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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"resistance theory"”.
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How to integrate negative youth subcultures into secondary classroom practice using critical pedagogy
… explain the formation. The emphasis is placed on resistance theory to explain the forming of negative youth subcultures and how critical pedagogy can address some of the issues concerning the integration of these students in schools. An alternative school in the Montreal area is presented as an …
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A Temporal Fuzzy-ART Neural Network Architecture as a Model of Phoneme Perception
This paper explores the applicability of Adaptive Resistance Theory- (ART-) type neural networks for finding and encoding linguistic structures, specifically those corresponding to acoustic patterns in natural speech. We build an interpretation of human perceptual response to acoustic pattern in …
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A Critical Ethnography of Pupil Resistance to Authority: How Pupil and Teacher Identities Create Spaces of Resistance in the Contemporary School
… an area of relative social deprivation express resistance to authority. The identities which teachers adopt in response to pupil resistance are also critically examined. The focus of the study is a group of nine high ability pupils. Data was collected through observing these pupils in …
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Meeting Diversity with a Multicultural English Elective Course
… that surround multicultural education, resistance theory, and critical/feminist pedagogies.</p>
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The downsides of price promotions and price negotiations on brand relationships
… backfire. The first essay contributes to both theory and practice by providing insights into the effects of customers resisting price promotions. Four controlled laboratory experiments reveal consumers who resist a competing brand's price promotion increase their loyalty to their incumbent …
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John Witherspoon and the right of resistance
… His steadfast belief in the right of resistance. A product of the Reformation and Enlightenment movements, this doctrine offered justification for questioning the authority of magistrates acting contrary to their sovereignty: it further compelled disobedience to unjust laws and the …
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Liberation Textualities: Decoloniality, Feminism, and Aesthetics in Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American Resistance Literature
… American women and an expanded framework of resistance literature. I argue that resistance itself is in fact a broad tradition within which many texts, representations, and ideas intersect. While this project is sensitive to the profound historical, socioeconomic, and cultural differences …
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SME Globalisation and Supply Chain Finance: Factors to Adoption of Technology-based Solutions
… decisions. Furthermore, the study identifies SME resistance factors and proposes that open innovation strategies, such as knowledge-sharing networks and collaborative innovation ecosystems, can mitigate adoption barriers. By integrating external expertise and financial technologies, SMEs can …
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THE FEASIBILITY OF USING WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF DREDGING PROJECTS
… would help improve project performance. 2. Resistance to implementation may be experienced if the system is implemented. Therefore, resistance to implementation needs to be investigated further and more R&D work is needed in order to advance to the final design and implementation. 3. System …
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Method and instrumentation for the measurement and characterization of MEMS fabricated electrical contacts
… In all of these devices, low, stable contact resistance is desired. Modeling these contacts is difficult because much of traditional contact resistance theory was derived for macro scale contacts and relies on assumptions not valid at the MEMS scale. A large variety of factors affect contact …
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Psychological insights for sustainable agricultural transformation
… into the elements of the self-determination theory in the context of smallholder farmers’ adoption of sustainable practices, introducing a novel perspective to tackling the issue of CRB. In addition, it provides further context of the innovation resistance theory among smallholder farmers, …
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Voices of the invisible: A critical ethnography of youth put at risk in an age of disposability
… and outside of school; how they experienced resistance; and how a critical pedagogical approach to learning and participating in a social justice-oriented civic engagement project impacted their learning experience. However, as the study unfolded the circumstances were such that the study was …