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Showing 1 to 20 of 263 for “"emancipatory"”.
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(Re) Visiting Female Entrepreneurs: An Emancipatory Impulse
… theorists. In contrast, his theorising is emancipatory and offers an alternative theoretical framework to the oppressive neo-classical economic growth theory. Oral history methods are used to capture the voices of female entrepreneurs which have largely been excluded from the literature. …
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Environmental justice and participatory democracy: An emancipatory policy proposal
… Justice and Participatory Democracy: An Emancipatory Policy Proposal analyzes the public participation guidelines for the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The author argues that four challenges must be addressed before the goal of environmental justice can be achieved. These …
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Emancipatory pedagogies in a grade 11 social studies classroom
… on the data I collected, I argue that a range of emancipatory teaching approaches should be used in critical classroom discourse. These different approaches emphasize the importance of critical thinking, the ability to recognize and combat oppression, the understanding and respect of different …
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Understanding the Benefits of Latino Giving Circles: An Emancipatory Research Study
… goals, and perceived benefits. I used an emancipatory research paradigm with Latino-focused critical race theory, LatCrit, to study the Latino Giving Circle Network (LGCN). A survey was used for data collection, and research platicas were employed in the survey’s analysis; both were …
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Digital Dialogue: Emancipatory Dialogical Practices in Virtual Collaborative Problem-Based Learning
… more. This collaboration requires critical and emancipatory dialogue and problem-solving.</p> <p>This qualitative multiple case study examined two online professional studies graduate-level courses that employed collaborative problem-based learning to engage with social-justice related themes, …
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Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people
… Secondly, and of equal importance, to test an emancipatory methodology within an academic doctoral context. The empirical work supporting the first aim consisted of 30 interviews with 'professionals' to assess their attitudes towards disabled people. The analysis of these interviews showed how …
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Disability and citizenship: an emancipatory study of professionals' attitudes to disabled people
… Secondly, and of equal importance, to test an emancipatory methodology within an academic doctoral context. The empirical work supporting the first aim consisted of 30 interviews with 'professionals' to assess their attitudes towards disabled people. The analysis of these interviews showed how …
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Life Excavation Through the Imaginarium: An Emancipatory Model of Arts -Based Inquiry
The findings from the shared self-inquiry are synthesized into a reflective arts-based pedagogy, a visual inquiry journal called the Imaginarium. This model guides the self-inquiry of relevant themes of human concern using queries rooted in lived experience and cultural inquiry. Documented by …
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Blackness as a question of freedom: racial blackness in South African emancipatory thought
This dissertation, using the theoretical framework of Afropessimism, discusses how Blackness is an ethico-political structure, in which the slave's natal alienation and social death establishes the resilient forms of Black (non)being. This project centrally argues against locating a theory of the …
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Transformative non-confrontational multicultural education: an implicitly emancipatory elementary school contemporary Native American artists program
Much of current literature on multicultural art education condemns Human Relations oriented approaches for their propensity to essentialize the art of the groups they attempt to represent, and their implicit reinscription of a hegemonic imperialist discourse regarding non-Western arts. In place of …
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Moving Worlds Through Moving Pictures: Exploring the Emancipatory Force of the Contemporary Sámi Film Industry
This dissertation collaborates with the insights of an assemblage of seven individuals involved in the indigenous film industry in the Nordic Arctic. Assisted by the qualified knowledge of this collection of film directors, screenwriters, producers, festival directors, programmers, academics and …
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How social change leaders practice reflexivity in an integrated way and realise its emancipatory aim
… as dialogical practices. While reflexivity's emancipatory effect is referenced in the literature, the mechanism by which reflexivity might achieve this aim is unclear. The resulting research question that responds to this gap in the literature is: How do social change leaders practise …
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In search of well-being in the workplace: Exploring the emancipatory potential of participatory action research
… its ability to assist participants to engage in emancipatory actions toward communicative action. In keeping with the emancipatory aspirations of critical theorists, I committed to an 'affirmative agenda' through which we sought to transform the firm's processes toward more employee inclusiveness …
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Mapping the other truth in the Shintech case: emancipatory mapping for environmental justice in south Louisiana
… mapping approach I demonstrate is a move toward emancipatory mapping.
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Emancipatory education and democratic politics: An analysis of the sociological imagination in a first grade classroom
<p>This autoethnographic research follows my personal and professional experiences as an elementary teacher reflecting upon the travails and joys that come with journeying toward a more liberating pedagogy and democratic experience along with first grade students. Braced with Freire’s 1970 …
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The Persistence of Resistance and the Emancipatory Power of the Aesthetic: On Negt and Kluge’s Critical Theory
… Given his limited understanding of art’s emancipatory potential—dependent on interpretation—however, he can, at best, account for individual resistance, but not for the construction of a ‘global subject’. I then reconstruct Negt and Kluge’s work as an attempt to move beyond Adorno’s …
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The Emancipatory Role of Technology in Mental Healthcare: The Case of Conversational Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms
The mental health crisis has been rapidly growing over the last few decades and was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, turning it into a deadly global challenge that leads to the loss of 12 billion working days each year, accounts for more than 14% of all deaths, and will cost the …
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Assessing the Boundaries of Participatory Democracy within an Emancipatory Political Framework: The Case of Parish Development Committees in Jamaica
… The analysis was bolstered by an appreciation of emancipatory politics employed by the country's general population since slavery not only to survive oppression, but also to influence the nation's political agenda. Riots during slavery and in the present day, for example, have offered citizens an …
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Inclusive participatory design of bespoke music instruments and auxiliary access equipment, as emancipatory arts interventions advocating for equality and wellbeing
… of participatory community arts, and using emancipatory approaches, the research challenges disabling attitudes and practices that inhibit social inclusion. Three case studies demonstrate inclusive approaches to instrument design and making, contributing to the medical humanities and social …
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