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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Practice Analysis"”.
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Community participation in planning practice : analysis of Sydney Metropolitan Strategy 2005
… and democracy in contemporary urban planning practice. Despite many decades of such practice, the needs and concerns of local communities remain largely unaddressed. Consequently, an important question which emerges is how it can (and should) engage with local communities in such a way that …
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A Practice Analysis Survey: Defining the Clinical Practice of Primary Care Physical Therapy
… have moved toward a primary care model of practice. The purpose of this study was to identify the professional responsibilities, procedures, and knowledge areas of physical therapists practicing in primary care settings.</p> <p><strong>Subjects.</strong> A sample of 212 physical therapists …
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An examination of the practice of teaching for critical comprehension in a whole school context
This thesis studies the practice of teaching for critical comprehension, which extends from literal to critical understanding of classroom, community and world texts. It views comprehension as core to teachers’ practice. A professional learning program explored ways that an expanded view of …
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An analysis of the clinical practice of emergency medicine in emergency centres in the Western Cape
… the curriculum that were not encountered in EM practice at all. The investigations section correlated particularly poorly with the skills needed for the burden of disease seen in ECs in Cape Town. The curriculum should be redrafted guided by a practice analysis of EM.
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Sociocultural understandings of technology-mediated educational practices: improvable objects and meaning-making trajectories in the ICT-literate classroom
… Findings are based on sociocultural discourse analysis (Mercer, 2004), multimodal analysis (Jewitt, 2009; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001) and thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) of these data. With implications for both theory and practice, analysis shows how the IWB was used in innovative ways …
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Anxiety and Life-stressors Surrounding the Telemedicine Versus Traditional Counseling Experience
… with the American Board of Genetic Counseling practice analysis.</p>
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Reconstructing low-energy housing using ‘systems of practice’.
… and ‘behaviours’ as connected through social practices, which interrelate in dynamic ‘systems of practice’. Housing policy, newly built homes, and domestic practices are critical to governing low-energy housing transformations, yet initiatives consistently fail to account for inter-connections …
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Mobile technology capabilities and their role in service innovation practices in creative SMEs.
… technology deployment in service innovation practices still needs to be established. In this thesis service innovation practices and mobile technology deployment are studied in a creative industry setting – in-depth interviews with 31 SME managers are analysed using a grounded theory …
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The World Is Broken: The Social Construction of a Global Corruption Problem
… The thesis employs methods of discourse and practice analysis from sociological research for the empirical study of claims. The analysis makes use of archival data to open up the pre-negotiation talks on illicit/corrupt payments at the OECD and the UN and study the process of claims-making, …
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Contextualising diversity management: challenging the effectiveness of the business case
… or organisational perspective, focusing on ‘good practice’ analysis, whilst also critiquing this concept. The earlier publications show that the structural and cultural barriers to female employment in the male-dominated construction sector impact the participation of other disadvantaged groups. …
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The lived experience of final year student nurses of learning through reflective processes.
… the four steps for descriptive phenomenological analysis proposed by Giorgi (1985). The findings essentially differentiate between authentic reflective learning which enables the emergence of 'own knowing', and the academically driven activities often perceived as 'doing reflection'. Authentic …
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An exploratory study of mathematics teachers beliefs and classroom practices in state schools and private preparatory courses : an institutional perspective
… study explores mathematics teachers' classroom practices in Turkey and is centrally informed by socio-cultural theories. The research examines mathematics teachers,instructional practices in relation to the wider institutional context in which teaching practices are situated. The study takes a …
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Unravelling reading : evaluating the effectiveness of strategies used to support adults' reading skills
… skills; and recommends changes in policy and practice. The research paradigm is eclectic, exploring approaches for an interventionalist practitioner-researcher. In the tradition of action research, the study seeks to bring about positive change on an individual level for each learner, …
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Medical Imaging Field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Identification of Specialities Within the Field
… In this exploratory study, statistical analysis incorporated the use of factor analysis and chi square. Factor analysis was used to group tasks performed by MRI technologists into factors to better identify emerging specialty areas within the MRI profession. Chi square was used to …
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Norvegijos nevyriausybinių organizacijų įtaka valstybės užsienio politikai /
… Policy This Master’s thesis deals with the analysis of the Norwegian NGOs and its influence on the state’s foreign policy. The main question focuses on the case of Norway and its Track II diplomacy in the international conflict cases. This thesis is also trying to answer the second …
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Multimodality in the Art & Media Arts Classroom: A Qualitative Study of Multimodal Literacies as They Appear in Art & Media Educator Classroom Curriculum and Practice
… potential to both art and media arts teaching practices in developing greater applications for multimodal literacy theory, defined by the National Council of the Teachers of English as “Integration of multiple modes of communication and expression that can enhance or transform the meaning of …
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Preparing for Operatic Roles by Combining Elements of Stanislavsky’s System with Alfreds’ Actioning
… The research is presented as a report of a practice-led experiment, using myself as subject, to test the efficacy of Actioning within my Stanislavskian-influenced dramatic character preparation process for operatic roles. This study was undertaken by the singer-actor/researcher as four …