Theme (narrative)

About: Theme (narrative) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 159511 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theme.

Political Traditions and UK Politics

Abstract: Introduction Variations on a Theme: The BPT and Explanations of British Politics Tradition or Traditions Exploring Tradition The British Political Tradition Revisited The BPT and British Political Life The Participatory Tradition The Nationalist Tradition Conclusion Bibliography

The Folk Music Revival and the Counter Culture: Contributions and Contradictions

Abstract: OBSERVERS OF THE SO-CALLED "COUNTER CULTURE" have tended to portray this phenomenon as a new and isolated event. Theodore Roszak, as well as numerous music and art historians, have come to view the "counter culture" as a new reaction to technical expertise and the embourgeoisment of growing segments of the American people.2 This position, it would appear, is basically indicative of the intellectual "blind men and the elephant" couplet, where a social fact or event is examined apart from other structural phenomena. Instead, it is our contention that the "counter culture" or Abbie Hoffman's "Woodstock Nation" is an emergent reality or a product of all that came before, sui generis. More simply, the "counter culture" can best be conceptualized as part of a long historical-intellectual progression beginning with the "Garden of Eden" image of man. The theme of man removed from the state of nature has recurred throughout Judeo-Christian-Greco thought. Rousseau, Hobbes, Locke, Calvin, and nearly all social philosophers and metaphysicians have chosen to idealize an existence prior to primordial man when all was well, and life was simple and free of the "social nausea" ascribed to us by the existentialists. Socrates urged the young to adopt an ascetic style of life. This sentiment was repeated by early Catholic theologians, particularly Francis of Assisi. The European Romanticists, in the wake of Rousseau, lauded the "noble savage." In North America, James Fenimore Cooper exhibited a preoccupation with the hero of the wilderness. The transcendentalists of the mid-nineteenth century, Thoreau and Emerson, deified the man behind the plow. The force of these arguments led to some action. For example, the writings of such German Romanticists as Joseph von Eichendorff and Nikolaus Lenau produced the Wandervoigeln, a movement

Learning and Loving It. Theme Studies in the Classroom.

Abstract: "Learning and Loving It" explains what is meant by a theme studies approach to education and illustrates how it works with real case studies-descriptions of theme studies that were conducted at the award winning Dalhousie University Elementary School in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The authors explain that use of theme studies is a productive, child-centered approach to teaching that is possible in any classroom and successful with all children. While helping children develop thinking and problem solving skills, it promotes responsibility, confidence, and self-discipline through a learning process that children can actually enjoy!