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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"modes of understanding"”.
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Music as metaphor and mediator : creating an integrative paradigm for education
The purpose of this thesis is to create an integrative paradigm for education based on music as metaphor and mediator. It proposes a meta-frame of inquiry to establish a meta-contextual perspective from within which a self-reflexive reframing process is expected to emerge. A system of ideas is …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… empirical epistemology and an intuitive method of knowing the world as depicted in popular Victorian novels. These narratives attempt to assimilate alternate modes of understanding; however, the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and intuition speaks to larger cultural tensions …
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A Queer Departure: The Role of Queer Studies and Thanatology in Narrative Videogames Focused on Grief
This Masters thesis studies representations of young people in videogames through a transdisciplinary approach within the academic fields of Queer Studies and Death Studies, and their fused counterpart known as Queer Death Studies (QDS). Through the methodology of Fairclough’s (1995) Critical …
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Hermeneutics of the Crossroads
… is a paradigm that might open the event of reading and interpretation. I believe this profound place of possibility is a valid intellectual model for innovative and uninhabited modes of understanding. The hermeneutics of the crossroads is an imaginative approach that keeps us open to the …
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The Use Of Multiple Saliency Techniques As an Explanation Interface In General Image Recognition
… diagnostic machines that preform beyond that of human intelligence have yet to be implemented into society at large in substantiative ways. Examples in research of AI that can diagnose cancer, narcolepsy, renal diseases, and cardiac damage abound, yet these machines have to be implemented into …
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Enemies of Science: The Handmaiden's Handmaiden in the Early Medieval West
The gradual blending of classical science and epistemology with indigenous/traditional practices and modes of understanding (particularly magic and religion) in the early western Middle Ages tends to be misunderstood. The purpose of this study is to address the reason(s) why the early medieval West …
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The poetics of cultural healing: Derek Walcott's Omeros and the modernist epic
… Derek Walcott’s Omeros and modernist versions of the epic. Critics generally acknowledge the pervasive presence of modernist allusions in Walcott’s early work, but see the relevance of modernism diminishing as Walcott develops his “mature” poetic strategies of mimicry and hybridity. I challenge …
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Spellbound...?: A hermeneutic response to disillusionment in the contemporary university
… the world’s economies, and the idea and purpose of the university is a question that has historically received considerable attention. In recent years, a state of disillusionment among UK academics has been observed, and attributed in part to a belief that the economic mandate of the contemporary …
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Genomic Designation: New kinds of people at the intersection of genetics, medicine and social action
… must work in and through existing categories of human difference in order to inform clinical practice or social mobilization. By contrast, I go beyond the specter of reductionism and examine the emergence of new kinds of people at the intersection of genetics research, clinical practice and …
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Implicaciones de la interactividad en la argumentación en clase de matemáticas
… y aprendizaje, en particular, cuando el profesor asume una postura epistemológica radical y sociocultural sobre lo que significa aprender matemáticas, donde los actos de habla son un vehículo para capturar los modos de comprender de sus estudiantes, identificar los actos de pensamiento que …
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The Bible and its modern methods: interpretation between art and text
The dissertation pushes the boundaries of biblical interpretation by formulating relationships between passages of the Hebrew Bible and unrelated works of Modern art. While a growing field of criticism addresses the representation of scriptural stories in painting, sculpture and film, the artwork …