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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"insider researcher"”.
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Metacognition and dyslexia : towards an increased understanding of the cognitive knowledge and self-regulation practices of students with dyslexia in higher education
… and evaluation of their learning. From an insider-researcher perspective, the data collection is derived from 16 semistructured interviews and a self-administered inventory, situated within an independent UK university. The participants were enrolled on the full time or part time route of …
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Access to higher education as a point of transition for mature students, an experience by which they are transformed
… The research design is influenced by my insider researcher status, adopting case study and pragmatic approaches to foreground the participants’ lived experiences of Access. The data collection methods of card sort and semi-structured interviews, that focus upon their voices. Contextual …
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Pride and prejudice : the socialisation of nurse educators
… all data are collected and analysed from an insider-researcher position. Pierre Bourdieu‘s relational concepts of field, capital and habitus are applied as a template through which the accounts of nurse educators are filtered and interpreted. In this thesis I will argue that nurse educators …
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How important is the local when thinking global? : Internationalisation at a research-led university
… projects. All data are analysed from an insider-researcher position. The study’s findings suggest that local factors of place, tradition and individual agency are important items in shaping internationalisation endeavours. Personal and professional international experiences can create a …
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Exploring mothers’ experiences when their disabled child starts school: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… their child began mainstream primary school. The researcher adopted an insider researcher perspective, herself the mother of a disabled child. The interviews were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The mothers’ experiences are interpreted and organised around four …
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What is the gift of spiritual direction for women going through a season of dissidence, of deconstruction and reconstruction of faith?
… process and how? I entered this process as an insider researcher in an autoethnographic field of study. I take the reader on a journey into SD, and into the deep waters of spiritual abuse, neglect, labelling and ostracizing that goes on in Christian churches. I am working with a feminist …
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Embedding Mindfulness Practice Within a Higher Education Organisation: a Living Theory Influenced Approach
… values: equity, freedom and compassion. This insider-practitioner insider-researcher study has integrated a methodology and methods also of: action research, reflection, reflexivity, thematic analysis and change management tools. This bricolage approach also used a running metaphor of ‘a play’ …
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'Having a mentor made this journey easier' : an exploration of a formal, virtual, time-bound and paid-for mentoring programme in a dispersed third-sector organisation
… the difficulties and benefits of being an insider-researcher. Semi-structured interviews were held with twenty-four women to examine their experiences as mentees or mentors. The interviews made use of images to prompt reflections. Eighty-two documents were examined to provide a context for …
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Mimetic effect in mentoring Baptist ministers
… of mimetic effect. The implications of being an insider-researcher with shared faith and calling are discussed. The case-study comprised a quantitative survey to identify mimetic effect and to enable selection of five mentees and their mentors for qualitative semi-structured interviews. There …
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The implementation of marketing in private early childhood education centres in Hong Kong: an investigation of the effect on marketing ethics
… at regular schools. Positionality Being a researcher and owner of a private early childhood education centre, I contribute to knowledge by offering an understanding of the market and marketing ethics in the early childhood education sector in Hong Kong. From such a position I recognise that …
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Peer Mentoring And Professional Development: A Study Of EFL Teaching In The Middle East
… constructed pro-formas and diary notes. As an insider researcher in the three settings, I have been able to follow closely a process of peer mentoring trials. Highlights of the results are that interactive work that draws on the total experience of the teaching staff of an institution can lead …
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A cross-discipline study in the school of health and education: examining interpersonal conflict in college life through collective cultural lens
… of conflict in their college life. As an insider-researcher, my deep involvement with the students’ college life experiences has enabled me to form a unique methodological framework suited to a cross-disciplinary research project. The objectives of this study were twofold: (1) to help …
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An exploration of strategies to support non-specialist mathematics and statistics learners in higher education in Mauritius
… the scope of this research. In my capacity as an Insider-Researcher, my deep understanding of the research topic played a vital role in guiding the establishment of the investigation, with careful consideration given to the ethical considerations inherent to this role. Findings from the data …
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An examination of how tutor-practitioners conceptualise and enact practice-based-knowing in a small Higher Education Fashion School : a social practice theory approach
… (HEFS). It adopts a qualitative idiographic insider-researcher close-up methodology composed of oral biographies, dialogic interviews, interviews with the double, participant observations and researcher reflexivity. Social practice theory (SPT) is applied within the research, composed of …
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A field analysis of a 14-19 educational partnership
… methods, both from the perspective of an insider researcher, were used. Participant observation was used to obtain in situ evidence of partnership operation. In addition, eleven senior managers from partnership organisations were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. An analysis of …
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The roles that coaching and mentoring play in addressing the leadership challenges of charity CEOs
… acknowledging the issues involved in being an insider researcher. Twenty-nine semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain perspectives from a variety of stakeholders within the UK charity sector. Fourteen documents relating to charity CEO roles and coaching and mentoring programmes were …
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The Role of Market Information Sources on New Product Innovativeness in a Myanmar Manufacturing Company
… and 17 participants were selected based on the researcher’s knowledge and understanding. Standard ethical guidelines were followed, and the researcher was fully aware of and mitigated the issues of being an insider researcher. Qualitative content analysis was carried out to analyse qualitative …
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Creating Brand Equity in Myanmar Private Higher Education Sector
… a mixed method approach from the stance of an insider researcher through a survey and a focus group discussion with the students at Myanmar Imperial University. The empirical findings of this study offer an academic contribution to the existing body of knowledge on brand equity in the Higher …
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Practice as the site of learning: a case study of higher education in an aviation degree
… have been interpreted from the position of an insider-researcher using questionnaires and content analysis of student work. Semi-structured interviews have been carried out with flight training organisation and university staff and a constant comparative and theme mapping approach was used to …
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Transforming business capabilities at William Hill
… and grounded in my lived experiences as an insider researcher in a practice setting, working in the gambling sector at William Hill PLC. The thesis project ‘Transforming Business Capabilities at William Hill’ is an action-inquiry reflective overlay to my business project ‘William Hill …
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