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Imaginative writing of deaf children
This thesis explores the issue of imaginative writing of deaf children. Thirty deaf children aged 9-11 years were recruited form Hearing Impaired Units and mainstream schools. Thirty hearing children were matched on academic performance (according to teachers) and chronological age and recruited …
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Imaginative reasoning in probabilistic programs
… thesis investigates computational principles of imaginative reasoning; develops programming languages to express the knowledge upon which imaginative reasoning relies, and upon this foundation introduces practical algorithms of automatic inference. Concretely, we introduce probabilistic …
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Imaginative Simulation in the Moral Life
“Imaginative simulation” refers to our capacity to create, in our mind’s eye and in our bodies, perceptual and experiential states that feel as-if we were encountering those states in reality (such as when we vividly remember certain events from our lives, project ourselves into the first-personal …
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Imaginative play with blended reality characters
… young children produce longer, detailed and more imaginative descriptions of their experiences following blended reality play. The desire to continue engaging in blended reality play as expressed by children's verbal requests to revisit and extend their play time with the character positively …
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The Impact of Stories: An Imaginative Memoir
This thesis is a collection of short stories expressed in the style of a creative memoir. Each story connects a particular time in my life to the book I was currently reading. In my youth, I was introduced to the works of many authors, but it was ultimately the stories of Paul Gallico that left the …
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Projective Space: Structuring a Beholder’s Imaginative Response
… realms. After Merleau-Ponty, I call such an imaginative engagement seeing-with, which describes a particular use to which painting is put. In providing a strongly felt pictorial depth, I argue that such an implied pictorial space incorporates the space between painting and spectator position. …
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Imaginative Projection: A Method of Curriculum Invention
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:53:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606949.pdf: 19019069 bytes, checksum: de6453f1f871571c0b31cccc566bcce1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge
… examination the girih mode in its intellectual, imaginative, and physical contexts re-identifies these geometric drawings as a productive realm of consciousness. As an aperture to the imaginal, these architectural drawings open the door to a world of its own, wherein the drawing has a true subtle …
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
… John Barlas, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Using imaginative sensing, these artists transformed the relationship between artist and observer, assigning greater responsibility to their audience while simultaneously asserting artistic control of their work. Their fascination with sensory mixing and …
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Imaginative methods: a feminist rereading of John Maynard Keynes
<p>This thesis uses a feminist lens to reveal aspects of the life of John Maynard Keynes that previous scholarship has missed. lt uses a feminist framework to view the connections between Keynes's lived experiences, beliefs, and work in a fuller and more nuanced way. The research highlights the …
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Planning purposeful imaginative activities in creative contexts for children’s literacy
… primary schools in England are required to write imaginatively in order to gain optimum marks in statutory tests, an emphasis is often placed on revising decontextualised genre features, grammar and spelling. I wondered whether there was a place for creativity and imagination within the apparent …
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The logic of imagination: a Spinozan critique of imaginative freedom
… standard of both itself and the false and that imaginative thought is in itself true, this dissertation is an inquiry into the truth of imaginative freedom, that is, an explanation of its causes and, more importantly, its effects on life. The Spinozan imagination is a power by which the human …
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Parsing the Non-finito: Systems, Thresholds and Imaginative Space in Representation
<p>Between the actualized built spaces that the artist moves around and through on a daily basis and the more abstract systems we invent to represent these structures sits the illusion of space and structure found in his drawings and paintings. Constant turnover within the built environment offers …
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Generations in Crisis: The Imaginative Power of Puritan Writing, 1660-1700
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Logical Proof and Imaginative Reason in Selected Speeches of Francis Bacon
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The Poetic Architect: An Imaginative Journey of Bruce Goff's Bavinger House
… was indeed, a poetic architect who employed an imaginative organicism in his work.
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The fragile and imaginative world of learning to teach: experience, identity, pedagogy
This PhD thesis is by Published Works. Its focus is on learning to teach in Initial Teacher Education. The key concepts explored include the experience of learning to teach, the identity-making process involved and the importance of pedagogy to the process. Student teacher texts of practice make up …
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Imaginative procedural modeling : automated 3D generation and rendering of stylized building designs
The entertainment industry relies fairly heavily on computer-generated imagery to depict built environments in current films, video games, and other forms of simulated reality. These often involve highly complex geometries that take a long time to hand-model and are too difficult or costly for many …
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FOSTERING IMAGINATIVE EXPRESSION IN ELEMENTARY ART STUDENTS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF TEACHER STRATEGIES
The students in my elementary art classes did not seem to be creating for themselves. They seemed to have the understanding there was only one correct answer in art class, and the art teacher knew what that answer was. By way of research I have found ways to create an atmosphere in my art room that …
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An investigation of the imaginative productions of a selected group of college students
… of this study is to determine whether or not imaginative productivity can be significantly increased by the use of relatively obscured pictorial material as compared with the productions obtained through the use of a criterion set of pictorial materials.</p>
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