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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Multiple realities"”.
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X Reality Networked Performance: Message Based Distributed Systems for Controlling and Presenting Multiple Realities
… physical, fictional and computer generated realities in a new world of performance, one that is without geographical bounds and that can include many physical locations—with their own performers and audience members— within a single event. They explore a unique medium while drawing on …
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One Purpose, Multiple Realities: A Qualitative Study on Parental Involvement in Two Malawian Private Secondary Schools
<p>Problem</p> <p>Studies of Parental Involvement at the secondary school level have consistently shown to improve student-learning outcomes. Parents who invest money in children’s education want to see their children matriculate to higher education. Unfortunately, many private schools offer poor …
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Knowledge Construction and Multiple Realities: Global Health Collaborations, Development Practices, And Face Masks in The Context of Covid-19
… sharing (and production), and that there existed multiple versions of health reality. As a way forward the thesis builds a theoretical framework that aims to improve the efficiency of knowledge sharing especially when there is no sufficient clinical solution available, drawing on Foucauldian …
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The Construction of Personal Meaning in the Transformation of a School's Culture: Three Journeys Along the Pathway of School Improvement
… world view that supports the existence of multiple realities, multiple paths to understanding, and the possibility of influencing rather than directing change. It outlines a framework for constructing a better understanding of the change process, and it cautions administrators to respect …
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At Face Value: Mapping the Controversy of Facial Recognition Technology in Canada and its use by the RCMP
… of facial recognition is grounded within multiple realities. Specifically how different tools render the function of surveillance as contingent, multiple, and context dependent. By mapping out the controversies around facial recognition technology in Canada, this thesis will offer a …
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Multiple childhood geographies: giving voice to young people's experience of place
… comparatively little is known about the multiple realities of young people living in contrasting social and environmental contexts. This study investigates the multiple geographies of young people growing up in inner and outer urban areas of an English Midlands town in the late 1990s. An …
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Our Journeys: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Students from Working Class Backgrounds as They Pursue Higher Education
… of narratives in providing insights into the multiple realities of working class students.
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Derrida, Deconstruction and a Dialogue on the Contemporary Nursing Curriculum
… dialogue within the academy that embraces multiple truths, multiple realities and multiple possibilities. Nursing education must be in a constant state of deconstruction dedicated to self-reflection and willing to envelope itself in an aura of authentic anticipation as it works towards the …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of design support for small and medium sized enterprises in Scotland.
… research applied an interpretive paradigm, where multiple realities are recognised as socially constructed. Data was gathered through interviews with individuals representing DSPs, SMEs, design consultancies and government support agencies assisting SMEs. Observation of business support events and …
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Exploring social justice within a high school classroom
… site visits, and interviews that revealed multiple realities of the social justice exploration course and the interactions amongst the participants, student critical self-reflection of their socialization into unequal relationships and its implications, analysis of the mechanisms of …
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Understanding Development Bureaucracies: A Case Study of Mexico’s Rural Development Policy
… a case study that describes how, responding to multiple realities, bureaucratic actors make their decisions in the implementation arena. It analyses the different rationales by which bureaucracies at different levels interpret and produce meaning from the notions of decentralisation and …
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Making sense of the organisation from the front line : the call centre context
… revealed in this study implies that the realities of management and employee may be quite different, with these multiple realities potentially leading to fundamental misconceptions between the two parties. This has implications in terms of a wide range of organisational factors, for …
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Determining the paradox: Leadership within a County Council environment:An interpretive study on the understanding of the leadership paradigm within a Welsh County Council
… some of the questionnaire findings. There were multiple realities in the construction of leadership in the Council and no one paradigm emerged, rather a mix of the components of traditional leadership paradigms. Interestingly the vocabulary used by the participants closely aligned with a …
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Anishinaabe giikeedaasiwin – Indigenous knowledge: an exploration of resilience
… instructions given to the Anishinaabe: There are multiple realities which are accessible by physical and spiritual means. Manidoo Waabiwin – seeing in a spirit way and Kiimiingona manda Giikeedaasiwin are part of the original instructions given to the Anishinaabe are evident; There are cycles of …
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Quiet Awakening: Spinning Yarns from Granny's Table in the New Rural South
… and race, particularly the intermingling of multiple realities and contested in-between space and Southern female identities. Family members who raised and nurtured me are the main characters in the stories collected. Using oral history, I documented the place and people that live as a single …
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Transition or transfer? An experiential perspective on moving from paediatric to adult cancer services
… position, allowed exploration of the multiple realities prioritised in this study. Whilst there is a significant body of literature relating to transition for conditions such as rheumatology and cystic fibrosis, there is little research undertaken into transition in a cancer context, …
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Rock & Roll: a novel
… into the early 1980s, Rock & Roll explores the multiple realities that exist between documentary, documentable fact and supposedly pure fiction. Real people and verifiable occurrences are interwoven with invented characters and situations in a way that blurs any clear distinction between the …
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Changing Pedagogy: The Introduction of Experiential, Cooperative Learning and Interactive Multimedia into the Statics Learning Environment
… teacher change process portrayed through the "multiple realities" of the participants who experienced the pedagogical change. Three issues were evident : (a) the problem of the simultaneous introduction of three new innovations (experiential, cooperative learning and the interactive …
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The multiple reality: A critical study on Alfred Schutz’s sociology of the finite provinces of meaning
… introduction to Alfred Schutz’s sociology of the multiple reality and an enterprise that seeks to reassess and reconstruct the Schutzian project. In the first part of the study, I inquire into Schutz’s biographical context that surrounds the germination of this conception and I analyse the main …
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Carers of elderly whānau their invisible voices
… is the legacy of colonisation and my carers’ realities in the current century. Methodology: Qualitative research is an interpretive tool, making it a perfect fit for conducting kanohi ki te kanohi (face-to-face) interviews and applying the flexible theory of a kaupapa Māori philosophy (for …
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