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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"cultural myths"”.
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To Make A Difference: Re-viewing the Practice of Critical Pedagogy through the Lens of Cultural Myths about Teaching
… of research had been performed into how dominant cultural myths about teaching (Britzman, 1986, 2003) inform teachers’ desires and efforts to put critical pedagogy theory into practice. My thesis aims to shed light on the relationship between critical pedagogy and cultural myths about teaching by …
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Hacia una poetica feminista Latino Americana: Ana Maria Rodas, Maria Mercedes Carranza y Gioconda Belli
… that concept shows a rejection of religious and cultural myths related to women through the use of irony, a criticism of expected feminine social postures through the use of humor, a subvertion of traditional associations such as land-woman-object, woman-guilt and woman-virtue, a rejection and …
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Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980
… and analysis of archival documents, stories, cultural myths, legends related to people with disabilities, pamphlets, and newspaper media, I examine how disability advocates and people with disabilities interact with educational and cultural discourses to shape programs for the empowerment of …
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Vietnam Veterans and American Mass Media: The Politics of the Image
… of the image of the Vietnam veteran as contested cultural and ideological terrain in recent America. Drawing on Gramscian theories of ideology and hegemony, as well as conceptualizations of semiotic appropriation and bricolage employed in cultural studies, the study explores the complex manner in …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
… African folktales as a means to challenge cultural myths of queer black (un)belonging. In my final thesis project, I take the Xhosa ntsomi (folktale) seriously as a mode of producing and transmitting cultural knowledge and appropriate its formal aesthetics to create queer speculative …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying men with broken wrists: using intsomi as critical fabulation to refute the notion of queerness as un-African
… African folktales as a means to challenge cultural myths of queer black (un)belonging. In my final thesis project, I take the Xhosa ntsomi (folktale) seriously as a mode of producing and transmitting cultural knowledge and appropriate its formal aesthetics to create queer speculative …
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A transnational environmental idea: reception, interpretation and employment of US Dust Bowl imagery in World War Two and post-war Australia
… and film media imagery of the period to ask what cultural myths and political forces combined to empower the proliferation and reception of the dust bowl idea? It reveals that transnational ‘dust bowl’ narratives were produced by a group of Australian politicians, writers, reporters and their …
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The (Un)Settling of America: Science and the Search for the First Americans
… science constrained by the shifting centers of cultural power external to science, but also by the institutions, elites, and cognitive values internal to science. Substantive disagreement over a cultural past is a reflection of unstabilized power relationships in the present. Although science …
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Accessing the Authentic Psychiatric Experience: Using Psychiatric Artefacts and Archival Documents to Facilitate Object-Based Learning in the Law and Criminology Classroom
… interventions and treatments and whether cultural myths and stereotypes about mental illness influenced their views. The constructivist instructional design of the study was influenced by a modified historical empathy model and the ‘object viewer experience’ used in museum education. The …
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Home Movie, Nowhere
… class while implicitly critiquing prevailing cultural myths of the region as a pastoral refuge. In keeping, the Gothic elements of this text serve to reframe ideas of the Midwest as “home” and “Heartland” by painting a portrait of homeplace as haunted and abject. In doing so, this work …
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Cultural Icons: A Case Study Analysis of their Formation and Reception.
… the contested and poorly defined subject area of cultural iconicity. Careful consideration of three specific uses of the term - in the popular media, as a new way of articulating national identity, and in academic publications - reveals the extent to which the term is currently poorly comprehended …
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Decoding Robin Hood: Towards a Palimpsestic Method - Reading Layers of Meaning through the Costumes of the Cinematic Robin Hoods, 1938-2018
… a green-clad hero who lives in the forest, the cultural presence of Robin Hood has become fully mythical further aided by his international appearance in cinema. It has informed and provided limits for cultural language (verbal and pictorial), with myth being embedded, active parts of everyday …
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A war of words in the discourse of trade: A case study of metaphor
… by politics, by philosophy, by ethics, by cultural myths--in short, by the whole of our cultural and conceptual repertoire. Tracing the various movements of sc TRADE IS WAR, the thesis shows that metaphor's discursive environment exerts a crucial force over what theorists since Aristotle …
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Sites of resistance: language, intertextuality, and subjectivity in the poetry of Diane Wakoski
… the interconnectedness of language and related cultural texts and women’s subjectivity. The poststructuralist feminist enterprise of examining and critiquing language and signifying practices for the ways in which they impose social values and of interrogating and undermining the fixity of …
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Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America
… and literal American West constructed by myths of frontier conquest, pioneer settlement in and transformation of the western landscape, and cowboy exceptionalism that erased an historical legacy of hardship, failure, and destruction of land and people, and also a West constructed by …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths from the Bible related to the doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure suggested by her reading of Feuerbach, Spinoza, and R.W. Mackay, in which the …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
… culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest of space, the normal functioning of Soviet life with clear sources of symbolic authority, the Soviet notion of heroism, etc. These myths have not been replaced with anything new. One can sense a real pause in films and …