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Showing 1 to 20 of 511 for “"constructivism"”.
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From Constructivism to Deconstructivism
… with four major design movements, beginning with Constructivism, and ending with Deconstructivism, including two other movements, as intermediate links, that developed in the period between International - Swiss Design and Postmodernism. The purpose of this thesis is to explain in a visual …
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Pragmatic constructivism in Higher Education
… on the constructivist side of this debate. Constructivism in education is related to interpretivist epistemology and agile methodology in practice. However, in certain circumstances, e.g. learning specific functionality of a software package, instruction may be simpler and more appropriate. …
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Kantian constructivism and Rawlsian egalitarianism
… in his theory. It shows that Rawls's Kantian Constructivism and his method of reflective equilibrium can only establish a priority of moral over non-moral considerations when attempting to resolve political-philosophical disputes."
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Commitment in architecture : Russian constructivism
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Making Up Reasons: constructivism, functionalism, and reasons
This dissertation expounds and defends a theory of what it is for some fact to be a reason. The goal of the dissertation is to combine the role of reasons in justifying behavior with the role of reasons in motivating behavior, to give a more robust, practically viable account of reasons that can be …
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Constructivism in General Music Education: A Music Teacher's Lived Experience
… for music teachers who have read or heard about Constructivism and wish to consider the implications of the theory to their practice in the future.
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The ambiguity of hybridity : an encounter between constructivism and Latvian sociology
With few exceptions, science studies has neglected potential insights that could be gained by studying sociology, a discipline that has played an important role in its own development. This thesis addresses the specificities of sociology from the perspective of constructivist science studies and …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
This thesis examines the relation between two contrasting approaches to justice: the constructive and reconstructive projects of Rawls and Habermas on the one hand, and the deconstructive projects of Levinas and Derrida on the other. First, I identify the central difference between the two …
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A THEORETICAL MODEL OF LEARNING EMPLOYING CONSTRUCTIVISM, NEUROSCIENCE, AND PHENOMENOLOGY: CONSTRUCTIVIST NEUROPHENOMENOLOGY
… and neuroscience. It purports to combine constructivism, phenomenology and neuroscience into a proposed learning theory entitled ‘constructivist neurophenomenology embedded in embodied cognition, that is, the formative role that the environment plays in the development of cognitive …
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
… art historical narrative by arguing that Constructivism adapted, rather than failed, in the 1920s. In so doing, I identify an alternative Constructivist strain that developed a tactic of recycling and re-appropriation in response to factory shortages and lack of raw materials. I examine …
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Constructivism and the question of Objectivity: Fichte’s ethics as Critique of Kant’s
Central to Kant’s moral philosophy are the notions of autonomy and spontaneity, and their relation to reason and the understanding. Recent ‘constructivist’ readings of Kant’s ethics thus emphasise the role of the subject’s reflection in moral actions - reason is the only guarantor of the moral, and …
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Figurative Constructivism, Pictorial Statistics, and the Group of Progressive Artists, c. 1920-1939
… later classified under the rubric "figurative constructivism." While these "free" works (as they often described them) were produced independent of the applied work at the museum, the two types of production share several key stylistic and iconographic features. Yet, the relationship between …
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Identifying and building on learning assistants’ resources for taking up constructivism-aligned teaching practices
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… the dichotomous approach to determinism and constructivism that has been set out by much secondary Hobbes and Winstanley scholarship. Secondly, this thesis makes a more general point: a thorough study of Hobbes's and Winstanley's theological politics demonstrates the importance of a nuanced …
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International Relations Theories and International Organizations: Realism, Constructivism, and Collective Security in the League of Arab States
Realism and constructivism are international relations paradigms that define different necessary conditions for international organizations to act. While Realists argue that international organizations actions are mere reflections of the imperatives of global and regional balances of power, …
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