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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Secret garden"”.
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From the Secret Garden to the Panopticon? Changing freedoms and the growing crisis in primary school headteacher recruitment.
… movement away from the ‘freedom’ of the ‘secret garden’ of the pre-National Curriculum era to a time of reducing freedoms for headteachers under a central panoptic gaze (Foucault 1979; Ball 2006) and then to a new ‘supported autonomy’ as suggested by ‘Education Excellence Everywhere’ (DfE, …
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Child as Cure: The Idealized Child in the Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett
… (1888), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), and The Secret Garden (1911). In all three books Frances Hodgson Burnett introduces child characters who have a nuanced understanding of the world around them that allows them to cure the brokenness in the adult world. Burnett's use of the child figure and …
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… (1894), Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1911) and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908); those in Part Two are more experimental contemporary texts: Marlene Nourbese Philip's Harriet's Daughter (1988) and The Other Side of Silence (1995) and The Tricksters (1986) …
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Spatial Practice : The politics of "activating" public space in the State of Kuwait
… more recent design movements found within the Secret Garden and the MantaqaMe movement in 2013 until today, in comparison to the larger-scale Al- Shaheed Park. This thesis argues that each space was appropriated by socio-political citizen movements as a symbolic space for political dispute over …
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In plane sight: theories of film spectatorship and animation
… of animated and live action versions of The Secret Garden. Those analyses demonstrate how established theories of film spectatorship, singly or in combination, can help us account for viewers’ responses particularly to animated characters. I demonstrate that both texts evoke and engage in the …
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Advent of Denial of Death in Children's Literature
After creating and sustaining highly Romanticized notions of childhood, society begins to protect children from the dangers that supposedly exist exclusively in adult reality, particularly death. Taking into consideration society's attitude towards childhood, this thesis closely examines the …