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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"co-operative inquiry"”.
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Stigma and women living with HIV: A co-operative inquiry
… New Zealand living with HIV through the use of co-operative inquiry, an innovative, participatory, action-based and somewhat revolutionary, research method. Through the process of sharing experiences, reflection and discussion, participants were encouraged to learn to interpret meaning and gain …
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Exploring evidence-based practice in Namibia - a co-operative inquiry
… in Namibia. An action research, specifically co-operative inquiry was chosen as methodology. This enabled the researchers to simultaneously raise awareness of and disseminate information reading EBP and collect experience based data from co-researchers. Purposive sampling, in particular …
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Building the OD professional of the future: creating a blueprint for new models of organisational development practice in the NHS
… in a population that is living longer with complex long-term conditions. For the NHS this means a shift from episodic reactive care to predictive, preventative and ongoing care with patients at the heart of the approach. The 2014 Five Year Forward View set out a direction of travel for …
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Dreamscape: A Human Inquiry into the Land of Dreaming
… scarce, and practitioners are disempowered when confronted with dream material. However, in recent years the concept of consciousness is back on the scientific agenda and the study of the subjective experience of dreaming is once again possible. Eight coinquirers employed Heron’s (1996) …
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Commissioning executive coaching for directors and senior managers
Executive coaches are a relatively new and high profile addition to the supplier ranks offering development services for directors and senior managers in the UK. There is a paucity of theory about executive coaching, despite its widespread purchase and use in practice. The research and thesis …
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Helping students cope: peer counselling in higher education
… facing students in their University careers and considers how they may be helped and supported at this time. A University Nightline telephone befriending service (LUA-Linha da Universidade de Aveiro) was established in Portugal (where no such provision previously existed) in order to provide a …
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Feeding the Family: Exploration of Mothers' Experiences and Practice
… of mothers’ family feeding practices was conducted by means of a Co-operative Inquiry (Heron, 1996) which I adapted as a community participatory research study with a core group of 13 volunteer mothers. This community of mothers from a former mining community in the NW of England became in …
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Toward a contemplative cyberspace: a transdisciplinary inquiry into contemplation, social media and peace-building
… seeks to address is how sharing the effect of contemplation in cyberspace can initiate and change the formation of new cyber networks for peacebuilding. Through experimental study, this thesis combines a transdisciplinary approach with action research. Utilising an integrated methodology, it …
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Questioning (in) school mathematics : lifeworlds and ecologies of practice
… in school mathematics classrooms is considered through the analytical frames of community of practice theory (Lave and Wenger 1991; Wenger 1998) and the lifeworld by focussing on interactions generated by verbal teacher questioning of the whole class.</p> <p>The thesis reports on an …
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A feminist action research inquiry into the hermeneutical injusticeof ‘being silenced’ in everyday conversational life
… of power (Foucault, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1991) the complexities of how ‘social silencing’ happens are exposed. Using first-person inquiry and co-operative inquiry methods, the women involved in this research revealed the context, dynamics, and impact of their experience of social silencing. This …