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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"social positioning"”.
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Materiality, identity and social positioning: The case of the Elbphilharmonie
… the relationships between the totalities via the social positions they occupy, and the attendant social identities, system functions, rights and responsibilities. However, the PhD Viva and the examiner’s report made me aware that using social positioning theory (SPT)—an established theory—was …
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Power, identity, and social positioning in the professional lives of Black counselling psychologists: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… including practices of self-preservation and social activism. The analysis reveals that the participants’ identities are not fixed or uniform but are constantly constructed and negotiated within their professional lives. Implications: The findings of this study underscore the need for greater …
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Relative Use of Phonaesthemes in the Constitution and Development of Genres
… things, that phonaesthemes are important in the social positioning of genres. The summary answer to my research question is thus found to be Yes, it does.
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Young Children's Authentic Inquiry Practices
… used to re-mediate relations of power, affect, social positioning, and spatial orientation in Mancala Club in order to promote more equitable learning conditions for themselves. Taken together, these articles demonstrate that the process of authentic inquiry is holistic and contentious, yet …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
… girls to gaill an understanding with regards to social positioning and postmodern political identity. More fundamentally, this thesis questions how popular feminism disables, questions and critiques popular ideologies ill a patriarchal society.
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Narratives of Resistance: Undergraduate Chicanas Navigating the World with Critical Literacy and a Mestiza Praxis
… oppression, and how do they make sense of their social positioning, and what leads them to activism?” This narrative study utilized the theoretical frameworks of critical pedagogy and Chicana feminist epistemology. Guided by decolonizing methodologies, the findings include the narratives of five …
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Kombuistaal innie Kaap1: Investigating Gender and Language Change in the development of Kaaps
… language pioneers who, by virtue of particular social and gendering processes, were uniquely placed to develop and maintain the language which has come to be known as Kaaps? By means of a historical sociolinguistic approach with a qualitative method of thematic narrative analysis, the study …
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An investigation of older Korean immigrants' perspectives on accessing primary health care
… PHC services because of the shifts in their social positioning and other barriers which contributed to an inappropriate use of PHC services, delays in care and lack of continuity in PHC. Also, the data revealed a number of ways the PHC system is unresponsive to the health care needs of older …
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Anti-Oppressive Education Through English Language Arts: A Recollecting Journey
… and influenced by historical background, social construction, racial identity, and religious identity which shape power relations and social positioning. Through students developing critical literacy skills, applying them to curricular material, and transferring their ways of knowing, …
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Politics as Violence: A Girardian Analysis of Pre-Genocide Rwandan Politics
… if subjected to various manipulations of social positioning and control, can serve to precipitate brutal acts of believed conciliatory violence against a perceived causal group. Without examining the origin of violence in society, an understanding of the 1994 genocide is incomplete, and …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… of both constructs. Third, the liminal social positioning within the analysed accounts is closely related to Bakhtin¿s notion of unfinalizability, a form of being that enables the search for meaning and the transformation of the self. Insights can be gained from this research that may …
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Girl of Color-Power: Resisting the Neoliberal Girl Power Agent
… while simultaneously recognizing the shifting social positioning of girlhood in the late twentieth century. It is a call to re-write girls' passivity but simultaneously a discourse that encourages consumerism via entertainment, artifacts, and merchandise. A social movement, a catch phrase, a …
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Understanding Girls' Absence from School in Madhya Pradesh, India: An Investigation
… not robust enough to act as encouragement. The social positioning of girls and women, the perceived future role of girls as mothers and home-makers, the patri-local marriage system, community pressure and the usefulness of girls at home have detrimental consequences for girls' education. These …
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Identity positioning of doctoral students in networked learning environments
… acceptance, and belonging—intellectually and socially. Exposure to new ideas, norms, and ethics can cause learners to question their position within their various social contexts. The descriptions of doctoral experiences of identity positioning in networked learning environments is the focus …
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… changes of attitudes and opportunities in the social positioning of women over the century, in both sets of novels the protagonists struggle against a pattern of confining and silencing narratives. I argue that storytelling is used as both a metaphor and a device to unsettle repressive master …
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Vulnerability and identity negotiation in childbirth: a narrative approach
… messages about her body, her competence and her social positioning, while the physicality of birth is foregrounded. I believe women use the telling of their birth stories to make meaning out of their experience. To analyse the identity work of the story, I selected 20 birth stories from a popular …
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Pedagogies of ‘Good Design’ and Handling in Relation to the I.L.E.A./Camberwell Collection
… Collection in order to influence social positioning and consumer choices. However, the thesis argues that the modalities of language and vision,which Bourdieusian analysis relies on, need to be extended. I have therefore considered the contribution of ‘handling’ and I have argued …
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Manufacturing Ideologies of the "Bad" Mother in Ontario Child Welfare
… category where marginalization and disadvantaged social positioning serves as an invitation for increased scrutiny and gaze from the state (Appell 1998; Reich 2005; Swift and Callahan 2009; Swift and Parada 2004). This thesis challenges assumptions and stereotypes held about mothers involved with …
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The way we see it: an analysis of economically disadvantaged young people's experiences and perceptions of social and economic health in their semi-rural community
This study investigates how socially and economically disadvantaged young people, living in a semi-rural, post-industrial Atlantic Canadian community, experience and perceive social and economic health -- defined as participants' sense of comfort and security that their social and economic needs …
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Quality of life and digital gaming technology: the benefits of a technology based intervention for community dwelling people with dementia.
… (QoL) as a result of, but not restricted to, social exclusion, isolation and malignant social positioning. It is therefore imperative that QoL is protected, supported and maintained to ensure that people can live well with dementia. However, whilst it is acknowledged that post diagnostic …
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