Search results for "meaning"

Cartographies génériques, spatiales et identitaires en Afrique du Sud : Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes, Henrietta Rose-Innes

2015

This article examines how three South African novelists, Margie Orford, Lauren Beukes and Henrietta Rose-Innes, use crime fiction to write their country. After a brief survey of the rapid development of crime fiction in South Africa and of the critical response it received, the article proposes a reading of Like Clockwork, Zoo City and Nineveh, whereby their respective contribution to crime fiction displays three major features : first, Orford’s novel chimes in with generic conventions ; second, Beukes’s novel combines features borrowed from both crime fiction and science fiction ; and last, Rose-Innes’s novel displaces the detective story narrative into a context where « murder » is invest…

Apochis . apoichos

2010

The development of a multiliteracy-based approach in language learning: engaging students in aesthetic reading

2018

Actualmente se necesita un paradigma teórico dinámico, un enfoque ecléctico para reorientar las dos metodologías que prevalecen sobre la enseñanza L2, dadas las limitaciones de patentes de ambos métodos: el enfoque comunicativo y la lectura y análisis de textos. La literacidad es un indicador clave de nuestra capacidad para construir y comunicar signicados, así como para elaborar nuestros propios pensamientos. Mediante este trabajo aseguramos que la literacidad debe entenderse como un proceso pedagógico que va de la mano de la integración de la literatura en la enseñanza de un idioma, no como producto final. Para ello partimos de algunas propuestas que pretenden adaptar los modelos de lite…

Product meaning, affective use evaluation, and transfer : a preliminary study

2005

The first part of this investigation explored the multidimensional nature of product meaning, referring to the variety of connotations and functions a consumer associates with a particular product category. The subsequent experiment examined the moderation effects of product meaning and other attributes of the user on (a) the affective evaluation of an obstructed use interaction, and (b) the transfer of emotion between devices presented as being either of the same or a different brand. Although the failure experience essentially caused frustration, this reaction varied substantially among consumers depending on product meaning, age, and gender. The results also showed that the emotion dimen…

Teacher students’ meaningful learning in widening learning worlds

2019

This qualitative metasynthesis investigated students’ meaningful learning experiences amid andragogical teacher education programmes. The programmes catered to the specific learning needs of adult students in the context of university-based teacher education. This study aimed to provide a wider picture of the frames of students’ meaningful learning in andragogical teacher education programmes. The findings revealed three major learning worlds of adult students’ meaningful learning, which formed a common system widening from the professional awakening to the transformative community and agency in society. Based on the findings, this study argues that in andragogical teacher education, which …

Walter Benjamin, taiteen toinen tekniikka ja avantgarden kulttuuripolitiikka

2018

This article provides a fresh look into Walter Benjamin’s famous essay, “Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936). Following Benjamin scholar Esther Leslie, we claim that Benjamin’s lesser-known concept of “second technique” is integral for understanding both the meaning of essay as well as mapping the political and artistic aims of the 1920’s avant-garde movements in general. The article is structured around two cases of avant-garde, both of which are central already for Benjamin, but remain somewhat under-theorized in connection to Benjamin. These are the Soviet constructivist film and the idea of glass construction in Weimar-era German architecture.
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‘Old Frisian krocha: Setting Fire with a Coal Pan’

2017

TheBrokmerbrefand the Emsigo Compensation Tariff concerning arson provide a number of occurrences of the wordkrocha, otherwise unrecorded in Old Frisian, in the meaning ‘coal pan’. Yet the Modern Frisian dialect words denote different sorts of cooking pots, either earthen or metal, and apparently do not support the specialized meaning of the Old Frisian. Coal pans were quite common in medieval times, however, and the legal provisions under examination provide both homely and lively descriptions of arson, possibly based on actual cases. Medieval iconography of the devil as an arsonist—portrayed with a coal pan in his hand—assists the interpretation ofkrocha, which goes back to Richthofen, an…

Paniikkiahdistus foobisen merkitysorganisaation ongelmallisena ilmentymänä ja terapeuttinen muutosprosessi : kolme tapaustutkimusta paniikkihäiriön k…

1998

El biohuerto escolar como recurso en la educación intercultural

2013

La presente investigación analiza las posibilidades que ofrece el taller de biohuerto escolar como recurso en la educación intercultural por su capacidad para establecer nexos culturales entre dos contextos diferentes a través del conocimiento sobre las verduras y hortalizas. La práctica educativa se realizó en un colegio en Valencia que previamente había mantenido contactos interculturales con una comunidad nativa en la Amazonía peruana. Se siguió una metodología por objetivos a través de un programa de intervención constituido por actividades que abarcaban las diferentes áreas de conocimiento. A través de la asamblea, del análisis de tareas, de las encuestas y de las pruebas se pudo valor…

Interpersonal forgiveness and meaning in life in older adults: The mediating and moderating roles of the religious meaning system

2021

Forgiving others may play an important role in achieving meaning in life as it offers a valuable platform for deliberate moral acts of acceptance of positive affect, behaviour, and cognition towards a transgressor. The aim of this paper was to analyse the relationship between forgiveness and presence, and the search for meaning in life, as well as the mediating role of the religious meaning system in this relationship among older adults. A total of 205 older adults, 112 women and 93 men, participated in the study. The mean age was 72.59. The Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Scale, the Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and the Religious Meaning System Questionnaire were employed …