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Navigating the River: Preservice Teachers Negotiate Constructive Guidance
Preservice teachers engaging in practicum experiences often express anxiety and uncertainty related to providing discipline and classroom management. This uncertainty seems to increase when the classroom environment, in which they are student teaching, functions in ways that are unfamiliar to them. …
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Family Talk: Irish Women Across Generations Negotiate Single Motherhood
… as the ways in which family respectability is negotiated collaboratively. It also adds to our understanding of the ways in which family identities can be maintained and sustained in family interaction in the context of identity trouble.
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Job security: a legal duty to consult or negotiate?
… or not there is a duty on the employer to negotiate with workers on issues that affect their employment security. The research focuses on why there is no duty on the employer to negotiate with workers in regard to retrenchment, closure and transfer of undertakings. It also examines …
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Understanding developing countries' capacities to negotiate effective trade agreements : Colombia
This thesis explores the obstacles (the negotiation machinery, the asymmetric context of power and the international and domestic context) for developing countries in negotiating international trade agreements with the US. By articulating key components of the negotiation theory with personal …
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Learning to Negotiate Difference: Narratives of Experience in Inclusive Education
… and incompetence, they had to figure out how to negotiate those learning differences that mattered the most; and (c) To keep from being overwhelmed with the additional demands inclusion placed on them as teachers, they needed to garner support through a variety of relationships, and work through …
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Age effects on the gait kinematics to negotiate surface height changes
The primary aim of this study was to ascertain the biomechanical mechanisms or reasons for the high rate of falling behaviour exhibited by the elderly adult female population in terrain containing surface height changes. As such, this study specifically; (1) focused upon elderly and young adult …
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Border crossings : how students negotiate cultural borders during digital video production
… classroom, as well as how learners interact and negotiate cultural issues while producing video. The data was analysed with a custom-made multimodal toolkit as proposed by Baldry and Thibault (2006). By employing Kress and Van Leeuwen's four strata of Discourse, Design, Production and …
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Helping teams negotiate disruptions during task execution using distributed personal assistants
… deal with plan over-subscription, d-Uhura can negotiate with its user to relax temporal constraints, such as deadlines, to quickly adapt to execution failures. However, Uhura is built for single users and does not consider their interaction with other individuals.
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Investigating How Nontraditional Elementary Preservice Teachers Negotiate the Teaching of Science
… on nontraditional pre-service teachers as they negotiated the teaching of science in elementary school. Based upon a sociocultural theoretical framework with an identity-in-practice lens, these influences included beliefs about science teaching, life experiences, and the impact of the teacher …
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Negotiations Between Buyers and Sellers : What Really Happens When Buyers and Sellers Negotiate
… understand what happens when buyers and sellers negotiate. The review of literature considers the processes, approaches, relationships and behaviours of negotiators in the current status regarding negotiations between buyers and sellers.<br/><br/>The major justification for this work is that the …
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How Male Consumers Construct and Negotiate Their Identities in the Marketplace: Three Essays
With few exceptions, male consumers rarely have been examined through the lens of gender. However, despite the lack of theoretical research in this area, men are becoming avid shoppers even in areas that traditionally have been stigmatized as feminine, such as grooming and fashion. Thus, it is …
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Raising Immigrant Kenyan Children in America: How Families Negotiate Academic and Cultural Issues
My final chapter attempted to relate my findings to the existing literature review, and also explained how the findings interacted with the sociocultural framework. In general, the goals and experiences of my participating families appeared to resemble those of many other immigrants from other …
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Doing What's Best for Baby: How New Mothers and Fathers Negotiate Breastfeeding Over Time.
North Carolina State University Theses Sociology.
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In Search of Home: How Kenyans Domiciled in the USA Negotiate Transnational Identities Online.
There are a growing number of continental African immigrants in the United States who are changing the face of Black identity and politics in the USA. Whereas this group is largely invisible to mainstream media, they are visible in online diasporic media. However, there has been very little …
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The limits of choice : how community midwives negotiate choice in and of their practice
… explored the ways in which community midwives negotiate competing discourses when supporting choice in pregnancy and birth. The ways in which choice was presented to pregnant women by NHS Trusts providing maternity services, via their information leaflets and the websites that host them, …
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The Effect of Peer Victimization on Social Behavior and Children's Ability to Negotiate Conflict
The present study investigated a model of stress-generation in which peer victimization, via its effects on children's psychological and social adjustment, influences the quality of children's social interactions. 206 children (103 dyads) completed measures of peer victimization, emotional …
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How Couples Raising Children on the Autism Spectrum Negotiate Intimacy: A Grounded Theory Study
… couples raising children on the autism spectrum negotiate intimacy in their marriages/committed partnerships as well as what contextual factors influence these process and how they change over time. Twelve couples currently raising children on the autism spectrum were interviewed conjointly …
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How high-achieving African American undergraduate men negotiate cultural challenges at a predominantly White institution
… African American undergraduate men negotiate cultural challenges in a predominantly White institution (PWI). Cultural theory underpins the conceptual framework of this case study. Basing the study in cultural theory provided a lens through which to view the lived experiences of the …
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Breaking Through: How do Adult Learners negotiate Class prior to, during and after Higher Education?
… experiences of adult learners and how they have negotiated class prior to, during and after higher education. Class is a difficult subject to talk about, however, it is important that it is examined particularly in relation to the education system as much of the literature outlines that there is …
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How developers negotiate zoning and public benefits with the city : two cases in downtown Boston
… how developers and city planning officials negotiate zoning amendments and determine how much public benefits matter throughout the approvals process. Given the differing viewpoints between planners and developers, I hope to provide clarity on the considerations of both sides. My thesis …
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