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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Poststructuralism"”.
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Poststructuralism Avant La Lettre: Language and Gender in the Thought of Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn
Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schneersohn (1860-1920) is a relatively unknown and under-researched rabbinic figure in the academic fields of philosophy and Jewish studies. This dissertation will argue that Schneersohn is deserving of scholarly attention, not merely as an interesting contributor to the field …
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Poststructuralism, postmodernism and British academic attitudes: with special reference to David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici
… describes statistically the degree to which poststructuralism has penetrated the teaching of English in British Higher Education. The second surveys the Methuen New Accents series.
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Writing formations in Shakespearean films
… This impasse arises because proponents of poststructuralism and cognitivism utilise methodologies which not only make internally consistent interpretations of films, but are also able to discount the theoretical criticisms of the rival paradigm. Attempts to debate and transcend these …
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How might poststructuralist ideas influence the teaching of 10 year olds?
… epistemological outlook – an outlook informed by poststructuralism. This thesis chronicles my second year of philosophy teaching, during which I attempted to move beyond teaching philosophical thinking skills toward a philosophy that was inspired by my thoughts on post-structuralism. During the …
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Alliances, assemblages, and affect: Teacher activism within and beyond the union in Saskatchewan
… exploring multifaceted teacher activism through poststructuralism thereby moving beyond mere critique and emphasizing how teachers resist neoliberalism through intentional acts. Keywords: teacher activism, teacher unions, social movements, poststructuralism
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Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
… Drawing on theoretical insights from feminist poststructuralism, I analyze the contents of a popular learning text that has been developed for young Muslim girls in contemporary South African Deoband mad'ris (elementary religious schools).
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Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
… first theoretical foundation for this study is poststructuralism which is considered as a braided stream of theorizing where braids divide and unite. A Foucauldian social constructionism underlies this project, which extends to a consideration of subjectification, agency and positioning theory. …
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The sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance
… in the phonologic discourses of Western thought. Poststructuralism views meaning as a product of socially constructed language systems, and it argues that neither the voice nor the speaking subject can be afforded linguistic agency. A strain of contemporary theatre criticism, premised upon …
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Being Chinese, Women and Mothers: Stories About Immigration and Children's Education
… Endarkened feminist epistemology together with poststructuralism and transnational feminism is used as the theoretical frameworks for this research.
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"Time for Teletubbies": Childhood, Child Participation, and the Struggle for Meaning
… narrative theory, semiotics/structuralism, and poststructuralism. The context is also analyzed, using a cultural studies and historical reception approach, in order to chronicle and analyze the show's controversies and elucidate how these arguments have affected reception and interpretation of …
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A home for all? : exploring discourses that inform the construction of belonging in contemporary South Africa
… to their experiences of belonging and exclusion. Poststructuralism, phenomenology and social constructionism shape the theoretical framework of this study. Multi-disciplinary discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis are used to explore how the construct- ion of belonging [is] reflected …
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Street Kids in Search of Humanization: Expanding Dominant Narratives Through Critical Ethnography and Stories of Lived Experience
… on social theories such as critical theory and poststructuralism to deconstruct the current dominant narratives about street kids in large urban centers in Brazil, as well as to ground the method of this study: critical ethnography. The writing genre I chose to represent the street kids I met …
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Spectres of Women in Wuthering Heights
… female Gothic, using theoretical frameworks from poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. I propose a feminist interpretation of the novel which emphasizes the catalyzing effect of the haunting scene and its reversals– and which keeps Brontë, herself an uncanny figure, close at hand. The paper …
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… derailed by varying discourses of secularism, poststructuralism, naturalism, and fundamentalism. This reading suggests new synthetic possibilities for philosophy in the twenty-first century.
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"""America's sweetheart,"" Chris Evert: Celebrity femininity and tennis in postmodern America"
… are informed by feminist cultural studies, poststructuralism, performative theory and postmodernism. The strategies employed do not seek to uncover truths so much as to examine the means by which power and truths are produced within culture."
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An investigation into the discourses of secondary aged girls’ emotions and emotional difficulties
… constructionism (Gergen,2001) and feminist poststructuralism (Weedon, 1999), in order to explore how the emotions of secondary aged girls are constructed. Two research methods were used; focus groups with Year 9 girls and semi-structured interviews with their teachers. Discourse analysis was …
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(Dis)Locations, (Dis) Placements and (Un) Belonging in Zimbabwean White Farmer's Auto/biograhies 1995 to 2010
… by counter narratives in the same books. Through poststructuralism, deconstruction and Levinas’s alterity theory, identity and (un)belonging are posed as unstable and schizophrenic. Both autobiography and biography are investigated as already primed to disband centers of totalizing discourses …
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Flexible Habits of Race and Gender: Political Agency and Identity Transformation in Schools
… well as the theoretical lenses of pragmatism and poststructuralism, this philosophical project investigates these problematic classroom situations. This dissertation hypothesizes that when students learn to inhabit their races and genders more flexibly, many classroom dilemmas concerning race and …
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The relational construction of woman abuse : narratives of gender, subjectivity and violence in South Africa
… analytical methods, informed by feminist poststructuralism, revealed that participants located themselves within multiple and ambiguous gendered subject positions. In their talk about violence and relationships, women and men 'performed' gender and enacted diverse culturally available …
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Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction
… (Bruce Brooks’ The Moves Make the Man); poststructuralism/deconstruction (Lois Lowry’s The Giver); reader-response theories (Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels); feminism (Budge Wilson’s short story collection The Leaving); black aesthetics (Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying); cultural …
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