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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"hermeneutic research"”.
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Revealing the Invisible: Examining Contemporary Social, Economic and Political Realities through Sculptural Media (Glass & Ceramic)
This thesis is a practice-led research project that investigates how socio-political themes like status-driven economics, mass surveillance, media manipulated and simulacra saturated societies of today, can be examined through sculpture. It explores ways to reveal contemporary social structures and …
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Schubert s dramatic Lieder to Poems by Goethe: Technical and interpretive decision-making from a lyric baritone s perspective
… within a Lied. This study adopts a qualitative research approach and interpretivist paradigm that combines practice-led and autoethnographic methods within a hermeneutic research design to interpret the Lieder. This combined approach, including reflexivity based on my own experience as a lyric …
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A Comparative Analysis of the influence of Folklore on the works of the following African writers: Chinua Achebe, Eskia Mphahlele, Ngungi wa Thiongo' and Andrew Nkadimeng: An Afrocentric approach
… their stories in the English language. The research was qualitative in nature and a hermeneutic research method was used to describe and interpret the meaning of texts as used by the authors and to explore the influence of folklore in the text. The study will be a useful resource for …
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The normative structure of science, hermeneutics, and leisure experience
… the appropriate unit of analysis for exploring a research tradition as its macrostructure (Anderson, 1986). This macrostructure is composed of the normative philosophical commitments that are accepted in a research tradition without direct empirical support (Hudson and Ozanne, 1988). While a …
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It's All About Relationships: African-American and European-American Women's Hotel Management Careers
… race-gender groups in hotel management. Two research questions addressed are addressed (1) How are hotel management careers racialized and gendered?; and (2) How are the career experiences of African-American women who are hotel managers different from those of European-American women who are …
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A Hermeneutic Historical Study of Kazimierz Dabrowski and his Theory of Positive Disintegration
The inquiry is a hermeneutic historical study of the historical factors in the life of Kazimierz Dabrowski which contributed to the shaping of his Theory of Positive Disintegration. Relatively little information has been written on the life and theory of Kazimierz Dabrowski. The researcher contends …
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Sandwich Generation Caregivers: Ethical Legacies Throughout Generations
<p><strong>Research Topic</strong></p> <p>This critical hermeneutic research study explores ethical meanings during a time of dual-generation care and how these interpretations may affect one's view of family life across generations. The research participants in this study were adults situated …
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Understanding nurses’ experiences of intuition, caring for people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
… However, intuition continues to be theorised and researched without having a recognised position within intellectual disability nursing practice. Aim: The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of nurses’ experiences of intuition, caring for people with severe and profound intellectual …
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Internet Dwelling, Cyborgs, and the Matrix of Modernity: An Empirical Inquiry with Critical-Hermeneutic Features
… America Online cyberscape. A two-tiered critical-hermeneutic method enables exploration of the broad rationalizing historical narrative and the localized play of virtual discursive practices impacting human meaning construction, selfhood, and social practice. A third and fourth tier of inquiry …
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Food Waste Reduction through Food Sharing Initiatives: The lived Experiences of Restaurants and Food Bank Employees in Riyadh
… pattern of behaviour around sharing food. This hermeneutic phenomenological research will explore how food sharing might reduce food waste in a cultural and community-based society like Saudi Arabia through the lived experiences of restaurants and food bank employees. Research data were …