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Showing 1 to 20 of 226 for “"positionality"”.
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Resistance to institutional power : positionality, modality, and the statement
… grammatical-pragmatic relation of modality and positionality. This investigation thus draws upon key theoretical elements from conventional structuralism, post-structuralism, and pragmatics. These form the framework for discussion of a number of analyses of selected textual features that reflect …
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Advanced nurse practitioners'(emergency) perceptions of their role, positionality and professional identity
… ANPs’ (Emergency) perceptions of their role, positionality and professional identity from an Irish perspective. A qualitative narrative approach was used to gain insight into ten ANPs’ perceptions. The ANPs nursed in seven different emergency departments representing both urban and rural …
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Positionality Matters: School Choice Decisions Based on Ethnographic Accounts of African American Parents
… research archives acknowledgement of their own positionality when it comes to making life changing decisions. As selected parents of African American children grapple with the strategic balance and possibilities of educational outlets, family and finances, they offer ethnographic accounts of …
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Walking the Path of Humility: White Settler Positionality in Research with Tsartlip First Nation
… indicate my need to consider the impact of my positionality as a white settler, barriers to doing research “in a good way,” how systemic impacts of colonization shaped my thoughts and actions as a researcher, and challenges faced when seeking to apply the principles of Indigenous research …
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La Comida y las Memorias: Food, Positionality, and the Problematics of Making One's Home
This work explores how people talk about food. My original problem was to find how the idea of a cultural group one may see as comprised of "Mexican Americans" may or may not be complicated by a regional comparison (of rural Hispanos in Colorado and New Mexico and urban Mexicans and Mexican …
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Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education in International Service-Learning: A Curriculum Exploring Race, Positionality, Power, and Privilege
… and consciousness around one’s identity and positionality in order to combat neocolonialism and to promote peace education in international service-learning.</p>
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Sex positionality : a history of the role of gender and race in mid-to-late-twentieth-century evangelical sex literature.
This thesis examines evangelical sex manuals, marriage guides, and purity literature from 1967 to 2016 and argues that evangelical authors created different rhetorics, ideals, and sexual ethics based on their gendered and racial positions in evangelicalism. I first look to gender and argue that in …
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“Because I did what she told me to do.” Understanding the Identity Work of Elementary Students of Color in the Science Classroom and how a Teacher’s Positionality Impacts Student Learning
… and community. In addition, the teacher’s positionality and the curriculum materials were studied to understand how they tended to students’ identities. Employing critical ethnographic methodology, this exploratory study centers the voices of 14 fifth graders to understand their utilization …
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Changing the World One Interaction at a Time
… within societal systems shape my evolving positionality and inform my feminist leadership philosophy and praxis. Through self-discovery, I considered the symbiotic relationship between self as a woman and societal norms that construct and influence my values, experiences, and leadership …
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Downers: Crip Affect and Radical Relationalities
… prior formulations of crip affect, I explore the positionality of the downer as one whose body complicates global economies of social and political encounter. Engaging with neoliberal formulations of embodiment and the co-constitutive forces of heteronormativity and compulsory able-bodiedness …
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Locating Albanian otherness via the black female body : an ethnographic inquiry of (non)belonging
… belonging. Specifically, this paper addresses my positionality in the field and the ways that this positionality allows for a particular inquiry of belonging. In this report I address how my identification as a Black American female shapes my day-to-day interactions with Albanian informants, and …
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Perfecting the Craft of Teaching
… teacher. In this ethnography, I explore my positionality and the levels of community, school, and classroom as ways to inform and improve my teaching practices as a social-justice educator. I begin this four part narrative by discussing my positionality and how it relates to my desires of …
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Practicing the Art of Teaching as a Critical Social Justice Educator
… paper, which is an ethnographical analysis of my positionality as a student and an educator, my students, my school, and the surrounding community, is both a written piece of scholarship and a part of my own preparation, experience, and reflection as an educator in my first year of teaching. In …
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Action Research in the Military: Experiences, Outcomes and Learning
… given to the reasons for the stall including the positionality of the researcher, himself a senior officer in the military. Perhaps somewhat uniquely, the researcher’s positionality allowed for specific reflections to improve future implementations of AR in DND/CAF to meet organisational and …
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Social Ecography : International trade, network analysis, and an Emmanuelian conceptualization of ecological unequal exchange
… a theory suggesting a relationship between positionality within the world-system and unequal exchange of biophysical resources. Using formal tools from social network analysis, the theory is tested on empirical trade data for two commodity types – primary agricultural goods and fuel …
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Marginalization of Fezzan Region in Libya
… case study aimed to understand and compare the positionality and marginalization of Fezzan relative to the other Libyan regions of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania and how this positionality had shaped Fezzan through the Constitutional Monarchy era (1952 to 1969), Gaddafi era (1969 to 2011), and …
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White talk : white South Africans and the strategic management of diasporic whiteness
… of whiteness, the powerfully centred social positionality, and diaspora, which is usually theorized as a marginalized and weak positionality. The dissertation confirms the importance of understanding whiteness in both its global and local dimensions, and of recognizing how these interact and …
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Humanisation in pregnancy and childbirth - providing individualised care to high risk women in the intrapartum period
… axial codes was synthesised and as ‘Intrapartum positionality – humanising high risk birth’. Conclusion: Intrapartum positionality influences midwives and obstetricians’ willingness to facilitate individualised care requests for high risk women in labour and suggests that clinical variation in …
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Ma, performing the White, Afrikaner Woman back to self
… specifically with regards to a paradoxical positionality in the white, Afrikaner woman's ‘role' in the construction of the white, Afrikaner identity. Furthermore, it seeks to understand how narratives and histories embed themselves within nostalgic objects that centralise around the white, …
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