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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"professional discourses"”.
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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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A contribution to developing the counselling and psychotheraphy profession: a reflexive action research study
… as an integrating framework for examining professional experiential data with a view to bringing about change and transformation within the profession and as a way of incorporating a bricolage of methodologies - autobiographical and autoethnographic, heuristic, narrative, deconstructive, …
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Social exclusion and cultural dissonance as salient risk factors in the engagement and retention of Gypsy traveller students in secondary education
… featured prominently in the literature and in professional discourses. The thesis is grounded in a social constructionist approach, which critically analyses psychosociocultural forces and their impact on relationships and human behaviour. From this analysis, a new perspective is proffered as …
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Primary student-teachers' perceptions of the role of digital literacy in their lives
… The study draws on Gee’s concepts of ‘Big D’ Discourses and ‘borderland discourses’ to focus on how student-teachers’ perceptions of their digital practices interacted with different identity positions as they moved between personal and professional discourses. Exploring the varied feelings …
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Financing ARV Drug Manufacture in Zimbabwe: Implications for technological capability upgrading and innovation for African local pharmaceutical production
Contemporary academic and professional discourses on local African pharmaceutical manufacture have concentrated on technology, technology transfer, economies of scale, human capital, and markets for drugs; neglecting the financing of working capital and capital investment and the role played by …
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Writing the Protected Landscape: Authenticity, the Creative Economy and the New Nature Writing
In this thesis I examine the professional discourses of England’s protected landscapes and their relationship to fiction, nature writing and poetry. The research for this thesis has been conducted at a time when protected landscapes are under increasing threat from a multitude of pressures; housing …
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Policing Incidents of Domestic Abuse Involving Children: Children’s and Police Officers’ Experiences
… adult victims can act as a major barrier for professionals responding to children within this context (Richardson-Foster et al., 2012). Children are almost always represented as outside the violence between adults, a representation that is often reproduced in academic and professional …
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Mothering and attention deficit disorder: the impact of professional power
… between power and knowledge in the competing discourses on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). It also examines the ideology of motherhood and the construct of difference. The research for this thesis took place in North Queensland and tells the stories of women affected by ADD, primarily the …
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How do social work professionals construct asylum seekers as objects of knowledge and targets for intervention
… the ever-shifting parameters of exclusionary discourses, and seeks to provide a more in-depth understanding of current social policy for asylum seekers. It achieves this through an analysis of media, governmental and parliamentary discourses on the issues of immigration and asylum. This …