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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Ethnographic Case Studies"”.
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The Experiences of Expatriate Teachers in International Schools: Five Ethnographic Case Studies
… utilizing an interview guide; a particularistic case-study analysis approach focused on participants' professional life histories; and a three part cross-case analysis of interview data that allowed for the emergence of preliminary ethnographic generalizations about the culture of international …
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Tracing ‘paper', discovering people: three ethnographic case studies exploring the use of health information to improve health services in Gugulethu
… health challenges. This research adopted an ethnographic approach, whereby I conducted extensive qualitative research for a period of 18 months in Gugulethu, an underprivileged peri-urban neighbourhood in Cape Town. Three case studies emerged from this research that provide a lens to …
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A Critical Analysis of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Problems of Knowledge-Legitimation (Strong Programme, Rational Reconstruction, Relativism, Symmetry Thesis)
… programme of relativism of Collins, and the ethnographic case studies of Knorr-Cetina, Latour and Woolgar, and Lynch. Recent criticisms of these authors are also examined at length.
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Successful pedagogical practices of elementary teachers of homeless students: A case study
… a study of teacher interviews through collective ethnographic case studies. Additionally, quantitative data was collected through evaluator observations of the selected classrooms to observe the differences between the identified students and the students not experiencing homelessness. Additional …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… the interplay of these dynamics in three online ethnographic case studies: the response to street vendor Xia Junfeng’s death sentence, the sanitation workers’ strike in Guangzhou, and the anti-trash incineration protest in Yuhang, and triangulates the results with an online survey and examination …
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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
This thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of …
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The Interplay of Voice, Identity, and Response Among Five EAL University Writers
… and graduate EAL writers, I developed four ethnographic case studies: interviewing student writers and their respondents, observing writer/reader interactions, and analyzing versions of earlier and final drafts. Carmen, the first participant, was a Mexican-American undergraduate completing a …
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Disenfranchised workers : a view from within the public service
… is a hybrid. A hybrid that takes the wisdom of ethnographic case studies, phenomenology, feminist post-structuralism and narrative theories to make sense of the stories of people working within organisations that have failed, traumatised, belittled, ignored, bullied and destroyed them. The study …
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Healing and Reconciliation: Applying Trauma Theory, Social Identity Theory, and Dialogical Approaches to Interfaith Dialogue among Nigerian Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and the UK
… and Muslim groups in Nigeria and the UK. Through ethnographic case studies focusing particularly on the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and the Nasrul-lahi-li-Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT), this thesis critically examines how historical conflicts and social identities influence …
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New Voices in the Old South: Latino Immigrant Students' Experiences at one Georgia Middle School
… in in-depth interviews that formed the ethnographic case studies of this research. I utilized an ethnographic case study approach (Stake, 1995; 1998) in order to explore how these students' academic experiences influenced the negotiation and development of their academic identities into …
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Inscribing Violence: Quantifying the Impact of World Heritage Site Inscription on Direct and Structural Violence.
… this relationship through anthropological/ethnographic case studies, this research provides systematic and generalizable findings regarding the impact of inscription by considering contextual factors such as geographic region, host nation income level, form of government, and type (cultural …
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Creating sustainable communities in 'NewcastleGateshead'
… (BNG) and draws from rich, detailed ethnographic case studies of three former industrial communities. Originally, the thesis draws together critical engagements with the concepts of space, governance, community, sustainability and materiality to develop a relational understanding of …
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"Enacting and interrogating the ""academic"" in undergraduate language and literacy practices"
… students, as illustrated in two- to three-year ethnographic case studies with six undergraduate basic writers. Using feminist research methods, I worked with students as co-researchers to analyze their academic writing, their teachers’ responses to it, and their experiences with academic writing …
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
… of activist research, the analysis focuses on ethnographic case studies of three key organisations within the Australian community gardening movement. These case studies portray community gardening activity at three scales: a garden, an organisation supporting and promoting community gardening …
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Seeing entrepreneurship : visual ethnographies of embodied entrepreneurs
… in an attempt to identify entrepreneurs. These studies are problematic as they treat entrepreneurs as isolated individuals who are disconnected from their contexts, and as a result these approaches are devoid of cultural, historical or social understandings. In an attempt to overcome these …
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Green care in agriculture : a visual ethnographic study exploring the therapeutic landscape experiences of people with intellectual disabilities engaged in care farming activities
… research draws on empirical findings from seven ethnographic case studies. Three substantive chapters examine the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities engaged in care farming activities for health and wellbeing. The first describes participants’ embodied engagements with various …
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A critical search for the ‘self’ in adult education: Bourdieuian insights into transformative possibilities
… that is cyclical and reflective. The critical ethnographic case studies that developed are theoretically framed in critical theory and critical pedagogy. The data is collected from classroom observations (recorded in a journal) and interviews (both individual and group). The women's life …
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Utopian thinking in higher education and its relationship with social movements: Reshaping societal roles to build alternative worlds
… employs dialogic techniques and the extended case method (Burawoy, 1998); and is committed to “research as militancy”. This approach enhances the methodological application of critical, emancipatory, and militant ethnography, all the while endorsing the concept of plural knowledge development, …
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Reimagining Education for Peace in the Context of Montessori Education: Learnings from two ethnographically informed case studies
… for peace in the context of ME. With two ethnographically informed case studies in a public German Forest-Montessori School and a private Australian Montessori school, this study offers concrete insights into the complexities of how two contemporary Montessori schools educate for peace …
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Drawing and re-drawing: Working with the physicality of the performing body in costume design
… structured through and conducted within three ethnographic case studies based in theatre performance, costume design and figure skating. The research case studies are contextualised using interviews, diaries and background research and are analysed using a structure that draws on Corbin and …
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