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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"sameness and difference"”.
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Sameness and difference in therapy
There has been much anecdotal and theoretical material concerning the impact of `race' on therapy in Britain, especially with regards to therapeutic outcomes. The three studies presented in this thesis empirically investigated the notion that premature termination in counselling, and apparently …
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Dialogical Selves: Exploring “Sameness and Difference” in “Queer” Identification
… belonging/non-belonging, sameness/difference. Literature on it is riddled with dichotomous conflicts over (dis)identification and (anti)relationality in theory, lived experiences, and political mobilisation. Dominant discourses tend to overlook intersectional complexities …
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Intersectional sameness and difference in psychotherapy: Women of colour s experiences of the therapeutic alliance
… therapeutic process. In South Africa, a diverse and multilingual country with high levels of inequality, access to healthcare services, poor quality of healthcare, and discrimination in healthcare settings are persistent issues. Women of colour are often disproportionately affected by these …
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Changing narratives of minority peoples' identities in Welsh and Basque film
… discusses how changing narratives of Welsh and Basque identity have been represented in film. It builds on Higson’s (1989) notion of ‘heritage film’, and ideas derived from postcolonial theory to develop a threefold system of classification. It develops an argument that narratives of …
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A question of identity : who were the Galatians?
… CE. Chapter 1 presents the research question and the four subsidiary questions, which mirror the order and structure of the following four chapters. This is followed by a brief historiography of the Galatians, and justification for the dissertation. The concept of identity is then discussed, …
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Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
… of the self in Plato’s Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus. Even though it is usually argued that for Plato the real self is simply the soul and that the body is merely a hindrance toward realization of the ideal self, my analysis of these dialogues shows that the body may be assigned a …
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Curriculum reform and identity politics in Iranian school textbooks : national and global representations of "race", ethnicity, social class and gender
… interrogates whose knowledge about the self and the other is represented to Iranian students in the 2004 and in selected pre-2004 editions of elementary and guidance school textbooks by analyzing how issues of identity politics, diversity, “citizenship” and development inform the construction …
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"Concept" and "Context": Toward modelling understanding in Physics Education research
… research (PER). Why does student understanding of a concept depend so crucially on the context in which it is embedded? This dissertation attempts to answer this question by using a variety of theoretical tools to model understanding. We conducted three empirical studies which probed …
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The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty
… to examine Smith’s novels White Teeth and On Beauty and demonstrate the ways in which they problematize hybridity as well as the instances when post-hybridity more accurately describes her work where hybridity falters and fails. In A New World Order, Caryl Phillips writes that Smith’s …
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The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty
… to examine Smith’s novels White Teeth and On Beauty and demonstrate the ways in which they problematize hybridity as well as the instances when post-hybridity more accurately describes her work where hybridity falters and fails. In A New World Order, Caryl Phillips writes that Smith’s …
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“life Is A Luminous Halo”: Gender And Androgynous Time In Virginia Woolf
… of time in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, Orlando: A Biography, and The Waves to illustrate the development of an androgynous time that is located between the inner subjective time of each individual, inspired by Henri Bergson’s durée, and the stunted measured time of society. </p> <p> The …
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‘I Need to Work to Be Legal, I Need to Be Legal to Work.’ Migrant Encounters, Haitian Women, and the Chilean State
… everyday encounters with Chilean state agents and private employers. It analyses the experiences of Haitian women as they navigate bureaucratic institutions and practices, negotiate their working conditions with employers and public defendants, train as care and domestic workers, seek modes of …
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Sex, Metaphysics, and Mental 'Dis-ease'
… of mind: a correct view of the nature of human and worldly existence brings inner peace and tranquillity; an incorrect view, inner turmoil. More recently, Australian philosopher John Bigelow lamented that, despite over 2000 years of theorizing, philosophers have yet to reach consensus on a …
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Explication, similarity, and analogy: a defense and application of philosophical method
… such as ‘mind’, ‘truth’, ‘meaning’, ‘person’, and ‘right’. Rejecting analyticity as a viable philosophical notion undermines such efforts insofar as they aim at conceptual analysis. If philosophers give up the notion of analyticity, as they should, they are left with the questions of what goals …
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Aristotle's Theory of Principles: A Rationalistic-Empirical Bipolarity
… his works. "Principle" is a basic notion; and it is, moreover, the basic notion in Aristotle's philosophy. The purpose here is to establish as precisely as possible the meaning of 'principle' and the role that it plays in Aristotelian thought. It is shown that the meaning of "principle" …