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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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I discuss how the framework of remixing (Gainer & Lapp, 2010; Knobel & Lankshear, 2008) and of literacy as a form of meaning-making (Harste, 2003) allowed for an arts-based (Chilton, 2013; Leavy, 2015) exploration of each student's cultural, literacy, and teacher Self.
Remixing Selfies: Arts-based Explorations of Funds of Knowledge, Meaning-Making, and Intercultural Learning in Literacy
As more and more librarians across the nation integrate videogames into their youth programs (or contemplate doing so), it is important to examine how youth negotiate their meaning-making within these spaces.
The Feedback Loop, Meaning-Making, and Your Library's (Videogaming) Programs
Developing expertise in uses of cultural meaning-making resources is based on socialization processes of learning the cultural and social norms of a discourse community (Kress, 2003).
Social Media & English Learners' Academic Literacy Development
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
As "parables," they compel the audience to realize the importance of contemplating the difficult and dark sides of life because, despite all confusions, contradictions, sham and drudgery, life in this world is still worth living and meaning-making exercises remain inevitable.
Absurd, parables and double-reed flute
The first part of the article briefly describes postmodern approaches to early childhood from the perspective of the 'discourse of meaning-making'.
The postmodern curriculum: making space for historically and politically situated understandings
My research, which involved extensive collaboration with the EAP instructor, explores how specific classroom practices and discourses are enacted and mediated through dialogic intertextualities, material objects, and social actions that frame representations about language, literacy, and what Lefebvre (1988) called "le quotidien" -- the everyday, and how these affect the students' meaning-making potential in specific ways.
Discourse Itineraries in an EAP Classroom: A Collaborative Critical Literacy Praxis
Because the acquisition of formal operational thought permits, if not compels, adolescents to ponder complex existential questions, we anticipated that explicit assistance in the meaning-making process through sermons, teachings, and participation in formal rituals would also predict higher rates of youth religiosity.
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)
In this process, a series of meaning-making stages develop that frame the way the person views the self and encounters the world.
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

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