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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"bricoleur"”.
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Bricoleur : creative learning through video and computation
… rather than planned in advance." The bricoleur - one who engages in bricolage - works in dialogue with their materials, continuously experimenting and course-correcting as necessary. Throughout this process, the bricoleur creates relations between materials and in doing so, builds …
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The Judge as Bricoleur: Bricolage in decision-making in the criminal justice system
In this work I examine the approach of the courts to cases which depart from expected and anticipated norms. Using four case studies from areas where courts have had to respond to situations with which it may be unfamiliar, I explain how, if not properly guided, the courts risk relying on …
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Playing with technology - an approach to composition
… two categories characteristic of the concepts of bricoleur and engineer as found in Claude Levi-Strauss' "The Savage Mind". This paper begins by arguing that the engineer approach is of more importance to the future of technology in music composition. It then documents the creation of five pieces, …
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Examining Teachers’ Perspectives on the Utilization of Counter-Hegemonic Texts in Their Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
… I acted as what Yvonna Lincoln would call a bricoleur (Denzin & Lincoln, 2008). The qualitative researcher acts as a bricoleur to conduct what Kincheloe describes as multiperspectival research methods (Kincheloe & Berry, 2004). Carspecken’s (1996) critical qualitative research methodology …
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A river of memory: landscape, narrative and identity in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork, Ireland
… contested and identified with. A polyvocal-bricoleur approach aims to get below the surface of a cultural landscape, inject historical research and temporal depth into cultural landscape studies and instil a genuine sense of inclusivity of a wide variety of voices (role of monuments and …
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Adventures in academic storytelling: using the tools of creative writing to produce peer-reviewed academic research
… my work has a more practical synergy with the Bricoleur-Bowerbird approach to research and production from the field of Creative Writing, and I argue that a Creative Writer’s approach to academic research can produce articles that challenge boundaries and dogma to advance our understanding of …
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The contribution of international school linking partnerships to the provision of global education
… linking. The research has taken a qualitative, bricoleur approach, drawing on the work of Levi Strauss (1966) and Kincheloe and Berry (2004) and has employed a wide range of methods and data collection techniques as and when needed in the developing dynamic of the research journey. These have …
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The legal philosophy of al-Ghazali: law, language and theology in al-Mustasfa
… In his role as synthesiser of disciplines, a bricoleur, al-Ghazali often ended up vacillating between binary opposites, and was caught between stability and instability, order and disorder. Despite his attempts to stabilise language by means of a metaphysics, it was the semiotic nature of …
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Pop culture’s influence on mythological monsters as seen in children and young adult’s films
… the notions of the ‘doxa’/’paradoxa’, the ‘bricoleur’ and ‘iconophobia’/‘logophilia’ in relation to the monsters in the adaptations. This dissertation ultimately suggests that there have been some drastic changes made to the classical ancient Greek mythological monsters and yet, this trend …
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An Investigation of the Sculpture/Language Homology
… of a dialectic process. It is the art of the 'bricoleur' that embodies a readily accessible lexical and semantic content constructed from the readily available signifiers 'to hand'. The exploratory and reflective investigations of the integral studio projects are concerned with the …
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A life in social entrepreneurship: exploring my learning, beliefs and my future through autoethnographical, institutional, motivational and critical lenses
… This reappraisal depicts me as an archetypal ‘bricoleur’, or handy-person, improvising with the resources to hand, successfully synthesising resources from the disparate worlds of the business, public and third sectors. Exploring both my formative drives and the external contexts in which I …
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W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
… and (visual) artists. His claim to be a "bricoleur"--a collector of pre-existing visual material--resonates with the present era's unprecedented ability not only to store huge digital archives, but also to click, drag, and recontextualize their contents across limitless formats. Always on …
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Taken-for-granted assumptions and professionalism in IAG practice
… close to me. Using the concept of researcher-as-bricoleur, a range of methodologies were employed. In the pre-cycle and first research cycle an auto-ethnograpahic approach captures the researcher’s voice and that of a co-researcher. In later cycles a heuristic approach enabled the researcher to …
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Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Professionalism in IAG practice
… close to me. Using the concept of researcher-as-bricoleur, a range of methodologies were employed. In the pre-cycle and first research cycle an auto-ethnograpahic approach captures the researcher’s voice and that of a co-researcher. In later cycles a heuristic approach enabled the researcher to …
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Lifecode: An Examination of the Shape, the Nature, and the Usage of the Oikoscode, a Replicative Nonformal Learning Pattern of Ethical Education for Leadership and Community Groups
… categorized, and displayed. Second, as part of a bricoleur exercise in "disciplined imagination,"these basic findings were developed into an informed conceptual framework called the "Universal Disciple," a Building/Body or Temple/Jesus graphic. This explanatory graphic conceptualizes the ancient, …
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Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming
… a variation of philosopher Claude Lévi—Strauss’ bricoleur methodology (Lévi—Strauss, 1966), and informed by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s becoming—woman model (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987) combined with Braidotti’s affirmative emergent ontology (Braidotti, 2013), three methods …
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The poetics of planetary theatre: image and bricolage
… (1966). I thus seek to identify myself as a bricoleur; someone whose art-making poetics is dependent on using pre-existing material through sampling and montage. These poetics seek to capture my own experience as a migrant, who sees the planet as a rhizome of images and their associations. My …
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
… how his mythmaker typologies—the “engineer” and “bricoleur”— illustrate, respectively, the canonical Constructivists and Russian artists on the margins that deployed a wide range of clever “make-do” tactics. I show how specific examples of existing porcelain “blanks,” clothing, film footage, and …
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Guts, brains, complexity and creativity: immersive living and learning through the critical lens of first-person inquiry
… achieve that objective, I take a researcher-as-bricoleur stance, assembling a methodological framework that draws from constructivism, phenomenology, learning and social feminist theory, action research, systems thinking, complexity science, and even Japanese folklore. I use examples based on …
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