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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Theory of practice"”.
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Privileging Tacit Knowledge within a Software Engineering Curriculum: A Living Educational Theory of Practice
… action research I inquired into my pedagogical practice by questioning the nature of knowledge I valued as a lecturer. This questioning led me to develop my ‘living educational theory’ (Whitehead, 1989, p.41) of privileging tacit knowledge within a Software Engineering curriculum. My living …
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Social conditions leading to Scrum process breakdowns during Global Agile Software Development: a theory of practice perspective
Global Software Development (GSD) and Agile are two popular software development trends that are gaining in popularity. In addition, more and more organisations are now seeking to engage in agile software development within the GSD context to reap the benefits of both ventures and achieve project …
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Samba in practice: motivations for joining the UIUC samba ensemble and an explicit theory of practice for ethnomusicology
… topics. The first is an ethnographic study of the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign Samba Ensemble that took place in the spring of 2008 in the framework of the Department of Music as one of the offered “ethno ensembles”. The ensemble drew in people from the music department, from …
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Pathways to the field: an exploration of the capital and habitus of people undertaking different routes into nursing utilising Bourdieu’s theory of practice.
Introduction Nurses are the largest group of healthcare professionals in the UK. There is a national and international shortage of nurses causing a staffing crisis, with a greater number of nurses leaving the profession than joining, especially in primary and community care services. The aim of …
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Practice in theory, and the theory of practice: Examining the place of climate and modernity in postcolonial architectural mediation in Ghana since the 1940s
The need to mediate architectural practices by expropriating knowledge concepts between cultures in contact remains a twenty-first century concern globally but is especially so in developing former colonies. This interest is raised in the Cultural Policy of Ghana (2004). In the larger African …
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The Use of Behavioral Agreements by Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors to Manage Student Mental Health Concerns and Minimize Threatening Behavior
… qualitative investigation examines the use of behavioral agreements by Senior Student Affairs Officers and Counseling Center Directors to manage student mental health concerns and minimize behavior that poses threats to campus communities. Six pairs of Senior Student Affairs Officers and …
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The impact of Islamic culture on business ethics : Saudi Arabia and the practice of Wasta
… a critical approach to studying the influence of Islam and Saudi traditions in real-life contexts from managerial and organisational perspectives. Bourdieu’s theory of practice is applied to deliver insight into the cultural contexts in which managerial values and daily practices are …
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An Exploration of The Education Inequity of Rural-To-Urban Migrant Students in Nanjing, China
… internal population movement. Hundreds of thousands of internal migrants migrated to cities in search of better work and educational opportunities. Due to the restrictions from public policies, rural-to-urban migrant children have long been disadvantaged in receiving education in urban …
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Understanding facilitator practice in the problem-based learning classroom
… individual PBL facilitator cases in the field of medical education at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of what affects facilitation practice in a problem-based leaning (PBL) classroom. The facilitators come from various backgrounds and have …
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Critical Pedagogy and literacy teaching in Grade 4 classrooms
This study investigated the use of critical pedagogy in literacy teaching in the Grade 4 classrooms of two Quintile 1-4 schools on the Cape Flats, in the Western Cape. Its purpose was to provide Grade 4 teachers in disadvantaged schools on the Cape Flats with an opportunity to share their …
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Procedural animation: towards studio solutions for believability
… thesis sets out to investigate the understanding of the relationship between key-frame movement performances and procedural animation. It is geared towards building a theory of practice that would help develop a succinct method for generating believable character animation using procedural …
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Anchor institutions, innovation, and inclusion : Cleveland's University Hospitals Vision 2010 as a national example for addressing Affordable Healtbcare Act 990 requirements
Democratic wealth generation is an important part of future community and economic development strategies. It is built on the notion that all members of society, especially low-income communities, communities of color, and the formerly incarcerated should have equal access to job opportunities in …
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A Behavioral Theory of Planning
This dissertation introduces a new theory of practice for land planning in America based on behavioralism. It is called culture based incentive planning, or CBIP. The CBIP model and techniques are based on four pillars: cultural snesitivity, behavior analysis, engineered incentive regimes, and the …
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An Investigation of How Accountability Systems Influence the Design and Development of Student Centered Learning Environments
… systems have on the design and development of student centered learning environments. The nature of student-centered learning environments (SCLEs) in this study is framed theoretically by cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). The investigation itself occurred within a specific practice …
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Influence of external actors on national information and communications technology policy formulation in developing countries: case of Malawi
… (ICT) policy is important towards attainment of socio-economic development of a country. Like other public policies, the formulation and implementation of national ICT policy is a government’s responsibility. In developing countries, the formulation of national ICT policies is mostly …
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The Social Construction of CSR: A Relational View on The Role of CSR Consultants in South Korea
While the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted wide attention from scholars and practitioners, little research has been conducted on the specific processes and mechanisms under which CSR is socially constructed and institutionalized. Existing research that links CSR and …
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Precarious Privilege: Exploring the Intersection of White Teacher Habitus and Social Justice in International Schools
… study explored the underresearched phenomenon of White teacher allyship within an emergent diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) movement in international schools. Gaining momentum in 2020 as a digital, postcolonial counterstory, the movement exposed structural inequities and racism …
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Djembe in the field: An exploration of the evolution of the djembe habitus and the emergent djembe paradigm within Facebook.
The thesis addresses the evolution of West Africa’s djembe drumming, with particular reference to the changing habitus of the djembefola. It investigates how the djembe has developed from the rural system of tribal ritualistic music intended for ceremonies to a practice enacted in the Western …
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Tensions in Welcoming LGBT Older Adults: Discourses of Legitimization and Silence in a Senior Center
… LGBT elders within the specific context of community-based senior centers. My study addressed the research question: how does the discourse of senior centers create welcoming environments, or alternately construct silences, for LGBT older adults? Through an integrated conceptual framework …
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Developing a circumstance-based innovation strategy for a midsized aerospace manufacturer : fostering intrapreneurship, opening boundaries, and seeding disruption
… is based around a careful examination of their firm's circumstances, or external context and internal praxis. How a firm should innovate is dependent on industry environment, firm activities, technology competencies, internal culture, and its networks-and this thesis aims to develop a …
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