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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Psychological framework"”.
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The role of grit in the higher educational experiences of women of African descent
… on barriers and obstacles. This study uses the psychological framework of grit to allow women of African descent to tell the stories of their educational journeys in a more complete way, considering not only challenges but also courage, passion, inspiration, and support. Ten women of African …
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Race, Representation, and Recovery: Documenting the 2006 New Orleans Mayoral Elections
… both provided a structure for and allowed the psychological framework for such a strategy to work.
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The good language class: Teacher perceptions
… groups. The second phase uses the social-psychological framework of class cohesion to explore the perceptions of eight language teachers concerning a range of everyday behaviours and events occurring within their classes. The data were gathered through classroom observations and extended …
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Objectworlds : a class of computer-based discovery learning environments
… and Modelling Systems. We also describe a psychological framework which provides a useful way of thinking about the construction of computer simulated objects for discovery learning applications.
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Language attitudes and identity - influences on language use among two Coloured communities in Kensington-Factreton
… Western Cape; (c) the presentation of a social psychological framework which allows for the evaluation of language attitudes along the two dimensions of social status and group solidarity; and (d) an explanation of the formation of a coloured political identity by means of a theoretical …
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Using a mosaic-based approach to construct children's understanding of safe space in school
… boundaried, restricted space. The value of psychological safety in school alongside giving children agency to self-regulate according to context and need is emphasised when considering individualised safe space. Discussing the ‘dilemmas of difference’ arising for teachers operationalising …
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Reclaiming the spatial imaginary: a photovoice study of resistance to displacement in Woodstock, Cape Town
… and its resistance have social, spatial, psychological, and political components. Examining these components can contribute to understanding the processes and impacts of gentrification. Reclaim the City (RTC) is a young grassroots campaign that resists evictions and demands well-located …
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Oganisational boundaries and determinants of behaviour in organisations: A situational analysis. A conceptual and empirical inquiry into the determinants of behaviour of organisational members having direct contact with an organisation's exterior, emphasising the perception of situations which occur in work routines.
… or more exactly, with how boundaries act as psychological environments. The study has two complementary aims: to describe the psychological environment encountered by boundary personnel and to offer a theoretical model of the organisation as a psychological environment, the latter being a …
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A descriptive study of the use of a problem solving heuristic in a cooperative small group setting
… for the study which is based on a cognitive psychological framework. The study employs both qualitative and quantitative data collection to analyse the relationship between the teacher's instructional talk and student talk in regard to the use of a problem solving heuristic in problem solving …
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Oganisational boundaries and determinants of behaviour in organisations: A situational analysis. A conceptual and empirical inquiry into the determinants of behaviour of organisational members having direct contact with an organisation's exterior, emphasising the perception of situations which occur in work routines.
… or more exactly, with how boundaries act as psychological environments. The study has two complementary aims: to describe the psychological environment encountered by boundary personnel and to offer a theoretical model of the organisation as a psychological environment, the latter being a …
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Lotus Pond, Bicultural Ripples: The Psychological Orientations of Korean-Canadian Practitioners of Buddhism
… cultural prisms based on the cross-cultural psychological framework of Individualism-Relational Collectivism (I-RC) and Analytical-Holistic (A-H) cognition. The aim of my research is to problematize culture in the construction of religious meaning and behaviour for relatively bicultural …
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Black students' experiences of transformation at UCT : a photovoice study
… using thematic analysis, within a critical psychological framework, specifically decolonising psychologies. The participants’ everyday experiences of UCT were explored, and four themes were evident: the narrowness of UCT’s transformation focus; the prevalence of racial stereotypes on campus; …
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At the Crossroads: John Fawcett, Anger, and the Shift From Passions to Emotions
… and theologian, offered a moral-theological framework for understanding and regulating anger—one that stood in contrast to both classical Stoicism and emerging Enlightenment psychology. Through detailed analysis of the Essay, this study demonstrates that Fawcett rooted his theology of anger …
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Implicit Theories and Perceptions of Academic Changes Among Teachers in Lasallian Secondary Schools in the San Francisco New Orleans District
… changes in Lasallian schools. It utilized the psychological framework of implicit theories (Dweck, 2000) as its theoretical rationale. The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent to which teachers in Lasallian secondary schools in the San Francisco New Orleans (SFNO) District have …
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Victimhood as a driving force in the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: reflections on collective memory, conflict ethos, and collective emotional orientations.
… reasons for victimisation shift to the psychological. This gradually blurs the difference between facts and perceptions, rendering the conflict harder to resolve (e.g. Coleman 2003; Bar-Tal 2013). The general assumption in this study is that due to unique historical and political …
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Does the Career Adaptation Process Change as a Function of an Employee's Age or Employment Gaps? An Investigation of Relationships Among Personal Resources, Contextual Factors, Coping Behaviors, and Career Success
… adaption process by developing and testing a new psychological framework by integrating three contemporary career theories (i.e., Protean, Boundaryless, and Social Cognitive Career (SCCT) theories). All of these career theories emphasize adaptability and agency as central constructs and stress …
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Beyond the polarising constructions of terrorism : Challenging the discourses that silence public debate in Western Australia
… development. Within a Critical Discursive Psychological framework (see Wetherell, 1998), terrorism is understood as an ontologically unstable and discursively constructed social category. As such the current study explored the various discursive constructions of terrorism at three specific …
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The Feasibility of Clinical Research in Undergraduate Dental Outreach
… hygiene instruction which was enhanced with a psychological framework of Tell-Show-Do-Plan. All dental students under the supervision of outreach clinicians were considered collaborators in the clinical research.The post study views of supervisors, patients and final year dental students …
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Modelling the Neuropsychopharmacology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
… altered. The results are interpreted within the psychological framework of the compulsivity construct, and their implications for the pathological behaviour of obsessive-compulsive-disorder (OCD) are considered. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and striatum are key brain structures involved in …
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Truth, trauma and memory a critical analysis of truth commissions with specific reference to Liberia
… this process. Through a philosophical and psychological framework this paper seeks to explore the promises and limitations of truth commissions - with specific refererence to the truth commission established in Liberia - through a deconstruction and discussion of their central elements: …