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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"interpretive inquiry"”.
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Teachers' Images and Narratives of Good Teachers: An Interpretive Inquiry
Despite significant amounts of rhetoric and research on the importance of good teachers, little attention has been paid to how practicing teachers conceptualize what it means to be a good teacher. Using a research process informed by philosophical hermeneutics, this study explores the experiences …
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Knowledge transformation in a mobile learning environment : an interpretive inquiry of ubiquitous context and social presence awareness
One of the most fundamental facets of knowledge is that it transforms as an outcome of individuals sharing experiences through interaction. Knowledge transformation is when there is a shift in view, perspective and the thought process consequent to a social activity. The problem for a contact …
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Adult student practitioners: a qualitative study on their personal experiences
… the coursework. This study adopted elements of interpretive inquiry for development of a case study that sought to analyze meaning-making interactions of the participants lives and to make meaning of their doctoral experiences. A series of open ended questions in one-on-one interviews revealed …
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Determinants of Leisure-Time Physical Activity Participation Among African Students Attending a Canadian University
… wellness. This research was guided by an interpretive inquiry approach because it examines in-depth the meanings and understanding people create of their personal experiences and perceptions (Gephart & Rynes, 2004). Seven students were recruited for the study and semi-structured interviews …
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Embracing Commonplace: Creating Ground for a Life of Rhetorically Engaged Civic Action
… component of the civic engagement process. As an interpretive inquiry, the philosophical thought and the pragmatic action of twentieth-century rhetorician and social activist Jane Addams (1860-1935) provides a hermeneutic entrance point for identifying and understanding the ways in which faculty …
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Individual and Collective Diaspora Remittances in the Philippines and Korea: An Interpretation of Narrative Identity, Communicative Action, and Recognition
… and Jürgen Habermas (1981,1987,1984) and the interpretive inquiry protocol developed by Ellen Herda (1999, 2000), the theoretical categories of narrative identity, communicative action, and recognition were applied to this study.</p> <p>Research Categories</p> <p>Research conversations from …
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Wisdom as Sophia: An Analysis of the Sophiologies of Three 19th-20th Century Russian Philosopher-Theologians--Vladimir Solovyov, Pavel Florensky, and Sergius Bulgakov--Implications for Adult Learning
… objectives using the method of hermeneutics, an interpretive mode of inquiry with both reproductive and productive aspects. The reproductive aspect established the historical and philosophical context of the three thinkers and discussed how their sophiological texts aided an understanding of …
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Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Experiences of South Asian Women Immigrant Teachers in Toronto
… by a Critical Race Feminist perspective, I used interpretive inquiry as a research methodology to facilitate participants telling their struggles, challenges, and negotiations of their everyday lives while living in a large urban center like Toronto. My analysis of this research shows that these …
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Persistence of ethnic dress traditions in contemporary society: an interpretive study of Germany's Black Forest Trachten
… this tradition exists. Thus, the purpose of this interpretive inquiry was to explore the factors that have supported the persistence of Trachten tradition, specifically related to the wearing and crafting of Trachten by women, in a contemporary society. The work was informed by theory proposing …
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Feedback in Higher Education: Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Feedback
… as a foreign language context. Located within interpretive inquiry, the current qualitative study aimed to generate an in-depth understanding of feedback from the perspective of 18 undergraduate students enrolled in two programmes at a public university in China. Data were collected over time …
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The Play of Silence and Talk in Difficult Conversations about Literary Texts
This inquiry into the visible invisibility of language experience considers how silence may be understood as a generative aspect of difficult conversations about literary texts. Being in silence, being with others in a class discussion setting disrupts the expectation that deep enriching …