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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"professional discourse"”.
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Linguistic Creativity and Professional Discourse Strategies: An Intercultural Perspective
The discourse strategies of teams attempting the same task are compared and contrasted in this study. While a linguistic analysis of business student team meetings cannot provide a business assessment of a team's solution, teams can be comparatively assessed by how they reach their objectives in …
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Constructing the gap between past and present literacy practices in the South African Police Service
… station, the effects the shift in institutional discourses from the early years of the South African Police (SAP), to after the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa had on police officers' professional discourses and their associated literacy practices were illuminated. The study suggests …
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Exploring the Moral Dimension of Professors' Folk Pedagogy
… folk pedagogies. Second, it examines the discourse that emerged from the folk pedagogy investigation for its moral expressions and the insights it offered toward understanding how professors conceive of teaching as a moral endeavor. Finally, using narrative analysis as the guiding …
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Teaching not knowing: Reflections on a writing practice
… capacities to teach writing processes and adopts discourse outside of composition theory that may inform our practices in teaching writing.</p><p>This study suggests that a professional practice, unique and constantly in process, focuses beyond the application of techniques to ethical relations …
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Discourses of professionalism and the production of teachers' professional identity in the South African Council for Educators (SACE) Act of 2000 : a discourse analysis
This study seeks to identify discourses of professionalism and the production of Teachers' professional identity in the South African Council for Educators (SACE) Act of 2000. These identifies are located in the context of their social impact on, and in the actualisalion of the political roles of …
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Spirituality in psychodynamic counselling: An exploration of counsellors' understandings of and engagement with spirituality in practice
… the research identifies the need to increase professional discourse, from the start of counsellor training, in an area consistently important to clients, so that understanding can be shared and counselling practice in this area more fully understood.
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A case study of a blended e-learning programme for carers and practitioners in the field of autism spectrum disorders
… of practice framework to interpret the kinds of discourse that are suggestive of a community of practice. The study examines how learners appropriate the professional discourse, values and goals of the ASD carer and the kind of collaborative engagement students have with each other’s …
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Between Internal and External: exploring race culture through clinicians’ experiences of darker skin colour in psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapy
… clinician, the interpersonal therapy space and professional discourse. Findings suggest psychoanalytic child psychotherapy must find ways to radically move away from (and with awareness) of traditionally psychoanalytic and politically affected race rhetoric, to develop a culture where trainees …
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Web design discourse and access : a case study of student entry into a web design Discourse in the Multimedia Technology programme at CPUT
… how access opportunities into a web design Discourse can be enhanced. The study is located in the Multimedia Skills subject which is part of the Certificate in Multimedia Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. In describing student entry into a web design environment, …
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Disabling families: How parents experience the process of diagnosing autism spectrum disorders
… with parents who appeared to be challenging the professional preoccupation that early diagnosis and assessment of autism is central to effective family support. Interviews were conducted with three sets of parents over a period of one year with the researcher seeking to understand how the …
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Including Conscientiously: How Charter School Educators Experience Inclusion Education Implementation
… despite stated commitments to inclusion. Professional development emerged as a critical battleground where competing ideologies about disability played out, with traditional approaches reproducing medical model assumptions while transformative approaches centered disabled voices and …
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Learning to see, seeing to learn: The learning journey of three pre-service teachers in a video club setting
… a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of professional growth in pre-service teachers during their final practicum. The research was situated in a primary school and involved three pre-service teachers with widely differing backgrounds who brought differing experiences to the practicum. The …
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Changes in Perceived Teacher Self-Efficacy and Burnout as a Result of Facilitated Discussion and Self-Reflection in an Online Course Designed to Prepare Teachers to Work with Students with Autism
… specific to students with ASD within online professional development may create needed support networks increasing self-efficacy and decreasing perceived stress. The purpose of this study was to examine the changes special and general education teachers' perceived self-efficacy and burnout as …
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Social Welfare: Care Planning And The Politics Of Trust
… through an exploration of the literature and professional discourse in an abductive research strategy The focus is provided by services for people with learning disabilities within one English County and the relationships that are produced within the processes that surround care planning. The …
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Ageing well in the community: social representations of well-being promotion in later life
… view is present in public understandings and professional discourse on ageing well. Nevertheless, clients and practitioners also challenged this ideology of wellness by representing ageing both as experience of gains (e.g. vitality and autonomy) and limitations (e.g. frailty and social …
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Psychological trauma : discourses of childhood sexual abuse
… gathered from a group of women were subjected to discourse analyses. In the third study presented it is shown that the professional discourse concerning the traumatic effects of child sexual abuse is pervasive in discursive themes elicited from lay women. This is interpreted as an example of the …
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A study of the views of practitioners, managers and the professional body, on the purpose of support and supervision for guidance practitioners working as personal advisers
… For most (at practitioner, manager and the professional institute level) this is a novel practice and the meanings/perspectives on what it is, and what it can do, are not shared. The study explored these views using a qualitative approach with the intention of foregrounding differences and …
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Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research
… Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research In this thesis, I have taken an English independent school as a case study and used an evolving design to explore teachers’ views of school education, teacher knowledge and teacher research, …
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Curating as practice and profession: an exploration and definition of a contemporary independent curator.
… and the development of the broader creative and professional practice of the curator has triggered this important research. (Research Objectives) My objectives in this research are to make explicit the implicit tacit knowledge involved in the practice of curating, to distinguish between forms of …
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