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Showing 1 to 20 of 247 for “"Social practices"”.
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Spartan Morale: social practices to manage combat stress
This paper examines social practices to manage combat stress in Spartan hoplites in the 5th century. By utilising a modern multi-layered psychological profile designed by Jason Crowley, it considers the role of specific elements of Spartan society (its social structure, education system and its …
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Digital technologies and environmental change : examining the influence of social practices and public policies
… for increased analysis and discussion of the social practices and public policies that influence the environmental footprint of digital technologies (e.g. [83, 139, 232]). To narrow the scope of this broad line of enquiry, I focus on the social practices of retrocomputing repairers and …
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E-migrant women entrepreneurs: mobile money apps, transnational communication and the maintenance of social practices
… relationships and transnational communication practices among migrant women entrepreneurs. Mobile money apps such as MamaMoney, MoneyTrans and Mukuru are a form of communication that are relevant and beneficial to the unbanked migrant women entrepreneurs in South Africa. The main research …
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The social practices of cultivation and gathering of medicinal plants in Ebenhaezer, Matzikama, Western Cape, South Africa
… the demand impact upon cultivation and gathering practices of such plants. The specific focus is on the social practices of cultivation and gathering of medicinal plants in Ebenhaezer, a small-scale peri-urban town in Matzikama in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. This study will utilize …
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The upgrade of the public realm through architecture: Re-enforcing existing social practices and community connections in Wentworth, Durban
… community. This research aims to highlight the social practices and community connections which have influenced the trajectory of my life leading to my current point of university studies in architecture. Historically, my family members experienced the marginalisation and oppression, of the …
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The impacts of domestic media and ICT : a study of digital technology, energy consumption, data demand and everyday practice
… due to its use more frequently, and across more social practices. Motivated by this growth, there is now an even greater need to understand the underlying social situations and expectations that predicate certain ways and intensities of ICT in practice. The expectations of others, obsolescence …
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Seeing Connections: Documentary as an Intervention in the Social World
… of the relationship between documentary and social practices. In particular it seeks to develop and theorise a mode of documentary practice in which social practices in general are dialogised rather than represented. I characterise social practices as consisting of a largely tacit consensus …
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Confronting the Black Swan: A Case Study of Corporate Learning
… firms. Second, it seeks to understand how social practices and leadership behaviors affect employee knowledge or "true beliefs" and thus the implications to the firm's knowledge creation and ultimately, its competitive advantage. Ikujiro Nonaka's theory of organizational knowledge creation …
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Academic staff attitudes to staff-student partnerships: a social practice theory approach
… interviews were thematically analysed within a social practice theory framework to examine the attitudes of academic staff to partnerships. The findings suggest a lack of consistency in the interpretation of partnerships amongst staff. Staff attitudes are influenced by the social practices of …
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Leadership and followership practices in learning organisations : a case study of Abu Dhabi education council
This thesis studies the relationship between practices in learning organisation and social practices at the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). The research domain was broken down into six research (questions), which affect the development of a learning organisation at ADEC. 1) What is the impact …
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Studying literacy as situated social practice : the application and development of a research orientation for purposes of addressing educational and social issues in South African contexts
… a study of the application in South Africa of a social practices approach to the study of literacy. A social practices approach conceptualizes literacy practices as variable practices which link people, linguistic resources, media objects, and strategies for meaning-making in contextualized ways. …
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Factors Affecting Girls’ Academic Performance in Community Secondary Schools A Study of Mbeya City
… facilities (sanitary facilities and hostels), social practices and school timetable as key factors affecting girls’ academic performance in community secondary schools. Data were obtained from six selected community secondary schools. The study used descriptive research; two approaches were …
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Factors Affecting Girls’ Academic Performance in Community Secondary Schools A Study of Mbeya City
… facilities (sanitary facilities and hostels), social practices and school timetable as key factors affecting girls’ academic performance in community secondary schools. Data were obtained from six selected community secondary schools. The study used descriptive research; two approaches were …
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Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow
… and these negative associations impact on the social meaning of Glaswegian Vernacular as used by working-class adolescent males. There have been, however, no studies which have made a systematic attempt to uncover the role fine-grained phonetic variation plays in indexing these associations. …
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Sustainable transport in rural tourism: a social practice perspective of visitor travel experiences in the New Forest National Park.
… tourism areas. This is achieved by taking a social practices perspective to develop a comprehensive and contextualised understanding of how visitors use transport within the setting of the New Forest. The study included the development of a refined visitor survey which quantified multi-modal …
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DISCOURSES OF DIVERSITY: NEGOTIATING THE BOUNDARIES FOR EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND IDENTITY THROUGH THE DISCOURSE OF SOCIALLY SITUATED SUBJECTS
… U.S. and the contestation of taken-for-granted social dynamics are breeding fragmentation and discursive struggles over individual, group, institutional and national identities. Questions of who fits into the category of "American," who should be included in U.S. institutions, and the …
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“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity
… which dispensed with the hierarchies of European social practices and instead mirrored republican values of liberty and equality. Analyzing Jefferson’s presidency within a framework of cultural production, reveals that Jefferson strategically deployed cultural elements in the construction of a …
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Logics of technology enhanced learning in the context of nurse education
… to examine technology enhanced learning as a social and political force constructed as being at the frontier of pedagogic transformation. Data was collected through interviews and observation of teaching practice. A total of 24 semi-structured interviews were carried out with 13 nursing …
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Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation
… this dissertation, I provide an analysis of the social practices of a queer community in southern Ghana known as Saso people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with indigenous religious priests, I focus specifically on practices of leadership and kinship, sexual initiation, and engagement and …
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Masculinising and feminising identities : an investigation into factors shaping grade five learners sexual indentities
… the dominant discourse and its concomitant social practices.
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