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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Constructivist-interpretivist"”.
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Bridging the Gap: Examining Perceptions of a Telemedicine Network for Pediatric Emergency Medicine
… interviews, in accordance with positivist and constructivist-interpretivist paradigms respectively. Results outline perceptions of telemedicine within 5 themes developed for each participant group. Among parents/caregivers themes were: Confident in the Care Environment, Forever Grateful, The …
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Empathy in Clinical Nutrition: A Qualitative Study of Students, Interns, and Dietitians’ Perspectives
… and early practice continuum. Methods: This constructivist-interpretivist qualitative study of semi-structured interviews employed content and narrative methods to analyze the perspectives of students (n=7), interns (n=10), and early-career dietitians (n=12) on the construction and function …
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Voices of the Undereducated in Adult Education and Training in Ontario: A Phenomenographic Approach
… with a phenomenographic approach within a constructivist/interpretivist research paradigm. Findings revealed 4 qualitatively different ways in which undereducated adult learners reported their experiences of participation in AET and were reported as the voice of (a) security, (b) …
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“A trans man is just a lesbian with bells on”: the intersection of gender identity and sexuality from the perspective of people who have explored both
… Methodology: A qualitative methodology with a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm was employed. A community sample of 12 participants who self-identified as LGBT+ and having explored both gender identity and sexuality in childhood/adolescence were recruited. In-depth semi-structured …
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Rural youth worldviews about social justice and social action
… The research paradigm included influences from constructivist-interpretivist (e.g., Ponterotto, 2005), critical (e.g., Liu, 2014), and pragmatic (e.g., Savin-Baden & Major, 2014) perspectives. Participants in the pilot (n = 10) and main (n = 13) studies were 9th – 12th grade students attending a …
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Job Crafting and Employee Engagement Among Millennials in Retail
… in the retail sector. The research employed a constructivist-interpretivist approach, emphasising the active role of participants in co-creating meaning. This study involved 24 semi-structured interviews drawn from three sports retail companies across Hong Kong, providing distinctive insights …
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A constructivist approach to developing interactive digital technology for musical learning
… at the individual and social level. Following a constructivist-interpretivist approach, a range of qualitative methods are applied in the pursuit of these goals. The emerging educational methodology of Software Design as Research (SoDaR) is combined with an emergent model of Grounded Theory, …
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A qualitative inquiry into the construction of modern foreign language teachers’ beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge
… constructed. The research design is set within a constructivist-interpretivist framework. The conceptual framework identifies four major areas of influence on teacher cognition: pre-training language learning experiences, pre-service training experiences, in-service experiences and micro/macro …
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The Olive as an Object of Rural Development: The Cultural Politics of Organic Food and the Making of the Local
… of the Quality Turn on the island. Based on a constructivist-interpretivist methodology that foregrounds situated relational knowing and meaning-making, the thesis draws on an actor-oriented perspective to identify the micro-processes at work in the initiation and realization of the Organic …
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Exploring the dimensions of disability and leisure: an examination of disabled individuals’ social worlds and leisure experiences.
… experiences. The research methodology adopted a constructivist- interpretivist approach involving interviews to gather data from individuals about their disabilities, lives and leisure experiences. Five participants were interviewed (2 males and 3 females, who were aged between 18 and 57). They …
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Exploring the role of context in emerging adults' experiences of occupational possibilities and occupational choice in a community in the Western Cape: a narrative inquiry
… qualitative study was informed by the social constructivist/interpretivist paradigm and used a narrative inquiry design. It utilized a transactional perspective of occupation and Laliberte-Rudman's theory of occupational possibilities and Galvaan's theory of occupational choice as the guiding …
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Leaders and their learnings: What and how leaders learn as they transform organizations
… case study of two leaders and informed by a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm, was guided by the following research question: When leaders undertake the task of organizational transformation, what can be discovered about what they learn and the process of how they learn? The leaders …
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INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL PROPERTY OF SENSE-MAKING AS A SOURCE OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SERIOUS AND ORGANISED CRIME
… of inquiry and is primarily situated within a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm but extends to include elements of post-modernism, pragmatism and critical realism. This lightly pluralist philosophical position acknowledges the role of positional power in determining reality and bounding …
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Peace from the people? Identity, community and gender in peacebuilding in Plateau State Nigeria.
… relations and intergroup tensions. Grounded in a constructivist-interpretivist paradigm, the research prioritises the perspectives of local people from diverse communities who have been directly affected by conflicts in Plateau State. Drawing on data from 17 in-depth interviews and 12 focus group …
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An Investigation of Health Care Professionals' Attitudes and Beliefs Toward the Management of Chronic Pain in Older Adults
… conducted with HCPs (n=13) and analysed under a constructivist/interpretivist paradigm using grounded theory, in order to identify a full content domain for managing pain in older adults. The results of this analysis revealed six domains to be important; Mobility, Psychology, Communication, Time, …
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Getting the colours to ‘sing’: exploring pupils’ creative engagement with contemporary text-making in a literacy classroom
… text production. This study implemented a constructivist interpretivist theoretical approach in its exploration of the meaning constructed by the pupils in their digital texts, and was underpinned by a multimodal multiliteracies theoretical framework which guided the design of the …