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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"conceptual resources"”.
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The role of metaconceptual evaluation in fifth grade students' construction of explanatory models of magnetic phenomena
… the processes involved when the promotion of metaconceptual evaluation facilitates fifth grade students’ construction, evaluation, and revision of their explanations for magnetic phenomena. Although much recent research emphasized the importance of student modeling and model construction, the …
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Walter Lippmann and American Democracy
… account of political culture. By combining the conceptual resources of liberal constitutionalism with social psychology, Lippmann developed a particular kind of democratic theory, which explained opinion formation through the political dynamics of existing cultural environments, and which …
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Digital black boxes: apprehending fast and dynamic sociotechnical networks
… Box’ or other. This work argues that our current conceptual resources are not appropriate to the task and explores ways in which both academics and practitioners can effectively and usefully apprehend such fast moving sociotechnical systems. It draws in particular on the work of Bruno Latour and …
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Kant's Ontology: Reality and the Formal Structure of the First Person Perspective
… logical one. Rather than a mere account of our conceptual resources, I argue that Kant's goal is necessary knowledge of the structure of reality. He holds that we can achieve this through a priori cognition of our own existence as a body capable of standing in spatio-temporal relations to …
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Data work configurations in the field-based natural sciences: mesoscale infrastructures, project collectives, and data gateways
… The cases contribute to the development of conceptual resources critical to maintaining the vibrancy and vigor of scientific research and the data work associated with data production in addition to knowledge production.
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A Genealogy of Frankenstein's Creation: Appropriation, Hypermediacy, and Distributed Cognition in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
… artifacts. Media scholars have developed rich conceptual resources for describing cross-media appropriations in the realm of fandom (including fan fiction and slash fiction); however, many scholars of digital literary culture tend to describe the relationships between new media artifacts and …
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Modified Libertarianism: An Analysis of Eleonore Stump's Interpretation of Augustinian Freedom
… sovereignty of God work together, but they offer conceptual resources for understanding the metaphysic of free will in general. While Stump is successful in bringing to light these unique features of Augustine’s position, modified libertarianism is distinctly her own position. Having been …
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Painting a picture of possibility: the transmission of symbolic violence in an urban township school
… the school. To this end, the study employs conceptual resources drawn from Bourdieu and Lefebvre, especially Bourdieu’s notions of symbolic violence and misrecognition. Data is derived primarily from interviews with teachers and students and from observations within the school. The study …
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Teaching, activism, and the purposes of education: Toward an integrated vision of teachers' work
… political dimensions of teachers' work through a conceptual comparison to the work of social activists. The author developed a four-part analysis of the work of activists through a reading of the social movement literature and compared that analysis to the work of teachers according to four …
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New composition for Javanese gamelan.
… movement exploring and extending the resources of traditional gamaeln music (karawitan). The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse this development and resulting new works. The term used for the creative process and the resulting compositions themselves "komposisi", leading …
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Evidence of Student Learning of Spectrophotometry and Intermolecular Forces in the Chemistry Laboratory
… through revised sequencing, added preparatory conceptual work, and procedural simplification guided by the categories of description from the phenomenographic study. Additionally, assessment was explicitly aligned with the outcome space. Comparative analysis of pre- and post-intervention showed …
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Style and mimesis in the name of Walter Benjamin
… stage for the materialist appropriation of the conceptual resources of theology that characterises his late philosophy. The role of style and mimesis in the staging of his philosophy has been obscured until now by a neglect of the interdependency of symbolic character and mimetic praxis; by the …
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
… towards maintaining the Group’s identity. Conceptually, this is ‘a’ history of development in post/colonial India; which it is argued can be interrogated substantively though Chatterjee’s reconceptualisation of civil society, political society, and population. It draws attention to the …
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Advising States: The Government Lawyer in International Law
… legal ethics. Philosophical legal ethics has the conceptual resources to evaluate the normative significance of professional role, and subject the values immanent in legal practice to critique. The thesis considers how the core principles in the legal ethics lexicon – the ‘adversary system …
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A Better Framework for Legitimacy: Learning from the Christian Reformed Tradition
… legitimacy even about? How ought we identify and conceptualize these conditions? According to the regnant justificatory liberal (JL) approach, legitimate legal coercion is based on reasons all reasonable persons can accept and JL is explicated in terms of a hypothetical procedure. Alas, Part I …
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Moral messages, ethical responses: Punishment and self-governance among men serving life sentences for murder
This PhD uses theoretical and conceptual resources from the anthropology of morality and ethics to explore moral communication in the contemporary life sentence, as seen through the ethical lives of men serving life sentences for murder. Empirically, it describes three things. First, moral …
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Individuation, identity and proper names in cognitive development
The ability to individuate entities (i.e. conceptualize one entity as distinct from two) and trace their identity (i.e. judge that an entity is the same one as an entity encountered before) is a fundamental component of the human mind and is critical to proper name reference (i.e. a proper name, …
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The social organization of knowledge in eleven South African primary schools
… how knowledge circulates, the study recruits conceptual resources from Bernstein (1971; 1975; 2000), Douglas (1996), Durkheim (1933), and Weber (1947) and draws empirical tools from the fields of school organization, leadership and management, and teacher professional community. Two key …
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Educational Imaginaries in Motion in Chile: a Cultural Political Economy Exploration of Educational De/Privatisation Discourses, Dynamics and Outcomes
… context. To this end, the study proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for analysing ideologies in educational discourses. The study draws on a combination of Critical Realism and Cultural Political Economy as the philosophical and conceptual resources for investigating the …
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Re-reading Nāgārjuna with Resources from Richard Rorty
… to revisit their methodological preferences and conceptual presuppositions. My aim is not to conclusively settle these exegetical debates. Instead, I propose that Rorty’s work can give us some valuable conceptual resources for sidestepping their disagreements because of its extensive engagement …
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