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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"dialectical methodology"”.
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A Dialectical Methodology For Decision Support Systems Design
… is a very complex task. In this dissertation a methodology for the development of a DSS for wicked situations is proposed using the design theory building process suggested by Walls et al. (1992). This proposed theory is based on dialectic theory and the multiple perspective approach suggested …
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Al-Rāzī's Philosophy of Mind
… subject matter of the soul, al-Rāzī employs a dialectical methodology (thesis, antithesis and synthesis) in which he adopts a critical stance against both the theologians’ materialism and the philosophers’ (namely Avicenna’s) immaterialism, before constructing his own dualistic theory. The …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… ideology.</p> <p>We need an anti-humanist, dialectical methodology that can escape the subjective interpretive codes and practices of liberal humanism to write a more objective literary history, to explain the turn to conservative melancholy in American Modernism, and to level the …
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What counts as knowledge? Parameters of validity for the meaning and representation of a contingency theory in the organisation and management accounting literature.
… realist theory underpinned by an Hegelian dialectical methodology, looking at phenomena from different perspectives with inconsistencies addressed by a more holistic analysis. This thesis is based on a non-linear, multi-angled approach, which examines each of the two questions from …
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Learning in a virtual world : expanding activity theory for the design and evaluation of group praxis
… "learning in a virtual world" and the novel dialectical methodology for designing and evaluating learning activities in it by "expanding activity theory for the design and evaluation of group praxis". It emerges from exploring learning in a virtual world in all of its complexity. It …
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Musical identities and health over the youth-adult transition
… identities in transitions to adulthood. A dialectical methodology was adopted which synthesises quantitative and qualitative methods. The former involved statistical analysis of a large-scale longitudinal dataset (The West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study). The latter was a qualitative sub-study …