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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"social practice"”.
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Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice
My dissertation, “Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice,” investigates the modernist production of living space by focusing on housing reform in Weimar Germany’s Berlin and Frankfurt am Main as well as on the subsequent projects of German modernist architects working in …
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Managing business change projects: a social practice perspective
… methods underpinning conventional ‘best practice’ approaches to managing business change projects. The call is for better understanding of the reality of business change projects as experienced by the people working on them, and for improved theory based on that. This research seeks to …
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New numeracies: the social practice of functional skills and social justice
… in Mathematics that demonstrate their numerical social practice. In an environment that celebrates performance before competence, students explore how to design and engineer their digital understanding of social justice issues, such that they begin to connect their numeracy to socio-cultural …
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"Get Listenin' Kids!": Independence as Social Practice in American Popular Music
… industry. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the social field frames my investigation of the ways in which independence becomes socially and musically manifested in communities of musicians, mediators and audiences. I explore how these communities articulate their distinction within the dominant …
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Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
… an ethnographic study of phonetic variation and social practice in a multiethnic secondary school in Sheffield, UK. I analyse the use of phonetic variation by adolescents in this school with the aim of advancing recent debates surrounding indexicality, social meaning, and language and ethnicity …
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Everything is awful : snark as ritualized social practice in online discourse
… insult, and jest that increasingly occupies social media conversations, online comment sections, and Internet writing far and wide: for lack of a better word, snark. Though akin to the similarly maligned practices of irony and sarcasm, snark is more unwieldy and less refined. To accuse others …
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Academic staff attitudes to staff-student partnerships: a social practice theory approach
… interviews were thematically analysed within a social practice theory framework to examine the attitudes of academic staff to partnerships. The findings suggest a lack of consistency in the interpretation of partnerships amongst staff. Staff attitudes are influenced by the social practices of …
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Korean immigrants' social practice of heritage language acquisition and maintenance through technology
… family members. Viewing HL maintenance as a social practice, this exploratory qualitative study attempts to understand how participants are involved in their children’s HL maintenance by investigating, comparing, and contrasting the participants’ attitudes and practices. This study recruited …
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Exploring evaluation using social practice theory in development education : a longitudinal in-depth case study
… The study adds to explanations of how social practice theory contributes to the refinement of the understanding of evaluation practice. Generally, studies on evaluation practice remain unclear on how small, a-political non-profit organisations practice evaluation (Henry and Mark, 2003); …
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Examining a boundary : spatial manifestations of social practice along the Buitengracht, Cape Town, 1652 - 2005
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-72).
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CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861)
… a study of the intersections of slavery, daily practice, and consumerism of enslaved laborers at antebellum Poplar Forest plantation in Central Virginia. Key developments in the antebellum period, including expanded transportation options, industrialization, and increased slave leasing shaped …
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Blazing Century 1: Creative Interventions on the Margins of Two Worlds - Studio-Based Art and Connective Social Practice
… of two worlds: studio-based art and connective social practice. This thesis proceeded as a reflective commentary on this inquiry while engaging five experimental art projects, mainly carried out in Nigeria and South Africa. I have employed the dynamic model of practice-as-research as a …
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Sustainable transport in rural tourism: a social practice perspective of visitor travel experiences in the New Forest National Park.
… tourism areas. This is achieved by taking a social practices perspective to develop a comprehensive and contextualised understanding of how visitors use transport within the setting of the New Forest. The study included the development of a refined visitor survey which quantified multi-modal …
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Artist as navigator: understanding how the social qualities of art influence organizational change; a methodology for art as a social practice.
… of organizational change? How do artistic practices influence the way communities address change? In what ways can an individual artistic practice, concerned with the role of art in society, add new insights to theories and practices of contemporary art? These questions are approached …
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Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice
As a performance artist and arts activist I present my research project to the audience in performative writing, a postmodern research style that advocates the integration of the artist/researcher identity. In the summer of 2010, I left for Egypt to teach a performance and installation art workshop …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
… according to the ever-changing cultural, social, and racial landscapes before them. It places this local history in the wider context of the North American continent and the Atlantic World—the space within which these people actually lived. In so doing, it shows that New Orleans, and its …
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Composing community: social practice composition and the performance of community in choral works by Reena Esmail, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang
… an ideal of community-building, central to the practice of Western classical choral music, shaped the creation and performance of three recent choral works by American composers: Reena Esmail’s Take What You Need (2016), Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields (2014), and David Lang’s crowd out (2014). …
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An examination of how tutor-practitioners conceptualise and enact practice-based-knowing in a small Higher Education Fashion School : a social practice theory approach
This thesis examines how practice-based-knowing (PBK) is conceptualised and enacted by eighteen part-time tutor-practitioners teaching on Fashion Design, Fashion Styling and Fashion Business undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in a small Higher Education Fashion School (HEFS). It adopts a …
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