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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Visual poetics : the art of perception in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath

Nader, Myrna January 2010 (has links)
This study of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath goes beyond the usual practice of labelling these writers either as reticent or Confessional. Instead, it places greater emphasis on their visual poetics which privileges the process of creativity – the different modes of seeing – over ethical and political considerations. I begin by discussing what each knew of the other and proceed to examine their common interest in perception and interpretation. Bishop and Plath seek to understand the depiction of ‘reality’ and the various forms that this takes: the concrete fact, the object or the authentic experience modulated by historical data, whether symbols, mythical forms or religious conventions. In their poetry the self objectifies the world, discovering and simultaneously defining observed phenomena. Alternatively, personal identity is determined as part of a symbolic order because the present is deemed inadequate in itself and, therefore, frames of reference need to be expanded, analogies drawn, historical parallels established, myths invoked. This historicised art is complex, stylistic and culturally established. Bishop’s poetry, for instance, distinguishes between customary ways of seeing; the symbolism of medieval painting and the untrained eye of individualism (Primitive art). Her poetic ‘transparency’, language which corresponds faithfully to actual experience, calls attention, by its very directness and apparent simplicity, to the various parts of a synthesising imagination that could, potentially, infringe upon pure vision. The analysis of Bishop’s language and its development is based upon her published and unpublished material. Bishop and Plath underscore differences between description and meditation, empirical enquiry and symbolic transformation, the tangible and the abstract. They further consider religious beliefs ephemeral and place their faith in the primacy of the material world. Bishop is especially distrusting of symbolism in Christian imagery. Plath admired Bishop‘s poetry for being ‘real’, that is intimate, but not self-obsessed, concerned with aestheticism and ‘pleasure-giving’. This was the type of poetry she aspired to write. The reading of Plath uses autobiography sparingly, while arguing that her work – including poems in Ariel – demonstrates the creative strategies of, what she termed, a ‘pseudo-reality’. This precludes the automatic designation of her poetry as fully Confessional. Visual poetics is broadly defined to include a discussion on surrealism. Bishop was fascinated by the movement‘s expression of the numinous and transcendent but recoiled from its illogical thinking. Plath was equally drawn and repelled by male surrealists’ portrayal of the woman subject. In her poetry the misogyny of this art is countered by the appropriation of more positive imagery found in female surrealists such as Leonor Fini.
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An analysis of learners’ ways of working in high stakes mathematics examinations: quadratic equations and inequalities

Godden, Hebrew J. January 2012 (has links)
Magister Educationis - MEd / Every year there is a national outcry by educationists in South Africa relating to the poor performance of grade 12 mathematics learners. This is an unsatisfactory state of affairs in a country where mathematics is seen as playing a pivotal role in the preparation of students in disciplines for careers in science and technology. Interventions by the Department of Basic Education as well as by provincial education departments do not seem to be successful in stemming the tide in the decline of standards in the mathematical performance of learners. It is this which has motivated this study.The aim of this study was to identify the types of errors committed by students in their responses to question one of Paper 1 in the final Grade 12 mathematics examinations of 2010. By reviewing the work done by different authors, an analytical framework was compiled that was used to identify and to label errors in the written responses of learners. This study has adopted a documentary analysis approach and has selected a representative sample of examination scripts of Western Cape students who wrote the first paper of the grade 12 mathematics examination in 2010. The result shows that during the analysis of 1959 scripts (the sample taken from different educational departments and districts), 4163 errors were identified. These errors have been identified based on the above-mentioned analytical framework. Comparisons were labeled according to the different types of errors, across the different ex- department schools and per districts. If the percentage is calculated based on the number of scripts analyzed, the number of errors varies from 12% careless errors to 40% calculation errors. It was also noticed that the number of errors found in the urban districts was higher than all of the errors found in the different rural districts. In return, in the urban districts, the numbers of errors found were evenly distributed over the four districts. When the different ex-department schools were compared, the numbers of application and procedural errors were significantly higher in the DET schools(Department of Education and Training, which consists of mostly black disadvantaged learners) than all the other schools. The rest of the errors were evenly distributed over all the exdepartment schools. The inability of learners solving inequality equations stood out as a major concern.
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Investigation of learners’ ways of working with algebraic graphs in high-stakes mathematics examinations

Lumbala, Paul Desire Mutombo 11 1900 (has links)
Magister Educationis - MEd / Algebraic graphs are a difficult topic for most secondary school mathematics learners. My experience as a Mathematics teacher in the Further Education and Training Phase (FET) is that learners solve problems involving graphs with difficulty. Consequently, the purpose of this research was to investigate learners’ ways of working with algebraic graphs in high-stakes examinations including their errors and misconceptions in this respect. The investigation carried out to identify learners’ errors and misconceptions is based on the analysis of 444 scripts from the 2012 grade 12 final Mathematics examination. More specifically, the study aimed to investigate the ways learners used to solve questions related to graphs in this examination. The focus of the study was the algebraic graphs tested in Paper 1 of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination with an emphasis on the identification of errors exhibited in the learners’ scripts. The study adopted a qualitative approach using documentary analysis methodology. As data, the study used the scripts of the final grade 12 Mathematics examinations of schools participating in a project for the improvement of Mathematics based at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The analysis of learners’ scripts reveals that learners make many errors when they work with algebraic graphs. These errors that have been found in this investigation were coordinate, intercept, domain and range, asymptote, identification, drawing and function errors. Additional errors which were identified are transformation and inverse errors.
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Discourse, social cohesion and the politics of historical memory in the Ixhil Maya region of Guatemala

García, María Luz 25 June 2012 (has links)
This dissertation will examine the speech practices of collectives of Ixhil Mayas in post-war Guatemala. Specifically I analyze the way that historical memory of the recent period of violence, which culminated in genocide in the 1980s, is encoded in Ixhil ways of speaking and constitutes social action among Ixhil collectives. I propose an ethnographically situated framework within which to consider Ixhil historical memory which includes Ixhil concern for relationships with the dead, proper treatment of cornfields, innovations on community practices that were threatened during the war, and discourses about the injustice of an unarmed population confronted with armed soldiers of the government of Guatemala. Such a framework critiques views that see historic memory as externally imposed or as a manifestation of trauma and brokenness. Rather, the framework I offer allows us to see how discourses of historical memory make use of the resources of the Ixhil language and the conventions of various Ixhil ways of speaking in order to continue to constitute Ixhil communities and the collectives of political society. In this dissertation I likewise propose a broader view of the politics arising from Ixhil historical memory. In addition to the simultaneously spiritual and overtly political reburial ceremonies for the wartime dead, political rallies, and formal exhumations, the post-war politics of historical memory includes a proliferation of community-based organizations which have begun to take key positions in Ixhil communities. Ixhil genres of prayer, political speech, meeting talk, collective narratives, funeral speeches, and the talk used when visiting the sick provide the discursive tools to encode historical memory and new forms of community. In the aftermath of genocide that sought to destroy Mayas’ ability to exist as a collective, these acts of community-making among groups formed in response to the peace accords offer a version of post-war politics of historical memory. / text
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Muzikinės raiškos veiksniai profesinėje mokykloje / The ways of musical expression in vocational school

Ščerbavičiūtė, Deimantė 22 June 2006 (has links)
The ways influencing students’ musical expression system are analyzed in the master’s paper. The object of investigation is students’ musical expression in vocational school. The aim of the paper is to analyze the factors influencing students’ musical expression. The masters’ paper consists of introduction, three parts of analysis, the list of literature and appendixes. The purpose and preconditions of higher forms students musical expression and it’s functioning in the whole teaching process are analyzed. The factors influencing the formation of students’ artistic expression are analyzed as well. The second part is devoted to the analysis of artistic education in vocational school. The motivation factors of musical expression are generalized and distinguished. The third part presents and summarizes the results of empirical research. The results of the research show that artistic education at school influences the system of students’ artistic expression as part of personal culture. However, artistic education should be better promoted to help students join the cultural life of society. The research stated the system of preconditions and factors of artistic expression in vocational school. Students’ interests, the musical experience at school and outside it as well as the system of students’ musical expression are investigated and discussed in the paper. According to the research, students’ musical expression experience is important in the self-realization a social... [to full text]
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Bioprospecting and Access to Indigenous Flora: Policy Implications of Contested Ways of 'Knowing' and 'Owning'

Seini, Monica Michelle, n/a January 2005 (has links)
This thesis critically explores the issue of access to biological resources and Indigenous knowledge Historically, biological resources collected and documented, and knowledge associated with their use, have been considered the 'common heritage of mankind' The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) changed this understanding to tights of states over biological resources, but also gave rise to issues of equity and justice, especially with regard to Indigenous Nations encapsulated within First World states-so-called 'Fourth World Nations', A central concern of Fourth World Peoples is their marginalisation within access negotiations, despite their claims of connate (birth) rights to r esou.r ces and knowledge they identify as their own. Increasing global Indigenous activism over their concerns, has in turn raised an increasingly important policy gap that is becoming recognised in fora and processes with regard to access to biological resources. My thesis addresses this policy gap. I explore some of the complex historical, political and cultural dimensions that led to the emergence and resilience of this policy problem The failure to address the concerns of Indigenous peoples, and Fourth World Nations in particular, is more important and problematic now because of contemporary biotechnological developments and the emergence of bioprospecting. Bioprospecthg refers to the practice of appropriating biological resources, and Indigenous knowledge of those resources, and incorporating them into biopharmaceutical processes. Literature on bioprospecting as a problematic issue for Third World States has been emerging steadily over the last decade under the impact of the commercialisation of biodiversity, which has become big business for biopha.rmaceutical companies. The unique interests and experiences of Fourth World Nations are not recognised within this literature as significantly different to that of the Third World, and of their encapsulating states.. This study has addressed this significant gap by utilising and developing an analytical approach that uses Fourth World theory, synthesised with elements of Foucault's analytics of power. When combined, these two theoretical approaches provide a new and rich under standing of how dominant 'ways of knowing' and 'ways of owning' have been privileged, while other knowledge and ownership systems have been, and continue to be, marginalised, Eoucault's understanding of discursive power as having the capability to be either, or both, dominant and resistant is important to my analysis, as it accommodates the Fourth World as a discursive site of resistance to dominant power. I posit that richer insights are gained through the development and application of this theoretical framework to the issue of fair and equitable access to biological resources, than other approaches offer. I demonstrate the framework's utility by applying it to a case study on bioprospecting in Australia. Important findings have emerged while tracking the activities of Fourth World peoples on the international stage, and their attempts to challenge dominant power/knowledge structures within political institutions For example, participation at the international level has enabled Fomth World peoples to apply pressure on their encapsulating states to accommodate their interests. This has been furthered through forming alliances with, for example, environmentalists, and through the adoption of the language of effective participation within international fora.. Overall, however, the study found that the participation of Eourth World peoples within international, central state and local state policy processes is not always empowering in challenging dominant interests Instead, the more accurate impression is that at this stage of the discursive policy terrain, it may only create an illusion of participation that actually serves to entrench their disempowerment. This places pressule on policy processes to address and resolve this access issue equitably if social turbulence is to subside, justice be served, and certainty provided for all.
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Fostering quality graduates through access programmes

Shandler, M. January 2013 (has links)
Published Article / The purpose of this paper is to argue that the quality of a Building graduate is not compromised by qualifying through the access programme route. This paper examines the statistics of the 2005 and 2006 access programme and mainstream National Diploma Building cohorts as well as the 2007 mainstream cohort. The study made use of descriptive research comprising quantitative data. The quantitative data was derived from statistics based on student performance that was downloaded from the Management Information System of the University of Johannesburg. The findings revealed that, although the access Building students enter the access programme with results below the minimum entrance requirements for the national diploma, their graduation rate is above or equal to that of their mainstream peers who gained entry directly into the national diploma. Furthermore, many of these students register for post-graduate studies once they start working. This study confirms that students who have received additional support in their first year of study and who have been 'enculturated' into the 'ways of doing' of construction and engineering during a four-year access diploma programme are not inferior to students who have completed a mainstream diploma in 3 years.
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Patienter med cancer och deras informationsbehov och sätt att söka information : En litteraturstudie

Myhr, Christina January 2009 (has links)
<p>All vårdpersonal och då också sjuksköterskan som omvårdnadsansvarig kommer förr eller senare i kontakt med människor som har allvarliga och ibland kroniska sjukdomar, t.ex. olika typer av cancer. Dessa patienter har ofta olika kunskapsnivåer om sin sjukdom och också olika behov av information.</p><p>Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva om det fanns någon skillnad på informationsbehov mellan unga och gamla, kvinnliga och manliga patienter med cancer och deras sätt att söka efter information. Resultatet bygger på 13 artiklar publicerade mellan 1998-2008 och funna i databaserna Pubmed/Medline och Cinahl. Studiens resultat visade att yngre och då framförallt yngre kvinnor, har ett stort informationsbehov och kompletterar och bekräftar gärna läkarens information med att söka alternativa källor. Den mest frekvent använda källan till information var utan konkurrens Internet. Äldre människor med cancer var oftast helt nöjda med att erhålla den mest väsentliga informationen om sjukdomen, och då alltid från sin läkare. Detaljer och mer ingående information om sjukdomen och eventuella behandlingar var inte av prioritet utan många av de äldre lämnade detta helt till sin läkare. Informationsteknologi kan vara en generationsfråga då många av de äldre cancerpatienterna har vare sig tillgång eller kunskap om datorer och då inte heller Internet<strong><strong></strong><p> </p><p> </p></strong></p><p><p> </p></p> / <p><p>All health-care personnel and then also the nurse that is responsible for the nursing care sooner or later comes in contact with people that has serious and sometimes chronic diseases, for example different types of cancer. These patients often have different knowledge levels about their disease and also various needs of information.</p></p><p><p><p>The aim of this literature review was to describe if there were any differences of needs for information between young and old, female and male patients with cancer and their ways to search for information. The result is based on 13 articles which were published from 1998 to 2008 and found in the databases Pubmed/Medline and Cinahl. The result of the study showed that younger and then above all younger women had a bigger need for information and complements and confirms gladly the doctor's information with applying for alternative sources. The most frequent used source to find information is without competition the Internet. Older people with cancer were most often entirely pleased with receiving the most important information about their disease from their doctor. Details and more detailed information about the disease and possible treatments was not off priority for many of the older, they left this entire to their doctor. Information technology can be a generation question as so many of the older cancer patients do not have access or knowledge about computers and then not to the Internet neither .</p><strong><strong><p> </p></strong><strong><p> </p></strong><p> </p></strong></p></p>
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Patienter med cancer och deras informationsbehov och sätt att söka information : En litteraturstudie

Myhr, Christina January 2009 (has links)
All vårdpersonal och då också sjuksköterskan som omvårdnadsansvarig kommer förr eller senare i kontakt med människor som har allvarliga och ibland kroniska sjukdomar, t.ex. olika typer av cancer. Dessa patienter har ofta olika kunskapsnivåer om sin sjukdom och också olika behov av information. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva om det fanns någon skillnad på informationsbehov mellan unga och gamla, kvinnliga och manliga patienter med cancer och deras sätt att söka efter information. Resultatet bygger på 13 artiklar publicerade mellan 1998-2008 och funna i databaserna Pubmed/Medline och Cinahl. Studiens resultat visade att yngre och då framförallt yngre kvinnor, har ett stort informationsbehov och kompletterar och bekräftar gärna läkarens information med att söka alternativa källor. Den mest frekvent använda källan till information var utan konkurrens Internet. Äldre människor med cancer var oftast helt nöjda med att erhålla den mest väsentliga informationen om sjukdomen, och då alltid från sin läkare. Detaljer och mer ingående information om sjukdomen och eventuella behandlingar var inte av prioritet utan många av de äldre lämnade detta helt till sin läkare. Informationsteknologi kan vara en generationsfråga då många av de äldre cancerpatienterna har vare sig tillgång eller kunskap om datorer och då inte heller Internet / All health-care personnel and then also the nurse that is responsible for the nursing care sooner or later comes in contact with people that has serious and sometimes chronic diseases, for example different types of cancer. These patients often have different knowledge levels about their disease and also various needs of information. The aim of this literature review was to describe if there were any differences of needs for information between young and old, female and male patients with cancer and their ways to search for information. The result is based on 13 articles which were published from 1998 to 2008 and found in the databases Pubmed/Medline and Cinahl. The result of the study showed that younger and then above all younger women had a bigger need for information and complements and confirms gladly the doctor's information with applying for alternative sources. The most frequent used source to find information is without competition the Internet. Older people with cancer were most often entirely pleased with receiving the most important information about their disease from their doctor. Details and more detailed information about the disease and possible treatments was not off priority for many of the older, they left this entire to their doctor. Information technology can be a generation question as so many of the older cancer patients do not have access or knowledge about computers and then not to the Internet neither .
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The Unintended Consequences of Increased Transparency in American National Government

Woodruff, Abigail K 01 January 2010 (has links)
In the past century, there has been an increasing trend in American government toward opening government procedures to the general public. The intention of these reforms was to improve government accountability and responsiveness, increase public education and involvement in government, and prevent corruption and undue influence by special interests. Conventional wisdom about open government, however, does not take into consideration many of the repercussions of opening up congressional proceedings to the glare of public scrutiny. Reforms in the 1970’s opened the deliberative process and made members of Congress more vulnerable to constituent and interest group pressure. These effects have had many negative impacts, in both the House Appropriations Committee and the Ways and Means Committees, for deliberative democracy and responsible budgeting.

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