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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"inquiry methods"”.
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Roles, Responsibilities, and Perceptions of Rural Community College Trustees: A Case Study in Illinois
… provide participants a voice. Thus, qualitative inquiry methods: interviews, document review, and observations were employed. This combination of methods expanded the depth of the research and provided a foundation for additional discussion about the roles and responsibilities of rural community …
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Amplifying Participants’ Perspectives of Beneficial Psychedelic Facilitation to Shape Future Practice
… psychedelic facilitation requires unique inquiry methods due to the contextualized nature of psychedelic experiences. This study explored participants’ perspectives on beneficial psychedelic facilitation to inform organizational best practices at Ambio Life Sciences using decolonizing …
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An Historical Case Study on the Illinois Articulation Initiative
… concerned with student success, the qualitative inquiry methods employed were interviews, as well as the review of Board minutes, reports, personal documents and accompanying literature to reach the conclusion that IAI is built with sound structure, but lacks the final phase of an evaluation to …
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Quilting stories and embracing culture: an arts-informed narrative inquiry exploring the experiences of an older Chinese Canadian immigrant with depression
… that they use. Using arts-informed narrative inquiry methods, I conducted a series of five research sessions with a co-participant from the Chinese Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area. Narrative patterns regarding identity, voice, and communication, as well as a prominent narrative …
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Leadership experiences of female middle leaders in independent schools of Mpumalanga province
… school context were understood. A narrative inquiry design was adopted to explore female middle leaders' lived experiences. This design is grounded in life experiences and focuses on how one fills one’s world with meaning and how we assist one another in building lives and communities. Data …
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How Parents of Exceptional Children Describe Their Relationships with Educational Professionals
… provided the framework for this qualitative inquiry. Methods included a content analysis of four decades of journal abstracts depicting the past voices of parents of exceptional children. This historical review spanned articles about the following topics: a child's exceptionality being the …
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Genre dispostions in crime films of Sub-Saharan Africa
… by extension. To achieve this, qualitative inquiry methods were applied to collect and analyse the data drawn from the films. The primary data was interspersed with secondary data and organized thematically, railed on two theories: Genre theory tenets by Steve Neale and Post-Afrocentric …
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the Next Library
… tools (midjourney) and traditional architectural inquiry methods to deepen our appreciation for the vast wealth of knowledge we have generated and highlight the responsibility we bear in safeguarding and sharing it. By understanding the fragility of knowledge, we can foster a collective …
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner:An Interpretive Mystery
… as standardized testing, and in their use of inquiry methods, were reported as beneficial to these students and potentially to other students as well. When similar methods were used in non-segregated classrooms that included students named as slow learners, most students were reported to be …
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An evaluation of the stages-of-change therapy programme for substance abuse
… approach. Process evaluation and appreciative inquiry methods were used to obtain qualitative data into their experiences of the programme. Themes that emerged from the analysis included the following: Knowledge/empowerment, transference of skills, positive group dynamics, cognitive and …
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In Search of Resilience: A Case Study of Leadership in Challenging Times in an International School Setting
… of crisis. Initially designed as a <em>heuristic inquiry</em>, in practice the study emerged more as a collection of <em>oral histories</em>, although heuristic inquiry methods<em> </em>were employed throughout the study. Polkinghorne’s conception of <em>narrative analysis</em> also was employed …
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Model for a teaching practice : development of a prototype through design inquiry
… to voice their ideas. The various forms of inquiry assist the designer in the reflective analysis and in the formulation of a conceptual framework for interior architecture, work processes, and organizational structure. Once completed, the designer creates a knowledge based design prototype …
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Making Sense of Digital Content Moderation from the Margins
… Using critical interface and narrative-based inquiry methods with six marginalized content creators on TikTok, I argue that marginalized creators navigate the opaque content moderation infrastructure of TikTok by drawing on their embodied experiences. The key research questions ask how these …
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Negotiating a path to professional efficacy: A narrative analysis of the experiences of four pre-service educators
… are analyzed using a variety of narrative inquiry methods which were investigated and described as part of this study. The interpretation of the narratives is also informed by theoretical constructs such as professional efficacy and knowledge and private theory. Through the analysis and …
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Coming Into Being: Productive Potentials, Creativity, and Wellbeing in the Lives of BIPOC Women and Femmes in Aotearoa
… Indigenous auto-ethnography, and poetic inquiry methods were employed to tell the seven peer (participant) narratives. This methodology highlights creative existence and decoloniality in the lives of the research peers while attending to the role of resistance and resilience within their …
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Development of Usability Questionnaires for Electronic Mobile Products and Decision Making Methods
… of software and electronic products, usability inquiry methods can play a more significant role during the development life cycle, diagnosing usability problems and providing metrics for making comparative decisions. A need has been realized for questionnaires tailored to the evaluation of …
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Building the OD professional of the future: creating a blueprint for new models of organisational development practice in the NHS
… in an Action Research group using co-operative inquiry methods to answer the question how do we build the OD professional of the future? We explored four areas in depth: locating ourselves in practice; new models of OD; phenomenal practice in the dynamic now; and building the OD professional the …
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What Principals Do to Minimize the Negative Effects of the Incompetent Teacher
… <p>Both quantitative and qualitative inquiry methods were employed. Using a two-phase design, the perceptions of principals about incompetent teachers were first explored through a mail-out survey. This phase was intended to answer the proposed research questions, some specifically and …
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A feminist action research inquiry into the hermeneutical injusticeof ‘being silenced’ in everyday conversational life
… happens are exposed. Using first-person inquiry and co-operative inquiry methods, the women involved in this research revealed the context, dynamics, and impact of their experience of social silencing. This contributes to our understanding of interactive social experiences and also to our …
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