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Mano, Olivia Hatsue. "Hawthorne's defense of nature against civilization." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106099.
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Kollaja, Joshua. "Oneness the nature of a cyborg apocalypse /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1950196431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textCollins, Paul Thomas. "Social ideology and the Uruk phenomenon." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340469.
Full textJensen, Anna M. "Modernity and the Good Death : Heidegger and Jose Clemente Orozco's Epic of American Civilization /." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1905.
Full textRowlatt, Linnéa. "A godly environment : religious views of nature in early sixteenth-century Strasbourg." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55002/.
Full textPy, Barthélémy. "Le film de montagne dans les cinématographies occidentales." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON30052/document.
Full textSince its origins, the mountain film is a Genre in connection with the Western civilization. It fits into the historical evolution of the mountain and helps mediated reconstruction of ancestral imaginary, especially through a revolution that mixes a wide ensemble of perceptions and projections. The mountain film can be understood as a Western object, created and shaped by specific codes, unlike other societies that show the mountain in different ways. The genre take place in western Europe, since in western civilization, and shows a predilection for the representation of strong civilizational values. It follows a standardization of themes and codes shown on films : ascent, capitalism, « extreme » adventure exported internationally
Shaw, William R. "Broadacre City : American fable and technological society /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10177.
Full textWilliamson, Graham Scott, and n/a. "A Hobbesian theory of primitive state formation." University of Otago. Department of Philosophy, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070117.155354.
Full textPock, Franz. "The infrastructure of professional competence in transition : a discourse on its nature, effects and implications for professional competence in health care and education in Western cultures and civilization from modern to postmodern times." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250246.
Full textGregg, Gretchen Esely. ""This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2718/.
Full textPereira, Nasthya Cristina Garcia. "Relações homem-natureza: o discurso político sobre agricultura e extrativismo na província do Amazonas (1852-1889)." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2008. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/3717.
Full textFrom a representative point of view, this thesis seeks to demonstrate the understanding of nature by the governors of the state of Amazonas between the years of 1852 and 1889. Concomitant to this purpose, the view on the social milieu of these representatives of the monarchic power has also been taken into consideration in this discourse. Throughout the almost four decade existence of the province, the general view on nature in this region has been maintained. Nevertheless a new connection is perceived regarding the postures of decrees on the natural environment during the last two decades, presenting themselves as more pragmatic actions for the organization of this environment. Primarily through reports from governors of the Amazon province, the natural and human characteristics of the region are analyzed with the additional intention of outlining the difficulties of implementing the nation s civilization project. This project involved the recognition, as part of the national territory as well as the regional survey, of the people living in secluded areas of the country. Nature played an essential role in the definition of nationality as it contained the most valuable assets of the Brazilian empire, which was seeking to establish itself as a civilized nation that had the knowledge and was essentially able to cultivate the rich uncivilized lands. In the face of the of the civilization project that involved the natural environment as well as the inhabitants of the country, the Amazon governors, defending and representing the same project, explained in their reports the difficult task of its realization. The region has been described as a deserted and backward place; in the reports its still uncultivated nature and its idle and wandering population appear as a problematic reality still subject to transformation. Therefore by proclaiming a dull social state they presented plans and ways of civilizing nature and native tribes and clearly believed Amazon region represented a great promise for the future
Esta Dissertação procurou examinar e interpretar, valendo-se especialmente da noção de representação, as visões de natureza e de meio social que os presidentes da Província do Amazonas, entre os anos de 1852 e 1889, deixaram expressas em seus relatórios de governo. No decorrer de quase quatro décadas de existência da província, a visão geral de natureza deste segmento foi tenazmente mantida; contudo, percebe-se um novo enlace a respeito das atitudes de ordenação do meio natural nas duas últimas décadas, apresentando-se como ações mais pragmáticas para a organização desse ambiente. Por meio, primordialmente, do exame dos relatórios dos presidentes da Província do Amazonas, a particularidade natural e humana da região foi analisada com a intenção complementar de evidenciar as problemáticas para a execução do projeto civilizador defendido pelo Império. Projeto que envolvia a afirmação e o reconhecimento do território nacional junto de um levantamento dos grupos humanos de lugares recônditos do país. Nesse processo, a natureza representou um elemento essencial para a questão da nacionalidade, pois encerrava a maior riqueza e o maior patrimônio do Império brasileiro, que desejava se elevar como nação civilizada com o conhecimento e, especialmente, com o cultivo das ricas terras ainda incultas. Diante do projeto civilizador que envolvia a natureza e os habitantes do país, os presidentes do Amazonas, defensores e representantes desse projeto, explicitaram nos relatórios a difícil tarefa para sua realização. A Província era representada como um lugar deserto e atrasado; a natureza ainda inculta e a população ociosa e errante transparecem nos relatos como elementos de uma realidade problemática, todavia passível de transformação. Embora descrevessem um estado social desanimador, não deixaram de apresentar os planos e os meios para civilizar a natureza e os grupos humanos, e claramente acreditaram que o Amazonas representava uma grande promessa para o futuro
Sganzerla, Anor. "Natureza e responsabilidade: Hans Jonas e a biologização do ser moral." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2012. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/4794.
Full textThe challenge of Hans Jonas s philosophy lies in thinking of an ethics for the technological civilization. As he recognizes that modern technology, instead of being a vocation or an instrument, has become a power, a movement of autonomous and ambivalent character which compromises the continuity of human life and extra-human life in the future, Jonas has found in ethics the antidote for protecting life from this pursuit of development related to technological civilization. Jonas identifies the basis for this euphoria for progress and for improvement promoted by this ideal on the Baconian project of salvation of humanity through scientific progress. However, for the author, along with the demonstration of the possible blessings, there are also threats, which are invisible, since only the advantages and benefits are presented. In this way, the philosopher claims that the danger lies not in human incapability or lack of capacity for fulfillment, but in human excessive capacity, together with homo faber s power over homo sapiens. Considering this new scenario of technological civilization, according to Jonas, traditional ethics became insufficient, for his interest was related to guiding man s life here and now. The need for protecting the authenticity of life in the future from the power of modern technology demands a widening of the ethical sphere so that it reaches beyond the anthropocentric perspective and the current moment. However, this widening of the ethical universe does not mean to be a retrocess or even an impediment of the development of scientific technological progress. An Ethos for technology must be found, that is, a power over the power , in order to keep the actions from being nihilistic, based on the force of the power of an unbound Prometheus. The aim is, therefore, to place a voluntary restraint, before it becomes necessary to impose this limit due to the vulnerability of nature and man, always revealed as damaged. Jonas finds the basis for this new Ethos on a philosophy of biology or a philosophy of life. As a result, the author does not intend to promote a moralization of nature, but a biologization of the moral being, considering that responsibility, in man, is ontological. As he reinserts man in nature and resignifies categories such as life, liberty, spirit, metabolism, among others, Jonas observes that ethics is already present in these categories in an ontological way, since life says yes to itself in the sense of continuity, and it says no to non-being. Consequently, responsibility imposes itself as an ethical commandment and an ontological duty, which makes responsibility represent the recognition of the Being that demands that my action recognize his intrinsic good, rather than a calculation ex post facto. As he establishes the continuity of human life and authentic extra-human life in the future as the first commandment of the ethics of responsibility, and considering that responsibility is, therefore, proportional to our power, Jonas uses the model of paternal responsibility, of parental care for the newly-born, as a prototype for the ethics of responsibility in the future. It refers to something in which there is no reciprocity, but its existence requires the duty of care and of preservation. The emphasis given by Jonas to the heuristic of fear, as a method to fight the pursuit of progress at any cost, based on the principle of in dubio pro malo, makes prudence, caution, and precaution the new ethical values of man in technological civilization.
O desafio da filosofia de Hans Jonas foi pensar uma ética para a civilização tecnológica. Ao identificar que a técnica moderna deixou de ser uma vocação e um instrumento para tornar-se um poder, um movimento de caráter autônomo e ambivalente, comprometendo a continuidade da vida humana e extra-humana no futuro, Jonas buscou na ética o antídoto para proteger a vida desse afã de desenvolvimento da civilização tecnológica. As bases dessa euforia pelo progresso e pelo melhoramento promovido por esse ideal, Jonas identifica-as no projeto baconiano de salvação da humanidade através do progresso científico. No entanto, para o autor, junto com a demonstração das possíveis bênçãos, estão contidas também as ameaças, mas estas, por sua vez, são invisíveis, pois, apresentam-se unicamente as vantagens e os benefícios. Desse modo, afirma o filósofo, o perigo não está na incapacidade humana, no sentido de sua incapacidade de realização, mas na sua excessiva capacidade, aliada ao domínio do homo faber sobre o homo sapiens. Frente a esse novo cenário da civilização tecnológica, as éticas tradicionais, para Jonas, tornaram-se insuficientes, pois sua preocupação estava voltada para orientar a vida do homem no aqui e agora. A necessidade de proteger a autenticidade da vida no futuro desse poder da técnica moderna exige um alargamento da esfera ética para além da perspectiva antropocêntrica e do tempo imediato. No entanto, essa ampliação do universo ético não pretende ser um retrocesso ou mesmo um impedimento ao desenvolvimento do progresso técnico científico. Busca-se um Ethos para a técnica, isto é, um poder sobre o poder , para impedir que suas ações continuem sendo niilistas, alicerçadas na força do poder de Prometeu que se encontra desacorrentado. Trata-se, portanto, de colocar um freio voluntário, antes que esse limite não tenha que ser imposto devido à vulnerabilidade da natureza e do homem, que se revelam sempre como dano. As bases para esse novo Ethos Jonas irá buscá-las em uma filosofia da biologia ou uma filosofia da vida. Com isso, o autor não pretende promover uma moralização da natureza, mas uma biologização do ser moral, visto que a responsabilidade no homem é ontológica. Ao reinserir o homem no conjunto da natureza e ressignificar categorias como a vida, a liberdade, o espírito, o metabolismo, entre outras, Jonas constata que a ética já está presente nessas categorias de modo ontológico na medida em que a vida diz um sim a ela mesma no sentido da continuidade, e um não ao não-ser. Sendo assim, a responsabilidade se impõe como um mandamento ético e um dever ontológico, o que faz com que ela não represente um cálculo ex post facto, mas o reconhecimento do Ser que reivindica que meu agir reconheça o bem nele intrínseco. Ao estabelecer como primeiro mandamento da ética da responsabilidade a continuidade da vida humana e extra-humana autêntica no futuro, e que a responsabilidade para tanto é proporcional ao nosso poder, o autor utiliza-se do modelo da responsabilidade paterna, do cuidado dos pais em relação ao recém-nascido, como protótipo para a ética da responsabilidade no futuro. Trata-se de algo em que não há reciprocidade, mas que a sua existência exige o dever do cuidado e da preservação. O destaque dado por Jonas à heurística do temor, como método para combater o desejo de progresso a qualquer custo, alicerçado no princípio in dubio pro malo, torna a prudência, a cautela, a precaução os novos valores éticos do homem na civilização tecnológica.
Washington, Haydn G. "The wilderness knot." Click here for electronic access to document: http://arrow.uws.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/uws:44, 2006. http://arrow.uws.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/uws:44.
Full textTitle from electronic document (viewed 2/6/10) Interviews held with: "James' Dharug, Traditional Custodian; Dr. Rob Lesslie, conservation biologist, Dr. Val Plumwood, environmental philosopher, Virginia Young, Director WildCountry Project, Professor Mike Archer, Dr. Deborah Bird Rose, anthropologist, Ms. Penny Figgis, former Vice President of ACF, Dr. Tim Flannery, Director South Australian Museum, Mr. Dean Stewart, Aboriginal Education Officer, Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Dr. Rosemary Hill, ACF Northern Lands Project Officer, Professor Harry Recher.
Giusti, Matteo. "Nature Routines of Children as Leverage Point for Sustainable Social-Ecological Urbanism : Connecting childhood and biosphere to design sustainable civilizations in the human habitat." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-134601.
Full textFerrigno, Laura. "Vers un nouveau parcours didactique du grec ancien." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL015.
Full textOur thesis is a study of the teaching methods for Ancient Greek. Through an analysis of the current crisis in the teaching of ancient languages and of the grammar-translation method, we will attempt to demonstrate that nowadays it would be desirable to make different teaching choices. In particular, we focus our interest on manuals called “story-based courses”. The most widely known of these, are the Ørberg method, the Cambridge Latin Course, Athenaze and Reading Greek. These works are characterized by an ongoing tale written in Latin or Greek and concerning the ancient civilization. They offer an inductive approach to the language, that favors fast reading and a “natural” language learning. We also discuss the matter of the educational practices to adopt in class, which remain essential to create a teaching coherent with these tools. Past experiences (in particular the one led by Rouse at the Perse School of Cambridge), but also the research we have carried out at Liceo Classico Francesco De Sanctis of Salerno, have revealed just how much our teaching can be subverted and how much the students’ reactions might vary. The reflections from our work, which is addressed primarily to teachers of ancient languages, aim specifically to allow a reasoned knowledge of the natura method, overcoming the prejudices that often accompany it and evaluating all its potential
Farwell, Rose-Marie. "Le Néo-paganisme en Angleterre à l’époque contemporaine." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040228.
Full textThis study examines the emergence and growth of paganism over recent decades in a specifically English context, taking into account the various historical, cultural and literary influences and the way paganism has developed as a ‘natural’ product of these. Although the term paganism covers a loose association of distinct branches and traditions, these inspire, influence and feed into each other to a greater or lesser extent, creating a generic paganism that has emerged as the dominant trend, within which individuals concoct and compose their own spirituality. Within a spectrum of practices and beliefs, enough common ground exists for the movement to be recognizable as such, but this contrasts greatly with more traditional ideas of religion. If the growth of paganism is partly explained by the greater availability of information and the use of Internet, it is also seemingly in resonance with various aspects of the contemporary, post-modern western psyche. Furthermore, it has benefited from the official climate concerning positive recognition of minority religions in a multicultural society, although difficulties have arisen in its being accepted as a religion, whether by the authorities, or due to internal factors. This has led to a higher media profile for paganism, sometimes in its favour, but sometimes leading to its scapegoating by newspapers seeking to denounce the perceived excesses of multiculturalism and the “politically correct”. If the name ‘pagan’ seems inappropriate, acting as a barrier in some quarters, no alternative, less controversial term has been found as a replacement. However, it can be noticed that pagan themes and attitudes are being more generally diffused within mainstream culture, with or without the pagan ‘label’
Green, Mike. "Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham, civilization's secrets and nature's truths." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47760.pdf.
Full textTorres, Alanna C. "Natural resources as a source of conflict in the Middle East." Pitzer College, 2009. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,72.
Full textDu, Plessis Lizanne. "The culture and environmental ethic of the Pokot people of Laikipia, Kenya." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/182.
Full textBendick, Eric Louis. "Fiber optic vines on the third wall cultivating natural media in the digital age /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/bendick/BendickE0509.pdf.
Full textWong, Heong Fei. "Keeping native culture alive while living between cultures : Burmese-Chinese migrants in Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874209.
Full textWorkman, Terry W. "PALEOWETLANDS AND FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY OF QUEBRADA MANI: RECONSTRUCTING PALEO-ENVIRONMENTS AND HUMAN OCCUPATION IN THE NORTHERN ATACAMA DESERT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345055481.
Full textPassetti, Gabriel. "O mundo interligado: poder, guerra e território nas lutas na Argentina e na Nova Zelândia (1826-1885)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-08112010-152048/.
Full texta quick turn on the next years. One of the major objectives of the research is the comprehension of , and freedom, and joining in trade networks. The comparison between a British white settler colony and a republic, and Salinas Grandes in Argentina. Associated by settlers, and their own existences as independent were suppressed. The sources analyzed were travel accounts, and willing to defend their own authority, as the King Movement in New Zealand, as whell as the Maori and pakeha in New Zealand, claim, exposed how ideas, from 1826 to 1885. During this time, laws and peace treaties., letters, military and the government to barbarism, native Chiefs united themselves in organized resistance confederations, people and products circulated through the globe. Facing major liberal interests in their lands, recently independent, reports, social and commercial relations between the indigenous peoples of Argentina and the criollos, sovereignty, the political power balance changed from a clear native superiority, their land to the markets, then, they lost their territory to official government jurisdiction, they were attacked by professional armies and their modern guns, This research are focused on comparisons on political, to a draw in the 1850s and, transports and communication. Beaten by ethnocide or genocide strategies
Drown, Ashley L. "More than Just a Pot: An In-Depth Look into the Invention, Technology, Use and Social Functions of Prehistoric Pottery Vessels." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1273803801.
Full textGallopin, Gary G. "Water Storage Technology at Tikal, Guatemala." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1299605660.
Full textVogelová, Tereza. "Chaos." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta výtvarných umění, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232326.
Full textPatton, Paul E. "People, Places, and Plants: An Appraisal of Subsistence, Technology and Sedentism in the Eastern Woodlands." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366119433.
Full textCampos, Filho José Carlos Pires de. "Os pressupostos filosóficos do estado ético-jurídico na obra A cidade de Deus de Santo Agostinho." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5925.
Full textThe objective of this dissertation is to expose the philosophical assumptions of the theory of the philosopher St. Augustine on the nature of the ethical and legal State The thought here is understood as a defense of the just State and of the conception of natural law against accusations that Christianity causes injury to the political community. The Augustinian conception of a just and happy society allows, instead, enhancing the civic virtues as a means to achieve the common good and peace. The Augustinian ontology allows the truth to be the reference of virtues and vices, as precepts of action capable of forming the unity of a civilization. The "City of God" is the allegory of a just society that is present in this world through the ages in coexistence with the earthly state
O objetivo desta dissertação é expor os pressupostos filosóficos centrais da teoria do filósofo Santo Agostinho sobre a natureza do Estado ético-jurídico. O pensamento é aqui compreendido como uma defesa do Estado justo e da concepção de lei natural contra as acusações de que o Cristianismo causa prejuízo à comunidade política. A concepção agostiniana de sociedade justa e feliz permite, ao contrário, aprimorar as virtudes cívicas como meio para alcançar o bem comum e a paz. A ontologia agostiniana permite que a verdade seja a referência das virtudes e dos vícios, como preceitos do agir capazes de formar a unidade de uma civilização. A Cidade de Deus é a alegoria de sociedade justa presente no mundo através dos tempos em convivência com o Estado terreno
Church, Rebecca. "The Influence of Culture and Arts on the Development of Peruvian Children." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271384749.
Full textAngel, Julie R. "Location, Location, Location: A Probabilistic Model of Banked Earthwork Placement Within the Central Ohio Landscape During the Early and Middle Woodland Periods." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274205403.
Full textCandiago, Noémie. "La dette écologique en droit international public." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LAROD007/document.
Full textThe ecological debt is a concept which was developed at the beginning of the 90s in order to fight against the burden of financial debts which crippled the budgets of developing States. States and the civil society used the theoretical and practical knowledge developed by researchers in social and economic sciences to criticize an unequal worldorder, leading to continuous environmental degradation and as such, a characteristic of an unequal ecological exchange. For the different actors, the concept of ecological debt took on various meanings so that we can now dissociate four different discourses. For each discourse, we have identified one or more legal mechanism, but most of them often turn out to be unfit to meet the claims of ecological debt advocates. It appears that only the community version of ecological debt is efficient without being counter-productive. Our analysis of the climate regime in international law confirms this result since norms that empower local communities seem more efficient to reduce climate debt
呂明聲. "Nature and Civilization The Creation Discourse of Ming-Sheng Lu." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bkgaj9.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
美術學系
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Abstract This paper discusses the surrounding environment of observation and reflection that hopes .to awaken people pay attention to the natural environment by artistic vocabulary. Thus, the author choices "Industrial Zone" as the drawn of category to study the painting research by different media. With this opportunity, the author insight into about the development of Kaohsiung, and explore the conflict relationship between nature and civilization as well. In the creation of form, the traditional Chinese ink painting is the foundation, but traditional re-creation is necessary. Along with the Innovation and change , using the modelling and the intermediary material is carries on the reform as for the creation process, creates the distinctive quality, the multiple development is possible, even breaks between the intermediary material the demarcation line, creates belongs to individual authoring language. This creation elaboration divides into three major aspects to discuss author's creation process: Realistic, the direct-viewing depiction, and a complaint to against the natural destruction. It is irony to glory the good of modern civilization, but the damage by the industry civilization. To awake people’s attention on natural environment, the expression of moral image uses metaphor and symbolic to explain the relationship between nature and civilization. The development of industry civilization of mankind is gains and losses. It tests the human wisdom to accept or reject. Human desire often causes the severe environmental problem. Therefore the civilization development has to meet the social and the ecology needs to preserve the natural status as the premise development. The humanity must recognize oneself is part of the members of natural ecology that conduces to the sustainable development of civil society and the natural environment. After this series creative works, the author has many enlightenment and reconsidering that hopes herself to keep the minds as beginning and to concern the our environment by actual art. Keywords: symbol, natural environment, ecologically sustainable, industrial pollution
Zhang, Chunyan. "Nature and culture, old and new : a comparative study of the representation of nature in Australian and Chinese cultures." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151470.
Full textKarrow, Douglas David. "Educating-within-place : recovering from metaphysics as technicity /." 2006. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=442371&T=F.
Full textMusekiwa, Kizito. "A comparison of grade 11 learners' and pre-service teachers' understandings of nature of science." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22728.
Full textAn understanding of the NOS is a basis for scientific literacy which is one of the major goals of science education the world over. This study compared Grade 11 High school learners (n=10) and third year Bachelor of Education, Pre-service teachers’ (n=10) understandings of Nature of Science (NOS). Data on participants’ understandings of NOS was collected by means of a Likert type questionnaire and through semi - structured interviews. Likert type questionnaire data was quantitatively analysed using a combination of descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney U test and graphical comparison of group median scores on questionnaire items to ascertain differences in NOS understandings between the Grade 11 learners and the B.Ed. Pre-service teachers. Semi-structured interview data was analysed through a combination of typological and interpretative analysis of interview transcripts to determine differences in NOS understandings between the two groups. The findings reveal that there are no significant differences in the understandings of the NOS between the Grade 11 learners and third year, Bachelor of Education, Pre-service teachers. The analyses reveal that overall; the Grade 11 Learners and third year B.Ed. Pre-service teachers’ understandings of NOS are not very different from each other. Both groups held such misunderstandings as; there is a single scientific method, scientific knowledge is not socially and culturally embedded, scientific knowledge is universal and can be proven through collection of empirical data. It is recommended that if the goal of science education for scientific literacy is to be achieved, initial teacher education training should do more to explicitly develop Pre-service teachers’ subject matter knowledge understandings, pedagogical skills and valuing of NOS, that is, their pedagogical content knowledge for nature of science. Explicit testing of learners’ NOS understandings is also suggested as a way of improving the school Physical Science curriculum. The effectiveness of the current science content and methods courses in improving the Pre-service teachers’ NOS understandings is questioned. Recommendations for further studies are suggested.
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Ko, Elton Liang-yuan, and 柯量元. "Tom VS. Huck: Son of Civilization VS. Son of Mother Nature-- A Ch'an Reading of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36276951205751505109.
Full text淡江大學
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This thesis employs Ch'an to interpret Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to highlight the problems attachment is sure to lead one to, and the manifestation of Buddha-nature and karuna as one detaches himself from the laws of civilization. The thesis is divided into five chapters. CHAPTER ZERO introduces existing scholarship, the approach used in the thesis, and some problems about the framework of the thesis. CHAPTER ONE deals with Ch'an notions to serve as a basis for later interpretation. CHAPTER TWO sees Tom Sawyer as a representative of people attaching themselves too much to the laws of civilization. CHAPTER THREE offers the acts of Huckleberry Finn to justify the natural overflow of his Buddha-nature and karuna as he keeps detaching himself from the laws of civilization. CHAPTER THE LAST views Tom and Huck in a parallel way to see the opposite results attachment and detachment are to bring about.
Walliss, Jillian Louise. "The nature of design : influences of landscape and environmental discourse on the formation of the Australian and New Zealand national park and museum." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148257.
Full textJavorská, Michala. "Etika zahrady." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-346808.
Full textSimone, Ashley. "Cicero Among the Stars: Natural Philosophy and Astral Culture at Rome." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-4ntx-kv74.
Full textKuczynski, Vanessa Fanny. "An analytical evaluation of Macintyre's critique of the modern conception of the enlightenment project." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2011.
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O'Brien, Christian. "A clockwork climate? an atmospheric history of Northern Australia." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/114573.
Full textTsu-Ting, Huang, and 黃琡婷. "On Xunzi's Change the Nature to Initiate the Civilizatuon: From the View of the School Bullyinh Behavior." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44257462172393823083.
Full textCheng, Wei-Chung, and 鄭維中. "Social order of Formosa under the Dutch : the Paradox of Natural Law and the Process of Civilization." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03209227216767003830.
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This thesis concentrated on historical social interactions concerning legal operations between Dutch, Chinese, and aboriginal people at 17th century Formosa. By describing why Dutch side through a series force actions to form an alliance with aboriginal villages by cultural contrast, explained why Dutch authority had to make a feudal institutional frame (Landdag) at Formosa Island. In analyzing this historical situation, it could be traced back to encounter- experience between European and non-European people at early times. Such experience could be reduced to the core- recognition- problem about social order: natural law’s conceptions. The Paradox of natural law comes from a statement by which European believe social order outside Europe must by some way equal to European societies. In the mean time, if this statement couldn’t confirm by non-European people, it can’t claim itself valid within European societies. This paradox could be resolved only if non-European people decide to receipt a set of Natural law conceptions. This kind of civilization process isn’t come from violent discipline, but cultural transformation. This transformation should be rooted from native people’s cultural legitimization: that means their own civilization process, but enforced implantation. Dutch jury system at Zeelandia City (schepen) gave oversea Chinese citizen a chance to form their own municipal law based on Chinese recognition, even excelling traditional limitation. By this way, Chinese citizens created a new social order under Dutch legal instrument, and expand their own civilization process at the same time.
Schreiber, Rebecca McNulty. "Education for empire : manual labor, civilization, and the family in nineteenth-century American missionary education /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3270021.
Full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2622. Advisers: Frederick Hoxie; Kathryn Oberdeck. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 275-293) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
Green, Michael Douglas. "Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths." Thesis, 2000. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/1011/1/MQ47760.pdf.
Full textChilton, Elizabeth S. "Embodiments of choice: Native American ceramic diversity in the New England interior." 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9638945.
Full textAcland, Joan Reid. "The native artistic subject and national identity : a cultural analysis of the architecture of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, designed by Douglas J. Cardinal." Thesis, 1994. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/71/1/NN97631.pdf.
Full textTheron, Elizabeth Rabie. "Jacob van Maerlant se Der naturen bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1108.
Full textDuring the past decade various studies have been conducted on the medieval bestiary and simultaneously much has been written on the life and work of the medieval scholar and writer, Jacob van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's famous encyclopaedic work, Der Naturen B/oeme (Book of Nature) has been thoroughly investigated in recent literary studies, though little has been done to identify this work as encyclopaedic narrative. The term, encyclopaedic narrative, is relatively unknown in Western literature and therefore demands the research which is conducted in this thesis. In the course of this study, the genre of encyclopedic narrative is investigated and the Naturen 8/oeme is identified as a member of this exclusive genre. Edward Mendelson's article "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) serves as the starting point for this study, from where it continues its investigation into the works of Jacob Van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's Der Naturen 8/oeme is compared to a unique set of qualities for the encyclopaedic narrative in which corresponding points are identified. From this investigation it is shown that Der Naturen B/oeme qualifies as a member of the genre, encyclopaedic narrative.
Baie navorsing oor die Middeleeuse Bestiarium is reeds gedurende die afgelope dekade gedoen en baie is geskryf oor die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant. Alhoewel sy natuurboek, Der Naturen Bloeme, baie belangstelling in die liter~re w6r~ld ontlok, is daar nog weinig gedoen om Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief te identifiseer. Die relatiewe onbekendheid van die begrip ensiklopediese narratief in die Westerse literatuur dien as aansporing tot die ondersoeke wat in hierdie skripsie vervat word. In hierdie studie sal die genre van die ensiklopediese narratlef bespreek word. Der Naturen Bloeme word as voorbeeld gebruik. Die ensiklopediese narratief word bespreek na aanleiding van die artikel "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) waarin Mendelson die term omskryf en riglyne daarstel vir die tipering daarvan as genre. Uit die ondersoek blyk dit dat die ensiklopediese narratief 'n genre is wat erkenning behoort te kry in die literêre wêreld. Die studie ondersoek ook die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant wat as lnformatikus gedurende die MiddeJeeue groot bekendheid verwerf het. Sy omvangryke ensiklopediese werk, Der Naturen Bloeme, word telkens getoets aan die hand van kenmerke vir die ensiklopediese narratief en die raakpunte word uitgewys. Uit die ondersoek word aangetoon dat Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief erken kan word.
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
M.A. (Afrikaans)
Banze, Irene Maria Lousada. "O ensino colonial em Moçambique: as missões religiosas no sul de Moçambique como instituições de habilitação para africanos (1911-1975)." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21678.
Full textFocusing on African education in Southern Mozambique, the thesis describes and analyses the role of Protestant and Catholic missions in African education during the colonial regime. Notwithstanding that the focus of the analysis is on the years between 1933 and 1974 since that is the period covered in the interviews, the thesis begins with an historical account of missions in Africa during the 19th century. The historical account details the expansion of the Catholic missions by religious orders, and the Protestant move towards missionization by the Anglophone, Anglo-German and Anglo-Saxon Missionary Societies. Africa’s missionization was given a go-ahead by the 1884-85 Berlin Conference, as it ruled that African education be missionary. The industrialization of South Africa that attained its peak in 1886 with the discovery of gold, had a catalyzing effect on the influx of African labor migrants from Southern Africa to South Africa where the missionary clusters converted the African migrants in the rural and industrial areas; thus, setting the foundations of missionization in the region. The 1891 Portuguese-British Treaty, by ratifying the role assigned to the missionaries at the Berlin Conference, whereby missionaries should, through education and moralization "civilize" Africans, propelled the joint participation of missionaries based in South Africa and their African converts to set-up protestant missions in Southern Mozambique, between 1880 and 1891. From 1911 onwards, all missionary work in Mozambique was subject to Portuguese legislation until the signing of the 1940 Concordat that released the Catholic Church and left the Protestant missions bound. The thesis has been compiled through data from 45 interviewees, who played key roles in the colonial regime namely, teachers, nursing staff, college students and workers of the public and private sectors.
Brožová, Tereza. "Indiáni jako bezprostřední nebezpečí: Portrét Indiánů v příbězích zajatců." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-331125.
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