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Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"sense-making"”.
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A framework for sense-making of complex sociotechnical systems
… and emergence increase the difficulty of sense making, which can be briefly defined as the ability to foresee system-level impacts of architectural decisions. Complex sociotechnical systems present challenges for systems architects: they are difficult to understand, study, predict, control …
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Sense-making and authorising in the organisation of mental health care
… deploys two 'ontological themes' to do this: sense-making and authorising. Sense-making refers to the processes of how people understand and act; authorising refers to the limits and stabilisation of sense-making, the fixing and legitimation of versions of the truth. The systems story of …
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Sense-Making Bodies: Feminist Materiality and Phenomenology in Constructive Body Theologies
… account of it? Are feminist appeals to the senses useful in developing theological truth claims based in embodied experiences? Feminist theologies which explicitly seek to overcome body/mind dualisms often reinscribe them when they neglect to attend to perception as a critical element of …
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Knowledge trading : computational support for individual and collaborative sense-making activities
… that can support individual and collaborative sense-making processes.
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Older Women’s Stories of COVID-19 Loss: Communicated Narrative Sense-Making Through Photography
… study illuminated ways in which older women made sense of their losses during the pandemic. Through photography and qualitative interviews, I uncovered the stories behind the mortality statistics. Eleven themes emerged that offer insight into the grieving experience of older women in the United …
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Organizational sense making : responsibilities to the MCAS reform in the Massachusetts public schools
… concepts, that of organizational identity and sense making are fused to create the concept of organizational sense making. Organizational sense making is comprised of three inter-related activities in which the schools engage: discernment, enactment and strategizing. My theoretical finding is …
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Women's Stories of Emotional Distress, Relational Experiences and Sense-making : Listening in a Different Way
… of distress and the ways in which they made sense of it. The ten voices identified highlighted complex relational dynamics linking to power, blame and shame at an individual and systemic level. Suggestions were made for resistance at both a practice and political level, to challenge the abuse …
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Sense-making in theory and practice: a metatheoretical foundation and application for health information seeking
… deeper historical and theoretical grounding for sense-making, thereby illustrating its applicability to practical information seeking research. In Chapter One I trace the philosophical origins of Brenda Dervin’s theory known as “sense making,” reaching beyond current scholarship that locates the …
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Structural constraints and situational information seeking: a test of two predictors in a sense-making context
… two controversies, an interpretivist approach (Sense-Making) is chosen as a base line for beginning to address structuralist concerns within an interpretivist framework.Using dimension suggested by structural approaches to information seeking, two experimental structural predictor variables, …
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Navigating psychological disruptions on the move: Instrumentalism, Altruism and Reattachment as Strategies for Sense-Making among Migrants
The aim of the research was to examine the degree to which the psychological disruptions that develop in migrants following relocation to a host country and the associated responses can help the migrant shape their identities and the relations with both host country and the former homeland. This …
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Teacher sense-making of english curriculum reform in China: a sociocultural perspective on teacher change and development
Teacher sense-making of policy-implementation has been a growing focus among education policy makers and scholars over the past decades but is currently under-theorized, especially in relation to top- town mandated education reforms. This study draws on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory to understand …
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Golden Times: Exploring the sense making derived from the practice experiences of student Occupational Therapists in India
… The study aims to understand how students make sense of their experiences within the Indian context, thus offering a new perspective on student learning and development and highlighting the unique nature of Occupational Therapy education and practice in India. Methodology Interpretative …
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INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL PROPERTY OF SENSE-MAKING AS A SOURCE OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SERIOUS AND ORGANISED CRIME
… by investigating the social property of sense-making as a source of novel approaches to SOC. It identifies practical and achievable opportunities to make more of existing police capability to understand, and so combat, SOC. Design My research uses qualitative methods of inquiry and is …
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Sense making and sense giving: using visitor narratives to understand the impact of visitor interactions on destination image.
… explains the processes whereby the visitor makes sense of his/her experience and transmits that experience to others. This can be used by academics and practitioners to further understand the benefits and attractions of existing destinations and to predict the attraction of potential destinations, …
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Making sense of critical and creative thinking within an early childhood studies seminar – a phenomenological contribution to intercultural pedagogy
… a phenomenological analysis to investigate the sense-making and meaning-making processes of Early Childhood Studies undergraduates in a typical seminar class, exploring the contextualisation of critical and creative thinking, as well as the cultural aspects of being a learner. A proposed …
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The adaptive capability of the operational team to respond to challenges in the Emergency Centre. A SenseMaker® study in Emergency Centres within Cape Town
… flow are inherent to EC work practices, making it a high-risk environment for operational failure. The EC team, the core of which is formed by doctors and nurses, needs the ability to collaboratively and reliably sense and respond to the constant change and flux of information. This …
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An investigation into how Chinese college students make sense of films and TV series from an intercultural perspective: Implications for English language teaching
… how Chinese College Students (CCSs) make sense of foreign films and TV series from an intercultural perspective, and then explores the theoretical and pedagogical implications of the findings on the use of foreign films and TV series in English language teaching, particularly for …
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Corporate social responsibility in the transition economy of Romania
The purpose of this research is to identify the sense making of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by managers of Romanian organisations in the textile industry. The research examines how managers’ sense making affects the adoption of CSR processes compared to those suggested in …
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Forging an educative community
… relations of trust, imaginative compassion, and sense-making that fostered a sense of belonging among the participants. The second half of the dissertation presents arguments for why these features of trust, imaginative compassion, sense-making, and a sense of belonging should be understood as …
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