Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008. / Thesis advisor: Matthew Ciscel. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in TESOL." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-63). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1930. / On cover: University of Pennsylvania. Bibliography: p. 69-72.

Thesis (D. Ed.)--Temple University, 1934. / History and literature of the subject" : p. [3]-4. Bibliography: p. 124-128.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1929. / Vita. Published also as pt. I of Studies of the International Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University, no. 9, which appeared under title: Modern foreign languages in France and Germany, the training of teachers and methods of instruction, by Ruth E. McMurry, Max Mueller and Thomas Alexander. Bibliography: p. 161-163.

This thesis is a study of Plato as an absolutist and his influence on modern education.

Darbe aptariamas Sh. Suzuki „Motinos kalbos“ metodas, jo taikymo galimybės mokant groti gitara, siekiant atskleisti metodo išskirtinumą, praktiškumą ugdyme, humaniškumo svarbą ugdant. / The Sh. Suzuki “Mother Tongue” method and its application possibilities in teaching to play the guitar, are discussed in the final paper.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-196).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2559. Adviser: Andrea Golato. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-177) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

A tese resulta de pesquisa sobre o pensamento educacional de Rubem Alves, em diálogo com Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Feuerbach, Fernando Pessoa, Adélia Prado, Guimarães Rosa e muitos outros, filósofos, poetas e literatos, explicitando as bases humanísticas e contraculturais de seu pensamento filosófico e pedagógico. De caráter bibliográfico, a pesquisa restringe-se intencionalmente, à obra de Rubem Alves e às diversas dissertações e teses sobre o pensamento. Busca mostrar que preocupação primeira de Rubem Alves é o resgate da concepção do homem, enquanto ser corporal, de desejos e de sonhos, no interior das filosofias, culturas e literatura ocidentais. Mostra então que a proposta pedagógica de Rubem Alves tem raízes antropológicas e contraculturais, ancoradas no pensamento crítico e romântico, em contraponto à metafísica clássica e ao pensamento moderno, iluminista, cientificista e positivista. Com Freud, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, diversos poetas e literatos, mostra que a essência da vida e do homem está mais no desejo e na imaginação que na razão. Para se compreender este postulado norteador do pensamento do filósofo brasileiro, dois conceitos foram trabalhados: o corpo e a linguagem. Evidencia-se que, sem formular proposta pedagógica sistemática e metodologicamente conformada aos parâmetros acadêmicos, este pensador formula profundas e contundentes críticas às pedagogias tradicionais que, considera intelectualistas, centradas em saberes abstratos, desencarnados e distantes da vida e das experiências concretas dos alunos. Os resultados da presente investigação encontram-se arrolados nas Considerações Finais e podem ser sintetizados na seguinte proposição: confirma-se a existência, no pensamento alvesiano, de uma proposta pedagógica, disseminada em suas mais de oitocentas crônicas e nos mais de trinta livros de estórias para pequenos e grandes. É, também, parte integrante das conclusões desta pesquisa a afirmação de que a referida proposta tem raízes antropológicas e reminiscências românticas e contraculturais, que, por sua vez se fundam em seu pensamento filosófico e teológico. / The thesis is a result of a research about Rubem Alvess educational thoughts in a dialogue with Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Koerkegaard, Wittgensteins, Feuerbach, Fernando Pessoa, Adélia Prado, Guimarães Rosa and many other philosophers, poets and literatis explaining the countercultural and humanistic bases of his philosophical and pedagogical thoughts. On a bibliographic matter this research is willfully restricted to Rubem Alvess work and several other dissertations and thesis about his thought and it searches show that Rubem Alvess first concern is the conception of mans rescue inside the philosophy, the culture and the western literature as a carnal being of wishes and dreams. As it is, also shows that Rubem Alvess pedagogical proposal has anthropological and countercultural roots on the critical and romantic thought opposing to the classic metaphysics and to the modern, to the illuminist, to the scientific and to the positivist thoughts. As written by Freud, Feuerback, Kierkegaard and divers poets and literatis, Rubem Alves explicitates that the essence of life and man is inside the desire and imagination more than it is in rationality. To understand the guiding principle of the Brazilian philosopher thought, two concepts were worked/used, the body and the language. Without formulate a systematic and methodological pedagogic proposal conformed to the academics parameters, is evident that this speculator presents deep and stinging critics about the traditional pedagogies that he considerate intellectualist, focused on abstract knowledge disembodied and far from life and from concrete students experience. The results of this present investigation are found enrolled on Final Considerations and can be synthesized in the following proposition: in the ALVESIANO thinking it is confirmed the existence of a pedagogical proposal, disseminated in its more than eight hundred chronic and in more than thirty books of stories for little ones and grown ones. It is also inside the conclusions of this research and confirm that the said proposal has anthropologic roots and romantic and countercultural reminiscence that are merged in a philosophical and theological thought.

My thesis argues that textually embedded intimacy and exclusivity between men opens up ethical problems concerning the use of education and persuasive powers—the ability to reconfigure vice as virtue, to argue a case for transgressions, and to navigate political, economic, and social spheres for personal self-advancement. My argument is based first on the proposition that masculine elite friendship in the early modern period is situated in specific pedagogical practices, engagement with particular rhetorical manuals and classical texts, and manipulation of texts which determine the affectionate, ‘textual', nature of these relationships. From this, I propose, second, that a hermeneutic process of rhetorical and poetic composition and exclusionary understanding is embedded within these textual relationships. From these two propositions, I analyse the textual surface of homosocial relationships in order to ask questions about ethical dilemmas concerning the forms of power they represent. How can an enclosed system of affection be useful for political, social, or financial advancement by making a vice (self-interest) of a virtue (fidelity), a dubious idea in the early modern period? How are homosocial networks developed and depicted through an engagement with their own textuality? Are they shown as transgressive and dangerous in further marginalizing those who are not privy to the system of textual exchange between men? The creation of homosocial male friendships is predicated on the idea that there are shared texts and methodologies for internalizing ideas from classical sources (imitatio) and for using these as starting points for the creation of arguments (inventio) to suit social, political, and even domestic situations. I focus on fictitious relationships developed in early modern English drama—as playwrights represent masculine discourse, textual knowledge, and rhetorical techniques. The friendships and fellowships in these dramatic productions contain questions about the use of masculine networks in socio-political and economic navigation.