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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Structure and Agency"”.
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Structure and agency in the economics of public policy for TB control
… The disease is associated with poverty, and those with the disease incur a high cost of accessing care, while simultaneously experiencing income loss due to a loss in productivity. A key challenge in TB programmes remains the accurate diagnosis of the disease, especially in people who are …
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The interplay of structure and agency: the negotiation process of bridewealth payment in South-East Nigeria
… provides an excellent analytical tool for the structure-agency debate, which has, in varying degrees, engaged academic interest for centuries. Underlying this debate is the extent to which institutions determine human behaviour and its attendant power relations. While structure refers to the …
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Best of both worlds : issues of structure and agency in computational creation, in and out of school
… which we are surrounded by computational systems and interfaces, from social networks to banking infrastructure, to entertainment platforms, to transportation systems. This culture introduces new expectations and new opportunities for learning, creating new demands for what to learn and offering …
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The interplay between structure and agency: How academic development programme students 'make their way' through their undergraduate studies in engineering
The interplay between structure and agency: How Academic Development Programme students 'make their way' through their undergraduate studies in engineering. This study explores and seeks to explain the ways in which a group of Academic Development Programme (ADP) students 'made their way' through …
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Explaining the relations between culture, structure and agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution to Open Educational Resources in a higher education institution
… successful initiatives to promote the sharing and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), sharing and use of OER is not a widely accepted practice in higher education. The reasons for lecturers' choices on whether or not to contribute OER are poorly understood. This thesis develops a …
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Across the Great (Fire) Wall: China and the global Internet
… the multifaceted interactions between China and the global Internet in the past three decades, especially China’s outward cyber expansion, or the “going out” program that has gained momentum since the mid-2000s, and explores the changing social class relations that accompany and shape this …
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Teacher Autonomy in Turkish Lower Secondary Schools, in Relation to English Language Teaching: A Mixed Methods Study
… of applied linguistics for language learning and teaching. However, the research to date on the subject has been mostly restricted to the exercise of autonomy by teachers within their classrooms. Schools are large social organisations and language teachers are active participants in these …
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革命、生活、女戰士—— 從性別角度看馬來亞共產黨史 = REVOLUTION, LIVES AND WOMEN WARRIORS: MALAYAN COMMUNIST HISTORY FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE.
… Many authors have ignored women warriors’ voices and their characters in the long-lasting guerrilla warfare. Women have simply remained nameless and faceless. We know very little from the standpoints of those hundreds of thousands of female comrades who participated in the MCP guerrilla. This …
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A Critical analysis of the experiences of female business owners in the development and management of tourism-related micro and small handicraft businesses in an Islamic society: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
… of female business owners in the development and management of micro and small handicraft businesses in Jordan, which is an Arab Islamic country. The study adopted a critical realism and critical theory/feminism stance with the focus being on the inter-action between structure and agency. The …
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In Search of Heterotopia: Immersive Experiences in the Museum
… I draw upon participant observation, interviews, and event planning in order to examine how museums create heterotopic, interactive immersive experiences. I focus on the work of two Seattle-area museums, and a gallery and a museum in Ellensburg. The Entertainment, Music, and Popular Culture museum …
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"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership
<p>Churches provide a structured medium for human spiritual experiences (Ammerman, 2005) and as such are structured around a set of organizationally unique purposes and beliefs. This research project focuses on the leadership teams of a start-up church organization founded in Denver, CO. Guided by …
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"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership
<p>Churches provide a structured medium for human spiritual experiences (Ammerman, 2005) and as such are structured around a set of organizationally unique purposes and beliefs. This research project focuses on the leadership teams of a start-up church organization founded in Denver, CO. Guided by …
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An agentic approach to investigating barriers to access and participation on the pathways of mature adult students in Namibia
Various shifts in the educational landscape of Namibia have made educational access and participation, particularly for mature adult students aiming to enter the teaching profession, difficult. While research on this phenomenon in Namibia is limited, the purpose of the current study is to …
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Making our way through the e-world: Chinese adult elearners’ learning experiences
… Margaret Archer’s critical realist account of structure and agency informs the theoretical framework of this study. The interactions between individual learners and their e-learning environments combined with their wider social cultural contexts, as manifested in their e-learning experiences …
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When do community leaders make a difference? exploring the interaction of actors and institutions
… sufficiently to distinguish the interaction of structure and agency. The thesis establishes a theoretical approach which places community leaders as ‘situated agents’. The thesis establishes a ‘reading-acting-effect’ model to examine how the readings of actors are translated into action and how …
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A New Institutionalist History of Appalshop: Exploring the Agential Dynamics of an Appalachian Community Cultural Development Organization
… theory as interpreted by Fligstein and McAdam (2012) to explore the relationship between structure and agency within one nonprofit organization, Appalshop, located in Central Appalachia. Since 1969, Appalshop has worked with peer institutions to form a larger community cultural …
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The British Labour Party in Opposition, 1979-1997: Structures, Agency, and Party Change
… theory. Based on a dialectical notion of the structure and agency linkage, a two-tiered framework is constructed which at one level views a political party as consisting of a set of structures which can constrain and enable party leaders in their attempts to make the party electorally …
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A study of academic resilience amongst first generation university students in South Africa
… students who have accessed higher education and to better define the “overwhelming odds†that are frequently deemed to be against them. More importantly perhaps, this study seeks to generate understanding about the manner in which these agents engage with their structural conditions and, …
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The Implementation of Refugee Health Policies and Services in Virginia's Local Health Districts
… Refugee Health Program coordinated a protocol and reimbursement structure to encourage health departments to perform initial health screenings on refugees settling in the Commonwealth by establishing four recommended levels of assessment. This thesis is concerned with these initial …
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