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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"methodological pluralism"”.
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Minimum Wage: Theoretical and Empirical Debates
… research design, and essential need to adopt methodological pluralism which built upon diverse range of theoretical frameworks and empirical methodologies to understand the complexities inherent in real-world economic phenomena.</p>
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Teachers in the wild are pragmatic: An Integral Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives on the Integration of Technology in Teaching
… teachers’ use of technology? Wilber’s Integral methodological pluralism was used as a framework to orient the study, to organize the research questions and to provide the conceptual framework for the research methodology. Teachers experience a lack of access to technology which proved to be a …
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Unity and pluralism
The central theme of this thesis is methodological pluralism in systems science: that is, how it might be possible to draw upon different systems methods that are traditionally thought to be based in incommensurable paradigms. The thesis is split into three sections. Section One begins by reviewing …
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Contextual Interpretations of International Mindedness in International Baccalaureate Diploma Students
… of international mindedness. Through integral methodological pluralism, a form of mixed methods research, quantitative and qualitative data was collected and analyzed. Using an empirical methodology, the Global Perspectives Inventory (Braskamp, Braskamp & Engberg, 2014) was administered to IB …
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Towards a Buddhist systems methodology (BSM): developing the theory of BSM and testing it in a Taiwanese Buddhist organization
… a rationale for allowing theoretical and methodological pluralism in the development of locally relevant approaches to intervention. Therefore a Buddhist Systems Methodology (BSM) is proposed which combines systemic intervention with Buddhist concepts and which appears to offer a new …
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Well-Being in Adults with High Functioning Autism Characteristics
… how autistic traits affect well-being. Integral methodological pluralism (IMP) was employed as a framework towards achieving a more balanced, comprehensive understanding of both background knowledge and issues germane to the topic of well-being in high functioning autism. The themes examined …
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The Relationship Between Teachers and Hope: An Integral Study of How Teachers Experience, Enact and Understand Hope in their Teaching Contexts
… teaching contexts? This study used Integral Methodological Pluralism as the guiding conceptual framework. There were 14 teacher participants in this study, all of whom worked in elementary and/or middle schools in one school district within the British Columbia public school system. The …
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A contextualist research paradigm for rhetoric and composition
… in composition cannot be healed through "methodological pluralism" or by examining the epistemologies governing those methodological choices.A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification (Annis, 1978) provides a new lens through which we may recontextualize the competing epistemologies …
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Developing and testing green performance measures for the supply chain
… theory development and demanded theoretical and methodological triangulation to maximize the amount of data collected to explore the research phenomena from different perspectives. The study used a rigorous three-phased methodological framework originally developed by Churchill (1979) for items …
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The making of impact: Causal validity and epistemic justice in international development impact evaluation
… the study examines how evaluators balance methodological rigor with inclusive knowledge production. Through narrative-reflective interviews with nine evaluators representing diverse methodological perspectives, the research employs Eyal's (2013) "expertise as network" as well as research on …
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A critical process for the evaluation of methodology
… Systems Thinking) in terms of its emphasis on methodological pluralism, critical awareness and emancipation.The study begins with an explanation of a widely used critical systems methodology, Total Systems Intervention (TSI). TSI offers a means for evaluating other methodologies, and the …
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The later orchestral works of William Walton: a critical and analytical re-evaluation
… alongside tools from the tonal tradition. This methodological pluralism reflects my argument that the vitality of these scores derives from a tension between modernist and traditional tendencies. I argue that Walton appropriates a wide range of influences, including to some extent that of the …
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A comparative study of the fundamental juridical nature, classification and private law enforcement of jurisdiction and choice of law agreements in the English Common Law of Conflict of Laws, the European Union Private International Law Regime and the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
… private international law disputes informed by methodological pluralism needs to be developed. A notion of transnational justice which seeks to simultaneously balance the competing demands of the notion of 'conflicts justice' which prioritizes ex ante multilateral allocative imperatives and the …
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INDIVIDUAL IT USES AND THEIR ANTECEDENTS: A SOCIAL THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… <p>The research design for this study drew on methodological pluralism, using qualitative and quantitative methods. Using this mixed-methods approach to test the theory of workplace IT use allowed the development of rich insights, overcoming limitations of each method used by itself, and …