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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"and Critical Theory"”.
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CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Kimberly L. Rosewall</p> <p> Close reading is the very foundation of literary studies, yet this interpretive practice can be very difficult, especially for undergraduate students. The purpose of this study was to explore my own …
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Adorno, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory Beyond Europe
I investigate the philosophical and sociological backdrop against which Theodor W. Adorno conceives of aesthetic theory in his late work, asking how such a theory may provide an opening for rethinking the role of critical theory beyond Europe. I begin by tracing Adorno’s thought back to the German …
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Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Limits. Passages between the Philosophy of Science and Critical Theory
… between philosophy of science, aesthetics, and critical theory. In order to pursue this aim, a number of Serres’s works revolving around the history and philosophy of science, writings on art and literature, and critical pieces are taken into account. These comprise, amongst others, his …
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Kapitalizmo poveikis sveikatai /
… disorders are explained through psychiatry and psychology. However, social explanations for psychological disorders are also important. This work utilizes Marxist and critical theory authors and their works with the purpose of demonstrating how capitalism can cause psychological disorders, …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… bowls, contemporary ceramic art practice, and critical theory. Scholarly attention surrounding the Aramaic Bowls remains largely confined within the philological disciplines of translation, linguistics and grammar. In contrast, through critical and creative approaches, this research takes …
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Being seen and heard: exploring the classroom participation and literacy practices of three Guatemalan students in their first year of U.S. schooling
… of schooling in the U.S., engaged in written and oral classroom literacy practices in their all-English social studies class. This dissertation also explores the instructional practices that created the classroom environment in which students participated. This study, which is grounded in …
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A Case Study Exploring Restraint and Seclusion Use in School-Age Children on an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Perceptions of children restrained and secluded (R&S) were explored using Yin's methodology and critical theory. The literature presented reviewed proponent's and opponent's views of the R&S intervention used on inpatient psychiatric units for the containment of violent patients. Despite reports of …
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Surveying the Soul: Shaping Auto-Criticism with Reflective Arts-Based Inquiry to Assess a Female Doctoral Experience
… as derived from educational criticism and connoisseurship. The process of inquiry is rooted in arts-based methods of representation and theories of educational criticism and critical theory in the humanities. Philosophical approaches to artwork and the use of it in these methodologies …
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An Investigation of the Integration of Science, Mathematics and Technology within a Technological Design Context
… studying the integration of science, mathematics and technology in a technological design context. The daily classroom practices of a teacher and 19 of his students (aged 15-16) in a technology class were analysed with a focus on the knowledge and skills used while designing individualised …
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Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
… illustrate social interactions that constitute and transform the ruling relations. Institutional ethnography, a feminist methodology, inherently explores where communicative text provides insight into the larger structures of the ruling relations that govern, educate, train and inform. The …
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Hallucinating the Ukrainian Cityscape: A Reevaluation of Walter Benjamin’s Urban Experience for a Postsocialist Context
… Benjamin’s conception of modern urban experience and postsocialist representations of urban space in Ukrainian literature. By examining how urban experience influences the mobilization of formal strategies in literature and critical theory, this project articulates the normative assumptions about …
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Developmental Pedagogy in Marriage and Family Therapy Education
… family therapy in the medical, organizational, and human relations fields. In this new environment, family therapy educators and supervisors are required to cross the epistemological spaces of scientist-practitioner, postmodernism, and critical theory. These new possibilities require that family …
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Evolving a Theatre of Truth
… theatre in a world dominated by global media and corporate omnipotence; the conflation of theatre and Realpolitick; the limitations of postmodern thought and critical theory, and the struggle not only of the marginalized, but of all of us to create an activist theatre in perilous times. After …
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Expanding the Object: Post-conceptual dance and choreographic performance practices
… the relationship between postconceptual dance and its state as object. As a practice-led research project it aims to do so both through the written thesis and through artistic practice, which is here presented as a series of video projects that extend representations of dance. Over five …
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Modernization and music in contemporary China : crisis, identity, and the politics of style
… becomes a location both for legitimating and for subverting governmental policies. The overdetermined process of this dialectic has produced a contemporary cultural crisis: a crisis of national identity. This dissertation draws on ethnography, historical analysis and critical theory in an …
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“My Training Wheels are Off:” How First Generation College Students Made Meaning of the Influence of their College Access and Support Programs
… university in the Northeast used non-profit and government-funded college access and support programs to make meaning of their college-going journeys. The participants used college access programs to prepare themselves for, gain access to, and persist at a selective postsecondary institution …
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An Examination of Educators' Perceptions of the School's Role in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity
… is a prevalent subject of research currently, and many researchers have studied the effectiveness of school programs in battling obesity among students. This case study, utilizing ethnographic tools of observation, interviews, and investigation of artifacts, examines educators' perceptions of …
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Sin and Theory: Martin Luther's Hamartiology in Dialogue with Critical Theory
… Luther is often seen as a particularly extreme, and therefore particularly malignant, version of the Augustinian tradition, whose theological hegemony so many theologians want to challenge. The primary thesis of this project is that Luther in fact offers powerful resources for reflecting on sin …
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Theorizing 'Transitional Justice'
… following mass human rights violations and advocates of restorative justice claiming that non-prosecutorial forms of justice like truth-telling are better suited for post-conflict societies. This debate was eventually settled, at least in the field, by a belief that post-conflict …
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