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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"make believe"”.
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Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema
… it draws out the codes and conventions which filmmakers have employed and suggests that realist cinema is typically characterised by its focus on creating a sense of presence and immediacy. It describes how a strand of selfreflexivity can be traced throughout the history of realist cinema and …
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Understanding the boundaries of make-believe: An ethnographic case study of pretend play among Korean children in a U.S. community
… with the aim of understanding the boundaries of make-believe by which the children separate ""reality"" from ""fantasy."" The study focused on four questions: (a) What is the nature of the conceptual/behavioral boundaries of make-believe activities? (b) How are these boundaries conceived and …
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The effect of specially designed garments on the observable make- believe play behavior of four- to six-year-old females
… dramatic play, which contains the element of make-believe. Furthermore, research has shown that increased associative fluency in preschool children is dependent specifically on the occurrence of make-believe play. A child, deficient in such divergent-thinking skills, would seem somewhat …
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Shakespeare on Zoom, Fandom, and the Uncanny Humor of Imperfections and Plurality: A Comparative Study of The Show Must Go Online and Zoom Shakespeare Productions
… our inordinate reliance on technologies for the make-believe of connection. In the comparative study of <em>TSMGO</em> and <em>ZSP</em>, in favor of <em>ZSP</em>, I advocate an imperfect theater of ‘Shakespeare on Zoom’ where a creative mundanity of glitches or imperfections proliferates with the …
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O brincar na educação infantil numa escola de educação infantil do/no campo: um estudo acerca da potencialidade do baú brincante na comunidade indígena Tupinambá em Ilhéus-Bahia
… The results showed that Baú Brincante encouraged make-believe games that re-signified local cultural elements. The games also reinforced values such as child protagonism in the production of play, collectivity and the connection with Tupinambá culture. The teachers re-evaluated their practices, …
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Narrative tactics for making other worlds possible
Be they childhood games of make-believe, sophisticated literary projects, or political inventions (a "Great America") authors have taken advantage of a world-building imagination creating their own worlds, and theorizing what they were doing. From the 1960s onwards, fictional worlds were studied …
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Towards a cybernetic understanding of the performer's 'work upon himself'
… a matter of playing a game of psychological make-believe. Rather, the actor works with all his psychosomatic faculties in order to consciously transform them and to be transformed by them in return. As the creature of his own creation, the actor incorporates an immediate (in the sense of it …
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Studies in belief and belief attribution
… to Kendall Walton's account of prop-oriented make-believe to explain how to use propositions that are about fictional entities to describe the belief state of people who are confused about some identity. The other aspect of the problem I call it semantical, and it consists in explaining how …
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Who Speaks Truth to Fiction? Scientific Authority and Social Difference in Speculative Fiction
… if science is truth, and fiction is make-believe, how can the two come together? The authors, readers, and fans of science fiction have come together to create a set of informal rules for how to deal with this contradiction, allowing fictional science when it is realistic, rigorous, …
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Pretend Play at Home: Creating An Educationally Enriched Environment for Emergent Literacy Among Preschool-Aged Children
This thesis will illustrate how pretend play can be used in the home for educational purposes. The major emphasis of the work will be emergent literacy, however, application principles can be applied in all subject areas. Parents who desire to expand their child's literacy skills while exposing the …
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unruly play in picture books
<p><strong>This essay defines unruly and imaginative play based on a variety of interdisciplinary sources. The study examines a selection of children’s picture books that showcase a kind of play that defies normative narrative pacing, power dynamics, and narrative sequence. Future research is …
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An evaluative study of the effect of pupil sharing on the selection of library books and on reading vocabulary
… the opportunity for children of both groups to make contact with identical books. Other library books were selected by the children from the centrally located school library. A special library period each week was scheduled for both groups. Books were placed in a library corner of the classroom …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …