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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Social Nature"”.
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The social nature of man as the ontological basis for a world state
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Using collaborative filtering based recommendations to promote the social nature of online learning
… Despite the supporting literature on the social nature of learning (Vygotsky, 1978; Bandura, 1977; Wenger, 1998), the online teaching environments at many of our colleges and universities still do not fully embraced the importance of social interactions in regards to learning. In response …
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Determining key drivers of crowdfunding success and exploring the social nature of crowdfunding
… crowdfunding campaigns are increasingly using social media to convey their message and project across to potential backers. Therefore, the objective of this thesis is to identify key drivers that impact crowdfunding success and explore the social nature of crowdfunding. This thesis was …
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The social nature of advertising design and screen-ad congruence effects on ad aesthetic appreciation in social media spaces
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Understanding the Patient Experience With Alternative Health Care: The Example of The Wholistic Health Center
… describes the patient dimension exploring the social nature of health and illness as patient and physician interact and contributing to the understanding of a relatively new arena of health care delivery.
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A comparison of the theology of salvation in the teachings of Martin Luther and Joseph Smith, Jr
… of future life vs present life, personal vs social nature of salvation, and the nature of priesthood as related to salvation.
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Social constructivism and collaborative learning in social networks: the case of an online masters programme in adult learning
… to support and deepen their learning. Web 2.0 social software provided the tools for various forms of communication and information sharing amongst student within the social networks. This study shows how the use of Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, podcasts, blogs, chat rooms, social networking …
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A quantitative analysis of socioeconomic position and the occurrence of violence in South Africa
… socioeconomic (rather than biological) in nature. The intersection between violence and varying measures of socioeconomic position is one that deserves specific attention in South Africa due to high levels of violence in the country, the social nature of violence, and the high degree of …
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Canada's righteous : a history of the Canadian National Committee on Refugees and Victims of Political Persecution
… by a belief in internationalism or in the social nature of Christianity.
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The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
… the liberals and communitarians arise from the social nature of individuals. Communitarians claim that this aspect of our nature requires a methodology that is rooted in the traditions and customs of particular societies. The substantive conclusions of this methodology should involve public …
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A Feminist Analysis of Women's Experiences With Infertility: Examining the Roles of Leisure and Conceptualizations of Family
… to cope with infertility. In addition, given the social nature of leisure it was also an arena in which women are confronted their infertility and as a result, constrained. My second research question examined a woman's conceptualizations of family. Specifically, in what ways did a woman's …
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Mediating science learning: Promoting the acquisition and transfer of biological concepts
… the information processing model and the social-constructivist theory, provided the theoretical basis for the study. A model based on these two theories was developed to guide the construction of the intervention and the instruments to measure the transfer. This model takes into account …
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The Effect of Auditors’ Informal Communication in the Audit Environment on Financial Reporting Outcomes
… informally communicate, they each develop a social bond, which increases the manager’s feeling of accountability towards the auditor, causes the manager to make more honest representations to the auditor, and leads the auditor to assess the manager’s representations as more honest. …
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Learning to Teach: A Case Study of Kindergarten Teachers in Hong Kong
… learned and the pace of learning revealed the social nature of learning to teach. Teacher education should be situated in teachers' learning-to-teach process. Professionalizing kindergarten teachers through sustained support of the learning-to-teach process is a way to ensure a high quality …
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Divination processes : an examination of the incorporated belief systems of several Nguni diviners and the subsequent effects on the symbolism, form, structure and style of the music associated with their ritual practices
… of the Nguni people of Southern Africa are of a social nature, directed at fulfilling specific functions. Divination music in particular is of no exception, and it is intricately linked to the methodology and religious symbolism employed by Southern Nguni diviners, providing proof of the role of …
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Scripted curriculum and the quest for improving reading for meaning: Conceptions of language and literacy in Malawi's Grade 4 English scripted curriculum and amongst Grade 4 English teachers
… The study established that though the social nature of language and literacy is acknowledged by the NRP and teachers, both the TG and teachers' conceptions of language and literacy are strongly informed by the view of language as an abstract system that has forms independent of their …
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Heterosexual social communication involving children of middle childhood years
The present study investigated heterosexual social communication between boys and girls seven through ten years of age using a series of cartoon pictures to elicit responses during individual interviews. The sample consisted of 160 public school children enrolled at Margaret Beeks Elementary …
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Museum education: exploring its value for schoolchildren, teachers and museum professionals. A qualitative study
… presenting it instead as interactive and social with potential for personal, professional and institutional impact. This learning process is transactional, facilitated through a pedagogy of the real which reflects museums as unique learning places. The study aligns the social nature of …
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The agency of the every day: a comparative study of the Ubaid ceramic pottery and figurines from Ur and Arpachiyah
… within the thesis focuses on the inherent social nature of these objects and how it informs the lives of those using it, with their own agency. The sensory experience of handling the pottery and figurines is considered as well, using first hand observation to understand this fully. All …
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Measuring musical interaction: analysing communication in embodied musical behaviour
… the thesis examines how processes of social interaction may inform human musical activity, using a combined methodology of ethnographic study and quantitative data analysis of original video-recordings. Proposing a pragmatic approach to the study of the meaningful nature of musical …
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