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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"participatory practice"”.
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The Influence of Participatory Practice Making upon Secondary School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Commitment in Nyamagana District
This study assessed the influence of participatory practices upon secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction and commitment in Tanzania. Specifically the study examined the extent to which participatory decision making influences retention of secondary school teachers in the teaching profession, …
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The Angel of Art Sees the Future Even as She Flies Backwards: Enabling Deep Relational Encounter Through Participatory Practice-Based Research
… of opportunity within interdisciplinary arts practices for deep one-to-one relational encounters between creative practitioners operating in applied arts, performance, and workshop contexts with participant-subjects. This artistic problem is situated within the wider culture of pervasive …
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Barriers in community participation and rural development.
… more especially in the rural areas also adopted participatory approach. The approach led to the introductory of district assembly system which was to enhance the involvement of people at the grassroots in participatory activities. However, since the introduction of the decentralisation system to …
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We Are not Designers: Pattern making and garment making as practices of co-design for social change
… how fashion design, and more specifically, the practices of making patterns and garments, can give them tools to enhance their agency and build community resilience. This research aimed to explore how pattern making and garment making can be used to foster social change with a group of women …
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Participant or Protagonist? The impact of the personal on the development of children and young people’s participation
… and young people’s participation by exploring participatory practice in three community-based NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. There is profound confusion within children and young people’s participation both in theory and in practice. A credible and coherent body of theory to inform practice is …
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Participant or Protagonist? Exploring the personal in children and young people's participation
… and young people’s participation by exploring participatory practice in three community-based NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. There is profound confusion within children and young people’s participation both in theory and in practice. A credible and coherent body of theory to inform practice is …
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Infrastructuring Urban Regeneration. Reimagining regeneration practice for architects and community organisers
This practice-led research extends the concept of the embedded practitioner through proposing and developing a new role within the field of urban regeneration; the Architect_Organiser. The A_O is a new role that combines participatory practice and community organising, challenging the knowledge …
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From Brazil to Britain: the vicissitudes of participatory budgeting: the importance of context
This project asks: How was it that a participatory practice, originating in the demands of social movements in Brazil, came to fit within the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy? It explores changes within both neoliberalism and the practice of Participatory Budgeting (PB) itself. It examines PB’s …
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Using the expressive arts to facilitate group music improvisation and individual reflection: expanding consciousness in music learning for self-development
… and music education, this research explores the participatory practice of free musical improvisation coupled with reflective art response as a means for individuals to create self-knowledge and cultivate self-referential awareness. Drawing upon integral theory (Wilber, 2000a, 2000b), this …
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Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?
… in the past two decades about the impact of participatory arts on people in urban places, my practice-based research aims to fill the gap in relation to the rural context - often places with little traditional arts provision. Based on the development of Deveron Projects in …
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Students' right to participate in school decision-making: the perspectives of school governors
… Article 12, using the theoretical framework of participatory governance. Fourteen school governors across nine post-primary schools were interviewed. The findings indicate that most of the governors did not have a detailed knowledge of students' participation rights and did not understand fully …
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A Guest Betwixt Margins and Memories: Navigating Diasporic Taiwanese Choreographic-Identity in Aotearoa
… across three generations, shape my choreographic practice as a Taiwanese migrant artist in Aotearoa. Positioned as a hyphen, a symbol bridging two worlds on opposite edges of the Pacific, this research foregrounds a fluid, fragmented diasporic self, adopting a provisional narrative that walks …
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Tales of the tribes: animation as a tool for indigenous representation.
In India animation practice is almost completely dominated by commercial production. Much of this is outsourced to India by foreign companies, but even the animation that is produced for national broadcast shows characteristics of animation design of Western origination with regard to content, …
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Generational differences in perceptions of medical student experiences of clinical attachments in surgery: an ethnographic study
… teaching and learning regimes and workplace participatory practice theory. This study focused on listening to students’ and surgeons’ voices in the more intimate and contained clinical settings, rather than the experiences reported within large scale surveys. It was conducted in the …
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An examination of philosophy with children as a material discursive practice in a year 7 classroom
… to bring their own ways of knowing to classroom practice. It began from my concern that dominant neo-liberal educational discourses and deficit models of the child limit students’ and teachers’ ability to be heard as knowers in schools. The research was set within the context of the United …
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Occupying Time: Design, technology, and the form of interaction
… new ways, to traditional design disciplines and practices. In this context, design is not only about the spatial or physical form of objects, but the form of interactions that take place – and occupy time – in people’s relations with and through computational and interactive objects. As argued in …
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Journey into Relatedness: ways to overcome the separation between inner and outer action, engender eco-social insight and facilitate new forms of transdisciplinary Connective Practice, Social Sculpture and Socially Engaged Art
Journey into Relatedness is a practice-based research investigating ways to redress the lack of attention given in Socially Engaged Art to the necessary interconnectedness and continuity between social engagement and individual mind-shift work. Mind-shift-work is a term now used in the expanded art …
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From Anaesthetic to Aesthetic in the Clinic: An Arts, Practice-Based Inquiry into Everyday Aesthetic Experience for Healthcare Practitioners
Medical practice is replete with emotive images and processes in everyday small interactions as well asissues of life and death. Practitioners can be moved in aesthetic ways. The capacity for, and attention to, personal lived aesthetic experience is easily suppressed in clinical practice where the …
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Remotely Mexican: Recent Work by Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Amorales, and Pedro Reyes
… to an understanding of contemporary art practices from Mexico City, as they are received in Mexico and abroad, by interpreting the meaning of local and global sources in recent work shown in Mexico, the U.S., and Europe by three internationally established, contemporary artists from …