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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"interpretive research"”.
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Harvesting Encounter: An Interpretive Research Center at Pack Forest
… from timber. Harvesting Encounter proposes an interpretive research center at the University of Washington's Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest, where a recreational landscape merges with a working forest. Through the investigation of a dynamic landscape, the project exposes the …
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Making sense of public administrative leadership in the Republic of Ireland: an interpretive research project
This research is a research into the perceptions of senior public administrative leaders in the Republic of Ireland regarding their own leadership at the time when Ireland was facing a significant socio-economic crisis. The research examines the senior Irish administrative leaders’ own perspectives …
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Exploring the factors influencing agility adoption in selected financial institutions in South Africa
… in South Africa. The study adopted the interpretive research paradigm, wherein primary data was collected using the qualitative exploratory design, based on concepts derived from literature. In this regard, fifteen respondents were chosen for the study through the purposive sampling …
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Exploring the meaning of being a cooperating teacher
… teacher education programs is the inadequacy of research concerned with questions of meaning, such as what it means to be a cooperating teacher. Interpretive research investigates our way of experiencing the world and addresses questions of being. A phenomenological research approach allows the …
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Integration of e-learning systems into academic programmes in South African universities
… body of knowledge. For this purpose, the interpretive research paradigm was adopted, together with qualitative data collection and analytical methods to investigate the factors affecting the integration of C/LMSs into academic programmes. Interviews were held with individual lecturers, and …
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The experiences of academics working remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa
… pandemic, and develop new ways of teaching and research, to ensure the continuity of the academic project. The purpose of the study was to explore this experience during this uncertain time. Using an interpretive research design, fifteen in-depth semi structured interviews were conducted with …
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Using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to represent artefacts in the Zachman Frameword
An interpretive research approach will be used to describe and decompose UML diagrams into their respective building blocks. A top down approach will be used to determine views that are important to enterprises during the system development lifecycle. The importance of providing graphical …
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Postsecondary students with reading difficulties/disabilities: exploring coping strategies and learning techniques
… The present study employed a basic qualitative interpretive research design to discover and understand the perspectives and experiences of the students interviewed for this study (Merriam, 1998). Semi-structured interviews were utilized to provide insight into the experiences of these …
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Narratives of Transition: United States Service Members' Stories of Reintegration after a Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan Post 9/11
… home and transitioning back to civilian life. An interpretive research design was used to answer the research questions, using qualitative method, specifically narrative analysis to cull out overarching themes from individual service member narratives. There were seven emerging narratives where …
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Extensible business reporting language: an interpretive investigation of the democratisation of financial reporting
… undertaken from a constructivist perspective. An interpretive research framework is regarded as appropriate to the current maturity XBRL. XBRL-knowledgeable individuals are asked whether they agree with the assertion that 'XBRL democratises financial reporting'. In addition, their perceptions of …
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Life histories of Muslim teachers in Birmingham primary schools
… Birmingham schools have been collected in this research. This interpretive research involved a systematic gathering and analysis of data using semi-structured in-depth interviews. Thirteen primary school teachers voluntarily participated for this to happen. This thesis is about Muslim teachers. …
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Investigating the effects of power relations on the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning through the lens of Actor Network Theory : the case of MESAIR
The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of power relations on the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in an organisation in Saudi Arabia. The researcher adopted a qualitative, interpretive research perspective using a single explanatory case study paradigm, which …
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The Role of School Management Team in Improving the Academic Performance of Grade 12 Learner in Malamulele North-East Circuit, South Africa
… performance of learners. The study employed the interpretive research paradigm, which also informed the use of the qualitative research methodology. Exploratory research design was used as a blueprint of the study. The population of the study included principals, deputy principals, departmental …
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Why Democracies and Autocracies Go to War: Comparing the Cases of Iraq and Ukraine
… behave similarly by launching an invasion. The interpretive research of various memoirs, books, interviews, academic articles, news reports, and speeches, has uncovered that personal biases, particularly confirmation biases, play a significant role in motivating leaders to start a war. Leaders’ …
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Hope for the fatherless?: A grounded interpretive approach
… commonly associated with father loss. The research questions for this study presented themselves naturally after reviewing the literature and after considering the results of my pilot study, namely, “What do fatherless individuals actually experience in being fatherless, and what is the …
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Towards a pedagogy that promotes the values of craftsmanship in a photography practice programme.
In this research, I explore influencers that could clarify the idea of a photography practice pedagogy. This need is identified because pedagogic ambiguity exists in the creative practice fields in Higher Education. The process towards clarification of photography practice pedagogy includes an …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
… voter participation rates. This mixed-mode interpretive research study examined secondary data in the form of a comprehensive analysis of existing documents, campus action plans, and voter registration and participation data available through institutional participation in the ALL IN Campus …
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What Children Think, Feel, and Know About the Overhand Throw
… to throw a ball. Assertions were formed using interpretive research. These assertions framed and organized the results section of the study. Results indicated that the children taught using the skills themes approach were more knowledgeable about the skill of throwing and they attributed their …
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Professional Development Needs of Secondary School Teachers in Teaching Economics: A Case of Schools in Vhembe District
… Learning Theory (Andragogy) as a framework, the researcher employed a qualitative and interpretive research approach. This involved conducting semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with 10 economics teachers and 2 departmental heads from schools that were purposefully chosen for their …
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