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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Knowledge making"”.
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Listening to our stories in dusty boxes: Indigenous storytelling methodology, archival practice, and the Cherokee Female Seminary
… discipline works to create community-based knowledges, and how these knowledges sustained through storytelling can recover the histories in our discipline by opening up our boundaries framed by dominant origin stories. Building on the work of decolonial and indigenous scholars, this …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… range of abilities and resources to draw on for knowledge making which are constantly being reshaped by their diasporic identities, power relations within the academy and wider context beyond the university setting. Research findings evoke a reciprocal exchange between disciplinary …
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Infrastructure, Production, and Archive: American and Japanese Video Art Production of 1960s and 1970s
… relationship between artistic inspiration and knowledge making, the occurrences and the writing of its history. In the case of the comparative study of the emergence of Japanese and American video art, common artistic technique employed may indicate motivations derived from the technical …
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X Disease | Disease X: Medical Mystery-Solving and Epidemiological Change
This thesis addresses epidemiological knowledge-making in the face of new, unknown, emerging diseases. It uses two cases, Australian X Disease of the early 1900s and Disease X of the dawning 2000s, to broadly interrogate how medical mystery-solvers marshall forms of experimentation and …
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Toward misreading : assembling (k)new meaning
This thesis explores meaning-making strategies in art practices through an entangled reading of the material and discursive forms through which that meaning is made. This thesis proposes that a necessarily material-discursive approach distinguishes art practices from other forms of meaning-making …
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The ethical issues of additive manufacturing
… the implications of expert participation in knowledge-making in terms of ethics. An interpretive hermeneutic approach was followed in the collection and analysis of data from the experts that participated in this research. This approach helped the researcher to recognise how personal …
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African youth constructions of safety: A multi-country photovoice study
… the complexities and fluidity evident in youth knowledge-making processes. Aligned with the tenets of critical psychology, liberatory psychology, and decolonial community psychology, as well as positive youth development and social justice approaches, I represent youth in the study as competent …
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Urban organizational systems
… a conceptual framework for the integration of knowledge from a wide variety of specialized fields. Systems theory serves to synthesize, reconcile, and integrate knowledge making it possible to unify analytical data into broader based theories. By examining various systematic relationships, …
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Children's Dance-Making: An Autoethnographic Path Towards Transformative Critical Pedagogy
… of a fresh perspective on children’s dance-making as a mode of embodied understanding and as a process for personal transformation in life. As a reflective practitioner, I observe and write data reflexively using dance narratives. I describe instances where child dance-makers construct …
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Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation
… conceptual, academic and non-academic, modes of knowledge-making and knowledge-gathering. I will show how the act of negating, whether verbally or through conceptual strategies, elucidates the untapped potential of dance- or theatre-making processes. Weaving together a collection of ideas by …
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Inscrutability: An Epistemological Experiment
… Foucault defines as the discourse surrounding knowledge-making that lasted from the 17th century to the 19th century, was determined by the idea of dimensions of representations. Dimensions of representations states that during the Classical episteme, knowledge was formulated by representations …
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Methodology on Trial: The Rhetorical Function of Toulminian Warrants in Expert Testimony
… my study examines how scientists defend their knowledge making practices to public audiences in a highly pressurized, overtly agnostic setting. My study also features a distinctive emphasis on the portions of expert testimony in which expert witnesses describe and defend the scientific …
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Two Life Histories of Native American Women Becoming Literate
… Jewish life. Debbie Valentino has acquired knowledge, making a dramatic change within her Onieda and American lives, which she shares with the Uptown Native community. The life history includes a critique of existing Native American autobiographical literature, which is also compared to …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… the decentralized dialogues, debates, and knowledge-making projects that animated gay liberation’s intellectual history cannot be reduced to a single intellectual framework or political ideology. Third, the periodicals in which gay liberation’s intellectual history materialized also …
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Forage
… in art-historical and museum-based systems of knowledge-making and keeping, I wish to attract viewers by intentionally leveraging an elegant aesthetic and merging natural history with its intrinsic ecological wisdom alongside repurposed mass-produced objects. The content and layout of this …
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The ‘truth about Ebola’: Insecure epistemologies in post-outbreak Forest Guinea
… of epidemics. It focuses on the economy of knowledge, epistemological labour, and ethical aspirations of animal préleveurs, whose work is to make a hotspot exist in Forest Guinea. By combining attention to history, the scientific literature and ethnographic fieldwork, I resituate animal …
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Traversing Creative Space, Transforming Higher Education: A Contemporary Curricular Vision of Teaching and Learning
… ways in which teachers and students experience knowledge-making in post-secondary education.
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Matching provision to needs : the example of victim support
… I have undertaken seeks to address these gaps in knowledge, making a clear link between the needs of crime victims and the organisational response of Victim Support at the local level.
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Navigating national priorities, regionalism and internationalisation in National Universities of Moana Oceania
… shared oceanic connectivity as foundations for knowledge-making and exchange. Methodologically, the study employs critical (Indigenous) ethnography and multiple descriptive case studies, drawing on talanoa, tok stori, and storian as culturally grounded, responsive, and relational …
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“Anyone can be a scientist”: Constructions of expertise and citizenship in citizen science literate activity
… alternative framings to name non-institutional knowledge-making. This dissertation presents a new heuristic of expertise that unravels expert/nonexpert divisions, seeing science communication as a collective, ongoing and boundary-crossing project in which we all are invested.
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