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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Ethnographic method"”.
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The Live Action Role-Playing Game the Masquerade as an Organizational Culture: an Ethnographic Study of the Game's Organizational Symbolism
… symbolism. The present study was conducted as an ethnographic method of research through the researcher's observation and participation in the game under investigation. Complementary qualitative data were collected in interviews and an e-mail questionnaire. Data indicated that in addition to using …
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Mental Health Care at the Margins: A Critical Ethnography of Psychological Practice in an Inner City Mental Health Setting
… practice, the current study utilized an ethnographic method in order to explore the practice of clinicians who were attempting to offer psychological care to a marginalized population. Results demonstrated that both psychologists and clients are caught up in a "web" of systems and …
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Sexual bullying: gender conflict in pupil culture
… the peer-subculture. The research adopts an ethnographic method, interviewing and observing pupils within the schools over a five year period. The existing research on bullying in schools is criticized for its concentration on psychologistical variables of deviancy within individual children …
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Twitter and the comic book fan community: Building identities and relationships in 140 characters
… was maintained and expanded The study applied an ethnographic method that relied on the analysis of dialogue Ten comic book fans (five males, five females) that frequently used Twitter to communicate with other fans were video interviewed It was found that comic book fans constructed their …
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The structure that builds the movement
… and systemic knowledge. This study uses an ethnographic method that focuses on organizational meetings. This method shows how meeting components like the setting, participants and speech style, and combinations of these components in the planning and execution of a meeting, all influence …
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Art education: The learning connections derived from a creative artistic experience
… students agreed to participate. A quasi-ethnographic method unpacked students' sense of the contribution that arts education made in their lives and the contribution of arts education to student success and perseverance in school. Teacher journal entries, interviews, artifacts, email …
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Hospitality in Adventure Tourism:: Being, dwelling, guiding
… phenomenological approach and employs the ethnographic method of inquiry. Through corporeal and sensual situatedness in the research setting, the space is created for interrogating the processes of creating and co-creating experiences and meanings of hospitality. Through renderings of the …
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No place to die: the poetics of roadside sacred places in Mexico
… is basic and exploratory research. A multi-method, and cross-disciplinary case study, based upon the author’s fieldwork in Mexico, produces massive data and constitutes a robust explanatory triangulation. A geographic survey identifies 9102 artifacts at 6891 locations and answers the …
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Caring for looked after children from the perspectives of foster carers and social workers
… carers and how these needs may be met. A meta-ethnographic method was used to analyse and synthesise 21 qualitative research papers that addressed this topic. Five key themes were identified: the emotional experience of being a foster carer; being a ‘parent’ without parental rights; attachment …
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Speaking of faith at work: towards a trinitarian hermeneutic
… analysis and theological-evaluative critique. An ethnographic method is developed, based on extended immersion in the field of secular work, and focused in a series of research conversations and reflective meetings. Analyzed from the perspective of a Christian woman who has struggled and continues …
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Tempered Tempos: The Politics of Waiting for Public Services in Contemporary Cape Town
… relation to each of these sites, it engages the ethnographic method to investigate who waits for what and for how long, what this waiting entails, and the meanings that those who wait draw from these lengthy and repeated experiences. The dissertation consists of three chapters which put into …
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Examining Elements of Change In Four Suburban High Schools In Virginia
… change. Cross-case site analysis utilizing ethnographic method of investigation was conducted in four suburban high schools to examine how principals influence change. The culture of each school site was examined from the perspective of principals and department chairpersons concerning …
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Usability Evaluation of Notebook Computers and Cellular Telephones Among Users with Visual and Upper Extremity Disabilities
… notebook computers was evaluated using a remote ethnographic method where participants recorded usability-related critical incidents. Participants included those with a wide range of abilities, such as legal blindness, total blindness, and upper extremity physical disabilities. Objective and …
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A Critical Ethnography of Pupil Resistance to Authority: How Pupil and Teacher Identities Create Spaces of Resistance in the Contemporary School
This thesis employs a critical ethnographic method to examine how high ability pupils in a comprehensive school in an area of relative social deprivation express resistance to authority. The identities which teachers adopt in response to pupil resistance are also critically examined. The focus of …
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Exploring alternative assessment: a democratic approach to student self-assessment in a reading methods class
… to explore student self-assessment in a reading methods class. The study is the result of my interest in alternative assessment practices in teacher education; specifically, I am searching for ways to eliminate the barriers often found in traditional assessment that inhibit constructive …
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The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign
… and bureaucratic; and, the institutional ethnographic method of inquiry into social reality. My empirical focus is on the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign (OMWC). The OMWC was a Toronto-based labour-community project to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour. It was started in 2001 by Justice …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Values Through Adages in an Ecuadorian Family
… of Hispanic culture, the study documents a method used by parents and grandparents to pass on their wisdom to younger generations.</p> <p>The transmission of values to younger generations has always been of special interest to parents, teachers, and religious educators. While the role of the …
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Between Uncertainty and Hope: Disaster, Displacement, and Livelihoods on Onishchit Char in Bangladesh
… disasters? This study applied the multi-sited ethnographic method to understand people’s perceptions and everyday experiences regarding disaster-induced displacement and livelihood strategies. For this study, the sites include a temporary river island (char), an embankment populated with …
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A educação em saúde no ensino de ciências como estratégia de sensibilização e prevenção das parasitoses intestinais.
… out, and research was undertaken using the Ethnographic Method, with elements of Ethnography of Schooling and Participant Observation. The data was collected through questionnaires, before and after the educational intervention. For data analysis, we used the statistical program GraphPad …
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Rock art incorporated : an archaeological and interdisciplinary study of certain human figures in San art
… of the motif, existing interpretive methods and the traditions which inform them are examined, with a view to outlining a number of areas in need of attention. It is argued that analysis of rock art remains dependent on a range of dualistic notions which may be linked to retained …
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