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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"situated knowledge"”.
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“Facing both ways” an investigation of the mix of situated knowledge and formal knowledge in boat building
… and pedagogy within the context of internal knowledge structures. Focused on a South African boat building qualification, to determine the nature of the qualification and the enacted curriculum with respect to the type of knowledge required in boat building labour processes. In particular the …
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Can I get a witness? The significance of finding a witness for liberatory education
… for a witness a need to have one's perceptions acknowledged in the face of incomprehensible refusal or steady indifference. We look for witnesses when others turn away. To answer this need, the response of a witness is characterized by (a) listening with 'moral humility' and (b) acknowledging the …
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La reflexividad en las ciencias sociales: Hacia un ensamblaje ontológico, epistemológico y metodológico para la generación de un conocimiento situado
… the "other" voices that rise in the field of knowledge, and that demand there cognition of the subjectivities, epistemologies, and meanings of the world that have been silenced by what theorists decolonials understand as a capitalist, colonialist and patriarcal world-system.The main objective …
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Storytelling as an epistemic framework for composers of social justice education
… of communication, as an epistemic framework that situated knowledge as experiential, relational and embodied. This stance was not simply about asserting the value of stories or the act of storytelling, but about situating knowledge as “storied.” This research also illuminates the relationship …
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Drivers of Disruption: How Jakarta's Mobility Platform Drivers Understand, Transform and Resist the Algorithms that Manage Them
… with the drivers' contextual, embodied, situated knowledge practices to empirically demonstrate the limitations of algorithmic solutions in a city like Jakarta. Through this work I hope to re-articulate what technological disruption means by shifting the vantage point from the boardroom …
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A narrative inquiry into key experiences affecting women's persistence in STEM fields following the bachelor's degree
… showcasing participant narratives as valid, situated knowledge that fits within the framework of critical feminist theory in practice. The results of this study can inform educational and institutional policymakers to advocate for equity-based policies that not only improve women’s …
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Biocultural strength: Understanding sex, gender, and performance in Olympic weightlifting
… and evolving sex- and gender-related knowledges. Adopting Frost’s theory of “biocultural creatures,” this study contributes to the sociocultural study of sport, gender, sex, and bodily difference by exploring the intertwining of biological, environmental, and sociocultural influences …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… engaged in critical, Mestiza discourse, which acknowledges the intersection of ethnicity/nationality/race, class, and gender. A discourse has been created through the use of situated knowledge. Published memoirs represents legitimate knowledge; corridos as oral traditions constitute informed and …
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System Override: A Critical Virtual Ethnography of Women of Color's Digital Praxis in Horizon Worlds
… racial capitalism, arguing that women of color’s situated knowledge is indispensable for dismantling structural inequities in emerging digital ecosystems. By centering participant voices, the study offers empirical insights and actionable recommendations for inclusive design, transparent …
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Frank Lloyd Wright beyond America
… the thesis is based on the concept of gaining ‘situated knowledge’ from direct engagement with ‘Wrightian’ sites to deconstruct his ideas and projects. I also consider how Wright’s global 'organic' doctrine is actually now being experienced, and how people are living with his legacy in the early …
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Photographs from the road: Inge Morath, Sophie Calle, Sally Mann and feminist road trip vision
… road, thrives upon documentation, partiality, situated knowledge, and sharing. Feminist road trip vision is valuable in its very incompleteness and stays true to the partial and strange experiences of the road.
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Historical shifts in knowledge, skill and identity in the South African plant baking industry : implications for curriculum
… by the trends of globalisation and the knowledge economy (Castells, 2001). The South African plant (large scale) baking industry is an industry undergoing significant change with the introduction of cutting edge technology and automation. The aim of this study is to examine the shifts in …
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Not ‘Just’ a Kid: Knowledge Politics and Youth Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
… will grow up. In this dissertation I explore the knowledge politics of peacebuilding as it pertains to young people to uncover the role that young people have to offer to the broader study and practice of peacebuilding, and thus what is lost by way of their exclusion. Emphasizing the creative, …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… and climate crisis subjectively, from my situated knowledge. As a type of life writing that tends toward autotheory, the “Stories of Survival” section deconstructs narratives of empire building, colonization, nation-state borders of exclusion, and the often-traumatic experiences of a …
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The Discursive Construction Of Child Sexual Abuse
… the English speaking world adult/child sex and knowledge about it has become firmly located within a taken-for-granted 'child sexual abuse' discourse. My argument in this thesis is that despite being commonly portrayed as a singularity, the discursive arena of adult/child sex is a site of …
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Artist/Citizen: Choreographing the Nation Brand
… Also of concern has been how the corporeal knowledge and experience of choreography appears in the written form of a PhD thesis. In a challenge to totalising and deadening accounts of live performance, the thesis draws on the distinctive insights of the choreographer-scholar that nonetheless …
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Moving the Nation: Multiculturalism, Race, Representation, and Emotional Belonging in Canada
… Drawing on the concept of positionality, situated knowledge, and other insights from oral history, emotions history, and feminist-informed personalized scholarship, the project brings together and examines refugee narratives, oral histories, personal reflection, and some ethnographic …
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An Artistic Equivalence of my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
… Estelle Barrett and her ideas regarding “situated knowledge” (2010: 4-5) as a way to frame the subjective and personal nature of my artistic enquiry, regarding my equivalence of OCD. Within this thesis I place emphasis on art practice as a method of research and describe the processes I …
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A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal
… theories of temporality and feminist theories of situated knowledge in relation to Asian Americanist critiques of memory. I contend that the Asian/white subject is both an index to track the colonial condition across time, and a host that harbors the colonial desires we have come to name as …
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Learning by Doing: Transitioning Healthcare Technology Innovations from MIT Labs to Resource-Scarce Communities
… participatory principles and a prioritization of situated knowledge in urban planning, this thesis shows how research and practice can be combined reflexively in the fields of global health and engineering to create a practical and implementable product in an academic lab with impact for some of …
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