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Philosophy archaic the mind, esp the faculty of reason

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see MEANINGFUL UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLANATION, VERSTEHEN.

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The result allows space for Indigenous scholars and our allies to create kinshipped meaning-making systems based in stories of place/land addressing the "Rhetoric of Disappearance," wherein it is assumed Indigenous peoples of the south are "more 'vanished' than anywhere else" (Hobson 7), thereby blending multi-discipline narratives weaving choruses of Indigenous presence/persistence onto practices of erasure.

From bayou to academe: A story of alliance making

Meaning-making refers to the active process through which individuals reappraise an event or a series of events.

Aptitude-treatment interactions during creativity training in e-learning: how meaning-making, self-regulation, and knowledge management influence creativity

Linguistic and gestural meaning-making through critical framing

Multiliteracies, Asian linguistic engagement and the Australian Curriculum

The discourse of meaning-making acknowledges the different ways of seeing and being in the world and early childhood education institutions.

The postmodern curriculum: making space for historically and politically situated understandings

Meaning-making assesses the process of constructing meaning without necessarily deferring to God as an authority figure (sample item: "The worship service helps me make sense of something in my life").

And a teen shall lead them: the relationship between worship experiences and youth religiosity in the Panel Study of American Religiosity and Ethnicity (PS-ARE)

They argued that in less complex meaning-making stages, such as the Interpersonal Balance stage, an individual can be embedded in his or her career performance and may be defined by the career role.

Applying a constructive-developmental approach to issues of sexual orientation and religion in career counseling

Nonetheless, meaning is our common ground, and through relaying something of our meaning-making experiences, we take up meaning making as the object and means of our argument.

Retrieving meaning in teacher education: the question of being

If we view spirituality in large part as a meaning-making activity (see below for further clarification), there is a palpable relationship between spirituality and counseling.

Introducing spirituality to Professional School Counseling

As study investigated the meaning-making processes of college freshmen as they interpreted and discussed poetry.

A Qualitative Study Describing the Meaning-Making Processes of College Freshmen as They Respond to Poetry

Similarly, Melissa's meaning-making attempts during phonics literacy events became increasingly more complex.

An ESL child's emergent literacy development

The growth of the ordinary into something else, the appropriation of style and form to fit a need to express, the meaning-making that resonates with others continues in dance, but never for long without strong roots.

Transfiguring the Commonplace

A Black woman rhetorical critic locates self and violates the space of otherness through an African-American women's rhetorical tradition that endorses an ethic of care, dialogue for a meaning-making partnership, and a vision of unity in humanity.

A Black woman as rhetorical critic: Validating self and violating the space of otherness