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Showing 1 to 20 of 2001 for “"knowing"”.
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Knowing How, Knowing Who, Knowing What to Do
What I am able to do matters. It matters whether I am able to defuse the bomb: if I am able to defuse the bomb, then I ought to do so. It matters whether I was able to attend my spouse’s birthday party: if I was able to attend, then I should have attended. On the other hand, if I was really unable …
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Native Knowing, Western Knowing, and Biblical Knowing: Developing an Integrated Epistemology for Missions
… and values to create a holistic approach to knowing.
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Knowing in Childbirth
Research on knowing in childbirth has largely been a quantitative process. The purpose of this study was to better understand the ways nine, first-time mothers learn about birth. A phenomenological approach using a feminist view was used to analyze two in-depth interviews and journals to understand …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
This dissertation concerns two epistemologically puzzling phenomena. The first phenomenon is the authority that each of us has over our minds. Roughly, to have authority is to be owed (and to tend to receive) a special sort of deference when self-ascribing your current mental states. The second …
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Not knowing the days
This thesis consists of a collection of three short stories and the chapter of my first novel, as well as a critical introduction addressing the literary and creative contexts of the work. The pieces encompass a range of themes, but I have paid particular attention to perspective, perception, and a …
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Knowing Better, Reasoning Together
<p>We take ourselves to have some knowledge about what’s right and wrong to do. But how easy is this knowledge to get? In the first two chapters of this dissertation I argue for the novel conclusion that it is harder to have moral knowledge than non-moral knowledge due to the fact that moral …
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Knowing the Prisoner and Knowing Oneself: the Bases for the Convict-Counselor Relationship
One of the difficult challenges to the helping professions is the high rate of crime and recidivism. Can prison counselors meet this challenge by establishing good relationships with their clients? An investigation of primary and secondary source material illuminated this question. A counselor who …
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Relational knowing and responsive instruction
… that excellent teachers know their students—knowing that goes beyond grades from the previous year. I also argue for high quality, responsive teaching—teaching that acknowledges the needs of individuals and requires teachers to respond in some effective way. This project was a qualitative …
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Knowing primary physical education movement culture
… opens up our understanding of different ways of knowing in PE through pupils’ epistemological ‘action-in-PE-settings’. Rather than creating another hybrid of educational ideology by objectifying what to ‘do’ or ‘know’, movement culture keeps the ‘who’ of participation in PE practice in view. Such …
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Knowing How: An Empirical, Functionalist Approach
… and Timothy Williamson in a 2001 article, "Knowing How," since it is the most prominent view opposed to my conclusion.</p> <p>Ultimately, I conclude that the preponderance of evidence supports the claim that the two kinds of knowledge are fundamentally distinct categories of knowledge, and …
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Knowing and doing, well and good
My dissertation explores the relationship between intentional action and knowledge. I argue that understanding this relationship is not only of central importance to action theory; it is also a means to progress on questions about the nature of knowledge, the mechanisms of oppression, and the …
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Human knowing in the psychology of Jung
Abstract not available.
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Movement in Students’ Mathematical Thinking and Knowing
… shows that movement is enmeshed in thinking and knowing. Researchers theorise the body and cognition in different ways, however, and conventional concepts of a disembodied mind often continue to be privileged over movement in cognition. The core provocation for this research, then, is to explore …
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Practising knowing in emergency departments : tracing the disciplinary and institutional complexities of working, learning and knowing in modern emergency departments
In this thesis I examine ‘knowing in practice’ (Gherardi 2006) in emergency departments (EDs) and present a new conceptualisation of how knowing in practice is done. In particular, I examine how nurses and doctors draw on recognised disciplinary practices and adapt these in the institutional …
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Knowing but not knowing: the experience of parents who knew about their baby’s heart defect before their baby was born
… emergent themes. The parents' experience of knowing about their baby's heart defect antenatally seemed to best be understood and explained through the description of three phases. The first phase, Suspicion to Diagnosis, began when suspicion was raised regarding their baby's heart through an …
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Modes and manners of religious and theological knowing.
… between two key modes of (religious and secular) knowing and attending: one, the ‘pre-reflexive’, which is direct, lived, affect laden and ‘participatory’, the other, the ‘reflexive’ or ‘re-presentational’, which is more indirect, detached, dispassionate and analytic. The two modes and their …
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Teaching not knowing: Reflections on a writing practice
… engages us in a process of "teaching not knowing." In this inquiry, I draw from theories in composition, psychology, epistemology, ethics, and communication to portray and describe this practice in my high school classroom. Studying my students' writing processes and our interactions in …
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Developing 'A Personal Knowing' : A Grounded Theory Study
… of a substantive theory of Developing A Personal Knowing, and the identification of a range of pedagogical strategies that catalyse its growth. The findings are of particular utility for those involved in the development of advanced practice curricula, and have been used illustratively to underpin …
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The feeling of knowing for names of faces
… had been little research into the Feeling of Knowing (FOK) in response to names of faces. The literature favoured inferential theories for explaining the bases of the FOK. Experiment 1 aimed to explore thetwo leading inferential theories (the cue-familiarity hypothesis and the …
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