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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"democratic practices"”.
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The intelligence regime in South Africa (1994-2014) : an analytical perspective
… be misused by the political regime through less democratic practices that infringe on human rights and the rule of law. The quest of this study (which is not classified, to make the research findings available to both practitioners and scholars of intelligence studies), is to attempt to …
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Perpetual Care
… death have changed radically, and we need more democratic practices and new spaces for grief. This thesis imagines a new architectural typology and department within the Boston city government, the Department of Death, to provide an expanded set of death-related services.
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… inadequacies in current educational theories and practices that have evolved over centuries of curricular, cultural, and socioeconomic change. Current theories and practices in higher education, specifically general education, reflect a misunderstanding of both the purpose of education in a …
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Authentic parent engagement : a case study of moving from discourse to authentic praxis in a Midwestern school district
… groups say is needed to create authentic and democratic practices that engage them in all arenas, including district decision-making processes.
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Democratic Organizing in the Corporate Sphere: A Case Study
… Little research has focused on alternative, democratic organizing in the for-profit sector; hence, this research posed the central question: Under what conditions can a for-profit organization create a democratic, participatory culture that thrives in a capitalist society? To answer this …
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Exploring the relationships between dialogue and inclusive school communities
… school leaders to look to dialogic relations and democratic practices as a means for educational inclusion. Using a reputational approach guided by a theoretical framework focused on dialogue as ontological, this multiple case study examined the journey from exclusive, hierarchical structures to …
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Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler
… is examined related to his use of journalistic practices and places him on a continuum of traditional reporting roles as considered in the context of twentieth century philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. Reporter functions demonstrated by Shilts are examined, including those dictated by …
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IMAGINING SPACE: DEVELOPING A CRITICAL GEO-LITERACY WITH MAPS AS PRIMARY SOURCES IN HISTORY EDUCATION
… it broadens the potential for greater democratic practices in educational settings.
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On Hypothetical Contracts
… by arguing that the normative component of democratic practices must be grounded in nonpolitical reasons. With John Rawls’s rights-based approach, social contract theory has strongly resurfaced by focusing on consent as the basic condition for the formation of a just state. The emphasis on …
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Towards the Design of a Networked Social Services Media Model to Promote Democratic Community Participation in South African Schools
… that society benefits from the adoption of democratic practices and a desire to improve schooling in South Africa, motivate this research. The social objective of the research is therefore to determine what are the causes of the persistent failure of the South African schooling system and to …
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Bangladeshi Political Cartoons as Visual Rhetoric in the Context of Anti-Free Speech Laws
… government's feelings of contentment. Declining democratic practices is a major theme in cartoons published post-DSA. By utilizing the method of visual rhetorical analysis on six cartoons, the study delved deeper into the cartoons' construction of visual arguments for each theme. Finally, a …
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On the Economic Effects of Policy Responsiveness: The Role of Candidate Selection for General Elections
… appears largely informed by inclusive and democratic practices. Quite the opposite, in the less-developed world events of intraparty participatory politics are for the most part absent, with nomination decisions often monopolized by national party leaders and local party bosses.</p>
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The neoliberal state and multiculturalism : the need for democratic accountability
… in a robustly political model of democratic multi-nationalism (characterized by both agonism and deliberation) in order to combat multiculturalism’s tendency simply to rationalize “privatization” and to enhance democratic accountability. My approach goes beyond dominant …
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Subject to Change: Democracy, Disidentification, and the Digital
Radical democratic politics in the digital age is characterized by the widespread emergence of participatory spaces generated by state actors and social movements. These new formats of citizen engagement are situated in the context of social inequalities and discrimination of marginalized …
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An exploratory study of social media usage and developmental outcomes by government and emerging political leaders : the Nigerian experience
… around the world, including long-standing democratic systems, have been afflicted by corruption: non-transparent decision making processes, power distribution, cynical public relations and poor consultation exercises. The consequence has been a sense of prevailing injustice; citizenship …
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Digital democracy in Malaysia : towards enhancing citizen participation
… in strengthening citizen participation in the democratic processes of government. In these contexts it offers a perspective on how the legal, political and social interpenetrates. The literature reviewed covers: the concept of democracy and assumed influences of ICT on democratic processes; …
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Inclusive Representation In Global Decision-Making Processses: Challenges Of Democracy, Sovereignty, And Liberatory Politics For Marginalized Groups
… in the political community, as the essential democratic conditions provide a theoretical foundation for analysis. Throughout, close attention is paid to the political organizing work of two marginalized groups who have successfully achieved formal representation within specific U.N. bodies: …
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Promoting participatory teaching and learnig in the senior primary classroom.
… in search of democratising their classroom practices. Being a traditional mathematics teacher who resorted to autocratic modes of teaching, I had come to realise that my mode of teaching was probably not facilitating the learning of mathematics by my pupils in the primary school . This …
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Investigating children's participation in decision-making in New Zealand primary schools: Participation, pathways and potential.
… principals’ and children’s beliefs and practices in two primary schools. The research used semi-structured interviews to generate data from two principals and ten teachers about children’s participation in decision-making. Four focus groups were also conducted with a total of 29 …
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