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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"cultural tools"”.
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The appropriation and mastery of cultural tools in computer supported collaborative literacy practices
… explored through a literature review of sociocultural theory, literacy, and lCT, and through two pilot studies. In the first study, I investigate how language use varies according to the difficulty of tasks. In the second study, I investigate how language use in situated literacy events …
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Critiquing the Soul of White Supremacy and the Spiritualities of Whiteness: Narrative and Everyday Praxis
… managed, and justified by the religio-cultural tools of white Christians in greater Fort Wayne, IN. This dissertation studies the relationship among the repertoires of white Christians, racism, and white privilege by analyzing the life narratives of selfidentified white Christians. I …
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Typological transformation of Houston's Coliseum and Sam Houston Park
Buildings as cultural tools, or their creators, continue to struggle to communicate with a media-induced, decentralized society. Buildings as either representational anachronisms or self-referential processes fail to remedy the situation by alienating or insulting the viewer. An alternative is …
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The male world of football media and beer drinking: a case study of sports bars in Cape Town, South Africa
… on the psychological motivations and the socio-cultural structure. The study’s main objective is to understand both the role of media for the practice of football media viewing in sports bars and the constitution of gender during the practice. It is a subject worthy of in-depth examination as …
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Vygotsky and play : a critical exploration of theory and practice
… into practice. Two principles of Vygotskian cultural historical theory: mixed age play and enhanced home- school links, already integrated into practice in Zolotoi Kluchick (Golden Key) programme schools in Russia, were adapted and implemented in an early years setting (3-6years) in Northern …
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Journeying together towards goodness: participant understanding of practices and narratives in a University of the Nations Discipleship Training School
… human action to research how students use cultural tools to negotiate the intermediate steps of becoming virtuous. Learning and identity formation are explored in an alternative model of higher education using Lave and Wenger’s social learning theory of Legitimate Peripheral Participation …
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Soomaali Mi'yaa? an ethnographic exploration of Somali identity formation in Cape Town
… everything. How do Somalis express themselves culturally in a generally “non-Somali” like place? Can South Africa be considered a “home” at all? Thus, my principal research questions are as follows: 1) How do Somalis in Cape Town define their Somalinimo? 2) What cultural tools do Somalis …
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Developing an Electronic Tool for Cross-Cultural Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CCSCW)
There is a lack of tools available to support cross-cultural communication and collaboration. Current research is comprised of assessments of the need for better cross-cultural communication tools and discussions of simple guidelines for developing such a tool. Existing programs such as chat or …
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Musical Play: Children interacting with and around music technology
… centre. The theoretical framework is a sociocultural perspective. A point of departure is the understanding of learning as an act of participation in communities of practice rather than as an individual, cognitive process of internalizing knowledge. According to this perspective, learning is …
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Teacher Education ICT Appropriation Model TEAM: A Model for ICT Appropriation in Early Childhood Initial Teacher Education
… use of ICT. The model is underpinned by a sociocultural view of learning and acknowledges and responds to the social nature of teaching and learning. The model includes key elements – subjective norms, relational trust, ICT cultural tools and enjoyment – as central to creating a sociocultural …
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Honor, Shame, and Redemption: Explicating the American Evangelical Right's Moral Worldview Regarding Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion
… worldview</em>, Ann Swidler's ideas on the <em>cultural toolkit</em>, and Christian Smith's subcultural identity theory to explore the formation of conservative evangelical social identity. In contrast to other works, however, this project asserts that theological orthodoxy directly dictates the …
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A study of education and social changes in Afghanistan
… institutions of Afghanistan served as cultural tools for maintaining social control by the ruling authorities and to what extent educational institutions served as elements of change and development.The study was based on the theory that, in the presence of social inequality, formal …
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Balancing discourse and silence : an approach to First Nations women’s writing
… considers the critical implications of a cross-cultural reading of First Nations women’s writing in this time of sensitivity to the issues of appropriation and power inequities between dominant and minority cultures. A genre-based study, it is written from a deliberately split perspective: …
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Narrating the Future: Understanding How Student Narratives Relate to Outcomes in Community College
<p>Community colleges are an increasingly important entry point into higher education for adults in the United States (21<sup>st</sup>-Century Commission, 2012). Students often hold diverse opinions on and engage in complex meaning-making around the community college institution (Daiute & Kreniske, …