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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"alternative practices"”.
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Continuous assessment within the writing curriculum : a classroom-based study of an alternative methodology for teaching writing in a second language context
… aim of the study was to determine the effects of alternative assessment practices on the writings of seven learners in a Grade 11 English second language class. Conventional assessment practices are inadequate when set against new knowledge of the role played by assessment in supporting learning …
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Hedonistic deconsumption and upcycling: active, emotional and pleasurable engagement with waste
… consumption (e.g. recycling), however, alternative practices such as freeganism, dumpster diving, and upcycling in particular, show emotional engagement with waste is evident, but underexplored. Alternative practices, and their apparent emotional and expressive nature, could hold the …
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Energetics of low-input corn production
… and com grain production under standard and alternative practices are examined. Economic analyses of crop production practices are used to aid the selection of recommended alternative practices. In corn silage production, cover-cropped treatments had a significant advantage over standard …
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REALISM IS THE AVANT-GARDE: PLAY SCRIPTS, COSTUMES, AND STAGE DESIGNS
This dissertation examines the practices of modern Chinese theater during the first three decades of the twentieth century, focusing on the portrayal of different realities. It challenges the notion that huaju (spoken drama) was the sole orthodox approach to realism. While huaju closely followed …
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Developing cinematic culture: a South American case study
… commercial bodies, international interests and alternative practices have converged, even with individual discrepancies, to develop a national and regional cinematic culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Practices from funding and production through to distribution and exhibition …
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Creando barrios. Vecindarios, cine y poesia. La concepcion del espacio urbano en Espana. 1970-1985.
… with the potentials of reconceptualizing human practices in today's artistic creations. My point of departure studies how different grassroots associations were able to introduce significant changes in the cultural values imposed by the Franco dictatorship while challenged their limitations …
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Mario Bellatin: El Giro Hacia El Procedimiento y La Literatura Como Proyecto
… in itself while engaging in the design of alternative practices that challenge the limits between artistic fields and disciplines. Through the analysis of a corpus of selected books and performances by Mario Bellatin, I explore the procedural turn that manifests in his work; particularly …
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What does the Applied Theatre Director do? Directorial intervention in theatre-making for social change
… theatre contexts, from developments in Alternative and Political theatre and from Drama in Education praxis. The thesis concludes with a theoretical framework that articulates applied theatre directing as a process that shares some common ground with mainstream theatre directing, but …
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An action inquiry into negotiated learning.
… of other teachers ('practitioner interaction'). Alternative practices, thought by the informants to be effective, were used to make small-scale interventions in classroom practice ('practitioner intervention'). The understanding of negotiation developed in this way was finally interrogated in the …
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Re-crafting Architecture in Philippi + the everyday - Developing the urban potentials and sites of production in the Cape Flats
… to how we as architects should make use of alternative practices, one that is ethically engaged with on the ground knowledge by supporting the initiatives of the collective majority in the production of space and future development. The program is meant stand as an infrastructure in …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… with culture, disregarding the dissident practices that offered political alternatives to identity, belonging, and commonality. I analyse how this struggle has played out in the field of cultural production, particularly within and among the three strands of poetry which I categorise …
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The relationship between teacher education, teacher cognition and classroom practice in language teaching: a case study of MA students beliefs about grammar teaching
… development of the grammar teaching beliefs and practices of three practising teachers of English in Turkey taking an MA course. Teachers were interviewed and observed over a 20-month period; the observations shed light on how they taught grammar, while the interviews explored their beliefs about …
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Studies of normal and deficient colour vision with relevance to occupational environments
… outcome amongst the various tests and potential alternative practices are discussed. The second study focuses on understanding the discrepancies in performance observed on lantern tests when the subject’s task is to report the colour of small signal lights presented against a dark background …
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The Peasant and the Farmer: (Re)Constituting Settler Colonialism and Capitalist Relations in the US Imaginary
… US serves the ideological function of 'othering' alternative practices and subjectivities. Through a historiography which focuses on the structural logic and compulsions of settler colonialism and capitalism, I reconstruct the history of the peasant-farmer dyad in the US context. Through a …
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Agronomic management of soybean with foliar manganese and apical meristem alterations
… the importance of incorporating management practices into their soybean production system, which indicates they may be missing half of the potential yield of soybeans. Therefore, our objective was to quantify the impact of different agronomic management practices on soybean productivity. One …
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Interface: concept and context as strategies for innovative fashion design and communication: an analysis from the perspective of the conceptual fashion design practitioner
This practice-led PhD proposes alternative practices in a research and design context that explore the intersection of fashion, fine art and performance methodology and practice. The project exposes and documents the emergence and development of conceptual and experimental fashion and …
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Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
… and eighteenth-century accounts of the lives and practices of female healers, midwives, sorcerers, and clandestine cult leaders in the capital, Santiago de Guatemala. Colonial authorities often called these women mujeres de mal vivir, "women who live evil lives." Community members from all sectors …
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Practices of pastness, postwars of the dead, and the power of heritage: museums, monuments and sites in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-2010
… periods, or between official and non-official practices, results of this study reveal that in practice, there are connections in the work that heritage does across these categories. Findings of the study shows a persistent and extraordinary investment in the past, across the eras and …
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Engineering as Technology of Technology and the Subjugated Practice
… that discounts and subjugates viable alternative practices. My dissertation draws on both historical and philosophical approaches to the question of technology and engineering. My historical-linguistic study looks for the historical meanings of the two words—technology and …
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Evaluation of trailer thermal environment during commercial swine transport
Transport is a critical factor affecting swine welfare in modern U.S. commercial pork production. Broad temperature ranges encountered during transport can challenge pig welfare and have been shown to increase the number of dead or down pigs following transport. Despite the general understanding of …
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