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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"relational practice"”.
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Embodied Sensemaking and the Emergence of Educator Leadership: A Phenomenological Study of Awareness, Regulation, and Relational Practice
… their experiences while engaging with mind-body practices and nervous system care within a professional learning context and how they interpret these experiences in relation to their professional practice. The research was conducted with a cohort of educators participating in the Heart-Centered …
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Exploring Humour as a Relational Practice in Occupational Therapy with Individuals Post-Stroke: Enacting Collaborative Relationship-Focused Occupational Therapy
… as a key direction for occupational therapy practice. In working with individuals post-stroke, the use of relational practices by occupational therapists needs to be sensitive and responsive to the potential communication, cognitive and physical impairments individuals may be managing within …
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“It’s Little, Very Human Touches That Make it a Collaborative and Two-Way Conversation”: Narratives of Relational Practice and Communication in Father Inclusion
… (SENCOs) perceive and support father-inclusive practice. The research aimed to understand how father-inclusion is defined and experienced, identify supports and barriers, and develop strategies for supporting inclusive practices that empower fathers of children with additional needs. Five …
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Clerical Workers: Acquiring the Skills to Meet Tacit Process Expectations Within a Context of Work Undervaluation and Job Fragility
… permanence, salary levels and job opportunities. Relational practice is a largely unexamined aspect of clerical work that is often essentialized as a female trait and seldom recognized as skilled practice. In this dissertation, I argue that relational practice is critical to the successful …
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Collegiate Women in Saudi Arabia: Leading Collectively for the Development of Self, Others, and Society
… ways; and (d) understand leadership as a relational practice. This is an unprecedented study in the field of college student leadership development within the context of Saudi Arabia. The findings have a number of important implications for action and future research in Saudi Arabia, as …
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A new body of order: designing social meaning through performance
… participatory, symbolic, embodied, creative and relational practice of performance. This participatory interpretation of order motivates the study's methodology which proposes performance as a mode and method of design and suggests that order may be designed through performance. An initial case …
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A multiple case study exploring suburban Chicago middle school social studies teachers overcoming modern constraints to enact dialogic pedagogy
… systemic influences that shape dialogic teaching practices. Findings reveal that while teachers, students, and administrators share a common language around dialogue, their understandings are deeply nuanced and reflect the complexity of enacting dialogic pedagogy in real-world classrooms. Teachers …
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Berättelser om adoption
… regarding “identity” or adoption as a contested practice). The analysis illustrates that personal stories are framed by culturally available resources. It is emphasized that the qualitative interview is a relational practice. This means that interviews must be considered in context, the local …
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Interfaces of location and memory: An exploration of place through context-led arts practice.
… invites an understanding of context-led arts practice that is responsive to the particularities of place, rather than a model of practice that is applied to a place. ‘Socially engaged’ and ‘relational’ practice are examples of contemporary arts field designations that suggest a modus operandi …
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Exploring how spontaneous humour affects dyadic coaching experiences : a heuristic inquiry
… emerged as a dynamic and multifaceted element of relational practice – capable of building connection, levelling power dynamics, easing discomfort and reinforcing belonging. However, its use also carries risks, particularly when misaligned with the moment, misunderstood or left unacknowledged. …
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Constructing a Reflective Site: Practice between art and pedagogy in the art school
Constructing a Reflective Site is a fine art practice-based research project, which considers the relationship between art practice and teaching. It does this through a critical examination of reflection in art, in pedagogy and in philosophy. Contemporary art forms, like relational practice, …
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The Politics of Transformation: Improvement, Gender and Transitional Housing in Cape Town, South Africa
To explore what transformation means in practice, this thesis investigates the state-led project of Pickwick Transitional Housing in Cape Town. This empirical example offers insight into the ways in which housing models concerned with social, economic, and physical “transition” connect with housing …
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Faith, Fatherhood, and the Ethics of Care: Exploring Father–Daughter Relationships in South Africa
… the study centres fathers who are present and relationally engaged, and it analyses presence as an ongoing moral and emotional practice. The central argument is that emotionally present fatherhood operates as a form of moral formation within father–daughter relationships. Through prayer, …
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'Close' as a construct to critically investigate the relationship between the visual artist and the everyday.
… and its reception. The term participatory relational practice is used \ 11 this thesis to define an approach that situates the artist within the everyday. The matrix is constructed reflexively through three of my art projects and by analysing two artists engaged by the On the Edge research …
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Facilitating Creative Learning: Engaging in a Practice of Care
… in creative learning environments as a relational practice centered on care—not as a set of techniques, but as a deeply human way of being with others, a commitment to creating spaces where people feel supported enough to explore, connected enough to share, and valued enough to express …
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Anishinaabe giikeedaasiwin – Indigenous knowledge: an exploration of resilience
… are foundational. Eshkakimikwe Giikeedaasiwin – Relational understandings and this is land based knowledge; The relationship between land, spirit and the Anishinaabe - Kiimiingona manda Giikeedaasiwin are part of the original instructions given to the Anishinaabe: There are multiple realities …
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Social Relationships In Nurses' End-Of-Life Caring Of Adolescents And Emerging Adults: A Discovery Mode Dimensional Analysis
… caring with implications for future research and relational practice. Greater empirical and theoretical attention to social relationships is imperative to improve end-of-life care experiences of adolescents and emerging adults.
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(R)Evolutionary Cultural Literacy: Pauli Murray’s Boundary-Crossing Tripartite Pedagogy
… that cultural literacy functions as a lived, relational practice rather than a fixed body of credentialed content. Against dominant models that treat knowledge as inventory, this project advances (R)Evolutionary Cultural Literacy, a tripartite framework organized around world-reading, …
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Beyond Perspective: A Spectacular History of the Three-Dimensional Image through the Stereoscope, the View-Master, and Marcel Duchamp
… final chapter examines Marcel Duchamp’s artistic practice and enigmatic final work, <em>Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau 2° le gaz d'éclairage</em> (1946–1966), a three-dimensional installation widely understood to play with the optics of the stereoscope. This chapter argues that <em>Étant …
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“Just talk to us”: Exploring the lived experiences of young people who engage with a school-based counselling service, and the views of pastoral staff
… ethos. However, a central contradiction emerged: relational practice is essential to effective support yet it is structurally undervalued within school systems. Implications include protecting the distinctiveness of pastoral roles through clearer boundaries and workload management; providing …
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