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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Meaning-making process"”.
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Code-switching strategies in science lessons in Kenyan primary schools : an analysis of their contribution to the meaning making process
… each code-switching intervention makes to the meaning-making process. Some implications for teacher training are presented concerning how actual teacher behaviour, with respect of their use of code-switching, compares with what might be expected if trained for a planned use of code-switching …
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"The past colliding with the present": a grounded theory of foster care identity development
… with experience in foster care (CGEFC) make meaning of developing a foster care identity over time. The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory study was to understand the meaning making process of developing a foster care identity for college graduates who were formerly in foster care …
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Juggling Demands and Resources: Low Wage Women Making Sense of Bill-Paying Hardships
… how 19 low wage working women use global meaning to make sense of lived experiences with bill-paying hardships. Two themes with subthemes and corresponding meaning making processes emerged into a conceptual framework. The first theme is caring for others with subthemes of responsibility, …
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Meaning-Making in an Engineering Problem-Based Learning Classroom: an Analysis of Activity and Multimodality
… support of a facilitator. PBL can be seen as a process of meaning making, and, in this research, this meaning making occurs in the context of an academic subject in the first year of an engineering degree and a particular PBL module within that degree. The overarching goal of the research is to …
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How Adolescents in an Alternative School Program Use Instructional Technology to Create Meaning While Reading and Writing
… investigate how adolescent students constructed meaning while using instructional technology tools in an alternative school setting. Participants included six students who attended a small alternative public education program in the Midwest. Three of the participants were in the intermediate …
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A linguistic analysis of some ESP texts used in Iranian universities with special focus on cohesion in texts of business and commerce.
… in directing the readers’ attention in the meaning making process, are to be taken into account in teaching and testing reading and writing." -- From abstract.
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Using podcasts to mediate reflective learning : a case of a postgraduate programme at a higher education institution
… English. Discursive knowledge production is the meaning making process initiated when one encounters new information. This implies that students whose first language is not English are less likely to be active discussants and are disadvantaged participants in discursive knowledge production …
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What does this mean? : invigorating the historical question and intent of Lutheran Confirmation through coemergent learning
… to Lutheran Confirmation centered on the meaning-making process. Specifically, it is argued that meaning coemerges as an amalgam of inherited content, life experience and community interaction. For Confirmation to be a resource and catalyst for lifelong learning, curricula and teachers …
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Audience frames elicited by televised political advertising
… the role that political advertising plays in the meaning-making process for voters. Overall, the study concluded that voters do not get much, if any use out of political advertising anymore and that political advertising must undergo some drastic changes if it wishes to remain a useful form of …
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Religiousness, Coping, and Locus of Control as Predictors of Anxiety.
… order to evaluate the cognitive appraisal and meaning-making components of the Transactional Model (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) and Meaning-making Model (Park & Folkman, 1997) of coping, several specific forms of appraisal and coping strategies were analyzed in the present study. It has been …
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A Widow’s Hope in Late-Life Spousal Loss: A Biblical Response to Meaning-Making and Continuing Spiritual Bonds
… experiences that can cause a loss of meaning and purpose in life. Bereavement brings mortality to the forefront, raising questions related to life’s existential meanings. In recent years, there has been a broadening interest in the role of spiritual beliefs in coping with the death of …
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Intention Perception and Meaning
… the complex relationship between intention and meaning. Study 1 examines how threats to meaning impact subsequent perceptions of intentionality. Following threats to meaning, we predict that an intentionality ascription bias will emerge as an attempt to restore meaning a la the meaning …
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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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Exploring the Impact of Work-Related Traumatic Stress on Law Enforcement Couples
… traumatic stress led couples to engage in a meaning making process and activation of resilient couple coping characteristics. Given the significant impact that work-related traumatic stress has on the law enforcement couple dyad, couples therapy interventions are needed for law enforcement …
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Unpacking American Reception of Glocalized Non-English Content in the Netflix Era
… the worldwide distribution of media, making it possible for non-English and non-English-adjacent content to reach American consumers on a never-before-seen scale, which is sometimes perceived as an indication of increasing cultural tolerance. However, while a lot is known about what …
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A cognitive-linguistic study of the causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions: system internal and external perspectives
… emphasizing the role of constructions in the meaning-making process. To this end, the present dissertation conducts cross-linguistic research on the causative construction [X CAUSES Y], the various agent- deprofiling constructions [Y CHANGES STATE], and the resultative construction [X CAUSES Y …
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Printmaking pedagogy: a multimodal social semiotic approach to the intaglio hardground process
This thesis presents a novel approach to printmaking theory and pedagogy, focusing in particular, on the intaglio hardground process. It is a qualitative study that gives an account of a group of second year graphic design students who encounter the hardground process for the first time. A …
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Creating resonance in emptiness with visual theatre : how the metaphorical potential of puppets, objects and images in theatre can be used to explore the constructed nature of reality and the complexity of the self
… This leads me to question the functioning of meaning-making in artistic practice. Metaphor is explored as a vehicle for the meaning-making process and for the creation of resonant experience in theatre and performance. The production style of Dolos is one that I have defined as Visual Theatre, …
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ICT: Collaboration, innovation and integration - an action research study of the development of a new ICT career learning tool.
… how ICT career tools can inform a collaborative meaning-making process. This blended approach within adult guidance offers client’s more opportunities to become proactive and empowered. Career learning is not the sole responsibility or unique to the guidance relationship. The role of adult …
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Cultural Aesthetic Experience: Perceptions of Learning Developed through Cultural Immersion
… of learning while individuals are in the ongoing process of being immersed in a non-native culture. This inquiry focused specifically on the narratives of seven expatriates undergoing the process of cultural immersion in Germany, Slovenia and the United States. Using narrative inquiry (Clandinin & …
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