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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"social purpose"”.
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An investigation into the implications of formally accrediting training offered by non-governmental organisations : a case study approach
… centred on how formalisation might impact on the social purpose of education and training. The epistemological issues involved concerns about which knowledge gets privileged under formalisation and the question of the transferability of different types of knowledge. The pedagogical concerns …
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From Shock to Awe: The Awe of Organisation: How do Community-Based Festivals do Institutional Work?
… It is further bolstered by research with several social-purpose festivals, from local and international case studies. The present socio-economic development discourse and practice prevalent in South Africa, and the developing South more generally, has been bounded and constrained by strategies …
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Treatment as a Common Good: Adopting HIV/AIDS Policy in Russia and South Africa, 1999-2008
… the "common good" served by state (e.g., "social purpose") informs how domestic policy-makers evaluate the benefits of adopting international recommendations. This agreement also affects how governments frame the provision of treatment, decide which subpopulations should benefit from the …
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Aristotle's Virtues of Justice, Liberality, and Friendship and How they Reduce the Problems of Global Governance and Contribute Positively to its Goals
… to mitigate the issues of a lack of a shared social purpose in legitimation narratives. Generosity in aiming to give to the right sources alleviates the problems of social capital and trade regulations. Each of these virtues contributes to the primary goal of the project, which is to enhance …
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Relational Development, Self-Disclosure, and Invasion of Privacy: College Students and Teachers as Facebook Friends
… professors and students communicating through social networking could produce additional educational opportunities for collaboration and instruction, while also causing tension or awkwardness as the process develops. Semistructured interviews were utilized by the researcher to obtain …
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Citizen or Laborer? The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi, 1862--1875
… to as the Reconstruction era. It has a twofold purpose. First and foremost it highlights Mississippi blacks' educational progression within the state's turbulent postbellum political economy. This is inclusive of Mississippi blacks' independent educational activities, their combined efforts with …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
… precursor of the novel, a genre with no social purpose but to amuse the ignorant and credulous. Using recent genre theory, this study examines the romance genre in Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, and Braj Bhasha. It locates the romance genre within a system of related and opposed genres, and …
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“Luxury Items”: Discourses of Cultural Value in Creating Channel 4 Comedy
… categorisation creates meaning around social purpose through discourses of cultural value and how this is both recreated and manifest among the understanding of what it means to create television comedy under the public service remit with which Channel 4 is charged. Through this …
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Does working together increase flow with age?
… on a perceived skill-challenge balance. The purpose of this research was to examine how the Flow experience is influenced by age differences in socioemotional motives. In the first study, participants were asked to recollect their experiences during specific activities that varied with …
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The Development of a Conceptual Framework for Hybridity and Sustainability in Social (Micro-) Franchises
In recent years, social enterprises have emerged as critical actors addressing social challenges that governments and traditional NGOs often cannot sustainably meet. However, achieving financial self-sufficiency while preserving social purpose remains a persistent tension. This duality of purpose …
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The junction: transcending sociotechnical divides through youth space
… areas act used infrastructure as a mechanism of social organisation, this design dissertation proposes using architecture as social infrastructure to transcend these sociotechnical divides. The concept of the sociotechnical denotes the synergy of a city's infrastructural systems and its social …
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Morality and Society in J.M.R. Lenz’s dramas and their resonance in the works of G. Büchner and B. Brecht
… realistic writing styles on stage for a radical, social purpose. Chapter One examines Lenz’s explanation of morality in theoretical writings and his dramaturgical views on the imitation of nature. Lenz’s plays primarily develop the idea that individual freedom is the key to moral development but …
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Higher Education and the New Capitalism: Social Enterprise Partnerships and the Opportunity for Community Colleges
… at community colleges (Levin, 2001). The purpose of this study is to explore social entrepreneurship and social enterprise concepts, which are operational strategies originally designed for nonprofit organizations, as a framework for developing alternative revenue streams and innovative, …
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Tragedy and the Younger Romantics
… visions of tragedy, its emotional effects and purposes. I argue that these ideas are often in discord, and productively challenged, by contemporary tragic texts, which are tragic precisely in falling short of the expected notions of tragedy. These ideas form the basis of the ensuing chapters. …
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Doing and talking : the value of video interviewing for researching and theorizing craft
… and ownership of labour, with the moral and social purpose of art, and with creativity, given expression through the making process. Since the 1970s, we have seen the emergence of a legitimizing infrastructure for 'the crafts' as a category, separate from but relating to art and design. The …
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Designing play equipment to develop the social competence of children with cerebral palsy
… of play equipment for encouraging peer-to-peer social interactions amongst children with cerebral palsy aged from 4 to 6 years, as a means of developing their social competence. The focus was on developing a new conceptual model and criteria for designing this specialist play equipment and, …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… allows me to reframe our understanding of the social purpose that Victorian authors such as Dickens and Eliot claim for the novel. As Eliot suggests in "The Natural History of German Life" (1856), literature should "amplif[y] experience and exten[d] our contact with our fellow-men beyond the …
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Simulation-based design of integrated public transit and shared autonomous mobility-on-demand systems
… the transit-orientation by respecting the social-purpose considerations of transit agencies (such as maintaining service availability and ensuring equity) and identifying the synergistic opportunities between AV and PT. Specifically, we identified that AV has a strong potential to serve …