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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"academic practice"”.
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Working knowledge of academic practice : implications for professional development
… sought to investigate the working knowledge of academics in a ‘new’ university in Australia. Working knowledge, or knowledge ‘put to use’ in day-to-day work, describes what academics actually do. What knowledge academics use day to day is vital for those concerned in the development of academic …
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Innovation through an Academic Practice Partnership: A New Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Implementation Model
… nursing role - the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). Academic practice partnership models are needed to integrate the CNL role in health care systems.</p> <p><strong>Context</strong></p> <p>A large integrated health care system in Northern California and a university Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) …
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The lived experiences of designing modules at one UK university: a qualitative account of academic practice
… under-researched experiences of module design of academics employed within one UK university. In all, 96 people responded to an initial e-questionnaire survey, and 23 of these participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews. The qualitative data collected from both sources is the main focus …
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Liminal Affections: Exploring shapes of free association and its potential to inform novel academic practice within the arts and humanities
… does not follow the structure of a traditional practice-based doctoral thesis. This interdisciplinary, ahistorical, non-linear, and infinite atlas on the theory and practice of free association aims to serve as an invitation to explore various approaches to academic storytelling through creative …
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Speaking into the Abyss: An Exploratory Study of Academics’ Use of Educational Technology and its Impact on Practice.
This is a study of educational technology use in academic practice undertaken in an Irish Higher Education setting. Based on interviews with fifteen academics, the enquiry attempts to respond to Selwyn’s (2010) call for an increase in social scientific accounts of technology use which pay heed to …
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An exploration of plagiarism: the perceptions of senior nurses in the context of professionalism and patient care
… of academia, rather than their professional practice. This study has shown that far from plagiarism being restricted to cutting and pasting text into an assignment from the Internet without referencing, it is in fact intentional and may involve the falsification and copyright of assignments, …
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A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Periods of Division
… Custom in literary history sanctions the practice of studying an author period by period. When a literary artist has worked at his craft for a lifetime, scholars find it conventional to analyze the master’s work into convenient groups or units for detailed study. This process affords …
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Looking at what Geographers do – Empirische Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsbeobachtung in der Geographie
… interest of this doctoral thesis addresses the academic practice of German-speaking geography. It is thus both a "meta-geographical" thesis in the sense of disciplinary science research and a social-geographical thesis that examines how scientists interact with each other as social actors in the …
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Wupperthal: listening to the past
… work incorporates sound modernist thought and academic practice. It is intended to be accessible to a wide readership, and prove to be entertaining as well as insightful. The scholarly endeavour driving this text is as sincere, as the history is real. It is a journey I encourage the reader to …
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PUBLISH AND PERISH: ACADEMIC CANCEL CULTURES, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NETWORKED ACADEMICS
… examines and describes some of the social media practices of contemporary academe. Drawing from thousands of posts and interactions, as well as blogposts and institutional guidelines, this research uses these data points to reconstruct chronological narratives of its primary case studies – the …
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Towards designing more effective systems by understanding user experiences
… and case studies grounded in industrial and academic practice. The results of these evaluations show that TAPT, which can be used in an agile manner, provides a strong analytical framework for understanding experiences and supports the redesign of experiences in new contexts
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'I can't wait til I'm an actual journalist' : how students begin to become journalists
… investigates the ways in which students in an academic, practice-based journalism program acquire the traits and dispositions of journalists. It draws on the framework of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, including his concepts of field, habitus and capital. It applies a thematic analysis to student …
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Edifying Design-Build: Towards a Practice and Place based Architectural Education
… in a profession that has disengaged theory and practice through the specialization of the architect and the craftsman. Design-build has the ability to be an educational process that re-engages a direct dialog and collaboration of the roles of designer and maker, reinforcing the resilience of …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… artists. Inspired by his philosophy of artistic practice, Henri's followers embraced their individuality and represented their engagement with the realities of modern life. For his own part, however, Henri never truly adopted the reformist style embraced by the Ashcan Realists. Instead, his art …
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Unbound: An Origin Story
… stories clash, bend, and blend. Unbound is the practice of reflexive doubt. While this project exists in an academic sphere, I refrain from calling it ‘research' in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, I choose to frame my academic practice as ‘artistic inquiry', for it is aimed at asking …
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An investigation into the relationship between student identity and academic literacy at a private higher education institution
Although academic development programmes have been well researched in the South African context, much of the research has focused on programmes at mainstream public universities and less is known about the programmes run by smaller private institutions. This research aims to identify and discuss …
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Practical application of the Information Seeking and Communication Model (ISCM) in Higher Education - Westminster Business School Module Leader practice
… and aligned (structured) module leader practice (MLp). Design and Methodological Approach: This study adopts a qualitative approach in which the primary instrument of online indepth (Teams) semi-structured interviews were used to elicit academic practice in relation to the proposed …
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Activating Agon in performance
… a chronological narration of her choreographic practice. A preoccupation with ‘realness’ in performance is highlighted. A conceptual understanding of agon in the works is established in the second chapter. Heidegger’s articulation of thrownness, Camus’ essay Sisyphus, and Nietzsche’s work on the …
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No One Left Behind...For the Most Part: Developmental Education in the Academy and Society
… or another has been considered by members of the academic community to be a moral imperative and a destructive influence, a necessity and an embarrassment, and more recently a cost effective alternative and a fiscal liability.</p> <p>The uneasy relationship that developmental education shares with …
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