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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"critical reading"”.
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Against Eternity: A Critical Reading of Transhumanism
Amid ongoing global political and ecological crises, transhumanists proselytize visions of a more equitable, healthy future made possible by advanced computation. Beyond the curative potential of technoscience, transhumanism seeks to transcend the biological limits of the human body, including …
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A critical reading of arts education policy in South Africa
The transformation of the educational system since 1994 has been marked by a multitude of policy documents envisaging change at a number oflevels. This study sets out to explore possible ways in which the arts education policy could be taken up by those who must read and act on them. i.e. educators …
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An Examination of Teachers’ Beliefs about Critical Reading and Academic Writing
… is evidence o f a student's ability to read critically and write academically. However, evidence suggests that many college-bound high school graduates have not learned these skills. While the research literature overwhelmingly supports the notion that teachers are an important factor in …
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Subversive speech acts? An evaluation of an imperial-critical reading of Ephesians
… to evaluate the plausibility of an imperial-critical reading of Ephesians. Current literature related to imperial-critical readings of Ephesians are surveyed, demonstrating that there are significant gaps in the scholarly literature. This study then employs an eclectic hermeneutic: drawing on …
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A Survey of the Provisions for Critical Reading Skills in Basal Readers
… of this study was to determine the number of critical reading skills included in six basal reading series and how many of these skills each series contained. It was also the purpose of this study to determine the grade level at which each specific skill was introduced and further how many of …
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The psalmist in the Psalm : a persona-critical reading of Book IV of the Psalter.
… dissertation offers a literary and theological reading of Book IV of the Psalter, a reading that is informed by the theory of the literary persona, as well as canonical-critical approaches to the Book of Psalms. This project argues that the speaker or speakers in a psalm are properly identified …
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The Nature of Jesus’ Obedience: A Narrative-Critical Reading of Matthew’s Gethsemane (26:36-46)
This study, using the Gethsemane passage as central, investigates Matthew’s portrayal of the textual Jesus’ obedience amidst various claims implicitly clamouring for supremacy. There are the conflicts with the religious authorities of Israel who label him as an impostor, his disciples who find his …
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New Paths to Emancipation? A Critical Reading of Latin American Autonomist Marxism’s Conceptualisation of Emancipation
… of thought that has furthered a groundbreaking reading of Marx by drawing from a diverse range of critical theory traditions and the experience of radical social movements in the region (the Zapatista movement being the paradigmatic example). Holloway’s work stands out because it lays out a …
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"""The meaning has a meaning"": A critical reading of the major plays of Christopher Marlowe"
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Modernization or cultural imperialism: A critical reading of Taiwan's national scholarship program for overseas study
This research critically analyzes Taiwan’s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study. It focuses on the program’s development between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan’s governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national and social …
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A critical reading of Fazlur Rahman's Islamic methodology in history : the case of the living Sunnah
… This thesis seeks to answer these questions by critically analyzing Rahman's living Sunnah notion. On the other hand whilst it appreciates Shafi'i's argument for the Sunnah, of the Prophet only, as the exclusive legislative supplement to the Qur'an it problematizes how Shafi'i dealt with the …
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"""Critical reading of our worlds"": an ethnographic study of dialogue as praxis in a community-founded school in Indonesia"
… Indonesian government’s policies. Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy provided the theoretical framework. The findings describe the journeys in which the teachers and I engaged in critically reading our worlds (Freire, 1970, 1987). Our efforts in critical reflections afforded us a deeper …
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‘The decentralisation of authorship and language within contemporary theatre: triangulation of critical reading, research into practice, and research through practice’
… of authorship and language through: critical reading of Artaud, research into practice, and research through practice. Whilst contemporary theatre already benefits from research into authorship and language, this project applies Derrida’s (1973) ‘deconstruction theory’, Goffman’s …
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Will the "fight" ever end? : a critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context
In this thesis, I critically examine the discourses that inform how we conceptualise HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa as they are produced in a sample of Canadian news articles, two nonfiction texts - Stephanie Nolen's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa and Jonathan Morgan and the Bambanani Women's Group's …
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Viewing Zimbabwean literature through an Africana womanist lens: a critical reading of selected texts to investigate Charles Mungoshi’s treatment of African women in Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuwa and Waiting for the Rain
The overarching theme of the critical and creative aspects of this thesis is women’s agency in precolonial and colonial Zimbabwe. The critical component offers a reading of Charles Mungoshi’s two books Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuwa (1975) and Waiting for the Rain (1975), and analyses the …
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A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Ecclesiastes
This dissertation provides the first full-scale critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Ecclesiastes since 1875, when Frederick Field published his monumental two-volume edition of the hexaplaric remains of the entire Old Testament, Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt sive veterum …
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The pre-service development of teacher skill in reading questioning strategy
… in appropriate questioning strategy in teaching reading. The intent wasto enhance teacher skill in phrasing comprehension questions that promote children's critical reading behaviors. ProceduresInstructional and evaluative materials and a question classification system were developed based upon a …
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Ordering For Care And Caring For Order: Medical Power In English Prisons
… theoretical perspective is proposed based on a critical reading of the work of Michel Foucault. This critical reading allows for the exploration of the relationship between medical discourse, discipline and regulation; the differential impact of medical power on women. prisoners; the …
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The effects of reading and self-graphing on the reading fluency and comprehension of third grade students with special needs
… of the study was to examine the effects of rereading and self-graphing on fluency and comprehension of third grade students with special needs. This study implemented a pretest-posttest design. The participants were six students with special needs from a third grade inclusion classroom reading …
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New masculinities in a vernacular culture : a comparative analysis of two South African men's lifestyle magazines
… male readers. This thesis then offers a critical reading of two more marginal men's lifestyle magazines, namely, MaksiMan (2001-2007) and BLINK (2004-2007).
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