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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"disciplinarity"”.
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Performing Trans-disciplinarity: Exploring Subjectivity and Objectivity in Knowledge Production
In this thesis, I make a case for challenging categorical thinking and draw upon non-human perspectives as a starting point to propose a pre-linguistic root to categorization by situating the concept of categorization into a sensory paradigm. Later I highlight a selection of 3 artistic projects …
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Disciplinarity and literate activity in science: tracing pathways of becoming, writing and practice
In 2013, the Next Generation Science Standards outlined eight practices or “habits of mind” that students must possess in order to “do science”. Rather than accept these practices as truth, this dissertation explores, from the perspective of the university scientists, how they came to engage in …
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Using Complexity Theory to Investigate Disciplinarity: A Historical, Theoretical, and Ethical Inquiry Into Composition's Ethical Turn
… theoretical argument, I articulate a theory of disciplinarity based on the science of complexity, in which disciplines, disciplinary knowledge, and ""the disciplined"" are understood as complex adaptive, ecological systems---both in their own rights and taken as a whole. As I do so, I draw on …
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Reconceptualizing Intellectual Histories of Africana Studies: A Review of the Literature
… boundaries and understandings of Western disciplinarity. This work is premised on such an understanding of autonomy. It reifies such a proposition by compiling scholarly literature on the subject of Africana intellectual traditions as a point of departure for articulating a rationale for …
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The National Information Infrastructure Initiative: Space, Discipline, War Machine
… practices. The effects of these types of spatial disciplinarity on individual subjectivities are also discussed.
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Engineering literacy: the practice of discipline
… a methodological and theoretical re-mapping of disciplinarity, which seeks to retrace and excavate more nuanced links between enculturation and communication. The work engages original participant research (interviews, classroom observations, and textual artifacts) on communicative practices of …
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Becoming Undisciplined: Interdisciplinary Issues and Methods in Dance Studies Dissertations from 2007-2009
… scholarship, while asking questions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity within dance studies historically and today. My primary research questions are: What are dance studies research methods? And, which research methods, if any, are inherent to dance as an academic discipline? In …
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From Display of Force to Normalization: Exploring the Transformation of Power in China
… case this thesis explores the development of disciplinarity in the educational system, panopticism and its deployment in religion, and bio-power in birthing and migratory policies. Upon analysis, it is argued that China must be viewed as an authoritarian state that has adopted subtle methods …
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First-year Writing and Research Journals: How Online Publication Redefines Student Writing and Scholarship in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies
… as writing models, and circulate in interdisciplinarity, not RCWS disciplinarity; thus, the presence of FYWR journals possesses the potential to redefine what counts as 'student writing' and 'scholarship' in the discipline.
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Forms of disciplinary fragmentation: Holistic healthcare and the categorical division of academic labor
… approaches holistic healthcare as a problem of disciplinarity in that it articulates a challenge with which any holistic endeavor, however conceived, would invariably contend. I call this challenge disciplinary fragmentation. The understanding of disciplinary fragmentation given by the …
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An exploration of rhetorical structure and interactional metadiscourse in architecture research articles (EdD TESOL)
… an open-ended questionnaire concerning the disciplinarity of architecture. Based on the findings, it is suggested that genre analysis be transformed into a teaching method to familiarise students with linguistic uses and conventions and raise their awareness about the complexity of the world …
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An international multidisciplinary analysis of scholarly communication through investigating citation levels
… main data source is WoS, its investigation of disciplinarity also uses Scopus. The thesis finds: (a) Highly cited IS&LS articles tend to be multidisciplinary and cited late, but are not necessarily first-authored by influential IS&LS researchers, (b) Amongst un-cite IS&LS articles the …
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A New Field of Dreams: A Study of the Writing Major
… arguments for the Writing major as a vehicle for disciplinarity as well as assert pedagogy's continued importance within Writing Studies even as its practitioners pursue academic professionalization. Chapter four examines students' discourse and their writing for scholarly, professional, and civic …
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A Rhetoric of Fields: Orientationalist and Enactive Essays for Writing Studies
… not limited to: the interplay of field-ness and disciplinarity as Composition continues to evolve, the shifting relations between Composition and other fields and disciplines for whom writing is a subject of inquiry, the study and teaching of commonplace writing subjects in pedagogical/academic …
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TQM : fad or fixture? Implementing total quality management in health care setting through the development and use of customer-supplier models
… modelling are shown to promote inter-disciplinarity, genuine dialogue, co-operation and an holistic approach to health service provision. This research has shown that an inter-disciplinary, systems approach to quality improvement, based on the use of customer-supplier modelling and the …
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CADD : on reorganizing the practice of architecture
… Organization, Vertical Organization, Multi-disciplinarity, Integration, Architectural Practice.
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The Intellectual Impact of Interdisciplinarity: A Series of Studies of Graduate Students and Faculty Engaged in Interdisciplinary Scholarship
While disciplinarity still dominates college and university life, enthusiasm for interdisciplinary approaches has increased over the past three decades. Proponents often present interdisciplinarity as an a priori good, but scholars have noted that we have not yet sufficiently evaluated the efficacy …
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A Student Induction Program’s Impact on Young “Techies’” Purpose In Life and its Effects on Their Well-Being: A Case Study of Telangana, India
… higher education in India is criticized for mono-disciplinarity and rigid boundaries that do not provide an appropriate context for developing socially conscious individuals who make productive contributions to society. To address this growing concern, the Department of Higher Education in India …
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Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence"
… mythologies and rituals of professionalization, disciplinarity, and dominant epistemological hierarchies animate concepts such as knowledge formation, expertise, and even what counts as knowledge. This recontextualization is then deployed to suggest remedies for research, public policy, and …
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Art and Intervention in the Stewardship of the Planetary Commons: Towards a Curatorial Model of Co-inquiry
… contribute to discourses on both inter/trans-disciplinarity and the role of art in relation to the politics of ecology. The Ph.D. contributes to the field on several levels. Within curatorial studies, the interdisciplinary co-inquiry model reconfigures curatorial practice as a collective, …
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