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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Presentism"”.
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A Case Study of a School Science Department: A Site for Workplace Learning?
… (Hargreaves and Macmillan, 1992), addictive presentism (Hargreaves, 2010) and Hodkinson and Hodkinson’s model of an expansive/restrictive workplace for teachers (2005). This study may be of interest to those in teacher education and involved with recruitment and retention of science teachers.
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Liminal heritage and political transition in Burma/Myanmar since 1824
Since the turn of the 21st century, an anxious presentism has taken hold of global politics. Human beings are living through a deeply transitional moment characterised by a rise in authoritarian populism (Bugaric 2019) and a ‘brokenness of political reality’ that is both cause and effect (Wydra …
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Future Contingents, Freedom, And Foreknowledge
… systems that use the A-theory and assume presentism. The project focuses on two kinds of views about branching time. One position is true futurism, which designates what will occur regardless of contingency. The opposing view is open futurism, by which no possible course of events is …
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Dimensions of Social Capital Among High School Mathematics Teachers
… teachers’ tendency towards individualism, presentism and conservatism (Lortie, 1975); an expectation of professionalism, creativity and problem-solving from the teachers within the system; a shift away from a deficit model of teaching towards a vision of educational systems as collections …
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
… political agendas, display excessive presentism, lack lucid historical analysis, and ignore federalism and its bearing on the Second Amendment's original meaning. This thesis uncovers the ideological and historical origins of the right to keep and bear arms and interprets the original …
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Thinking the Financial Subject with Contemporary French Thought: Ontology, Time, and the Critique of Capitalism in the Work of Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, and Frédéric Lordon
… by the shared temporality of an excess of presentism that emerges from certain encounters of the subject with their material milieu, undoing subject’s possibility to unfold long-term habit-forming processes. I claim that this temporality stems from finance’s increased influence in shaping …
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Silence, speech and gender in early modern drama : a presentist, Palestinian perspective
… gender they enact. Following the methodology of presentism, the thesis deploys some examples of gendering speech and silence in contemporary Palestine to illuminate aspects of early modern tragedies. This approach is a step towards reading the early modern tragedies as texts which offer a model …
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The Ontology of Persistence
In 1986, David Lewis offered what he thought would be the decisive objection against endurantism, showing it to be an implausible theory. The problem of temporary intrinsics stated that an object cannot have two complementary intrinsic properties while maintaining identity, as endurantists claim. …
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The Mystery of Christ, the Mystery of the Church: Christocentrism in the Theological Visions of Georges Florovsky and Henri de Lubac
… corrective to the risk of immanentism or presentism in contextual theology. That is, the tendency to reduce the Church’s identity to a particular historical moment, context, or experience. What emerges is a proposal for a paradoxical ecclesiology rooted in christocentrism. Drawing on …
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On the Plurality of Existences
… it against two neighboring views, Meinongian Presentism and Presentist Existential Pluralism. I argue that Meinongian Growing Block Theory is preferable to these views and suggest reasons for thinking it will also fair well against new competitors from the Moving Spotlight and Fragmentalism …
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Organisational support throughout the maternity journey : the perceptions of female academics in selected UK universities
… primarily due to a culture of inflexibility and presentism, in addition to several other organisational factors that affected working mothers such as part-time working, a lack of role models, pressure to publish, and an unmanageable workload. The research therefore finds that each phase of the …