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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Making meaning"”.
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Making meaning of grade 10 History textbook back covers
… interaction with the book. It draws interest making one want to know more about the book. The front cover does not reveal the entire contents of the book. However, the back cover helps the buyer to make an informed decision in relation to the book’s relevance in topic and ideas as well as the …
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Making meaning from international educational experiences: Transforming inner landscapes
1 PDF file (vii, 131 pages)
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Making Meaning of the American Student-Spanish Host Family Experience
<p>When U.S. students study abroad, they take with them their own culture - their behaviors, beliefs, and values - that are grounded in their sense of American identity. They share their culture with those they come into contact with, and their host families in particular. Yet little has been asked …
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Making Memory, Making Meaning: Memorial Museums and the Participatory Audience
… in United States history. My work examines this meaning-making dynamic in case studies of four memorial museums: The 9/11 Memorial Museum, The Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Carthage Jail. By combining textual analysis of museums with data …
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Chase the feeling: making meaning in an autistic theatre company
… and by doing so facilitates the reconfiguring of meaning by way of an embodied, social and corporeal experience. Finally the project speaks to ideas in anthropology about writing culture and so includes a play script and performance. This creative analysis of the research seeks then to find a …
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Dynamic geometry, construction and proof : making meaning in the mathematics classroom
… of this study was to investigate mathematical meaning making in relation to the areas of construction and proof through the use of a dynamic geometry environment (Cabri II as available on the TI 92 calculator). The experimental work was carried out with 11-14 year old pupils in four schools in …
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Making meaning in academic writing: mature women students in higher education
… courses. The central focus is the experience of making meaning in academic writing of ten women students with whom I met on an individual basis over a period of between 1 and 3 years to talk about specific instances of their writing for undergraduate course work. Most of the study reported here …
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Mothers Making Meaning: An Exploration of Contemporary Ritual Practices Surrounding Childbirth
… ways of infusing this time with attention, meaning, and a sense of the sacred. This dissertation draws data from personal interviews, ethnographic observations, and written accounts to understand the motivations and experiences of these ritual participants and the consequences of their …
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Making meaning out of mountains : skiing, the environment and eco-politics
… by many participants as a way of entering into a meaningful relationship with the non-human environment. However, interpretations of skiing as a non-consumptive use of non-human nature are too simple. Social movement groups disrupt pro-environmental discourses of skiing by challenging the sport’s …
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Science Teaching and Learning as Transformation: Making Meaning with My Students
… investigate how students and their teacher make meaning of their experiences while engaging in Sci-YAR. This study was conducted in my classroom with myself and several of my students as participants and offers an emic perspective of science teaching and learning. I hope to contribute to the …
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Making meaning of conflict: A qualitative inquiry in two preschool classrooms
… conflict affords children as they try to make meaning of their relationships within the peer culture. It breaks away from the cyclical and linear models of conflict interactions as it tries to understand the reciprocal role of individual and culture in the initiation, sustenance, and resolution …
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Making Meaning of Empathy: A Qualitative Study of Empathy Education at UTMB
… means to students and factors influencing this meaning-making process. Students at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), an academic health science center in Galveston, Texas, are taught about empathy formally through the Practice of Medicine courses and informally through modeling by …
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Making meaning in a modern world: place and identity in Leadville, Colorado
Leadville, Colorado is one of many former mining towns significant to not only the state of Colorado, but also to the history of the West as a whole. Part of the larger history of the extractive industries on which the Western United States was founded, mining towns like Leadville provide a …
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Embodiment and agency in digital reading: Preschoolers making meaning with literary apps
This dissertation investigates meaning-making in children’s joint-reading transactions with literary apps. The analysis of meaning-making focuses on embodiment as a central aspect of literary app’s texts and their reading and on children’s negotiation of agency in the act of joint-reading. …
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Making meaning of community : a multi-case study of three urban, middle-school teachers
… pedagogy, this study takes up considerations of meanings and uses of community within middle school classrooms. The following questions guide this study: 1. How do successful, urban, middle-school teachers working with students of color understand the concept of “community” in relation to their …
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Mise en scène as a feminine textual body : making meaning in new plays
… performance. The question of ownership of the meaning conveyed by the play in performance, in the negotiated space between the writer and the director, provides the frame for this discussion. Who has the right of ownership over meaning, and in times of dissension about meaning, whose meaning …
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Toward an Integrated Self: Making Meaning of the Multiple Identities of Gay Men in College
… gay men in college come to make meaning of the intersections of their gender and sexuality. The research questions for this study included: (a) how do gay men make meaning of their masculinity and sexuality during their college years, (b) in what ways do gender, sexuality, and …
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Making Meaning Together: Information, Rumor, and Propaganda in British Literature of the First World War
… information systems and provides a mechanism for making meaning when other sources of information begin to fail. This dissertation also considers how "wartime" fiction, as a category distinct from pre-war and post-war fiction, is a revealing domain of literature in its own right, and one that has …
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Making meaning of gender-based violence: Elite subjectivity and gender performance in a Canadian private school
… Grade 7 and 8 Oak Lane Academy students make meaning of gender-based violence. I articulate what it means to “become” elite, and how smart and elite subjectivity was not the same for all students in a place committed to gender equity. In theorizing the ethnographic experience through a …
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