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Showing 1 to 20 of 379 for “"Conceptualise"”.
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An investigation into how educational psychologists’ conceptualise domestic violence
… scale study was conducted to explore how EPs conceptualised DV and the role EPs could have in working with schools and children and families. Five EPs from educational psychology services (EPS) in two local authorities were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. A thematic analysis was …
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An exploration of how young people who have offended conceptualise the term ‘family’
… to explore how young people who have offended conceptualise the term ‘family’. This was important because ‘family’ has played a central role in policy, theory and research concerning young people who have offended; however, children and young people’s understandings and experiences of ‘family’ …
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Trialling The Sensemaker Methodology To Conceptualise Precarious Work Among Employed Individuals In South Africa
Although precarious work is not a new phenomenon, birthed out of the development of paid employment in the 19th century (Kalleberg, 2009), a steady rise in precarious working arrangements has become cause for concern, due to its many adverse consequences. The aim of this dissertation is to evaluate …
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How do brand managers conceptualise brands? An investigation in the age of the internet-based democratisation of brand management
… this research gap – how the term brand is conceptualised by brand managers in the current age of the internet-based democratisation of brand management. Interviews with 20 UK-based brand managers across a range of industries and types of organisation have been conducted, following a social …
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CHINA¿S BELT AND ROAD `POLITICAL IMPACTS¿ IN THE INTERNATIONAL SPHERE(2013¿2023): HOW TO CONCEPTUALISE, ANALYSE AND EVALUATE THEM?
… to detecting its political impacts. This study conceptualises impact as a dual concept encompassing both influence and effects. Based on this conceptualisation, it investigates whether China has been successful in altering or strengthening participating states' positions toward two of its most …
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An examination of how tutor-practitioners conceptualise and enact practice-based-knowing in a small Higher Education Fashion School : a social practice theory approach
… examines how practice-based-knowing (PBK) is conceptualised and enacted by eighteen part-time tutor-practitioners teaching on Fashion Design, Fashion Styling and Fashion Business undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in a small Higher Education Fashion School (HEFS). It adopts a …
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How do 6 - 8 year old children conceptualise the idea of wellbeing in their school context? A study of young children's ideas about wellbeing in a faith school in England.
… can have a considerable impact on how children conceptualise and rationalise abstract concepts. In addition, it demonstrates in practical terms the flexibility of a participatory methodology based on the Mosaic approach with exploratory methods such as story completion tasks adapted for use with …
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How do professional stakeholders – youth workers, managers and Heads of Services - conceptualise the role and purpose of youth work in the UK in the 21st century and how has this been impacted by the current prevailing political and economic climate?
This paper considers the purpose of youth work as perceived by professional youth workers and their managers/heads of service. The study involved semi-structured interviews with 30 stakeholders from Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire the South West and London. Interviewees were mostly local authority …
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The traditional healers’ and caregivers’ views on the role of traditional Zulu medicine on psychosis
… of how people of the African ancestry conceptualise and treat a mental disorder such as psychosis. The research approach adopted in in this dissertation includes qualitative content analysis. The findings of this research provide evidence that Traditional Zulu healers and a few …
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Bringing regulation to the fore of food regime theory: The neoliberal model of development in agriculture and beyond in theory and practice
… models of development. In particular, I conceptualise the effect that regulation has on our food regimes of accumulation. I investigate existing agricultural practices and ways of life that provide an alternative to dominant forms of agriculture. Employing a revised regulation theory, I …
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Will the "fight" ever end? : a critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context
… examine the discourses that inform how we conceptualise HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa as they are produced in a sample of Canadian news articles, two nonfiction texts - Stephanie Nolen's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa and Jonathan Morgan and the Bambanani Women's Group's Long Life ... …
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Thinking about escaping poverty : a critical argument analysis identifying the conceptualisation of constraints to poverty reduction implicit in the Johannesburg human development strategy
… does the Johannesburg Human Development Strategy conceptualise the constraints that exist to escaping poverty?" It answers the question by adopting a critical approach to the Johannesburg Human Development Strategy (JHDS). Using an argument analysis methodology, the dissertation ascertains what …
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The understanding of race: an analysis of laypeople's contemporary understanding of the notion race
… the way in which ordinary people in South Africa conceptualise and understand the term. Traditional academic literature on the topic has emphasised the need to differentiate clearly between "popular" and "scientific" conceptions of "race". The scientific conception, it is constantly emphasised, …
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An interpretative approach in conceptualising entrepreneurial success in Limpopo Province, South Africa
… thesis analysed how entrepreneurial success is conceptualised and communicated both in practice and within the literature. The thesis argued that within the framework of small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMMEs), contemporary views on how entrepreneurs understand and communicate …
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Cultural adaptation and mental health among male internal migrants
… internal migration. The way internal migrants conceptualise and understand mental health is largely dependent on perceived or real cultural differences. Historically, internal migration in South Africa occurred predominantly for work as people, predominantly men, sought to provide for …
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‘Dynamic Structure’ in the Performance of Symphonic Music: An Examination of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s Recordings
… – and conductors in particular – tend to conceptualise large-scale structure dynamically, that is, in terms of such properties as shape, motion, goal-directedness and climax. To date, however, the implications of this concept of structure have not been fully explored in analyses of …
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Community uses of maritime heritage in Bermuda: a heritage ethnography with museum implications
… and museum studies with a threefold objective: conceptualise heritage as a process, using an appropriate research method, with implications for museums. The work correspondingly helps to redress the undertheorisation of heritage, the inadequacy of methods for grasping heritage as an ethnographic …
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Putting the poor to work: a conceptual and critical analysis of the Expanded Public Works Programme in South Africa
… how economists have failed to adequately conceptualise and evaluate Public Works Programmes.
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Constructing and negotiating meaning : A dialogic approach to analysing chick lit.
… frameworks that are sufficiently nuanced to conceptualise and analyse the construction and negotiation of the meanings of a cultural object as dynamic, emergent, and firmly embedded in social life. Scholarly analyses of chick lit have largely been undertaken from the viewpoint of literary and …
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Educational engagement practices of Tongan parents in relation to their children's learning
… systems theory framework was employed to conceptualise and inform the analysis of parental engagement of Tongan parents in this research. Talaloto, a new Pacific research methodology which I developed for use in this study, was utilised for data collection from Tongan parents, as a way of …
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