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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"interpretative study"”.
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Exploring hedonistic consumption from an identity perspective: an interpretative study
This paper is the fifth in a series of six written as part of an investigation of consumer beliefs and attitudes towards luxuries. Numerous studies concerned with luxury consumption look at what luxury is and enables (Berry, 1994; Dubois and Laurent, 1996; Dubois et al., 2001; Lageat et al., 2003; …
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Jose Siqueira's Oito canções populares brasileiras : an analytical and interpretative study
… of this song set. The author also suggests interpretative performance approaches that take into consideration the musical, textual, and sociocultural aspects of these songs. As an aid to the foreign singer who wishes to perform this repertoire, this research also presents English-language …
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The Child's Emotionality: A Naturalistic Investigation
A descriptive, interpretative study of emotionality in early childhood was undertaken through a three year naturalistic investigation of emotional interactions in preschool-age children. Following interpretative interactionism, children were observed in natural settings, interacting with relatives, …
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Il romanzo arturiano tra verso e prosa. Lo Chevalier aux deux épées e le sue fonti
… medieval manuscript (Paris, BnF, fr. 12603), and studying its sources. The Chevalier aux deux épées has not yet received the critical attention it deserves, nor have its connections with prose romances been adequately explored, starting from the Suite du Roman de Merlin (Post-Vulgate Suite), the …
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Moral Agency, Moral Imagination, and Moral Community: Antidotes to moral distress, as reported by experienced ICU nurses regarding the withdrawal of aggressive treatment
… questions. The purpose of this qualitative, interpretative study is to fill in that gap. It uses narrative analysis to explore the reported practices of experienced ICU nurses who are skilled at and comfortable working with families and physicians regarding the withdrawal of aggressive …
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Exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-Americans (1774-1854), with reference to museum collections
This thesis is an interpretative study of early museum collections from Fiji. It combines art-‐historical, historical and anthropological approaches to museum items, in order to investigate exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-‐ Americans between 1774 and 1854. It proposes two ways of …
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The nature of music education at the South African College of Music : an interpretative enquiry
This project began with a Preliminary Study, in which the members of the 1985 final-year class at the SACM were interviewed to investigate their goals and the way in which these goals related to their curricula. The main findings of this study were that the students were unclear about their goals, …
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Musicking in the liminal Space between Community Music and Music Education
The study explored musicking, social capital, and social justice as connection points in the liminal space between community music (CM) and music education (MusEd). Musicking encapsulates active human involvement in music-making opportunities (Odendaal, Kankkunen, Nikkanen & Vakeva, 2014:165-168). …
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Studies in the dialect materials of medieval Herefordshire
… the Herefordshire area by linguistic means. The study builds on the methodology developed in connection with the Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986), but goes far beyond it both in its analysis of the individual texts and in using the data for …
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"No particular place to go": A poststructuralist feminist reading of middle managers' subjectivity
… change. It is based around a detailed interpretative study of middle managers in three companies, Carlux, Larts and Nylons. The three in-depth case studies were drawn from a wider sample and some additional data were also drawn from this wider sample. The thesis critically examines …
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The Effects of the Holocaust for Six Polish Catholic Survivors and their Descendants
… Holocaust survivors, there is a need to study the lived experience and effects of Holocaust-related trauma with Polish Catholic survivors and their families. This is an interpretative study that explores the lived experience of six Polish Catholic survivors and their descendants. The …
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A visual ethnographic study on nurse lecturers’ enactment of compassionate care within the adult pre-registration nursing curriculum
Aim of the study: To explore how compassionate care is enacted within the adult pre-registration nursing curriculum (APNC) by Nurse lecturers (NLs). Background: Compassionate care is rooted in the nursing profession and there is a general assumption that nurses are compassionate to those they …
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Literacy At Transition : An Exploration Of The Continuities And Discontinuities In Literacy Practices Across Secondary Transfer And Their Implications For Literacy Development
<b>Literacy at Transition</b>, an interpretative study adopting the sociocultural perspective of literacy as a situated social practice, offers an “experiential” (Murdoch, 1986) examination of commonalities and differences in cross-phase literacy practices. Designed as a small ethnographic case …
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From managerial career to portfolio career: making sense of the transition
This study is rooted in the question about the changing nature of career. The notion of career tends to be conflated with rising up through an organisational or occupational hierarchy. It is widely assumed that the traditional form cannot be sustained in today's downsized, delayered and flexible …
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The hydrogeological investigation of worked coal measures rocks and its application to the modelling of groundwater flows
… for the site which is based on various stages of interpretative study, inclusive of a comprehensive assessment of water quality and groundwater flow relationships. A full hydrological assessment of the site catchment is presented, which identifies the magnitude of surface water/groundwater …