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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Participation and collaboration"”.
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What matters in Making and Cloth(ing)-led Facilitation in healthcare? Towards a practice framework for enhancing participation and collaboration.
… profession that holds its origins in systemic and rapid organisation change and technological advancement occurring since the 1980s. It is a practice that accompanies strategic planning, performance management and public consultation initiatives and is used in individual and group settings to …
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Through the Eyes of School Personnel Administrators: What Matters in Selecting Elementary School Principals
… hiring process looks like in these districts and whether or not that process has changed over time. Procedures: Data were collected through two sources: A survey of 58 members of the Iowa Association of School Personnel Administrators (IASPA) and twelve follow up in-depth interviews with …
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Utterance and Authorship in Dialogic Art: or An Account of a Barcamp in Response to the Question, ‘What is Dialogic Art?’
… sociology, sociolinguistics, literary theory and criticism, and others to explore dialogic art through a dialogue that moves amongst their respective points of view. The barcamp’s collation tracks the contributors’ discursive struggle to co-author dialogic art as a dialogue-based approach to …
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Gentrification through Public Participation? Acceptance and Resistance in Calgary’s Inner Suburbs
This research examines the role of public participation in the planning process and its influence on suburban gentrification. Previous literature has critiqued the exclusionary nature of consensus-building and collaboration in urban planning processes, but there is little connection in the …
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Experiences of Governance in the Context of Community-Based Research: Structures, Problems and Theory
… become inadequate to address complex societal and health problems generated by significant social and global changes (Chhotray & Stoker, 2009). The contributions of scientific and technical knowledge towards solving these complex problems have also been recognized as insufficient (Jasanoff, …
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Tradition, Change and the Weilongwu Compound: Kinship, State and Local Elites in Southeastern China
… be understood through the dynamic interaction and negotiation among state, villagers and local elites. This ethnography describes the history and reality of tumultuous social change in the community, especially in Maoist and post-Maoist times, and shows how the villagers living in weilongwu, a …
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The Art of Decolonisation: On the Possibility of Socially Engaged Art in the Postcolonial Context of East Asia
… Japan, throughout its national history as an expanding empire from the late 19th century to the Second World War, has left a large number of unresolved legacies of colonialism in East Asia. These problematic legacies had remained almost intact within the architecture of Cold War, the bipolar …
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Towards the collaborative museum? Social media, participation, disciplinary experts and the public in the contemporary museum
… This thesis deconstructs the concepts of participation and collaboration and identifies the various factors that constrain the extent to which social media enables participatory relationships between previously unequal actors. These factors include the historical disciplinary aims and …
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Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery
… by social-ecological systems (SES) thinking, and directed by a participatory action research approach, the work facilitated the co-development of a series of applied responses to local challenges identified by research participants including commercial linefishers, school learners, teachers, …
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An analysis of the emergence of adaptive governance for sustainable management of marine resources
… model was constructed to enable analysis of Scotland’s marine governance system, as a dynamic and interrelated mixture of institutional processes at multiple levels. Three intersecting case studies provide important insights into factors which constrain or promote adaptive governance and the …
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Politics and conflict in development: land, law and progress in Jharkhand, India
… was finally realised with the formation of Jharkhand in 2000. The birth of Jharkhand brought with it hope that moving forward the Adivasis would have more control over their destiny. However, within three months of Jharkhand being formed the newly formed government of Jharkhand announced the …
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A model to promote dialogue about sexual health between teenagers and parents/teachers in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… worldwide especially because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, increased rates of sexually transmitted infections (STls), high percentage of teenage pregnancies and parenthood and decreased levels of the use of contraceptives among the youth. These problems have also prompted governments, communities …
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Rebuilding Forward: Digital participatory design (DPD) and building information modelling (BIM) in post-conflict urban recovery: the case of Damascus City
In a world in which conflicts and disasters cause destruction of the physical environment, large-scale displacement and environmental issues, the modernist top-down framework for reconstruction cannot produce a sustainable recovery. Architects, planners and urban recovery professionals must …
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“Tutteli to Japan”: A case study of spontaneous collaboration in disaster response
… people, a group of Japanese women living in Finland, trying to figure out how to help disaster-affected citizens from a distance in coordination with likeminded strangers on-the-ground to accomplish aid supply delivery. Unlike commonly seen in citizen response to disasters, this case did not …
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A conceptual framework for community engagement at the North- West University (Potchefstroom Campus) : a participatory approach to communication for sustainable social change
… University is no exception in this regard; and their policy on community engagement was only approved in November 2016. In this study it was argued that communication in community engagement would fall in the subject field of communication for social change. Following this argument it is …