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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"positioning theory"”.
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Discussing Sexuality in the English Classroom: Using Bakhtinian Analyses and Positioning Theory to Explore Teacher Talk
… and gender in a school community. Using feminist positioning theory and Bakhtin\'s concepts of dialogism and ventriloquism, I explore how teachers approach, grapple with, contribute to, and leverage dominant institutional discourses in their practices, thereby mediating knowledge, possibilities …
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Exploring the Interpersonal Dynamics of the Supervisory Triad of Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
… teacher, and university supervisor. Utilizing positioning theory as its theoretical framework, this qualitative meta-synthesis synthesized eleven pieces of empirical research focused on the interpersonal dynamics of the supervisory triad. The findings of this study reveal three primary factors …
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Dimensions for Positioning Tourists’ Destinations: The Case of Tanzania
… was to explore the concept of dimensionality in positioning tourists’ destinations and determine a model using the perspective of attribute dimension. The study is based on positioning theory. Both Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (EFA and CFA) were used in analysing the data. …
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Teachers' Positioning of Students as Math Doers and its Influence on their Teaching Moves in Ghanaian Elementary Schools
… students as mathematics doers and how such positioning influences their teaching moves. Grounded in positioning theory and sociocultural learning theory, the study investigated the interactional dynamics teachers use to construct students’ mathematical competence during instruction. Data …
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Strengthening Co-Teacher Partnerships Between ENL and Content-Area Teachers
… parity, and clarity of roles. Drawing on positioning theory and sociocultural theory, this project examines how factors such as role ambiguity, limited co-planning time, divergent teaching philosophies, and lack of professional development hinder effective collaboration and reduce …
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A Qualitative Study of the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals during Formal and Informal School-Based Interactions
… underrepresented in the literature. Using a positioning theory framework that focused on the normative constraints that support meaning making during social interactions, this study explored how primarily monolingual English-speaking teachers and peers interactionally positioned three fourth …
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Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa
… of collective identity, narrative inquiry and positioning theory to trace the moral careers of twenty-six young, middle-class activists, based in Cape Town, South Africa. In doing so it explores the relationship between their activism and identities, and how this relationship is contingent on …
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The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching
… how to bring about change, while their multiple positionings, being both teachers and primary witnesses to the Apartheid regime, are neglected. The thesis sets out to address this paradox through a case study of means by which Grade Nine history teachers and museum facilitators use and construct …
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Positioning Artists Engaging in Community-based, Participatory Artistic Interventions in Singapore: Deriving a Position of Equilibrium through Constituency, Constraints and Communityship
Positioning Artists Engaging in Community-based, Participatory Artistic Interventions in Singapore: Deriving a Position of Equilibrium through Constituency, Constraints and Communityship seeks to fill the gap arising from a lack of studies addressing the positioning of artists who engage in the …
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Positioning Rights and Duties for Parent Representation at the CAC for Special Education Table: A Result of CBPAR
… policy knowledge, and accessibility practices. Positioning Theory analysis identified the assignment of moral rights and duties as a means by which parents gained power and access. A discussion of Disability Justice and the work of the mothers identified parallels between them. Results provide …
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Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
… the dissertation widens the application of Positioning Theory, suggesting that Žižek’s unique mode of intellectual intervention, ‘super-positioning’, is the key to his rise as a global public intellectual. The dissertation traces the contexts, performances, and relations through which …
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Counselling and Religious and Spiritual Values: A Malaysian Study
… as its theoretical and methodological base. Positioning theory, deconstruction, power/knowledge, language, and the making of meaning are some of the approaches used in this study. As a mixed methods project, the study used a survey and interview conversations to generate research data. The …
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Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
… a consideration of subjectification, agency and positioning theory. This study is also intentionally postcolonial drawing on Said’s seminal works, Orientalism (1979) and Culture and Imperialism (1993) and North American and European writing about identity politics and intersectionality. It views …
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The discursive construction and attributions of motive in relation to the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the national news genre
… the news genre. I combine this adaptation with positioning theory and corpus-assisted methods. Methodologically, I propose a three-step method to analyse motive in the news genre that consists of (1) an analysis of grammatical realizations of motives; (2) position analysis in order to identify …
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A discourse analysis of how Educational Psychologists talk about Trauma-informed Practice
… TiP). Findings were considered in the context of positioning theory, bioecological model and existing literature. Strengths and limitations of the research approach are discussed alongside key implications for how the Educational Psychology profession move forward with TiP.
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A narrative study of adults who were bullied by a sibling in childhood
… of sibling bullying and subject and identity positioning theory. The clinical implications are framed within psychoanalytic theory and in relation to the perceived acceptability of sibling bullying.
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Reflexive audiencing practices for couple relationships-in-action
… relational language-making conversations, positioning theory, deconstruction, reflexivity, performance and Appreciative Inquiry. Video, a facilitated process of preparation, and inquiry guides provide a scaffold for partners to take up and investigate relationship conversations as couples. …
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Staged lives: identity construction of lesbian, bisexual, and gay wind band conductors in the Midwest
… details. These extracts were analyzed used positioning theory analysis to precisely identify how conductors deployed language to describe themselves, events, interactions, and others, directly, indirectly, spatially and temporally. These analyses showed how conductors managed identities …
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Storied Lives: Exploring English Language Learners' School Experiences
… I use figured worlds (Holland et al., 1998) and positioning theory (Davies, 2000; Harre & van Langenhove, 1999) as analytical frameworks to present how the students rely on their positions as English language learners in an ESL program, on the ESL faculty, and on one another to co-construct a …
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