use of authentic activities provides …
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The impact of hospital downsizing on registered nurses displaced from full-time employment
… labour adjustment. Structural analysis was the interpretive lens used to view the historical, sociopolitical and ideological forces which constrained the choices reasonably available to displaced nurses while Kelly's personal construct theory was the lens used to view the process of making …
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Chinoiserie in the novels of Robert Hans van Gulik
… These works are investigated through the interpretive lens of chinoiserie --an extension of Edward Said's Orientalism, named for a design aesthetic that featured the creation of "Chinese" goods by European artisans who were less interested in closely emulating Chinese styles than in …
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RECONCILING ISLAM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE VIRTUOUS CITY: REREADING AL-FARABI'S AL-MADINAH AL-FADILAH WITHIN 10TH-CENTURY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
… of several of al-Fārābī’s other works as an interpretive lens, through which the correct reading of al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah is made clear. I further analyze the text in light of Islamic Scripture, by which I demonstrate that the foundation on which al-Fārābī’s cosmology is founded has …
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Burning Out: A Narrative Exploration of the Adaptive Challenge and Scaffolds Built Toward Sustenance Among Immigrant Rights Activists in San Diego County
… sociality, and place were used as a first interpretive lens. Two emergent lenses were used as appropriate to the data: adaptive leadership theory and hope theory. Four resonant themes emerged. First, participants describe burnout as a nonlinear, cumulative process that crosses thresholds of …
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Expectations and Experiences of African American Students at Two Predominantly White Universities in Southern Appalachia.
… to analyze the data through the critical race interpretive lens of racism as the persistent reality of people of color. In combination, the data illustrated the positive and negative impacts of student-institution relationships and the campus racial climate on African American students' …
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The Word: Jacques Ellul's Dialogic Response To La Technique
<p>The focus of this interpretive work is primarily to bring two Ellulian metaphors into conversation with one another: <em>la technique</em>, and “the word.” Jacques Ellul (1912-1994), a prominent French philosopher, sociologist, and theologian, is predominantly known for his critique of what he …
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An Historical Study: The Translation of the Mission and Vision of the School of Education of Duquesne University Into Action Through the Major Pursuits and Achievements of the Deans in Response to the Needs of the Profession 1929 to 2004
… added by the School of Education becomes the interpretive lens or perspective in analyzing the documents. The 21st century challenges for the Deans will be creating and leading the future by way of insights, trends, relationships, professional networks, processes, scanning and intuitive …
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Interpretation in Native American Tribal Museums
The interpretive methods used in Native American tribal museums have received minimal focus from researchers. Research on this topic generally focus on the National Museum of the American Indian, and as such the understanding of the Native American lens is limited. The objective of this research is …
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The Work of Contemplation Then and Now: The Cloud of Unknowing and Present-Day Christian Mystical Practice
… the appropriation of the Cloud can serve as an interpretive lens with which to consider the meaning of the category of mysticism in the discipline of Religious Studies.
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
… collapses into metaphor. I use these as an interpretive lens for understanding how authors from Balzac to Proust might turn to an illicit subject to further their careers. I argue that depictions of reading and writing prostitutes make the venal body an effective, but perilous, site for the …
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Monotheism in the New Religious Movements of Japan: Historical and Taxonomical Challenges in Western Studies
… Kurozumikyō, Tenrikyō, and Konkōkyō through this interpretive lens. In addition to problems of categorization, this thesis also contributes to the resolution of issues related to the historical development of monotheism in the NRMs. On an assumption that premodern Japanese religion offered NRM …
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E.K. Bailey's Hermeneutic for Preaching
… expository preaching was supported by a twofold interpretive lens, Afro-ethnic Ecclesial Kinship and Bibliocentric Christoformity. Bailey preached the Christian Scriptures (1) in connection with his ethnic and ecclesial community and (2) in submission to Scripture’s authorial intent for communal …
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
… in Christ. Using Bonhoeffer's Christology as an interpretive lens to view Raskolnikov's discipleship, my thesis explores and to some extent explicates the pragmatics of understanding <em>Crime and Punishment</em> as a story of Christian discipleship.</p>
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Promise and Freedom, Flesh and Slavery: Paul's Hermeneutical Key in Galatians 4:21-5:1 in Light of the Themes and the Structure of Galatians
… Jerusalem together was accomplished through the interpretive key provided in 4:23: the one who comes from a slave has been born because of the flesh, and the one who comes from a free woman has been born through the promise. Paul no longer reads the story of Sarah and Hagar through a lens of …
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You don't see what I see : multiple publics and public policy in a Los Angeles gang war
… situation. Each public shares a unique interpretive lens through which they read events, actions and information. The composition and constellation of publics can change as situations change or are reframed. Over ten-month period, what was commonly referred to as a "gang war" broke out …
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