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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"institutional practices"”.
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Decolonizing Institutional Practices: Supporting Aboriginal College Student Success
… role of faculty relationships and the need for institutional commitment in creating an environment that acknowledges and includes Aboriginal worldviews, traditions and cultures. This qualitative study explores the experiences of seventeen students. The outcomes of the study provides guidance to …
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Examining Institutional Practices and their effects on Student Success
… in this study arrived at the conclusion that institutional practices continue to entrench various forms of systematic exclusion which in turn significantly affect black students’ abilities to achieve success at a historically white university.
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The Influence of Institutional Practices and Resources on Latino Baccalaureate Completion Rates
… study was to examine the influence, if any, of institutional resources and practices at four-year baccalaureate degree-granting institutions on baccalaureate completion rates for Latino students. In addition, the study examined what influence, if any, Latino student involvement with constituents …
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The organisational capacity for social innovation: an experiential exploration in re-ordering institutional practices
… inquiry into the internal and external practices of a socially focussed organisation. By appreciating the lived experiences of engaging in these practices, the research looks to surface elements that contribute to the social sensitivity required to engage the complexity of social …
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Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects
… business research for decades and differences in institutional practices across countries have been found to influence performance of internationalised firms. Dominant scholarship in this area has been significantly influenced by insights and experiences from developed countries, usually to the …
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An investigation of the student experiences and institutional practices affecting spring-semester community college transfer students
… were studied through focus groups, and institutional practices were examined through personal interviews with administrators and staff of various departments on campus involved in the transfer process. The results indicated that the majority of the concerns of spring transfer students …
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A study of high school dual enrollment participation at Alabama’s public colleges and universities
… The findings help to better understand the institutional practices that attract students to participate in dual enrollment programs. This study describes the process by which a high school generates student participation in dual enrollment programs and identifies its established …
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First, do not speak: Errant doctors, sexual abuse, and institutional silence
… This research is an effort to understand how institutional practices create and sustain an atmosphere of silence in which such abuses can continue unchecked, if not completely unnoticed.
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Making Military Wives: Militarizing Social Reproduction of Military Families
<p>How do current day military institutional practices structure the daily lives of military wives? To answer this question, I use the theories of greedy institutions, militarization, and the life-course perspective to investigate the effects of deployments, temporary duty assignments, and training …
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Adobe Walls and Black-Tinted Windshields: The Press and Community Identity in Santa Fe, New Mexico
… the criticized traditional news gathering practices, that local residents express dissatisfaction with their local newspapers on several counts, that reader dissatisfaction is linked to the institutional practices of the press, that these press practices serve hegemonic ends, that …
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Improving Community College Student Persistence: An Investigation of Promising Practices
… to add to the understanding of community college practices and student persistence at the institution level. The study included survey responses and IPEDS data for a nationally representative sample of 259 community colleges. Survey respondents were asked to report their implementation of …
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Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker
… audience in accordance with compositional and institutional practices in American opera of the 1930s. Transparent musical themes and common Native Americans stereotypes are used to define characters. Folk music is presented as diegetic, creating a sense of authenticity that places the audience …
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Linking economic development and spatial planning in South Africa : a case study of state-market relations in Cape Town
In South African cities institutional practices and market forces are seen to reinforce spatial divisions. This dissertation reflects on the relationship between location fixed resources, market forces and state intervention and how the interaction of these factors influence urban spatial outcomes. …
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A complex orientation to embodiment in online education: making online educational spaces more engaging and more socially just
… and societal discourses, ideologies, and institutional practices—in ways that give access to or often draw lines of exclusion from power and resources; and creating critical engagement around embodied relationships of labor. I analyze how embodiment is meaningful for online educational …
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Expectations and Experiences of Black Students at Two PredominantlyWhite High Schools in Southern Appalachia.
… The participants' experiences revealed how institutional practices promoted or obstructed their successful experiences at high school.</p><p>Qualitative ethnographic methodology guided the study. The data collected included the stories of the Black students based on individual interviews, …
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The Politics of Media Freedom
… are heightened, and (2) historical and institutional practices normalize and perpetuate restrictions on media freedom and violence against journalists. The studies presented here show not only that electoral competition increases the incidence of restrictions on media freedom, but that …
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The Evolving Role of Head of Department in Irish Higher Education
… the socio-political and cultural discourses and institutional practices that shape Irish higher education where Heads of Department are located. Adopting a social constructionist paradigm and a case-study method, the research examined the micro-practices of leadership and management enacted in …
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Uncovering Queer Domesticity: Intuition and Possibility as Methods of Intervention Into the Historic House Museum and Archive
… in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using the Elfreth’s Alley Museum’s podcast The Alley Cast as a case study, I examine how utilizing a framework that understands queerness to be just as possible as straightness; that uses intuition to guide …
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Discrimination, fairness and prediction in policing : fare evasion in New York City
… be ineffective and seen as unfair due to the institutional practices that impact the data. This examination sheds light on how machine learning fairness could be analyzed using societal expectations of fairness.
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