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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"social construction theory"”.
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Assessment and collaborative writing: Conflict to complement
… such writing activities that are rooted in social construction theory. While the use of collaboration in writing classrooms continues to grow, the field of assessment remains virtually silent about the compatibility of traditional assessment methods with collaborative writing tasks such as …
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Bronfenbrenner's Ecology of Human Development
… This study will explore the idea that ADHD is a socially constructed disorder that impacts multiple levels of society. These levels include the child, the family, the school, the medical community, and the advertising agencies. Social construction theory will be used to establish a framework for …
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Region as a Cultural Context in Family Therapy
… and other contextual factors. This grounded theory research project explores how practitioners working with families acknowledge, access, and use region as a cultural context in their service delivery, specifically in the New River Valley region of Southwest Virginia. Ecological theory, …
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Product and Exchange of Attributes in Defining Boundaries for Value -Added Corn and Soybean Markets
… major exporting countries. In the second paper, social construction theory is used to analyze the potential market boundaries for markets that incorporate or exclude genetically modified soybeans. The model identifies linkages among social groups involved in the discourse around the adoption of …
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Product and Exchange of Attributes in Defining Boundaries for Value-Added Corn and Soybean Markets
… major exporting countries. In the second paper, social construction theory is used to analyze the potential market boundaries for markets that incorporate or exclude genetically modified soybeans. The model identifies linkages among social groups involved in the discourse around the adoption of …
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Do I Have Any Choice?: Prostitution in Thailand
… after prostitution. Shame/Embarrassment/Stigma, Social Construction Theory, particularly social support, and weak ties are discessed in this study. Data from the interviews was classified into three different theme areas to facilitate readers' understanding of these women's perspectives and their …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… theoretical framework that combines queer theory, social construction theory, policy diffusion theory, and legislative policy making models (Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Multiple Streams Framework, Moral Foundations Theory, and Critical Policy Analysis), this research critically examines …
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The Life Stories of Teachers in Post Compulsory Education: A Narrative Exploration of Teacher Identity
… of becoming within the life course. Grounded in social construction theory (Gergen 2009), the study acknowledges that identity is fluid and determined by context; self-creation is therefore both a collective and individual endeavour situated within the social and cultural context. The research …
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Factors influencing the lack of dyslexia awareness and its impact on inclusive learning in selected primary schools in Owerri West Local Government Area, Imo state, Nigeria
… on a range of disability models including the social model of dyslexia, the social, medical and moral models of disability, as well as social construction theory. This enabled the creation of a more explicit understanding of disability issues as it concerns the society investigated. The overall …
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Reporting for safety : towards a complexity framework informing the social construction of multi-level stakeholder behaviour
… the efficiency of the system. In this study, a social construction theory lens was used to obtain a richer understanding of the behaviour of critical incident reporters and other stakeholders in a South African Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP). This theoretical lens was then expanded by …
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A Constructionist Analysis Of Same-sex Marriage
… efforts to define same-sex marriage as a social problem. My findings shed light on this topic from a social constructionist perspective by examining the use of rhetorical idioms of the claims made by opposing parties in the debate over same-sex marriage as it relates to the court ruling in …
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An assessment of external HIV-related stigma in South Africa: implications for interventions
… (SASSA). SASSA is based on the Institutional Social Construction theory framework. It explores the external HIV-related stigma magnitude and its trends between 2005 and 2012, as well as the associated factors which influence its prevalence in South Africa at a national level. The study further …
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Sustainable development at the local government level in New Zealand : A social constructionist analysis of the framing and implementation of sustainable development by six local authorities : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of a Bachelor of Resource Studies, with Honours at Lincoln University
… of "sustainable development" has been framed (socially constructed) by local government in New Zealand. • Explore how implementation has been affected by the social construction of sustainable development.