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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"co-construction"”.
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Deconstructing sexual violence through the co-construction and telling of Mexican American gender histories
… of sexual violence. A family systems model, ecological perspective, and social cognitive theoretical framework were used to elicit and co-construct participants’ experiences of gender role socialization. Participants were engaged in the production of this knowledge, which was represented as …
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Staging Identity: The Co-Construction of Whiteness and Indianness in the Drama of Tomson Highway
This thesis examines the construction of Indigenous peoples as Indians: as the degraded and dehumanised Other in relation to non-Indigenous peoples on this continent. It explores the operations of a White colonial manichean binary that simultaneously exalts and obscures Whiteness, while degrading …
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ArctiC-EUrope relations: A case-study of inter-regional co-construction and its geopolitical impacts
… in the Arctic due to climatic and geostrategic concerns. The EU’s position – both inside and outside the Arctic region – raises crucial questions about how we understand regions and their institutions as geopolitical actors. It was therefore necessary to complicate the main Eurocentric narrative …
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Microdevelopment of co-construction of knowledge during problem solving : puzzled minds, weird creatures, and wuggles
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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From student academic to computer specialist: co-construction of student identity and a school computer-network
… participation in the development of a school computer-network (SCN) motivated students to learn and promoted service and collegial relationships in the school. Students participated in a Technology Leadership (TL) community and engaged in activities that were central to the development of the …
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The Co-Construction of Properties in a Machinic-Complex: A study of the Car and Dunlop Pneumatic Tyres 1900-1925
… for a middle class market through a process of co-construction. It argues that through the interplay of design and domestication processes, properties and 'norms' of performance were stabilised in pneumatic lyres and the car which articulated social difference. This stabilisation process was …
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"""Starvation...is Who I Am"": From Eating Disorder to Recovering Identities Through Narrative Co-Construction in an Internet Support Group"
… (ASED), focusing on identity co-construction. Through micro-level discourse analysis, I trace ways in which support group participants portray themselves and others as protagonists through five types of positionings, involving action, states of being, and stances of thinking, …
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The Role of Self-Determination and Co-Construction to Support Meaningful Student Participation in an Individualized Education Program Meeting in High School
… participation can occur in a meaningful way. Connections, patterns, and insights were examined to create an overall picture of the essential characteristics and component elements of self-determination displayed by the participating students, and through self-determination reports as expressed …
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A study of peer activity in the early years through a range of contextual frameworks
… activity in the early years through a range of contextual frameworks. The research is conducted within a children's centre that provides nursery education for children aged 3-4 years as defined by the Early Years Foundation Stage - EYFS (2007). <br></br><br></br> Research rationale focuses on …
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The Intersection of Writing Process Pedagogy and Prolepsis: A Phenomenological Case Study of Secondary Writing Instruction
… the lived experiences and essences of secondary high school students and participating teachers in a three-week summer journalism camp sponsored by the National Writing Project and funded by the MacArthur T. Foundation. This study employs Moustakas' (1994) modification of the van Kaam …
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The Construction of Shared Knowledge through Asynchronous Dialogue
… as well as on the tools they employ. It utilises concepts developed to support understanding of knowledge co-construction in face- to-face environments, particularly the social modes of thinking identified by Mercer and his colleagues (Mercer, 1995, 2000, 2002; Mercer & Littleton, 2007; Mercer & …
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The Narrative Performances of Teenage Girls: Participation, Identity, and Authority as the Foundation for Power
… group. Although previous work on narrative discourse has shown that narratives can act as the catalyst for the complex co/construction of identity especially in social situations of talk, little work has been done to focus on the way teenagers, particularly girls, use this discourse to their …
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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL MATHEMATICAL DISCUSSION: FOCUS ON STUDENTS¿ COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLLECTIVE ALGEBRAIC THINKING
… teaching and learning, particularly by fostering collaboration and communication beyond traditional classroom settings. The research presented in this thesis contributes to the ongoing investigation on the role of digital technologies to support mathematical discussion, which is a didactic …
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Texts in black and white: co-constructing racialised identities in post-apartheid South Africa
… are post-apartheid racialised identities constructed relationally? More specifically, this thesis investigates the co-construction of black and white racialised identities within the realm of South African public discourse. To this aim, it draws on editorials and letters to the editor …
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In Situ Vision: The Student Experience of Collaborative Learning in a Virtual Drawing Class
The purpose of this study was to elucidate the construct of collaboration and the co-construction of knowledge in a distance learning drawing class. Distance learning drawing classes are rare, due to resistance by fine arts departments holding onto traditions that date back to Renaissance times. As …
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The Life of a Website: An Inquiry into Parent-Teacher Communication
… and examine the use of technology to facilitate communication among the three protagonists of learning — parents, teachers, and children in an early childhood education classroom. Specifically, the process of the co-construction of a website, by parents and teachers and subsequent use of the …
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The Elephant in the Baithak: Tabla and Audio Technological Discourse
… analyze engineer, performer, and music critic discourse surrounding <em>tabla</em> performances and technology to place it within a broader scholarly debate regarding recording technology, cultural/technological capital, technological determinism, and agency. I extend Christopher Scales’s (2012) …
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Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital
… this dissertation, I apply the methodology of Conversational Analysis to highlight the informal communication of an emergency room work group with the objective of discovering recurrent patterns of interaction and the inherent relational work necessary to accomplish the safe medical care of …
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Hope as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Communication Processes Facilitating Hope at a Community-Based Support Program
… and in situ group observations, explored the communication processes that facilitate the emergence of hope at a community based support program (CBSP). No literature within the communication field focuses on hope and there are no studies that explore the co-construction of hope through …
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