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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Institutional ethnography"”.
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Honors College as Whitespace: An Institutional Ethnography
… brings together the theory of whitespace and institutional ethnography to examine how whiteness operates within collegiate honors education. Situated within sociological theories of whiteness, race in higher education, and honors education, the project addresses a significant gap: the …
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Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
This institutional ethnography on tenured academic women focused on how twenty women talked about success. The purpose of this study was to use the discourse of tenured academic women to illustrate social interactions that constitute and transform the ruling relations. Institutional ethnography, a …
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Exploring Youths' Understanding of Intimate Relationships Through the Education Sector: An Institutional Ethnography
… elements of most people’s lives. Using an Institutional Ethnography (IE), I trace the lived experiences of youth in how they understand intimate relationships, and how their learning experience is organized through the high school Health and Physical Education (H&PE) course. I provide an …
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Working with Youth as Stakeholders in Mental Health System Transformation: An Institutional Ethnography of a Service Organization in ACCESS Open Minds
… in the process of services reform. I used institutional ethnography to (1) reveal the day-to-day work of engaging young people as advisors to a mental health services delivery site; (2) examine the linkages and tensions between the discourse of YE and its realities in practice; and, (3) …
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Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
… to transition medicine in Canada, I draw on institutional ethnography as a critical research strategy. In this dissertation I thus explicate how the main protocols used to assess trans people’s psychosocial readiness for hormones or surgeries serve a powerful coordinating function. Although …
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Discovering the social organization of school library work
… others in the school. The researcher uses the institutional ethnograph frame of inquiry, providing a way of looking at the role and function of the school librarian/school media specialist as socially-organized and institutionally-oriented. Using ethnographic data gathering techniques of …
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'The whole nation on one station'? National FM as a case study of radio for indigenous small linguistic communities in Zimbabwe
This thesis is an institutional ethnography of National FM as the only PSB radio that broadcasts in all local languages. It examines the feasibility of having one radio station broadcasting in all the indigenous languages of Zimbabwe. Language rights are pivotal in human development and many …
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Change and Integration in Senior Health Care Systems: The Case of Sault Ste. Marie
… Ste. Marie, Ontario is used as a case study. Institutional Ethnography is used to collect data guided by a change management model adapted from the literature. Data sources were non-participant observations, key informant interviews, focus groups, and texts. Institutional ethnographic local …
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Refugees as planners : Palestinian refugees in Jordan and UNRWA, 1950-1957
This research is an institutional ethnography that documents a case for planning from the middle and planning from below. It looks at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Jordan between 1950 and 1957. UNRWA started its operations in 1950 with …
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Cheerleaders and Performers: Mental Health Courts in a Midwestern State
… dramaturgical analysis with Dorothy E. Smith's institutional ethnography. Findings reveal that MHC professionals engage in personal and textual interaction with each other and with offenders who have mental illness. The professionals make judgments of performance of mentally ill offenders and …
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Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
… during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Using Institutional Ethnography as the primary methodology, this dissertation provides a historical view of the MU Writing Center's early adoption of online asynchronous tutoring via their Online Writery application, as well as a collection and evaluation …
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Teachers' Perspectives on Race and Gender: Strategic Intersectionality and the Countervailing Effects of Privilege
… advocates for others who are disadvantaged. This institutional ethnography explores the underlying premises of strategic</p><p>intersectionality and the countervailing effects of privilege through observations and indepth interviews of teachers in a primarily white elementary school, a primarily …
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Unmasking the Institutionalization of Gender-based Violence in Ontario’s Kindergarten Education Program: The Hidden Effects of Play-based Learning
… with unequal gendered power dynamics. Through an institutional ethnography (Smith, 1987) carried out in two Toronto kindergarten classrooms, I explicate how curricular policy standards and expectations coordinate children’s work in play in ways that inadvertently perpetuate heteronormative …
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Competing Sovereignties: Corporate Social Responsibility, Oil Extraction, and Indigenous Subjectivity in Ecuador
… at the point of extraction. I conducted an institutional ethnography to examine the social relationships produced through CSR programs, and contend that the relationships formed within CSR programs enable ongoing resource extraction. This dissertation argues that CSR programs produce …
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The templated academy: troubling discourses of 'teaching excellence' in UK Higher Education
This qualitative institutional ethnographic case study investigates the policy-mediated power structures within an English higher education institution, focusing on the impact of teaching excellence policy constructs on academics' professional lives and identities. Institutional ethnography is a …
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Socio-spatial experiences of part-time community college faculty
… as a case study and conceptually framed by institutional ethnography and critical geography. Methods included interviews, mental sketch mapping, and document analysis. The combination of methods was entirely qualitative and framed from a constructivist lens. Mental sketch mapping led to …
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5-0 Is Not Coming To Save You: Examining The Lack Of Police Intervention In LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
… police officer but more importantly from the institutional and societal. By using a Institutional ethnography, which is rooted in the mapping of social interactions of rules of governance, these victim narratives will show the system of oppression and marginalization that creates these harsh …
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Representation and Regulation: A Critical Analysis of the Woman in Jail
… within dominant political ideologies. Using institutional ethnography, in-depth interviews and analysis of authorizing and interfacing texts inside the women’s unit of a provincial prison in Alberta, Canada, I examine power and decision making. The following questions guided this study: how …
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Child neglect from the standpoint of mothers
… in relation to the child welfare system using institutional ethnography as the research method. Specifically this research explores the contradiction between the crucial role mothers play in protecting children and the absence of their standpoint in child welfare, an absence exemplified in the …
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