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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"critical action"”.
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The ‘People’s Movement’ ‘EU Critical Action & Irish Social Activism’
This thesis focuses on ‘EU critical’ social movement activity in Ireland through the lens of one social movement group against the backdrop of three referenda on European treaties over a four year period. I illustrate how grievances are produced and focus on the underlying factors which motivate …
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A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory After Habermas and Foucault
… our capacity for taking normative stances and critical action, concern Foucault profoundly. His goal is to reveal how we ourselves sustain power in multiple, if not always apparent ways. By making our responsibility for current conditions more apparent, genealogy also calls on us to take …
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PREDICTING POLICY: EXAMINING PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, COLOR-EVASIVE RACIAL ATTITUDES, AND BELIEFS ABOUT CAPITALISM
… policy preferences when controlling for Satisfaction With Life (SWLS) and that critical consciousness action (CA) will moderate this relationship. Approximately 510 individuals completed the Costs of United States Corporate Capitalism (CCC) scale, Colorblind Racial Attitudes Scale (COBRAS), the …
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Becoming critical beings: a thematic study exploring the development, learning and teaching of a group of non traditional adult learners
The current literature on critical thinking, critical reflection and critical action supports the view that higher education cannot be defined as such without the implicit existence of all three elements in the curriculum. There are many who suggest that, given the changing profile of those now …
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Healing Through the Struggle: Sociopolitical Empowerment as Context for Youth Thriving
… (i.e., basic psychological needs satisfaction and thriving) from psychological empowerment after program participation, (2) assess the moderating effect of oppression and (3) the mediating effect of healing on these relationships, and (4) predict post-program psychological empowerment …
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Putting Critical Theory into Practice through Action Research
… they do not know how or why they know or how to critically weave their knowledge into meaningful action.</p> <p>Through this critical action research. I used critical pedagogy to introduce marginalized students to the potential power of critical literacy. I hoped to ascertain if, through such an …
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What approach to development in the Cape Winelands : an identification and exploration into urban form - planning for future growth and change in the Cape Winelands region
… poverty, unemployment and inequality enable the critical action for a new approach toward planning. These challenges is also causing uncontrolled urban development that is encroaching into valuable agricultural land and sensitive environmental areas. Moreover the struggle for densification in the …
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Constructing Portraits of Elementary Teachers of Ethnic Studies: Examining the Narratives of Anti-Racist Educators in an Era of Common Core Curriculum and Instruction
… and women of Color. By employing portraiture and critical race theory methodologies, this study centered the experiences of these teachers as counternarratives to mainstream classroom practice by capturing challenges, strategies, and successes associated with navigating standardized curriculum …
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The Role of Transformational Leadership in the Collaborative Development of a Full Inclusion Program: An Action Research Study
ABSTRACT This dissertation is a critical action research study on full inclusion for students with learning disabilities. The study describes how full inclusion for 16 students with learning disabilities in three regular classes was implemented in an Illinois elementary school over a one year …
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Mid-Level Leadership as a Lever for Human Flourishing in a Canadian Educational Institution
… institution to explore their influence on critical issues related to human flourishing. Through critical action research grounded in social constructionism, participants explored dominant systems, values, and practices, utilizing reflection, dialogue, and shared meaning-making processes. …
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Towards the democratization of instructional leadership in South African schools: current trends and future possibilities.
… of the positivistic, interpretive and critical research paradigms indicated that, given the South African context, critical action research with its emphasis on, amongst others, collaborative participation, empowerment and emancipation is the most appropriate means to effect the …
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Strategic sustainability and industrial ecology in an island context, with considerations for a green economy roadmap: a study in the tourist accommodation sector, Grenada.
… business, referred to as sustainable development actions must be seen as separate but congruent to sustainability. By adapting the framework for strategic sustainable development and using a mixed methods approach, the necessary strategy content for the SS procedures are researched in the tourist …
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Teaching itself: a mythology of learning in theory and practice
… has also provided an imperative for affirmative critical action. I hope this work can make a small contribution to that process in suggesting ways in which we might fundamentally perform the educational ‘act’ differently. For that reason there is a more heavily weighted focus on the ways in which …
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LOOKING FOR A FAIRER ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT AND ATTAINMENT IN THE INFANT YEARS: AN EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH CASE STUDY
… the professional identity of the writer as she critically examines the impact of educational assessment on a school community and the people working in it. The research methodology is adapted from critical action research in which the researcher's educational values are the yardstick against …
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Bringing Voices in from the Cold: Analysing the Efficacy of Asset-Based Community Development in a Voluntary Homelessness Organisation
… As a volunteer within the charity I undertook a critical action research inspired approach into exploring the benefits of and challenges involved in using ABCD as a method of facilitating increased involvement of homeless people in a food distribution project, and investigated the wider …
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Teachers leading school improvement and education reconstruction in Palestine
… The intervention was investigated using a critical action-based, participatory methodology that emphasised context and researcher reflexivity in one school and amongst a cohort of 12 participants. Data were collected using a range of research-designed and programme-based methods and …
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Critical Moments: Exploring Critical Pedagogy in an Adult ESL Classroom
… the challenges and potentials of implementing critical pedagogical approaches in a community-based adult English as a Second Language (ESL) program with a focus on language learners with low proficiency in English. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the limitations and …
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Becoming an effective practitioner through guided reflection
… and outcomes of guided reflection as a form of critical action research which may generate theoretical insights regarding its use in clinical supervisory practices. The process referred to as 'guided reflection' was developed and used to guide this study. Guided reflection represents a form of …
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Enhancing the professionality of early years educators: a model of support for professional development
… work process in their own settings. A critical action-based methodology was employed that emphasised context and researcher reflexivity amongst a cohort of 15 participants. Data was collected using a range of programme-based methods and artefacts, analysed deductively and inductively, …
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