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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"Impasse"”.
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Conceptualization of Faculty Work Motivation: Overcoming the Impasse
<p>The work motivation literature is at an impasse. At the same time, changing economic and social conditions necessitate an ongoing transformation for how organizations motivate their workforce. Although changes in the nature of work have captured the attention of researchers, calls for more …
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Voluntary interest arbitration as an impasse resolution tool
… a more viable alternative to a strike when an impasse arises in the state of Pennsylvania? A survey instrument addressing these issues was sent to 263 school districts in the Pennsylvania public education system. These school districts were divided into three classifications: non.strikers, …
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Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination
<p>I argue in this dissertation that “climate impasse” — knowing much and doing little about climate change — has become a defining political, social, and cultural problem of the contemporary period (1980s to the present). Supposing that representations of impasse reveal something about the …
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The Impasse of Liberal (In)Equality: Materialising Egalitarian Politics Through Collective Fidelity
… and Alain Badiou provide a way out of the impasse of liberal (in)equality. They do so by reconceptualising equality as a starting point rather than an objective of politics. Framed as such, egalitarian politics becomes a fully emancipatory project depending on the work of a subject for its …
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Community, city, or county--who's behind the impasse in Chester's economic development?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The referendum impasse resolution procedure and its potential application to the education profession
… the degree of acceptance of the referendum impasse resolution procedure in education and to determine under what conditions such a procedure would be most readily accepted. A survey research design was used. Teacher negotiation statutes of the fifty states were categorized into four strata. …
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EXIT FROM THE MYOPIC IMPASSE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STRATEGY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET
Our study traces and critically evaluates some of the major epistemological assumptions found in recent literature on the Global Justice Movement (GJM). Specifically, it problematizes the largely acritical discourse regarding the emancipatory potential of new Information and Communication …
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An analysis of the impasse reading disorder in the foundation phase in selected Nkandla Circuit Schools
The aim of the study was to explore the phenomenon of reading disorders regarding learners in the Foundation Phase in selected Nkandla Circuit schools, situated in KwaZulu Natal in the Republic of South Africa. There is a crisis in that learners in the Foundation Phase cannot read for meaning and …
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Comment prendre une ville d'assaut, suivi de l'insuffisance subjective : Exercice et impasse du point de vue dans "Yes Sir! madame"-- et "Being John Malkovich
Ce mémoire en études françaises est avant tout axé sur la création. Il se présente en deux temps avec un scénario de film, d'une part, et une réflexion critique, d'autre part. La première partie du mémoire consiste en un scénario de moyen métrage. L'action s'y déroule comme suit: un groupe de …
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Support for Gestalt Versus Business-As-Usual Theories of Insight Depends on Operational Definition of Insight
… investigate the nature of “Aha!” experiences and impasse in insightful problem solving. One hundred two undergraduate psychology students from Old Dominion University completed working memory tasks, six classic insight problems, and gave initial problem representation ratings for the insight …
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The Difficult Impossible: Writing, Perfomance and the Subject
… adopts. Responding to a perceived condition of impasse (not writing) in the author's relationship to textual production, the thesis charts a process of deploying performance (and subsequentiy video) art as a research methodology, using its emphasis on temporal, spatial, material and corporeal …
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O sujeito cognoscente entre o tempo e o espaço
… of the subject of knowledge finds its impasse. In the history of the psychological ideas, the theoretic models oscileted between the spacial and temporal paradigms, in the effort of trying to grasp the complexity of its object. Therefore it is a question of retracing the course of these …
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Selected alternatives for public higher education collective bargaining : an analysis ultilizing a systems approach
… efforts were summarized. In addition, strikes, impasse procedures, state statutes involving impasse procedures, as well as proposals for federal legislation were reported. Among the strategies selected were Boulwarism, cost package bargaining, multi-employer bargaining, joint bargaining, …
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Bridging the gap between conservation and land reform : communally-conserved areas as a tool for managing South Africa's natural commons
… a useful tool for bridging the current apparent impasse between South Africa’s conservation and land reform agendas.
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"CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO IT, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IT WAS?": A STUDY OF SOUND TECHNOLOGIES IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S ALL THAT FALL, EMBERS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE AND THAT TIME
This thesis discusses the creative impasse into which Samuel Beckett fell after completing three of his most important works: Endgame, Waiting for Godot, and his novel trilogy (<italic>Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable</italic>). Particularly, this thesis examines Beckett's foray into radio drama …
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An econometric analysis of South African monetary phenomena
… particular relevance in the world inflationary impasse of the present day. Although of great relevance to South Africa, the theory has received comparatively little attention locally and statistical studies are rare.
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The United States and Paraguay, 1845-1860: Misunderstanding, Miscalculation, and Misconduct
… friction did arise. The relations reached an Impasse over a period of years because of misunderstandings, miscalculations, and the misconduct of the governments and agents of both nations. The culmination of these events was the dispatching of a large United states naval force to Paraguay.</p> …
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Kant With Foucault: On The Dangers Of The Theoretical Reification Of The Subject To Freedom And The Need For A Practical Psychology
… that contemporary psychology is mired in an impasse between happiness and freedom, insofar as therapeutic practice is no longer an ethic. I suggest the need for a practical psychology to solve this impasse.</p>
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