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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"cultural theory"”.
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The I and the Me(dia): Social Hermeneutics, Media Audiences, and Cultural Theory
… raises the possibility of using the hermeneutic theory of subjectivity, initially raised by George Herbert Mead and developed by a number of recent philosophers, as the basis for understanding practices of interpretation and self-formation by media audience members. In the final portion of the …
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Crafting the Public: Grid-Group Cultural Theory and the Mechanisms of Public Participation
… making. This dissertation employs Grid-Group Cultural Theory to explore how a planner's worldview impacts their selection of particular public participation mechanisms. Data were collected using an online survey instrument and analyzed using multinomial logistic regression. Findings indicate …
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Risiken, Bedarf und Regulierung gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen in Brasilien : eine Studie aus der Sicht der Cultural Theory
… betrachtet. Als theoretischer Rahmen dient die Cultural Theory. Schwerpunkt ist die Interaktion von Interessengruppen, Institutionen und Vermittlungsinstanzen. Demnach beruht die Kontroverse um GVP auf drei konfligierenden Weltbildern: Individualismus, Hierarchie und Egalitarismus (Kulturtypen). …
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Public participation GIS as a cultural process: cultural theory, participation references, and GIS-aided decision making among farmers in central Illinois
… is a three part examination into the cultural influences on stakeholder involvement in participatory environmental decision-making processes, including public participation GIS (PPGIS), in the context of agricultural watershed management. The dissertation consists of three papers …
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Rewriting the Boundaries
… of the 1990s and its relation to postmodern cultural theory. The practitioners discussed include Forced Entertainment, Third Angel, Stan’s Cafe, Blast Theory and Desperate Optimists, who were all practising during the 1990s in Britain, the period during which the examples used in the thesis …
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Hope in view of HIV/AIDS in South Africa : public discourse, faith and the future
… theoretical framework is built from a base of cultural theory, discourse analysis and theology, and binds these together into a transdisciplinary argument.
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CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ COCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN FRIENDSHIPS WITH DOMESTIC STUDENTS ON US CAMPUSES
Through the lens of co-cultural theory, this study explored how Chinese international students navigate various challenges as they build friendships with their domestic peers and how their friendship experiences affected their well-being. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit rich …
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Talking Circles For Adolescent Girls In An Urban High School: A Restorative Practices Program For Building Friendships And Developing Emotional Literacy Skills
… theoretical frameworks of both the Relational Cultural Theory, which promotes growth-fostering relationships, and Restorative Justice, which promotes connection, caring and justice. Four relational themes emerged in the study: a) joy of being together and building friendships; b) feeling safe …
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… Focussing on deconstruction, formalism, and cultural theory as critical methodologies within the theory of art, it examines a range of cultural expressions and contemporary currents of thought relative to the problem of vision and visuality. As a terrain of enquiry whose key words emerge in …
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… thesis stages a meeting between the postmodern cultural theory of Zygmunt Bauman and the novels Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. These novels portray marginal women who are excluded from the very community which has created them. Rhys illustrates how the need to sustain …
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How high-achieving African American undergraduate men negotiate cultural challenges at a predominantly White institution
… African American undergraduate men negotiate cultural challenges in a predominantly White institution (PWI). Cultural theory underpins the conceptual framework of this case study. Basing the study in cultural theory provided a lens through which to view the lived experiences of the twenty …
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Green Banking in Hong Kong: Exploring the Attitudes and Knowledge of Middle Tier Management in Foreign Banks
… The study embraced the constructivist grounded theory approach with qualitative data collected from Hong Kong bank managers through in-depth semi-structured interviews. Data generation and analysis was concurrent and employed constant comparison methodology, requiring higher levels of …
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Fostering a capacity for connectedness: The contribution of “humanness” in hybrid early childhood initial teacher education programmes
… connection. This research is informed by socio-cultural theory and adopts a phenomenographic approach to gather qualitative data. Data were collected from nine ECE student teachers by means of semi-structured interviews, focus groups and the ECE student teacher contributions to asynchronous …
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From one Place to an 'Other": Meanings, Ideologies, Identities, and Representations on the Covers of Japanese Self-Help Translations
… addresses gaps in paratextual, translation, and cultural theory research concerning the covers of Japanese self-help book translations. The study looks at five book covers of The Courage to be Disliked: the original Japanese and four culturally Western English translations from Australia, the UK, …
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Integrating new values into Mongolian public management
This dissertation explores the socio-cultural and institutional environment of the public sector organizations of Mongolia that have strong influence on current public administration reform results. This study applies the Cultural theory and Value theory. The strong hierarchy favoring rule-bounded …
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Understanding the Social Identity of Homeless Youth: A Visual Analysis of Experience
… within this population. Social identity theory and co-cultural theory provide a theoretical framework to help identify how these youths' identities are influenced by their communicative practices as well as how their identities influence their communication within and outside their social …
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Pupil and teacher unfolding identities in a newly amalgamated secondary school
… within multiple contexts which bring social, cultural, political and historical forces to bear on its formation. Identity is formed in relationship with others. Mind is truly social and it is through participation in the situated practices of communities of practice that identities flourish. …
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¿De Dónde Eres?: The Construction of U.S. and Immigrant Culture and Identity in the ESL Adult Education Setting
… classroom setting construct U.S. and immigrant cultural identities through narratives and counter-narratives, and how these narratives and counter-narratives reproduced and questioned relations of power along the lines of race, class, and gender difference. The theoretical framework for this …
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The Role of Identity for the Practitioner and the Student: Culturally Inclusive Career Services for Pacific Islander Students in Higher Education
… this population from a relationship building and culturally inclusive career counseling perspective. By using Career Constructivist Development Theory (CCDT) and Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT), this research examined the phenomenon of how the identities and lived experiences of career services …
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