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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Progressivist"”.
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Parallel Progressivist Orientations: Exploring the Meanings of Progressive Education in Two Ontario Journals, The School and The Canadian School Journal, 1919-1942
… language. Further, this dissertation argues that progressivist ideas were interpreted and represented in different ways according to conceptual orientation and context. Three distinct interpretations of progressive education are described in this thesis. The first progressivist orientation was …
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A multi-variate analysis of Indiana school board member attitudes : concerning controversial educational practices and issues
… Scale VII that was employed for assessing progressivist attitudes.Stratified random sampling techniques, based upon the student enrollment of Indiana school systems, were used to select a sample of 524 school board members. The 524 school board members selected for the sample were …
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From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study
… process. The contemporary trend of progressivist education enabled the phenomenon pedagogically through emphasis on a zealously learner-centred, interactive approach.
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Reciprocal Relationships and Creative Expression in Literacy Learning: Ameliorating Disability Circumstances and Empowering Individuals
… in Depression-era New Mexico. The schools were progressivist experiments in curricular reform initially focused on bilingual education. Art projects and lesson plans included in teacher diaries spanned seven years, evidencing reciprocal relationships, along with focus on creative expression as …
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Change in Seventh-day Adventist Theology: a Study of the Problem of Doctrinal Development
… fundamental approaches (immobilist-stationary, progressivist-evolutionary, and revisionist-revolutionary) successively developed in response to the growing awareness of doctrinal change. (3) The many theories of doctrinal development may be classified inthree "ideal" types (static, dynamic, and …
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Islam in the English Radical Protestant Imagination, 1660--1830
… reveals the limitations inherent in the secular progressivist narratives through which postcolonial critics continue to read the reception of Islam in eighteenth-century England. As a corrective to this approach, I offer historizied re-readings of the political complexities that inflect the …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
… and technology. The genre turns against the progressivist optimism of the nineteenth century and takes inspiration from both Rathenau’s notion of the “mechanization of the world” (coined in 1912) and the contemporary reception of America (“Americanism”). The latter phenomenon turns out to be …
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Apostolic theology and humanism at the University of Paris, 1490–1540
… ideas after 1520 brought them to defend a progressivist view of theology. Although Lefèvre’s model of religious scholarship did not reshape the Faculty’s curriculum, Paris became a centre for the study and printing of Greek patristics. By revealing the role that Lefèvre and his …
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Text, Knowledge and Truth In the Duchy of Luxembourg, 1666-1781
… scholarship, which has favoured teleological and progressivist interpretations of national genesis. Chapter I introduces the idea of the inauguration rite as the epitome of royal absenteeism and systemic component of the Duchy’s political culture. It establishes the main actors and proxy agents of …
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… and fashion narratives that challenged progressivist narratives of imperial history.