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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"WPR"”.
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Governing Youth Work Through Problems: A WPR Analysis of the ‘Value for Money and Policy Review of Youth Programmes’
… called ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) (Bacchi, 2009). This framework supports a form of poststructural policy analysis that questions policy and the role it plays in ordering society (Bacchi and Goodwin, 2016). The findings of the study suggest that the VFMPR policy attempts to …
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U.S. Senate Deliberations on the War Powers Resolution during the Bush and Obama Administrations
… war powers. The resulting War Powers Resolution (WPR) sought to inject Congress back into the decision-making process, yet no President has ever acknowledged its constitutionality. The initial debates around the WPR revealed four major lines of argument on the balance of war powers; three of those …
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What is the problem? A critical analysis of gambling policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
… “What’s the problem represented to be?” (WPR) is an approach used to critically analyse policy. WPR is best suited to uncover and discover ‘best practice’ policies as it draws focus to and critiques the problematisations stated in gambling harm prevention and minimisation policy. The …
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Illusio in lesson observation: making policy work by playing the game
… the What’s the Problem Represented to be? (WPR) approach developed by Bacchi (2009) to examine policy-as-discourse, it is possible interrogate the role of policy in making problems, and their solutions, in very specific ways. The innovative combining of the work of Bacchi with Bourdieu’s …
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Birds of a white feather : a congenital hypopigmentary disorder in the chick
… elucidate the molecular basis of amelanosis in WPR X PG chickens by addressing the following two questions: are melanocytes present in the skin regions and feather follicles in normal numbers of 8- to 13-day white chick embryos? If melanocytes are present in normal numbers, are they unable to …
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Exploring the framing of disability in university policies: a comparative study at a selected university in Zimbabwe and in South Africa
… ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) and the notion of civic epistemologies (CE) by Sheila Jasanoff. The study adopted a qualitative research approach and a comparative research design to compare university policies from University X (UX) from South Africa and University Y (UY) …
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"We're the One's Working on the Ground, the 'Real' Ground": Exploring Tensions and Realities of Global South SFD NGOs in Fostering 'Safe Sport' Environments for Children and Youth
… (2012) What’s the Problem Represented to Be (WPR) approach and critical discourse analysis. Findings revealed that safe sport policies and practices must move away from a universal and ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to safeguarding. Instead, there is a critical need for context-specific safe …
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Problematising Big Food’s appetite for policymaking the case of childhood obesity
… The ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) methodology (Bacchi, 2009, 2010, 2012) is employed to examine how Big Food’s discourses of childhood obesity have developed, how they are maintained and how they might be disrupted. Studies examining Big Food’s role in policymaking are …
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Navigating the neoliberal discursive environment: an inquiry into the experiences of employees in the voluntary and community sector
… (2009) ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) approach, by examining how contextual challenges are problematised within the organisations and identifying the solutions adopted at management level to govern employees in a way which accords with neoliberal values. The findings suggest that …