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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
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Enhancing suicide risk assessment through the use of visual metaphor : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Health Science in Psychology at Massey University, Albany Campus, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2016 Competent assessment and management of the risk of harm is a core competency that mental health professionals are expected to possess. However, despite this expectation, adequate training programs have been lacking for decades and, even when risk ...
Alyami, Mohsen Mohammed M
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, 2011 The prevalence of colourful metaphors and figurative language in critics' descriptions of artworks has long attracted attention. Talk of ‘liquid melodies,’ ‘purple prose,’ ‘soaring arches,’ and the use of still more elaborate figurative descriptions, is ...
Grant, James
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South African Journal of Business Management, 2005 This paper investigates the importance of metaphor in strategy in several ways. Firstly it considers the problematic nature of ‘strategy’ itself. Next, it outlines some views on how metaphor is used in strategy discourse, with particular emphasis on ...
J. Foster-Pedley, D. Bond, R. Brown
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Curriculum reform provides a vital opportunity for nations to ensure learners are equipped to fully participate as citizens in the 21st century. This paper presents an understanding of educators’ response to curriculum reform, and some of its enablers and barriers.
Alison Glover +5 more
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ISML: an interface specification meta-language [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper we present an abstract metaphor model situated within a model-based user interface framework. The inclusion of metaphors in graphical user interfaces is a well established, but mostly craft-based strategy to design.
A. Hussey +27 more
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008 This article discusses whether the metaphor of “king” can still be used in Christian God-talk. Firstly, it is argued that the “king” metaphor for God is an indispensable key metaphor in both the Old and the New Testament.
Jan Muis
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Virtual Reality Externalization (VR‐E) for Patients With Eating Disorders: A Pilot Study
International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Despite significant health and psychosocial impairments, many individuals with eating disorders (ED) view their disorder as an integral part of their identity. Because this “ego‐syntonicity” is associated with low treatment motivation and treatment dropouts, we investigated the acceptability, feasibility, and effects of a newly ...
Samuel P. E. Mehranfar +4 more
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, 2011 Using a discourse dynamics, metaphor-led analysis, this article investigates the use of metaphor in three YouTube videos made by two American YouTube users: one fundamentalist Christian and one atheist.
Pihlaja, Stephen
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Challenging the Computational Metaphor: Implications for How We Think [PDF]
, 1999 This paper explores the role of the traditional computational metaphor in our thinking as computer scientists, its influence on epistemological styles, and its implications for our understanding of cognition.
Stein, Lynn Andrea
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