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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Critical paradigm"”.
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Building transformative school-community collaboration : a critical paradigm
… school-community collaboration based on a critical paradigm and its corresponding theories. Using school survey data, an exploratory factor analysis identified the four dimensions of transformative school community collaboration, including (1) critical member capacity, (2) equal relations, …
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Fitzgerald Revisited: A Feminist Reexamination of <em>Tender is the Night</em>
… text and the author's personal life, the novel's critical heritage and the strengths and weaknesses of the dominant critical paradigm, and the need for a new reading which operates outside of that paradigm. The author seeks to approach the text from a new feminist perspective under the general …
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Literature education for transformation : a critical pedagogy for literature teaching
… of present post-apartheid South Africa. A paradigmatic analysis of literature teaching is provided to establish a theoretical framework for teachers to critically appreciate the underpinnings of their methodological practice, within which to locate their current literature teaching trends. …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Critical Approaches to Social Justice in Student Affairs
In this study, I explored critical approaches to social justice in student affairs. I sought to understand how student affairs administrators understand and communicate about social justice. Furthermore, I studied how a critical paradigm informs the work of student affairs practitioners in their …
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Exploring Factors That Can Contribute to Youth Participation in Indigenous Crop Farming at Tshipise Sagole Village
… and Capability approach. The study adopted critical paradigm, and participatory action research (PAR) as type of qualitative research design. Data was generated from 24 research team members, consisting of 19 youth and 5 indigenous farmers of Tshipise Sagole village, using co-design …
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A Networked Approach for Curricula Implementation in Support of Inclusive Education Reform
… reform goal. Explored through a reconceptualized critical paradigm that centres Indigenous and African Canadian perspectives, the development of critical consciousness for network team members to action change further undergirds the solution. As a change facilitator and leader at the MPDOE, the …
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Journey With Me: Wanderings and Wonderings Through Childhoods
… own lived experiences. Working within a social-critical paradigm and underpinned by the sociology of childhood, critical childhood studies, and post-structuralism, the aim of this inquiry is to explore from the perspectives of children themselves. Employing poetic inquiry alongside a thematic …
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The image of human condition: Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue
… the Protestant theologian. In doing so, I use a critical paradigm previously only used to discuss Sidney’s Defence of Poesy. Thus, building on the work of Robert E. Stillman, I narrow the gap that critics, such as Gavin Alexander, have often found between Sidney’s theory and literary practice. …
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Exploring psychotherapists’ views on the inclusion of, and clinical engagement with, political material within the therapy session
… reflexive thematic analysis, situated within a critical paradigm. From this, three themes were constructed: (1) “holding the tension: the politically engaged therapist within a disengaged profession”; (2) “clients are impacted by the wider political context”; and (3) “the complexity of working …
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The added-value of non-nurse lecturers teaching on nursing programmes
… The methodology reflected an interpretivist and critical paradigm, with the use of a number of data collection tools conforming to mixed methods research. The overall approach taken was phenomenological in nature and the data collected is largely qualitative. Five surveys were conducted; …
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Essays on Water Policy and Coupled Human and Natural Systems
… human and natural systems (CNHS) sets up a critical paradigm to do so. It is thus of both academic and empirical appeal to integrate reliable economic valuation methods with tools and models from multiple disciplines in order to quantify the feedbacks between human and natural systems and to …
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Haunted Homelands: The Ghosts of Partition in Pakistan, India and Palestine
… psychically, and affectively. Haunting, as a critical paradigm which is attentive to the transgressive and the uncontainable, allows us to think through the expansiveness of these Partitions' contemporary impacts. Haunted Homelands uses literature to widen the discourse of comparative …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… engagement? How do the texts depart from a now paradigmatic ‘trauma’ aesthetic to aestheticise loss in new ways? And, finally, to what extent do the texts examined move beyond ‘9/11’, countering the narrative of ‘9/11’ as a national ‘trauma’ to provide alternative portraits of grief? While there …
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Exploring Anti-colonial Struggles in Nursing: A Situational Analysis of Indigenous Homelessness and Community Health Nursing
… Study Aim: The aim of this study was to critically examine how settler colonialism is embedded in nursing and how this influenced community nursing practices in the area of urban Indigenous homelessness. My research focused on community health and harm reduction nurses (CHNs) that …
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The race to the top: the experiences and strategies of women of colour in UK academia
… understanding of this wicked problem, this study critically explores the extent to which neo-liberalism as a doxa has impacted the career progression of academic women of colour. It investigates the extent to which racialised experience and White privilege, and early life experience impact women …
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The impact of the expectations of significant others in the school setting on female leadership in physical education in Western Australian government secondary schools
… (2.7%) of the 73 substantive appointments. The critical paradigm adopted for the study and the research methodology was qualitative. The research design comprised five interrelated and sequential phases. During phase 1, preliminary data was gathered on the perceived essential skills and …
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Conduct of teachers’ health and emotional wellness in some resource centres in the King Cetshwayo district
… vii This qualitative study was guided by the Critical paradigm; based on the belief that people do not merely exist in the world but with it. This paradigm proposes that knowledge is emancipatory and seeks to free the marginalised social groups through questioning social values. Critical …
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Using digital feedback in support of middle school students’ persuasive writing skills: A Bernsteinian perspective
… the standard. The study, conducted within the critical paradigm, sought to transform the educational reality for students working below the standard in writing. Students were asked to produce two pieces of persuasive writing and were provided with written and audio-based feedback on Google …
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Ngā whakawhitinga: standing at the crossroads : Māori ways of understanding extra-ordinary experiences and schizophrenia.
… Over the last couple of centuries a single paradigm, the medical model, has come to dominate the explanation and treatment of illness in Western society. Via legal and political means, indigenous models of illness and wellness have been wiped out or forced to the margins of many societies. …