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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"critical approach"”.
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Public Art: A Critical Approach
In this dissertation, I provide a philosophical analysis of public art. I focus on its "publicness," and draw implications at the level of public art's ontology, appreciation, and value. I uphold the view that an artwork is public when received within a public sphere rather than within artworld …
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Foreign Policy of Pakistan: a Critical Approach
… foreign policy has followed a conventional approach to International Relations theory. This approach, as the thesis argues, neither permits to investigate how foreign policy is shaped by the interlinking between security and identity, nor allows to contextualise how militarism as an ideology …
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Health systems thinking : the need for a more critical approach
… different strengths of alternative systems approaches, and suggests what systems thinking can offer in order to improve the current understanding and the technical performance of health systems. It does not intend to develop a blue print model but rather a more critical approach to deal with …
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Rationale and Structure for Adequate Public Education: A Value Critical Approach
… educational opportunity? (c) Using value critical analysis, how does funding litigation clarify the search for the meaning of adequate educational opportunity? (d) What themes appear throughout these cases that may be used to build consensus for the development of policy frameworks and the …
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Religion-related discourse : a critical approach to non-religion in Edinburgh's Southside
This thesis has been undertaken to critically engage with, reframe and rehabilitate a burgeoning body of contemporary research on ‘non-religion’ within the critical academic study of ‘religion’, and to explore the benefits of such a reframing for empirical research. I begin by critically …
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Who Counts? A Critical Approach to Indigenous Language Demography in the Yukon
Language demography is the practice of counting speakers of different languages. It is a common discourse technique used when discussing Indigenous languages around the world. However, there is much debate and controversy over how language demography should be practiced, to produce accurate numbers …
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Reading dreams : an audience-critical approach to the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew.
… 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Chapter Two describes the social function of dreams, noting that dreams constituted one form of divination in the ancient world. This …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on Psalms Utilizing a Modified Form-Critical Approach
<p>Problem. The purpose of this study was to empirically develop a curriculum on the book of Psalms for readers of the English text that would bridge historical, theological, cultural, and linguistic distance, as well as overcome literary challenges associated with Hebrew poetry including figures …
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Governing Migrants in the European Union: A Critical Approach to Interrogating Migrants' Journey Narratives
… proposes an analytical framework that provides a critical approach to the migration management regime and migrants migratory journey narratives. The claim of this dissertation is double. First it argues that it is analytically necessary to systematize the production of immanent knowledge about …
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The Collapse of Time, Home, and Relationships: A Critical Approach to the Holocaust Short Story
In my dissertation I investigate the various horror scenes of the Holocaust seen through the eyes of the short story. Clearly, the genre of the short story is distinctly different from a novel or a novella. The latter two genres allow the author to engage in extensive descriptions of characters and …
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Gendered archetypes and political violence: A critical approach to character representations in The Hunger Games film series
The Hunger Games film series impacted audiences globally and was aimed at adolescents as the primary audience. I looked at this film series as an important site for cultural production and examined representations of women who engaged in political power and political violence, along with …
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A critical approach towards the professionalisation of the youth justice workforce: a research-led design of a mental health module
… practitioners of crucial forms of knowledge; critically that pertaining to mental health. This qualitative and interpretivist study attempts to assess how educators may bridge this gap. It focuses on the experiences and consequent requirements of a group of individuals who have all studied the …
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From <i>Wessex Poems</i> to <i>Time's Laughingstocks</i> : An eco-critical approach to the poetry of Thomas Hardy
… the poetry of Thomas Hardy from an ecocritical perspective, and in so doing, show how and in what ways Hardy's poetic oeuvre represents a revealing response to the environment, and an important and still relevant comment on humankind's relationship to it. <br></br><br></br>As the …
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A critical approach to understanding agency in meaning construction in material consumption: An attempt to synthesize insights of cultural theorists with empirical studies
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:35:42Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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The Greek text of the gospel of Matthew : a renewed text-critical approach with a focus on the issue of harmonizations in Codex Bezae.
… extensive harmonisation between the Gospels. The approach adopted here has been to thoroughly re-examine the Greek text of Matthew, comparing its form in Codex Bezae with that of Codex Vaticanus, a manuscript generally accepted as having a greater claim to authenticity. After noting all the …
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Constructing Women Who Do Not Reproduce in Global Neoliberalism: Critical Approach to the Abolition of Legal Ban on Abortion and the Struggle in South Korea
… who do not reproduce”, and accordingly aims to critically analyze how neoliberal reproductive crisis in South Korea has been reorganized into the new order through the <em>constitutive</em> role of the struggle.</p> <p>The results of the analysis are as follows: First, by examining Fraser’s …
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