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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"doings"”.
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The Environmental Management Accounting Control as a Practice
… embeddedness of environmental value into daily doings and sayings of the key actors. The embeddedness of environmental value supports the key actors in normativising them in prioritising the hierarchical order of environmental and business ends. This thesis provides a contribution to the …
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Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
… affective experiences, encounters and everyday doings with the land and the non-human beings, objects and forces that are enrolled and shape their everyday life. The thesis is based upon a situated, yet empirically rich, (auto)ethnographic account of the researcher’s own back-to-the-land journey …
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The Intersection of Academia and Identity: A Phenomenological Inquiry on the Ethnic and Racial Identity of Hmong American Students in Higher Education
… ecological model, "race and ethnicity as doings,” and intersectionality. Data collection was completed through three-phases which included interviews and a visual methods activity. A total of 10 participants completed the process. Data analysis was employed through initial, focused, and …
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Doing : an essay on causation, events, and action in the most general sense
… explosions, ignitions, and decisions. Part I, "Doings", is centered around my attempt to capture the nature of events. Events straddle the realms of thing and fact, eluding analysis, making this a difficult task. Yet it is an important one, because events play crucial roles in so many places: in …
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Moral Authority as Moral Skill: An Exemplarist Theory of Practical Justification
… for the purpose of one's justifying one's moral doings is necessarily justified for the appealer whenever she is practicing the same practice as the moral authority. This theory holds that moral authorities, so circumscribed, are Authoritative Exemplars, and as the appeal to their authority is …
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A Program Evaluation Of The Reasons Some Educators Do or Do Not Remain In The Teaching Profession
… appreciated, respected, and have a voice in the doings of the school. The surveys conducted in this study have shown overwhelmingly how important culture is to teachers. School and district leaders acknowledged the value of building community in their schools. District leaders should place school …
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An intergenerational perspective on migrant senses of identity and belonging: The case of Greek-Cypriot families in South West England, UK
… about the everyday lives of migrants and the ‘doings’ of families. It also contributes to understandings of a relatively ‘invisible’ and under-researched white migrant group in the UK. Work that focuses on such ‘invisible’ migrant groups is particularly pertinent to broader studies of …
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Privileged Resistance: Prisoners of Conscience in the United States, 1980-2013
… intervention into the politics and actual "doings" of border crossing solidarity activism that is attentive to personal and global relations of power.</p>
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Nature Art : Ovid's poetics of creation in the metamorphoses
… the one I have conjectured from sayings and doings and writings into an atmosphere or personality, over years of reading and these latest of intense research. "Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born ... in the small provincial town of Lebedyan, which lay on the bank of the River Don 200 miles to …
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‘Undergoing' as posthuman literacy research in an in/formal settlement primary school in South Africa
… and (re)orients pre-arranged educational ‘doings'. Research as ‘undergoing' is not about producing knowledge to fill in gaps on a given (transcendently known) plane. ‘Undergoing' troubles such humanist literacy support approaches that focus only on language and are guided by notions such as …
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Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization
… young people being punished for their wrong-doings. Wider effects include the entrenched impacts of class- and race-based exclusions, which manifest within youth activist subcultures through stylistic regimes of ‘symbolic authorization’ that incorporate attire, beliefs, and practices. …
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A Senian approach to the relationship between the natural environment and the distribution of welfare: a new perspective on inequality measurement and choice
… valuable welfare outcomes (their ‘beings’ and ‘doings’) with respect to the environment. In this way, Sen’s capability approach offers an alternative approach to evaluating environmental value based on the metric of freedom, expressed in terms of the metrics of capabilities and functionings. …
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Enabling and constraining factors in the management of four City of Cape Town public libraries
… management and that is in terms of the sayings, doings and relatings in the practice architectures model.
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The social construction of technical innovation in the UK oil and gas industry.
… move into the occurrent mode. The happenings and doings in the innovation process are treated as the results of perpetual social constructions. This study is based on extended interviews with eleven individuals in relevant roles and with direct experiences of the technical innovation construction …
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Modeling the societal impact of natural hazards
… that individuals have to achieve valuable doings and beings. Additionally, the dissertation discusses the CA from the perspective of groups since the CA is traditionally defined from the perspective of the individual. Groups are especially salient in the context of natural hazards since …
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'Transsexual' people in UK workplaces: an analysis of transsexual men's and transexual women's experiences
… and practical knowledge surrounding: the doings/undoings of gender; identity constructions and related interpersonal and intertextual interactions; and the impact of medical, legal, and other dominant societal frameworks; in the UK employment sphere.
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Komiesa ko speel: Heteroglossia and Multimodality in bilingual children's play in a pre-school space
… of not only the children's sociocultural doings, communication and interaction with the environment but also how it affects how they are taught and how they learn. The research methodology encompassed working within language and literacy as a social practice and the research design for …
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Ukuziphatha nokuphathwa kwabesifazane : endulo namanje
… they also have grudges and think of bad doings. Though Mkabayi had sympathy for her father's tribe but she also had jealous about the kingdom of the Zulu nation. She arranged for Sojiyisa to be killed because she thought he was not supposed to take the reign since he was a Thonga. It also …
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A Case Study: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Infected and Affected Rural Primary School Children in Zimbabwe – Children’s Perspectives
Abstract A Case Study: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Infected and Affected Rural Primary School Children in Zimbabwe – Children’s Perspectives. Siza Mtimbiri Although there has been increasing research on HIV/AIDS and children, albeit mostly outside the school environment, most research in the area …
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Självets garderobiär : Självreflexiva genuslekar och queer socialpsykologi
… clothing as both enabling and preventing these doings. One of the main concerns in the self-presentations appears to be the experienced ability to re-form the bodily surfaces by means of clothing. Hence, cross-dressing can be regarded as a way of creating a bodily appearance that in the long run …