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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"modes of thinking"”.
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EXAMINING SECONDARY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH ENGAGEMENT, AUTONOMY, AND EMPATHY THROUGH INTEGRATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND PHILOSOPHY
… its benefits to secondary students—critical thinking, open-mindedness, interest, curiosity, and autonomy—is significant. This study examines an interdisciplinary high school program that integrates English Language Arts (ELA) and Philosophy (ELAP). Not only does ELAP create connectivity …
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From immigrants to ethnics: The life-worlds of Korean immigrants in Chicago
This study is an exploration of the way in which Koreans' move to the United States since the 1965 amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act has influenced their life, their new or modified modes of thinking, and changes in their milieu, taking the life-world experiences of Chicago's Koreans …
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A Ritual in Perspective: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Lakota Sundance At Hoosier National Forest
AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Gabor Hardy, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Speech Communication, presented on 8 March, 2012, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale TITLE: A RITUAL IN PERSPECTIVE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF A LAKOTA SUNDANCE AT HOOSIER NATIONAL FOREST MAJOR …
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The hermeneutics of the modern subject.
… philosopher to alert mankind to the dangers of modern technology. He argued that technology is an enframing or a limiting perspective of the possibilities for human existence. The philosopher Michel Foucault investigated the geneology of the way that the ‘care of the self’ became superseded …
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The Scope Of The Possible: Canadian Courts, Emotion, And The Assertion Of Crown Sovereignty
… in three Aboriginal title decisions. The aim of this analysis is to draw to the surface emotional undercurrents and commitments that, together with other currents, impact the direction of judicial reasoning in these cases. Using methodologies and approaches from the area of law and emotion, …
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Barrie Kosky's theatre of post-tragic affects
This thesis takes as its focus the work of auteur theatre director Barrie Kosky. Engaging with Kosky s work in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, it argues that Kosky s radical reconfigurations of classical tragedy introduced a new mode of performance to the contemporary Australian stage that I call …
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
… and Fredric Jameson are in many respects two of the most influential contemporary theorists. Bourdieu's comprehensive theoretical model, termed "genetic structuralism", is a fruitful alternative to traditionally dichotomous modes of thinking: subjectivism vs. objectivism, agency vs. structure, …
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PAPER PEOPLE AND DIGITAL MEMORY: RECREATING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN JAPAN
… Tokyo, Japan. Based upon findings from a group of students at an international University, I develop new modes of thinking about people and their use of Internet capable devices by exploring the paradoxes present in contemporary literacies. Contextualizing reading and writing within the speech …
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Talking To Learn: A Formative Experiment On Constructing Meaning Though Collaborative Classroom Interactions
<p>As a result of reform efforts, national standards and assessments set the stage for teaching and learning in many classrooms. This establishes a particular classroom environment and often leads to behaviorist instructional methods, such as recitation. Utilizing a formative experiment design, …
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Viewing postmodernist television : Moonlighting, Twin Peaks and The Simpsons
… realities to be linked. These prolific sources of representation generate a "membrane" of mediation, and a formal regime of fragmentation, depthlessness and allusiveness (Chambers, 11). These economic, epistemological and aesthetic conditions constitute postmodernism. This dissertation addresses …
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Risk-taking, thinking styles, and criminality: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective
<p>Preferred modes of thinking, otherwise known as biases, have been well documented in adult reasoning and decision-making (Evans, 2003; Gilovich, Griffin, & Kahneman, 2002; Reyna & Brainerd, 2011; Tversky & Kahneman, 1986). Researchers have explained these biases by proposing that the basis for …
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The mystical theology of Peter Sterry : a study in neoplatonist Puritanism
… deserves attention as an impmtant member of the Cambridge Platonist movement, a key forerunner of the English nonconformists, and, in addition, as a prominent espouser of millennarianism. Interestingly, despite the everpresent mysticism in his works, Sterry's years as Cromwell's chaplain …
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Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the Dialectical Problem of Knowledge
This dissertation explores the problem of how knowledge is possible, given that knowledge is necessarily rooted in the reality of the knower. The Kantian critical philosophy defeats Humean skepticism by demonstrating the a priori necessity of certain categorical functions at the root of all human …
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English Theatre in Cairo, Egypt: Dialogue and Resistance
While Cairo remains an uncontested center of Arabic culture, arts, and language, Cairene theatre companies routinely produce performances in English, drawing attention to (1) the post-colonial role of the English language in Egypt, with a particular emphasis on the colonial history of the country, …
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Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface
The Odyssey, one of the two Homeric poems, the other being the Iliad, stands as an exemplary invention of the ancient Greek oral tradition. Odysseus's nostos, his returning journey to his homeland, Ithaca, still echoes today, as an inexhaustible source of imagination and creativity. This project …
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Zanzibar Pizza Hut: Stone Town’s Duckorated Sheds
… 1980s, respectively, demonstrate a similar set of contradictions between what these objects’ suggested meaning is and what the conventions of naming imply, contradictions that produce what I’m calling Duckorated Sheds. Ultimately, the symbolic forms of these architectures have meanings that are …
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Embodied montage : reconsidering immediacy in virtual reality
… by its ability to reproduce or imitate aspects of reality, particularly in ways that convince users that they are physically present in the virtual space. This approach to the medium, a form of immediacy, effaces the material reality of the medium and can obscure the ways through which a medium …
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The Construction of Shared Knowledge through Asynchronous Dialogue
This thesis investigates how groups of learners use asynchronous dialogue to build shared knowledge together over time. To do this, it takes a sociocultural approach, with a situated focus on learners' social and temporal settings as well as on the tools they employ. It utilises concepts developed …
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Cultivating Creativity in Aerospace Systems Engineering to Manage Complexity
… to large budget and schedule overruns. Many of the risks of complex system development can be attributed to the inadequacy of linear methods when applied to nonlinear domains, i.e., oversimplification in a program amplifies the amount of risk produced when a system behaves unexpectedly. …
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Registered Nurses Perceptions of TheirUse of Critical Thinkng Skills in the Clinical Setting
… Nurses are called upon to pull from a variety of sources as they deliver safe and effective care to their patients. They must have the physical skills and technical knowledge to identify what is occurring with their patient at any given time (Kuiper, 2004). The registered nurse must also be …
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