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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Third Spaces"”.
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Entrepreneurial teaching in creating third spaces for experiential learning: a case study of two science teachers in low-income settings
… lens. David and Faith established new spaces for science learning to occur and gained financial support through external resources. They animated students, teachers, and community members and invited them to take an active role in shaping the projects, and they acknowledged them …
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An investigation into how Algerian women living in the United Kingdom, negotiate social activities and cultural practices within virtual Third Spaces
This thesis explores the Third Spaces developed by a group of Algerian female migrants, who migrated to the United Kingdom. The research captures the online activities and cultural practices of this group of women in the context of migration. The research participants are 12 Algerian women from the …
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Social Binaries in Contemporary Beur Fiction
… of beur as a category and label serves as a third space in the binary of French culture and Maghrebi culture. This third space is necessary as the children of Maghrebi immigrants in France find themselves in between each culture and the sphere of influence that follows. The term is then …
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Digital Agency and Professional Identity: Neurodivergent University Educators’ Experiences on Twitter
… educator, the study investigates how digital third spaces can serve both sites of resistance and areas of precarity. Central to this research is the conceptualisation of Twitter as a hybridised third space where neurodivergent educators engage in identity performance, community-building and …
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Bowls, Banter, and Belonging: Emergency Food as a Third Space
After COVID-19, social spaces are reported to be dwindling, barred by memberships, buying expectations, underfunded, or completely shut down. Now, four years post-pandemic, how are communities coping? Analyzing food banks shows part of the answer. This thesis explores how communities are responding …
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Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission
… and inequalities can be challenged by creating third spaces to encourage the development of marginalized students' voices for participation and discourse, as well as creating cooperation and collaboration between educators and learners. Educational institutions have not been able to fully …
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Breakable binaries : representations of twins in African and African American literature, film, television, and cultures
… related to hybridity, ambivalence, and third spaces, along with several other contemporary arguments that challenge aspects of these foundational ideas, this project analyzes the ways in which these twins-centered texts may be considered resistance texts, rejecting colonial imaginaries …
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What are they learning?: Negotiations of language and identity within a third space after school program
This dissertation argues that third space is a strong tool for understanding the dynamic between literacy learning and collaborations in an after school program. I make the case for an inclusion of socio-political discussions among sociocultural discussions of literacy in after school programs for …
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Professional Wrestling and Myth
… American civic life. Churches functioned as the third places (besides work and home) where people can find a community and reaffirm community values. The decline of sacred mythic heroes provides an opportunity for new heroes to be born. In the search for third places, people found community …
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"I Feel At Peace". A Standpoint Feminist Perspective of Canadian Muslim Women Studying the Qur'an
… learning institutes for Muslim women as third spaces, serving as sources of peer support for women of faith. Discussion: The study findings call for a new perspective that acknowledges Qurʼānic knowledge as an empowering force to improve Muslim women’s identity and well-being, while …
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Submergence as emergence : expanding social waterscapes in a shrinking city
This thesis seeks to reclaim spaces of urban disinvestment by developing alternative forms of contact and connectivity across urban water systems. Framing water as a mode of gathering, this project connects myriad urban realities, peoples, and practices. Alternative forms of linkages provide users …
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
… a multilingual and multimodal literacy club as a third space that calibrated language and literacy learning to their multilingual needs and to research this intervention. My research aimed to answer the questions: How is a bi-multilingual, multimodal third space co-constructed in an after-school …
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A matter of time? Temporality, agency and the cosmopolitan in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro and Timothy Mo
… cosmopolitanism’s work is carried out in ‘Third Spaces’, interstitial sites, and border zones – fails to recognize the importance of temporal concerns to the experience of cosmopolitan living. My analysis of the novels of Ishiguro and Mo is thus concerned with the way in which the temporal …
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Collaboration in Higher Education: Theorising Co-Creation for Inclusive Learning and Teaching Praxis
… background. The thesis mobilises the concept of third space, described by Homi K Bhabha, an Indian-British scholar and theorist, as a place of opportunity, to characterise and connect examples and arguments, and to make an original claim about collaboration as a fundamental element of education. …
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Imagineering the community: The vagrant spaces of the malls, enclave estates, the filmic and the televisual
… - or what Soja calls the first and second spaces. The Iatter informs how the sites/sights for community are seen and read. Soja suggest that community is found in the third spaces or what Lefebvre calls the ‘lived’ space. However, it will be argued that there is a fourth space of 'livable' …
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Asian migrant writers in Australia and the negotiation of the third space
… ‘inter’ space, what Homi Bhabha calls the ‘ThirdSpace.’ In terms of perception of identity and belonging this borderline positionwould appear to be crucial to the diasporic condition. (1994, p. 53) While thisstudy explores the problematics, accommodations, resolutions and synergiesinvolved …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… perspective for cultural work and workspaces for knowledge. The studies investigate three different (techno-)socio-cultural spaces of knowledge: a public exhibition about the new Gotthard Base Tunnel currently under construction in the Swiss Alps, Jennifer Baichwal’s film Manufactured …
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Grade 11 learners' engagement with a literature setwork (Sophiatown) through a tramsmediation project in a third space
… well as translanguaging in an English Grade 11 Third Space whilst engaging with a setwork, Sophiatown, the play. The study also looks at the benefits of using alternative assessment strategies as opposed to traditional assessment methods that tend to favour monomodality and monolingualism. …