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Showing 1 to 20 of 332 for “"Enacting"”.
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Enacting standards in organic agriculture
This is a thesis about the standardisation of food through ‘sustainability’ labels, like those signifying organic or Fairtrade status. It examines how the voluntary product standards that underpin such labels are enacted through the everyday practices of producing, certifying and marketing farmed …
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Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction
… both blueprint and myth as authorial choices for enacting fiction into reality. This paper begins with an introduction to and justification for the study of literature as political theory, suggesting various mechanisms for the translation of one into the other. Next, it examines contemporary …
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A Primary School's Role in Enacting Social Mobility
Pursuing a career in teaching and becoming a Head teacher of two schools would appear to be a strange career choice for a child who disliked school so much. However, it has given me the ability to reflect on my school days and analyse why I may have viewed school with such negativity. Conversely, …
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Enacting Cognition: Actor Education and the Performance of Everyday Life
… author conceives of human thinking and being as “enacting cognition”. Enacting cognition is the dynamic synthesis of objective knowledge and personal understanding. It is the experience of be-ing.
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Enacting the 3rd Cycle Science Education Curriculum in Timor-Leste
In 2010-11 Timor-Leste's Ministry of Education introduced a new curriculum model described as an "integrated curriculum" called 3rd Cycle Science Education Curriculum for pre-secondary students (Grade 7 to Grade 9). An underpinning concept within the science curriculum was the goal of scientific …
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Negotiating the Capability Imperative: Enacting Disability Inclusion in Medical Education
Medical education is a critical site for disability inclusion. Despite increased attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion, disabled medical students report enduring marginalization that reveals deeply-rooted inequities in medical systems and education. This thesis presents a grounded theory of …
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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine
Unstable conditions can be a risk to productions, potentially disrupting operations and rendering activities unpredictable. While a common organizational response is to minimize instability, I find instead that producers can also purposefully cultivate it to generate value—through strategic …
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The Latino Public Sphere in Minnesota: Enacting Cultural Citizenship Through Media
This study follows the use of social media in political organizing around the Dreamer and driver's license campaigns in Minnesota from June 2012 to June 2013. The research examines a segment of the Latino public sphere in Minnesota to examine how Latinos engaged in public deliberation online. Using …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
This thesis explores the emergence of recovery in/from serious mental health problems as a conceptual frame, and as a set of practices and policy orientations. I provide a specific empirical account of recovery in practice. “Recovery” has multiple meanings and is enmeshed in on-going challenges to …
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"Enacting and interrogating the ""academic"" in undergraduate language and literacy practices"
This dissertation examines the messages undergraduate writers receive about what writing and language practices qualify as “academic.” I consider several aspects of these messages: their broad circulation, as evidenced through discourse analysis of the “rules” presented in first year writing …
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Enacting teacher evaluation reform: Reconsidering resistance during processes of policy realization
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-05-17 at 09:12.
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Ghosts, Imagination and Theatre: re-enacting the futural past through documentary film
This practice-led research looks at creative strategies to address the under-represented and marginalised history of Roma persecution in WWII The research has resulted in a film, The Deathless Woman (89’ 2019), a hybrid documentary film that has been created in response to European sites of …
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Enacting Privacy and Everydayness online: The case study of the Spiteful Tots community
This thesis focuses on an online Taiwanese community named the Spiteful Tots. The long-term participants are mainly gay men, with several lesbian women, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and heterosexual people. The community, whilst accessible by anyone via a registered screen ID name, operates like a …
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Enacting “Technology” and Everything Else: Gendered Practices and the System of Crop Intensification
<p>This dissertation is a qualitative examination of the functioning of a rural</p> <p>development project in a Himalayan region of India, with a special focus on a</p> <p>particular project activity centred around an agro-ecological method of crop</p> <p>production, the System of Crop …
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'Dost Thou Speak like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the Early English Stage
<p>The Biblical drama that was popular in England from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a fruitful site for exploring the dissemination of political discourse. Unlike Fürstenspiegeln (mirrors for princes literature) or the tradition of royal civic triumphs, Biblical drama, whether presented …
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Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn
<p>In the following thesis I examine how race- and class-based power structures are conceptualized and actualized in the virtual sphere. The Internet as an “imagined community” upholds the historically embedded power structures that perpetuate deeply-rooted American hegemonic ideals as they relate …
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Enacting other foodworlds: Affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference
Food scholarship has struggled with what to make of alternative food initiatives (AFIs), both practically and politically. The surge of interest in AFIs in the past few decades has focused on the ways that AFIs might operate independently of capitalist, anonymous and mass-production processes, and …
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Making Energy Work: Enacting Renewable Transitions in the Deserts of Chile and California
This dissertation explores how different people enact and engage the “Energy Transition,” a temporal orientation increasingly used to describe a range of activities that operate on and through electricity, renewable energy, and fossil fuels. I ask, given the infrastructural, political, economic, …
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Enacting professional identity : an exploration of teacher educators’ entanglement with educational technologies in FE
This study focuses on the technology practices of teacher educators in further education (FE) colleges as a site for the negotiation of professional identity. As the culture of performativity and accountability has grown across the English education system, FE has become progressively standardised, …
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