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Showing 1 to 20 of 279 for “"epistemologies"”.
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Decolonial Epistemologies for Energy Planning in Brazil
… opens up theoretical pathways for decolonial epistemologies for energy planning in Brazil. The critical analysis is verticalized from the 2015–2024 Brazilian Decennial Energy Expansion Plan (DEEP) to better highlight the epistemological problems in energy planning. Epistemological challenges …
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Kimono threads: unraveling ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics
… on kimono knowledge: kimono ontologies, kimono epistemologies, and kimono ethics. I think with grassroots theorists, kimono enthusiasts, and activists to present alternative approaches to these questions that begin to fill in the gaps left behind by the macro-level approach prevalent in social …
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Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua
This study is dedicated to examine the concept of borders, geographical and otherwise, as instruments that are socially produced. It utilizes Gloria Anzaldua's theoretical framework of Borderlands theory as a set of processes that seek to attain the de-colonization of the inner self. The historical …
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The Epistemologies They Carry: An Investigation of Feminist Writing Assignments
… 38% of the assignments did not reflect feminist epistemologies. The teachers interviewed and the study of my own writing assignment both further suggest that translating pedagogy into assignments is a complex process, often understood as implicit. I offer this not as a critique of the feminist …
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Making Power Visible: Racialized Epistemologies, Knowledge (Re) Production and American Sociology
This dissertation methodologically analyzes triangulated qualitative data from a critical race and feminist standpoint theoretical approach in order to explore American Sociology's contemporary process of institutionalized knowledge reproduction, as well as how race structures that process. …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… York City, <em>Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State </em>explores how gender, race, and class have been transformed at the intersection of criminal legal system reform and the overdose crisis. I take up how multiracial groups of criminalized …
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The ‘truth about Ebola’: Insecure epistemologies in post-outbreak Forest Guinea
This dissertation examines the ways in which the ‘truth’ about an outbreak of zoonotic disease stabilises through the labour of sampling animals. While scarcely any case of Ebola had ever been reported in West Africa, the deadliest epidemic to date started in 2013 in the southeastern region of …
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SCIENCE ON TRIAL: BRIDGING SCIENTIFIC AND LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGIES IN STRATEGIC CLIMATE LITIGATION
Come possono i tribunali confrontarsi con la complessità della scienza climatica di fronte all’urgenza della crisi climatica? È questa la domanda che guida questa tesi, dedicata a indagare l’incontro, spesso difficile ma imprescindibile, tra diritto e scienza nelle aule di giustizia. Negli ultimi …
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An activity theory analysis of social epistemologies within tertiary-level eLearning environments
… use of learning activities underpinned by social epistemologies and mediated by asynchronous web-based technologies in three blended papers (a combination of face-to-face and ICT-supported modes of delivery) in higher education in New Zealand. More specifically, due to the significant numbers of …
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Contrasting epistemologies in the use of natural dyes, Central Highlands of Chiapas
… diverse communities of practice and inherent epistemologies affects artisanal dyeing techniques among the populations of the Central Highlands of Chiapas. Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork was carried out in San Cristóbal de Las Casas and its surrounding areas during the summer of 2022 with …
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Epistemologies of Imperial Feminism(s): Violence, Colonization, and Sexual (Re)Inscriptions of Empire.
… to highlight the significance of feminist moral epistemologies in establishing global hierarchical systems. I argue that when situated within the sexual matrices of coloniality, feminist moral regulation knowledge production in Canada institutionalizes hierarchical social ordering through the …
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Where are the Students in Student Voice? Challenging Dominant Epistemologies in Student Voice Discourses
The following master’s thesis explores how adult researchers and practitioners'defining, framing, and implementation of student voice may have contributed to the positioning of secondary school students in education policy and leadership. Key research questions addressed whether or not there is a …
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Development and Validation of Pre-service Teachers' Personal Epistemologies of Teaching Scale (PT-PETS)
… done to examine its role of teachers' personal epistemologies in preparing future generations of teachers. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument designed to assess pre-service teachers' personal epistemologies of teaching (PT-PETS). The PT-PETS was administered to …
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Marimba music, boundaries of diaspora, and epistemologies of the Colombian border in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
This dissertation is an ethnography of borders in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, a province in the southernmost region of a binational African diaspora community that extends into Colombia to the north, constituting an area locally known as “El Pacífico.” This area has been home to the majority of Ecuador’s …
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Epistemologies of safety : a comparative study of contemporary French and American reactor design practices
What makes for a safe nuclear power reactor? One of school of thought (that has significant traction within the academic nuclear engineering community) calls for using risk as a surrogate for safety. Safety then becomes a measurable quantity and can be specified in probabilistic terms and treated …
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Redignifying LaVilla: Visualizing and Recentering Black Epistemologies in the Revitalization of LaVilla, Jacksonville, Florida
… to activating archives and visualizing Black Epistemologies within the urban planning context. At the core of this project lies the argument that Black Epistemologies represent a legitimate expertise that is missing from revitalization efforts. Planners and other practitioners engaged in …
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Truffle crops and soil drugs : new fungal practices and epistemologies for the 21st century
Perigord truffles (Tuber melanosporum) have, over the past 200 years, become a cultivated crop grown across the globe. Since the 1890s, soil microbes have been commodified to "fertilize" agricultural crops (and are now referred to as biofertilizers, biostimulants, or simply "soil drugs"). This …
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Tracing fifth-grade students' epistemologies in modeling through their participation in a model-based curriculum unit
… learning. In particular, I argue that students' epistemologies, one dimension of epistemic agency, should be developed as a result of participating in practice-based science learning. The research within this dissertation focuses on studying the practice of scientific modeling. There is a body of …
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Epistemologies of intention : uncertainty and translation in Bertolt Brecht's life of Galileo and Michael Frayn's Copenhagen
Thesis (S.B. in Literature)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2010.
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