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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"playground"”.
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Power playground
Communities on the Cape Flats of the Western Cape have become synonymous with 'overcrowding, poverty, and squatters' (Pinnock, 2016: 12). Segregation under the apartheid regime forcibly placed Black and Coloured citizens in these areas. These areas have since become eclectic linguistic platforms …
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Playground for the Imagination
Over the past years, my work has been based on a desire to depict the spiritual and physiological interdependence humans have with the wetland ecosystem. As I examine the shapes of trees and their roots through rubbings, paintings, and sculpture, I sought to express this interaction between humans …
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Networked Playscapes : redefining the playground
… and technological determinism. Simultaneously, playgrounds are suffering abandonment. Poorly designed, they are deemed childish and boring, the streets insecure and parents too busy. Portable computing devices have taken over most of the playtime and confined it to human-screen interaction. With …
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An experiment in playground design.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Digital + Physical: Rethinking the Playground
… combination of handheld wireless technology and playground experiences. The combination of these elements aims to create a play experience that provides the physical and imaginative aspects of traditional play while utilizing the personal, communication, social, competitive, and graphical …
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Playground safety in Galveston parks: A descriptive analysis
Public playground safety is a major public health issue. The foundation of the playground safety movement is grounded by a public demand for safe parks and playground equipment. Significant morbidity and cost is associated with park playground injuries annually. Most playground injuries were …
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The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism
… the formerly colonized world. The "postcolonial playground" avails the non-Western world as a theatre for recreation and meaning-making, an engagement which renders locals as accessories to an experience, perpetuating colonial-era power dialectics that continue to privilege the Western subject …
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Nature Based Playground, Design for Children with Autism
… play areas, this paper advocate for nature-based playgrounds. Through the design of a play landscape that is nature-based and inclusive to children with Autism, this paper demonstrates significant advantages of nature-based inclusive play space design and advocates for such play spaces over …
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The Musical Playground as a Vehicle for Community-building
… music education site, such as a musical playground can positively impact creative expression, music education, and community. An instrumental case study was conducted on the Music Box Village (MBV) in New Orleans, Louisiana as run by the collective and not-for-profit organization, The New …
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A Preschool Outdoor Curriculum and Playground Design, Teacher Education
… a developmentally based outdoor curriculum and playground designed for young children. The curriculum consists of an overview, objectives, curriculum methodology, playground designs and evaluation. Cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains are each included in the objectives. A curriculum …
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Playgrounds in the city, the city as a playground
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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School Playground Supervision Practices in the State of Iowa
1 PDF file (92 leaves)
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Understanding Playground Behaviors And Injury Potential To Elementary Children
<p>Injuries on school playgrounds have increased in recent times despite widespread adoption of playground equipment standards published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The cost of increased insurance premiums and a moral obligation to protect children on a playground while at recess …
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Children's Playground Music as Cultural Expressions in Ghanaian Schools
… music pedagogy that are embedded in children's playground repertoire. After 4 months of fieldwork I analyzed a body of children's playground repertoire in terms of cultural values, artistry and imagination, and contemporary and religious influences. I focus on how children and adults acquire …
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Domain Playground: Extending Deep Learning Models to Open Domain Boundaries
… thesis, we propose a framework called Domain Playground (DP) that aims to extend deep learning models across multiple domains while overcoming the limitations of existing domain adaptation approaches. Based on our previous work, Class Representatives (CRs), the DP framework extracts features …
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Lucian's Mythological Playground: Time, Space, and Myth in Lucian of Samosata
In this dissertation, I explore how Lucian of Samosata, the Greco-Syrian prose satirist of the second century CE, manipulates the representation of space and time in his mythological texts. Lucian regularly employs characters, spaces, and tropes from myth as a central part of his broader comic …
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Not just the playground: Adult bullying in the K-12 workplace
<p>This non-experimental, explanatory, quantitative research study surveyed K-12 educators and other K-12 school employees to gather data about negative school workplace climate using the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R). Through the NAQ-R and other demographic survey questions, the …
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Beyond the Institution: The Making of a Visual and Conceptual Playground
this thesis Presents an exploration of the residence hall as an institution through formal and conceptual play.
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'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space.
Much recent work on bisexual subjectivities has taken a discourse analytic approach to exploring how bisexual identity is discursively produced as paradoxical, and why it is so difficult to articulate a culturally intelligible bisexual subjectivity. This thesis responds to such work by suggesting …
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Friends on the Playground: Associations With Physical Activity Levels in a Preschool Sample
… activity level, and peer influences on the playground are related to childhood obesity (Epstein, 2005; Salvy, 2008; Trost, et al., 2003). Much of this research however has been on older children that are past the key age range for effective early intervention and prevention. Because there …
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