Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Pedagogical function."”.
-
Augustine against the academic doctrine, way of life, and use of philosophical writing.
… the doctrine in, way of life recommended by, and pedagogical function of Cicero's Academica. The remaining chapters examine Augustine's response to each of these elements of Cicero's work. In Chapter Three I accentuate the philosophical importance of Augustine's accusation that the Academics …
-
THE DICTOGLOSS PROCEDURE AS A VEHICLE OF GRAMMATICAL CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING : A CASE STUDY
… of meanings generated from the text. The main pedagogical implications of the findings are twofold. Firstly, teachers should take heed that learners do not necessarily process the input in their (i.e. teachers') perceived or intended way. Secondly, they should carefully select appropriate texts …
-
Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
… of children’s literature that assign the form a pedagogical function, and that construct the child reader according to linear narratives of maturation offered by psychoanalysis and ego-relational psychology. In place of the ‘psychoanalytic child’, postmillennial children’s Gothic imagines a …
-
"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh" : mockery and typology in Milton's poetry.
… the primarily destructive and condemnatory function of comic ridicule. By analyzing the exchanges of mockery between Milton's protagonists and antagonists in the light of Christ's endurance of mockery on the cross and his mocking defeat of the devil in the Resurrection, I argue that mockery …
-
Considering The Confessional: Spaces of learning and objects to move with
… an artist and pedagogue, I am interested in the pedagogical function of art which is shaped by the spaces and objects which inform our understanding of what we know. I trace my understanding of The Confessional and my personal relationship with the gallery to better explain the varying ways that …
-
Reading as an Imitatio Christi : Flannery O'Connor and the hermeneutics of cruci-form beauty.
… it suggests and then elevates the didactic or pedagogical function of her art. To say she hopes to make better readers out of us would seem to suggest that her real contribution is as a schoolmarm rather than as an artist. Even worse, it would seem to place O'Connor squarely in that category of …
-
Essays on Social Mobility and Distribution
… filling a gap in the literature on the Potential Pedagogical Function. Similarly, it considers the role of economic resources as part of households’ attenuation capacity. I take this framework to the data to estimate the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. The potential …
-
Philosophical Allurements: Education and Argument in Ancient Philosophy
… of Plato's <italic>Republic</italic> as a pedagogical text and of the milieu of competing disciplines in which it composed suggests new readings of its philosophical content. I contend that close attention to the cultural context in which the <italic>Republic</italic> was written reveals …
-
Dangerous Subjects: U.S. War Narrative, Modern Citizenship, and the Making of National Security, 1890-1964
… I suggest, war narrative performs a distinctly pedagogical function, one seemingly native to the genre. Given the established preference for laissez-faire governance and a reluctance toward foreign “meddling,” U.S. citizens traditionally evinced little love for either “standing armies” or the …