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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Epistemic authority"”.
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So That All Shall Know: Memory Activism & Epistemic Authority in Guatemala
… actors have reconfigured the constraints of epistemic authority in Guatemala. Moreover, their alternative interpretations of the past have led to new identities in the present, including the (re)emergence of a trans-local, pan-linguistic Maya identity. The rapid spread of these processes …
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Boundary -work in United States psychology: A study of three interdisciplinary programs
… connotes activities that promote scientists' epistemic authority in society. Boundary-work also serves to demarcate a science's particular collection of knowledge from other collections. Through their boundary-work activities, various psychologists resisted some of the practices of these …
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Claiming Knowledge, Claiming Lives: Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and the Experiences of Low-Income Women Undergraduates in Community College
… disrupts traditional hierarchies and claims to epistemic authority in the community college classroom.</p>
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Questions in Coaching Conversations Questions and Actions of Questioning in Danish Coach-Client Interactions
… and how the practices used enhance the client's epistemic authority. Chapter 2 shows three question types: information elicitation questions, future-orientation questions and hypothetical questions. The different question types display different assumptions about the client's state of knowledge. …
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Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
… of Latter-day Saints, I analyzed QAnon as an epistemic formation characterized by critique of social conditions, modern standards of rigor in research, and a highly accelerated online information economy. Framing my subjects’ participation in QAnon culture alongside their Latter-day Saint …
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Worlds of Authority, Communities of Practice, and State Formation in Early 1st Millennium Central Korea
… ‘worlds’ of what can be called natural or epistemic authority, with authority freely given by autonomous subjects voluntarily subjugating themselves based on situational evaluations of competence. In the first part of this thesis, textual and multi-scalar archaeological analyses (mapping …
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
… seek to deconstruct universalist principles and epistemic authorities from positivist research approaches. The potential of replicating existing power dynamics into these transdisciplinary spaces has, however, not sufficiently been critically questioned yet. This study proposes that …
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Re-envisioning community policing: Histories, discourses, and practices in the People’s Republic of China
… in China, I seek to discuss who assume the epistemic authority to define and explain community policing, and argue that community policing discourses produced by CNKI play as a critical role in legitimating new technologies. By focusing a community policing practice at ground level, I …
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From Classroom to Career: Understanding Impostor Phenomenon in Black Women
… an intersection framework and by centering the epistemic authority of Black women as a site of resistance and healing. Implications include the need for structurally informed interventions that move beyond coping strategies to address institutional contributors to impostor experiences.
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‘Is That Enough?’ An examination of the conceptual metaphors post-primary pre-service teachers use to make sense of collaborative learning
… alignment of the conversation away from epistemic engagement and development, commonly exhibiting discomfort with epistemic authority. This phenomenon was echoed in the emergence of a system of cognitive metaphors which structurally provided for conceptualising their collaboration task, …
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War on universities? Neoliberalism, intellectual positioning, and knowledge production in the UK
… Boltanski’s sociology of critique, including the epistemic and political position from which knowledge claims in social sciences can be made and justified. This question becomes particularly important when the authority of such claims rests on the possibility of a conceptual distinction between …
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Therapists’ responses to young people’s anger: a Conversation Analysis approach
… in the here-and-now interaction, they used their epistemic authority to support their point of view, they asked questions about patients’ anger and they shifted their focus to moments of agreement. In one case, the therapist named the patient’s annoyance and anger towards her. In all other three …
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Talking of transcendence: A discursive exploration into how people make sense of their extraordinary experiences
… argued that reported thought works to negotiate epistemic authority and experiential responsibility (the agency of TEHEs and the rationality of the speaker faced with an extraordinary experience). Respondents’ spontaneous accounts of self-transformation are also analysed and show how potentially …
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Culinary Man
… normatively white, male, and European figure of authority. Drawing from these sources, this dissertation seeks to give a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef (who embodies Culinary Man) and the fine dining brigade (the organizational unit of labor within commercial …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… live comedy, comics claim positions of epistemic authority and affective and discursive power. They position themselves as experts on their own lives and subject positions, and they claim to know what will (and how to) make an audience laugh. On stage, in these spaces of authority, …
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De-Contextualised Risk Information in the Primary Care Consultation
… the boundaries of a clinician’s and patient’s epistemic authority when external sources of data are introduced into a consultation. Models of how to integrate DRI into a consultation need to be developed and evaluated, to help train future clinicians.<p></p>
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Anatomies of Affect: An Examination of Emotions as Processes
… are drawn regarding first- and third-person epistemic authority on emotional states. I examine how introspection can come in varying degrees of reliability, and the introspective judgements relating thereto have authority only in virtue of the reliability of the mechanism responsible for …
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Facilitating children’s narratives in the classroom. From self-determination to authorship of knowledge. An exploration of pedagogical innovation to promote children’s agency in London primary schools
… actions that can successfully upgrade children’s epistemic authority as responsible decision-makers and promote their access to the role of authors of knowledge. The expression of children’s self-determination is most evident when children take personal initiatives. An innovation advanced by this …
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Voilà, an orientation shift marker in modern French discourse: a conversation analytic perspective
… parts (SPPs) of adjacency pairs to claim higher epistemic authority over co-participants and in sequence closing thirds (Schegloff, 2007). In addition, voilà can close a turn before its syntactic/pragmatic ending. This usually occurs in delicate interactions, or when recipients are presumed to …
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
… genuine problems in economics. The social epistemic strategies that arguments for pluralism recommend point us to three concrete issues in the way economic research is organised: gender imbalances, a steep internal hierarchy, and a dismissive attitude to outsiders. I show that economic …