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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"anti-intellectualism"”.
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The effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on students' intention to cheat.
… investigated the effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on undergraduate business students' (N = 485) intention to cheat in their academic studies. A descriptive research design was used and data was collected by means of a self-administered, cross-sectional survey. Hierarchical …
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Toppling the ivory tower: Coded communication in American political discourse
Anti-intellectualism has a long history in U.S. public debate, and in the 21st century it is not uncommon for politicians to emphasize themes of anti-intellectualism in their public communications. This study proposes a new approach to understanding how anti-intellectualism is communicated in the …
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Disrupting Traditional Narrative: Navigating Preservice Early Childhood Education Through Hospitality, Time and Dialogue
… ethical counterpoints to the instrumentalism and anti‑intellectualism that persist in preservice early childhood education, particularly within practicum contexts. The inquiry begins with a critical analysis of the neoliberal discourses embedded in contemporary processes of professionalization and …
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Practical knowledge and abilities
… of a position that combines aspects of both Intellectualism and anti-Intellectualism. An entailment from knowhow to a certain sort of ability is defended, and it is shown that the present view preserves the possibility of appealing to know-how to block Frank Jackson's "knowledge argument" …
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Wayfaring Strangers: A Case Study of Rural Developmental Writers in the Missouri Ozarks
… Ozarks. Using Richard Hofstadter's concept of "anti-intellectualism" as a theoretical lens, I explored the attitudes of students towards writing and academic culture. This exploration was conducted by means of questionnaires, interviews, writing samples, and several experimental courses.</p> …
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Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11
… benefits could come from landing on the moon. Anti-intellectualism, inferior public schools, and a lack of commitment on the part of the US government are arguments offered for analysis by black writers in the two years studied. This topic involves the social conditions of African Americans …
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Phenomenology, Film and Curriculum Theory: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Persona of Teachers
… topics discussed, such as situations related to anti-intellectualism and surveillance. In comparing the film worlds to their own worlds, the participants demonstrated that, through discussion and analysis, they were able to read the films phenomenologically as well as critically, pushing many …
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The life and thought of the Very Reverend Dr Isaac Milner and his contribution to the Evangelical Revival in England
… is important to a movement later accused of anti-intellectualism. Chapter Three examines Milner's position as the Dean of Carlisle Cathedral. Milner held this office for twenty years before another Evangelical succeeded to a like position in the Anglican hierarchy, and his leadership in this …
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The labors of Hercules: embodied learning and male domestication in early modern culture and literature
Frustrated with the anti-intellectualism and academic conservatism of the early sixteenth century, Erasmus, in his lengthy commentary on “The Labors of Hercules” adage, attempts to justify his thankless and debilitating scholarly work by analogizing it to the labors of the mythic Greco-Roman …
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Pathways to the field: an exploration of the capital and habitus of people undertaking different routes into nursing utilising Bourdieu’s theory of practice.
… supportive and nurturing, some demonstrating anti-intellectualism, and other participants experiencing symbolic violence in the form of threats being used against them as a means of oppression and control of their behaviour. Participants also observed some toxic practice placements, where the …
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Contrastive knowledge how
… how, I develop a viable alternative to the intellectualism/anti-intellectualism debate, and I outline a hybrid model of acquisition of knowledge how. The third chapter raises an objection to the contrastive account, about the much discussed thought experiment involving Mary, the color …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
… scientific theology developed a neo-Kantian distinction, between religious, knowledge and scientific knowledge, which Sabatier thought clearly showed the objectives, limits and dependencies of both. The subjective, teleological and symbolic nature of religious knowledge demanded a new …
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Teaching Science in the Bible Belt of the South
… on my own life. My world is one that idealizes antiintellectualism as described by Hofstadter (1964). The work of He (1998, 2003) and He & Phillion (2008) was instrumental in illustrating the power of the fictionalized narrative in conveying the lived experience. I used a series of narratives to …
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
The philosophical and empirical study reported here developed from the observation that information science has had no comprehensive understanding of nonuse of information. Without such an understanding, information workers may use the words "nonuse of information" while referring to very different …