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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"technical rationality"”.
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Continuing inequity : the conveyance of white supremacy in the education policy speeches of President Barack Obama
… hegemony in education. Such hegemony promotes technical rationality. It also continues the institutional and internalized racism felt within and throughout American life. With presidents having the ability to communicate unencumbered with their citizens, the impact of Presidential communication …
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What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making
… for decision-making in environmental clean-up. Technical experts are knowledgeable about both cultural and technical rationality and employ both, as appropriate, to achieve more robust decisions. Experts use active, passive, and interactive communicative strategies to reduce uncertainties and …
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What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making
… for decision-making in environmental clean-up. Technical experts are knowledgeable about both cultural and technical rationality and employ both, as appropriate, to achieve more robust decisions. Experts use active, passive, and interactive communicative strategies to reduce uncertainties and …
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'I can't wait til I'm an actual journalist' : how students begin to become journalists
… journalism needs to go beyond matters of ‘technical rationality’ to encompass processes that enable students to perform a role and negotiate their way to becoming journalists. The research explores the experience of a first year student group as they come to terms with what they understand …
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Building a community of reflective practitioners : a reflection-in-action with MIT DUSP
… as linked to the positivist practice of technical rationality. He called on educational institutions to instead train professionals such as planners, architects, and teachers to be reflective practitioners -- to practice reflection-in and on-action. In this thesis, I set out to explore …
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Producing (White) Teachers: A Geneaology of Secondary Teacher Education in Regina
… of power, especially the embedding of technical rationality as the core of teaching; and, (c) how the White teacher subject produces him/herself through techniques of the self, such as clinical supervision and self-reflection. While the analysis traces the production of dominant White …
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Os saberes docentes na formação do professor de física: uma análise do planejamento à execução de uma sequência didática
… that while the course's PPC presents traces of technical rationality, the supervised internship discipline was structured along the lines of critical rationality, contributing to the development of a critical-reflective stance in undergraduates.
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Democracy as Becoming: A Lived Enquiry into Teacher Perspectives of Philosophy for/with Children (P4C) Practice in Irish Educate Together Schools
… standards of attainment, centralised models and technical rationality is priority. Further implications of this study relate to educational research, particularly practitioner research, with regard to the depth of insight revealed through a lived enquiry as an embedded extern, and concern the …
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Bureaucratic Inequality: How Administrative Processes and Policy Design Shape Housing Outcomes
… to the use of public dollars. However, technical rationality can legitimize and mask harmful outcomes (Adams & Balfour, 1998). In this dissertation, I explore how inequality is perpetuated through the hidden mechanisms of the bureaucracy, where contracting out can be seen as an obscure …