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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Meaningful experience"”.
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Blinded by Boredom: Examining the Effect of Boredom on the Ability to Anticipate Meaningful Experience
Boredom is a common human experience that can have surprisingly deleterious consequences. In a world brimming with opportunities for satisfying engagement, it seems unlikely that anyone would be able to remain bored for long. However, research suggests that people sometimes struggle to rid …
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A Phenomenological Analysis of Meaningful Existence
… If meaning is diverse such that what one experiences as meaningful varies from one individual to another, in virtue of what shared characteristics are those distinctive experiences each an instance of meaning in life? The answer to this question, I suggest, lies in the existential …
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Attitudes of Students Toward Science Education and Innovative Teaching Strategies to Overcome Low Achievement in the Secondary Science Classroom
… attitude can greatly impact their learning experience. This study utilizes two methods to measure the attitude of students in secondary science classrooms, direct questioning of students and teachers and surveys using Likert and Semantic Differential Scales. Surveys of teachers show that the …
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A phenomenological account of Merleau-Ponty's notion of style : from embodiment to flesh
… of one another each requiring the other for meaningful experience. In experience, these cognitive contraries are engaged in relationships of communication and communion that render styles of interaction by which we have/are a world. A phenomenological investigation of Merleau-Ponty's notion …
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A sustentabilidade através da horta escolar: um estudo de caso.
… practice has permitted a more pleasurable and meaningful experience in teaching of science and biology. In short, they sought such activities promoted an experiential and interactive space in social and environmental levels to unleash the students’ skills and competencies for the conservation …
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SparkInfo : designing a social space for co-creation of multimedia contents
People can have more insights and social experiences when they collaborate on collecting, revisiting, and utilizing their contents, such as images and videos; however, designing a social space that offers rich co-creation and exploration of multimedia contents remains a challenge. I propose a new …
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Developing a Toolkit for a Social Awareness Community Exhibit
… remix what they consume,” in order to create an experience that resonates with them (Simon). When museums and other cultural institutions fail to create a meaningful experience for their audience, they are liable to be perceived as inaccessible, irrelevant, boring, and/or uncomfortable for an …
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The development and implementation of a multifaceted model for differentiated teacher evaluation to improve student achievement
<p>Effective teacher evaluation is a meaningful experience that improves student achievement. The first purpose of this study was to examine the current evaluation system used in a special services school district in southern New Jersey. The second was to revise that system to reflect current …
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Becoming a pilgrim: the lived experience of men who become therapists following a former career
Changing career can be a meaningful experience: it challenges our sense of identity, allows us to discover new skills and presents opportunities for novel experiences, excitement, and growth. It can also be a daunting and costly step into a way of being without the safety net of the familiar to …
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Mindfulness in Learning
… what that means for me in regards to having a meaningful experience in learning. By applying techniques like mindful meditation I am working on changing my own habits of using digital devices like smart phones. As someone who is an adult who is working, going to graduate school and has a …
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An Analysis of the Changing Competitive Landscape in the Hotel Industry Regarding Airbnb
… Airbnb<strong>. </strong></p> <p>Airbnb can be a meaningful experience between hosts and tourists. Budget travelers might not travel if not for low Airbnb rates. Airbnb rooms supplement hotel inventory during extraordinary events.</p> <p>This utopian view of Airbnb seems to overcome the dark …
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T. S. Eliot's aesthetics of immediacy: Language and perception in Knowledge and Experience, The Waste Land and Four Quartets
… world-vision which identifies reality with experience and defines experience as the interpretative process of perception. Eliot’s career appears as a series of attempts to express this world-view: he elaborates this notion of reality in his philosophical writing, translates it into a set of …
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Designing for Deep Engagement
Flow state represents the quality of meaningful experience-- an effortless, depth of attention that is often undermined in our interrupt-driven, modern society. In this thesis, I present four novel interventions to promote states of deep engagement. Evaluating whether one of these interventions has …
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Activating Agon in performance
… developed over time, activating agon as a meaningful experience for both performers and spectators. This commentary profiles how the performances staged conflict and struggle and how agon came to infiltrate the different areas of the works and expanded beyond the physical struggle in dance …
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‘To See a Face is Already to Hear “You Shall Not Kill”’: Levinas’s Development of Hermeneutic Phenomenology
… of Being’ in Dasein as the most concrete form of experience. Levinas does this, firstly, by discovering the absolute position of the lived body as it exists prior to the ‘understanding of Being’ in Dasein and, secondly, by showing how ‘the brute fact of being’ and ‘the face of the Other’, two …
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Masada performances : the contested indentities of touristic spaces
… and the story is framed so tourists will have a meaningful experience. While some scholars have looked at how the Masada story gets told to tourists who visit the site, these studies all tend to ignore what tourists do at the site. The research, presented this way, seems to assume that tourists …
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Contemporary Islamic gardens and cultural identity: Three case studies from North America and Europe
… and climatic conditions to produce a meaningful experience and prevent cultural alienation. These adaptations reveal the flexibility of Islamic gardens as forms and concepts. Most previous literature on Islamic gardens has focused on the pre-modern period, with limited attention …
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Molecular design interactions : material synthesis for human interaction with fluids
… of systems. Yet a large portion of our everyday experience with these systems remain inaccessible to users, designers and engineers whom operate outside the context of chemical disciplines. This thesis introduces a design framework coined Molecular Design Interactions, along with a toolbox of …
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A generative framework for computer-based interactive art in mass transport systems.
… the audience and the artwork, and to elicit meaningful experience via interactivity. This research aims to uncover the critical factors that can turn an indifferent passenger into an explorative participant, subsequently leading them to obtain meaningful experiences through interaction with …
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Experimental experiential learning : a qualitative single case study exploring the pedagogical experiences of high school career and technical education health science teachers during the phenomenon of the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic.
… opportunities such as internships, field experiences, and clinical rotations did not occur, and basic certifications were not earned. When high school students complete CTE health science programs that connect the theory and knowledge obtained in the classroom with practical application …
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