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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Relationship with nature"”.
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String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment
… advantage of that opportunity to explore the relationships between science, nature, and curriculum using string theory and our ideas about the environment as a backdrop. Both the energy and multiple possibilities created by strings and the rich history leading up to the theory help to …
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An Earthly Cosmology
… thesis project explores the design of a nature center and planetarium within Rock Creek Park, in Washington, DC. The project evolved from a desire to re-imagine a relationship with nature in a way that allows conversation, reflective thinking, and allows one's sense of wonder to enter a …
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Invisible Green
How is nature conceived today, a generation into the environmental movement? Many contemporary artists grapple with how to reconcile our inheritance of both a precarious natural world and the culture that created it. My work investigates the subtle intricacies of our relationship with nature. I use …
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Unearthing an educator's ecological niche: A heuristic inquiry
… the importance of childhood experiences, with and within nature, the intent of this study is to interpret the essential meanings associated with these experiences and how these, in turn, are situated in our beliefs and relationship with nature. The targeted respondents for the study were …
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Study of Christian attitudes toward man's stewardship of the environment: a case study in the Roanoke Valley
… expressed in the Bible, calls man into a sacred relationship with nature which can be defined as the environmental ethic of stewardship. This thesis studies the relationship between Christian religious commitment and attitudes toward the environment. A questionnaire completed by 242 individuals …
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Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach to Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"and "Wamsutter Wolf"
In Annie Proulx's interview with Charlie Rose, she states that her stories come "from place." Ecocriticism has been the predominant lens with which to understand Proulx's work; however, ecocriticism's nebulous tenets and theoretical deficiencies perpetuate sentimental pastoralism of geographical …
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Creative Participation: Rethinking Reclamation
… investigates the development of Western Man's relationship with nature by comparing and contrasting it with the relationship that Native Cultures, particularly Native American Cultures have with nature. This reveals Western Man's reliance on the concept of objectivity and the resultant …
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In Pursuit of Reconciliation: A Dialogue of Form and Facade
… itself from the natural one, making demands of nature, and requiring the natural environment to exist on its terms. This prevailing condition has led to the detriment of the natural environment and consequently, those who must inhabit both. Because of this, a shift from the domination of the …
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Umbanda's relationship with the natural environment & religious intolerance
… how Umbanda and umbandistas relate and interact with the natural environment in its various forms. One of the main themes of this section is the importance of the orixás for the religion’s relationship with nature. This chapter also explores: plant taxonomy in Umbanda, Umbanda’s National …
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‘Seeds of the Braced Bow’ (The Flower, the Seed and the Bee)
… from a seed, to a flower through a bee… it is a relationship with nature that is silent, we do not know if either is conscious of this interaction but we know that we see plants and nature blossom because of this. Is this not also the story of the bow... who were the seeds the flowers and the …
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Brush Mountain Ranger Station: An Exploration of Structure
… that forms a path through the woods and builds a relationship with nature.
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
… have done groundbreaking work describing the relationship between gender and the environment, but, with some exceptions, descriptions of male identity and the environment most often reference an ecologically-destructive patriarchal mode. In the American antebellum period, the figure of the …
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The Commodification of Nature: Power/Knowledge and REDD+ in Costa Rica
… REDD+ and Bribri have different perceptions of nature, enabling disagreement on REDD+ goals. Whereas REDD+ perceives nature as commodifiable for the purposes of neoliberal climate policies, Bribri express a spiritual, harmonious relationship with nature. I conclude by noting that REDD+ can pose …
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Sensory Stimulating Sanctuaries - Creating spaces that improve and benefit wellbeing and mental health through sensory stimulating architectural techniques
… or create a sense of well-being and safety within a space. In this paper I complete an in-depth study that focusses on ways in which architecture could be used to benefit one's mental health by implementing trauma informed design techniques. I draw on trauma-informed design theories, …
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A Companion Object: Materialising a multispecies sensibility through creative practice in an ecological crisis
… creative practice to promote a decentred human relationship with nature? A case-study using citizen-science moth recording in the UK. This practice-based research develops concepts and methods for decentring the human in relationships with the natural world through creative practice. I use …
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Nature therapy : developing a framework for practice
The relationship between human beings and nature has played an important role throughout history, as part of traditional medicine and curative rituals. The Shaman, the healing man, incorporated nature into rituals aiming to help both the individual and the community heal from misfortunes and make …
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Making a third place: the science and the poetry of husbandry
… on the basis of particular values associated with Good Husbandry – those which focused on individual innovation, profit-related productivity, quantitative measurement, objective, ‘puritan’ truth and control of nature. Ideals of the earth as a ‘commonwealth’, and of traditional stewardship, …
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Taking Root
… specifically those who have an uncomfortable relationship with nature due to inequities in access to quality green space, a cultural distancing from nature due to historical acts of violence, or an increasingly urban and work focused lifestyle. A proposed Visitor Center in Rock Creek Park, in …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
In recent investigations of the child’s relationship with nature, collections such as Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd’s Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism (2004) and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Phillip G. Payne, and Alan Reid’s Experiencing Environment and Place through Children’s …
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'Eve's Apples': Growing Ladies In The Brontean Sublime, 1826-1853
… failed to acknowledge is the significance of Nature to this new feminism. In this dissertation, I contend that Brontë develops her own vision of the sublime as a way to enhance the often pejorative connotation of the relationship between women and Nature. Where society tried to incorporate …
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