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Showing 1 to 20 of 321 for “"Wonder"”.
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The wonder of magic : eliciting wonder and amazing its expression
The wonder that occurs while watching a good magic trick or admiring a gorgeous natural vista is a strong emotion that has not been well studied. Educators, media producers, entertainers, scientists and magicians could all benefit from a more robust understanding of wonder. This exploration …
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The Evocation of Wonder
… pages serve as a record of the tracing of wonder in the development of a project for a temple of light and shadow. They recount a search formed through the wading of a chaos that cherishes in its heart a luminous array of color and form; it is a documentation of discovery pulsing forth from …
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Songs of wonder: an inquiry into wonder and magic in everyday andorganisational life
… research explores which practices might support ‘wonder’ in everyday and organisational life. How do I live my life with a sense of wonder? How do I create spaces of wonder with and for others? How do I create a wonder-full research practice? As an action researcher (Reason & Bradbury, 2008) with …
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Keeping wonder secure and the people awake:on the nature of wonder and its importance for civilisation.
Wonder is an emotion readily communicated to others by a generally understood expressive signature. In the form of a digital emoticon with its basic visual clues, the 'Wow’ moment, shown as a face with open mouth and raised eyebrows, offers a representation of an unmistakable feeling. Such an …
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Salt Vessels: Unearthing the Wonder of Salt
<p>An investigation into the history of salt reveals its importance throughout the history of human existence. Based on this history, table-sized salt vessels were created to advance an appreciation of salt as a mineral that not only enhances life but is necessary for man's survival. This thesis …
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Islamic automata in the absence of wonder
This thesis looks at the interpretive difficulties posed by the Islamic automata, or hiyal manuscript--an ingenious genre of medieval illustrated manuscripts that describes and depicts mechanical devices such as water clocks, trick vessels, and automata. I choose to focus on the ways in which the …
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Trilobites and the Culture of Wonder in Antebellum America
This thesis examines a “culture of wonder” in the United States from 1800-1850 through the exploration of invertebrate fossils, especially the trilobite, in historical sources. A short discussion of Charles Willson Peale’s Repository allows the reader to understand the culture of wonder at the …
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After Wonder Drugs: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal
Prescriptions of psychopharmaceuticals have exploded in recent decades, and at least one in six Americans takes a psychiatric drug. Antidepressants, the most common psychiatric medications, have been widely hailed as safe, effective, and non-addictive, and psychiatric consensus has maintained that …
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A Day with the Mountain: Phenomenology, Wonder, and Freeskiing
… insights into self-movement, movement itself, of wonder. Emerging from this inquiry are ideas and questions about self-movement and movement that challenge the ground of formal physical education. I sense a potential pedagogical approach that combines movement, self-movement, and wonder as …
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Driving with the Dead: Stories of Loss, Journey, and Wonder
… between bereavement and journey, mourning and wonder. It is a collection of loosely-linked, non-fiction narratives using motifs of travel and transportation to consider the complex and creative ways in which the living interact with the dead. Managing loss and making peace with impermanence is …
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BRINGING THE WONDER OF NATURE BACK TO EARLY CHILDHOOD CLASSROOMS
<p>Current research suggests that time spent in nature benefits all aspects of children’s development. However, children are spending little time outdoors. Additionally, there are few preschool programs that recognize the outdoors as an extension of the traditional classroom and even fewer college …
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Library of wonder : the story of me, books, and libraries
In 2008, we tore all our books from the past three years into pieces. It was a celebration of graduating from high school and longing for a new life. Yes, we hated books. We were forced to stay in the classroom 10 hours every day, our eyes switching between books and the blackboard. We were filled …
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Making wonder tales : an exploration of material writing practice for ecological storymaking
We are confronted by multiple ecological crises worldwide and there is growing evidence that fact-based communication is not helping people to engage with environmental issues. Traditionally, stories have connected people with wider nature, and there have been appeals from conservationists, …
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In between empathy and wonder lies the contamination that makes us human
… the moment that intrudes consciousness--empathy, wonder, or something in between. The role that the body and the gut plays in the performance of empathy with its constituent microbes is re-conceptualized by drawing from the history of aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and microbiology. The …
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Teachers’ Perceptions of Reading Wonders: Is It Really A Wonder? A Program Evaluation
… to determine whether teachers perceived Reading Wonders to be an effective reading program for the school district as well as whether the assessment data aligned with teachers’ perceptions. A survey was used to collect responses from the participants and an Excel spreadsheet was used to aggregate …
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Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman
… deconstructive and feminist theories to the Wonder Woman saga, this thesis develops a potential definition of feminine narrative in contrast to the normative and exclusionary patriarchal narrative that reigns supreme in popular culture and Western ideology. Though much of comics discourse …
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What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder
… essential task of philosophy: to reawaken us in wonder to an enchanted world that in its independence speaks to us and to which we appropriately respond.
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What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder
… essential task of philosophy: to reawaken us in wonder to an enchanted world that in its independence speaks to us and to which we appropriately respond.
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Being opened: a hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry into the existential psychotherapist’s lived experience of wonder
… explore the lived experience of psychotherapist wonder. The primary aim was to provide a rich, evocative description of wonder together with an understanding of its meaning and the conditions for its emergence as a phenomenon in a clinical context. Eight existential, phenomenologically orientated …
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