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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"insider/outsider"”.
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Hegemonic Insider-Outsider in Teacher Education
… of the phenomenon of the hegemonic insider-outsider in a teacher education course. My analysis shows how the hegemonic insider-outsider is produced as individual preservice teachers navigate various forms and levels of relationships, dominant discourses, oppressions, and …
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Teaching Inside Out in Appalachia: Identity Development of Insider/Outsider Teachers
In this study, I investigate the concept of insider/outsider teacher identity, focusing on its relationship to teacher education. Having extensive experience as a student and teacher in rural Appalachia, I emphasize the regional perspective. To introduce the study, I present the research questions …
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An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy
… research with Native communities: a dialectic of insider/outsider; challenge of developing positive communication; and concerns of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Four major themes emerged with regards to communication challenges for the participants while working in the academy: …
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When Worlds Collide: Bringing the Native/Indigenous Transnational Nonprofit Leader to the Conversation
… in greater detail how the leader negotiates his insider/outsider position as part of his nonprofit work.</p> <p>The purpose of this case study is to explore more fully the insider/outsider nonprofit negotiation of two native Guatemalan transnational nonprofit leaders who travel regularly between …
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Insiders and Outsiders: Global Social Movements, Party Politics, and Democracy in Europe and North America
This dissertation explores several dynamics in insider and outsider activism in the anti-war movement: insider-outsider cooperation and conflict in protest coalitions; transnational protest events' success in uniting insiders and outsiders; and coupling of insider and outsider tactics such as …
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Critical systems thinking, dialogue and quality management in the National Health Service
… group relationships using Grant's (1989) insider/outsider model. It is argued that critical systems thinking can be enhanced by embedding interventions within processes of dialogue, and that the analysis of insider/outsider relationships in situations can guide the use of critical systems …
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Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
… the research interrogates the complexities of insider/outsider research, collaborative research methods, and the politics of studying up to reimagine ethnography for liberation. </p>
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The Lagunya Lacuna : contestations of legitimacy and agency in housing allocation in a Black Local Authority, 1983-1994
… housing allocation process illustrates the insider/outsider polemic and the ways in which complex interrelationships developed between the local authorities and the community leadership structures, between the New Crossroads community and the residents of townships surrounding them, and …
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Ideological parallels between Gamergate and white supremacy: a thematic content analysis
… gender, and race. The application of Merton’s Insider/Outsider dynamics revealed an extremely rigid ideological divide between those who identify as Gamergate supporters, and those who are external to Gamergate, which are held in deep suspicion as being engaged in a wide-ranging and ill-defined …
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Violence for a Peaceful End: Rhetorical Violence, Fundamentalist Eschatology, and the Interpretive Tradition of Revelation
… and societal targeting, and creation of insider/outsider dynamics with those outside the tradition. While rhetorical violence—language and behaviors that harm others and that occur so regularly that they often become routinized and habitual—does not directly involve killing and enacting …
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Help-Seeking for Depression in Rural Women: A Community Portrait
… the data: 1) family role in help-seeking; 2) insider/outsider status impact on help-seeking; 3) role of family and work functioning in help-seeking, and 4) role of informal and formal networks in help-seeking. Tentative conclusions were reached based on the findings that suggest depression and …
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Identity, Agency, and Emotion: Political Activism Among Anti-War Military Veterans
… deploying that identity in activism enables an insider/outsider status that informs their critique and establishes legitimacy and political standing, which is evident in their public activism. I also find that within this context an emotion culture is created that enables the possibility for …
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The future of coastal landscapes: perceptions and conflicts on the west coast of Ireland
… tourist experiences that challenges conceptual insider-outsider challenges and points to the transformative potential of lived space, not as a descriptor of a different typology of coastal landscape, but rather as a resource to understand how communities affected by multiple pressures can …
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The Faithful Infidel: Exploring Conformity and Deviance of Category Members
… individual status and organizational identity (insider-outsider) of the producer. The main overarching finding of this dissertation is that organizations will take into account both its internal resources and external socio-environment to decide which strategy it will deploy and whether it can …
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Journey with Ganapati : a media exploration and analysis of Hindu religious ritual components
… of traditional ritual components. 5. The insider- outsider dialogue concerning ethnographic film.
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Aspiring to Citizenship: African Immigrant Youth and Civic Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
… multiple positions, localities and identities: insider, outsider, victim, perpetrator, dependent, independent, child, adult. This dissertation examines the various ways in which African immigrant youth in Cape Town activate citizenship and belonging through civic participation or engagement, …
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Globalizing teacher labor for the knowledge economy: The case of New York City's Caribbean teachers
… in advancing these rights; the value of their insider/outsider perspectives on American public education; and the gendered construction of their transnational, transgenerational class projects. I argue that international teacher recruitment, and in particular the U.S. public school recruitment …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… and the use of my autobiography provides an insider/outsider gendered narrative space where I have negotiated dominant and subversive forms of knowledge. By comparing and contrasting published memoirs to corridos and by intersecting my own narrative with the corridos, a postmodern critical …
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College Contract Faculty in Ontario: Professional Identities and Precarious Employment
… college faculty simultaneously occupy insider/outsider positions in their respective higher education institutions. How do they perceive the relationship between their employment status and their work as educators? In recent scholarship, it has been argued that part-time faculty occupy …
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Academic perceptions of educational technology: towards communicative rationality in the higher education institution
… beliefs towards the management of change. The insider-outsider position of the researcher changed during the research which influences its development. The impact of this shifting perspective is considered reflexively throughout the thesis. The main contribution to knowledge is the augmentation …
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