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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"knowledge practices"”.
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Occupational and sporting identities: Knowledge, practices and performance
The work which is submitted for the degree of PhD by publication comprises eleven papers published in peer-reviewed journals: six sole-authored papers and five jointauthored. The publications span the years 1995 to the present, and the qualitative research projects from which the data and …
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Technoscientific Knowledge Practices of Adolescent Mental Health Care Work
This study examines the technoscientific knowledge-practices of adolescent psychotherapy. Employing an interpretive, feminist version of grounded theory, 40 interviews with psychotherapists were analyzed. Building on Science and Technology Studies and the Sociology of Health and Illness, the …
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Consumers' knowledge, practices, and satisfaction with cooking systems' interaction
… a three-part questionnaire to determine their knowledge and practices regarding the interaction between cooktops and cookware at the beginning, to assess their satisfaction with each cooking system, and to test their knowledge and preferences after completing the 30 cooking systems. Statistical …
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Hate crime law & social contention : a comparison of nongovernmental knowledge practices in Canada & the United States
… hate crime laws contribute to official legal knowledge by regulating hate speech, hate crime statistics, and conduct equivalent to hate crimes in schools, workplaces, and elsewhere. Yet, despite the proliferation of hate crime laws and jurisprudence, governmental officials do not control all …
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A Descriptive Study of Special Education Teachers Serving Students with Autism: Knowledge, Practices Employed, and Training Needs
… 2005). Despite advancements in instructional practices for students with autism (Iovannone, Dunlap, Huber, & Kincaid, 2003) little attention has been given to examining the qualities of special education teachers who deliver services to these students.This dissertation evaluated special …
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An investigation into indigenous knowledge practices on environmental conservation among the Batswana in the North West Province : the case of Taung
The study investigated the role of Indigenous Knowledge Practices on environmental conservation among the Batswana in the North West Province, with special reference to Taung. The study found the following aspects: (i) The Taung area has a diversity of indigenous biological resources, such as …
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Exploring indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being: a case study of isiXhosa-speaking women in the rural Eastern Cape
… analyzes and conceptualizes the indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being held by different generations of women and how they are reproduced cross-generationally in a rural isiXhosa-speaking community. It also explores how the relationship between concepts of self, …
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A study to determine the occupational health and safety knowledge, practices and injury patterns of workers at a specific beverage manufacturing company
… to determine the occupational health and safety knowledge, practices and injury pattern of workers at a specific beverage manufacturing company.
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Farming bees in a dynamic social-ecology: An ethnographic exploration of knowledge practices among commercial bee farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa
… that there is one universally 'right' system of knowledge, arguing that there exists a diversity or plurality of ways of knowing the world (Turnbull 1997; Green 2008). Western scientific research has been reframed by these 'relational ontologists' as a set of knowledge practices that tend to …
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Recovering Palestinian ancestral remedies as a politics of return
… colonial powers fragment and silence Palestinian knowledge practices as another mode of genocide. And locate silences (Trouillot 1995) by analyzing how colonial powers confiscate land, farming tools, and criminalizes Palestinians from foraging in an aim to disrupt any engagement with their …
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Discourses of Power and Resistance in the Water Policy Process of Delhi, India
… to explain how and why particular types of knowledge, practices and values get established in policy as well as the complex interplay of knowledge, power and agency in water policy processes of NCT Delhi, India.
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Supporting Productive Collaborative Discourse In Social Annotation Through Pedagogical, Technological, And Analytical Innovations In Higher Education
… involves interactions aimed at fostering various knowledge practices, presenting challenges such as promoting student participation, engaging them in the continual evolution of their ideas towards higher-level knowledge practices, and effectively evaluating and capturing the complex dynamics of …
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The Urban Politics of Settler-Colonialism: Articulations of the Colonial Relation in Postwar Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945-1975 (AND BEYOND)
… documents some of the ways that colonial practices and mentalities have shaped relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the historical and material conjuncture of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a focus on the period 1945 to 1975. Building on political and geographical …
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Social Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing within and across Organizations
… the roles social technologies play in informal knowledge sharing practices, both within and across organizations. Social technologies include (a) traditional social technologies (e.g., email, phone and instant messengers), (b) emerging social networking technologies commonly known as social …
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Critical thinking across the disciplines: understanding and application
… placed upon higher education curricula and practices, many of which stem from neoliberal priorities, such as market principles, and the commercialisation and commodification of degrees, impact on how critical thinking is, or can be, addressed. A combined theoretical framework, consisting of …
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Province-Wide Survey of the Effects of Quality Assurance Measures on Services for Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours
… IDD services. Methods: Online surveys addressing knowledge, practices and opinions related to QAM Part III and the Policy Directives were distributed to four general groups of Ontario IDD service personnel. Results: Sixty-six direct-care supervisors, 76 direct-care staff, 79 behaviour consultants, …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… drawing upon their land-based heritage and local knowledge systems to create community-controlled food systems in dialogue with broader national and global conversations about sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty. Employing a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies issues …
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Making Humanitarian Spaces Global: Coordinating Crisis Response through the Cluster Approach
… spaces are being made through the socio-material practices associated with the Cluster Approach for the coordination of humanitarian action. Drawing on in-depth interviews with humanitarian professionals from the UN, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement and various humanitarian NGOs, participant …
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Learning and doing literate activity and labor activism in a graduate worker union
… they engage in. I argue that by attending to the knowledge-practices of labor unions, we can recognize them as extracurricular spaces of consequential learning and becoming for many graduate students and as prefigurative spaces to reconsider what universities can do and should become. In writing …
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