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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"transformative action"”.
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Leadership in Catholic Universities in East Africa: Limits and Potential for Transformative Action
In order to protect the confidentiality of the study participants, all names of people and places in this study are pseudonyms.
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An analysis of the impact of a transformative action reflection inset model on teachers' understanding and classroom behaviour
… itself with the assumptions underpinning the transformative action reflection model. The assumption of this model is that it is the impact of Courses on teachers' understanding and classroom behaviour of the model both in terms of technical practice and in terms of teachers' ability to employ …
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Urban change agents: citizen-based projects in Cape Town as drivers of transformative pathways towards a climate-friendly, socially just, economically viable and ressource-efficient urban future
The dissertation sheds light on the transformative power of citizen-based projects and highlights their potential to drive innovative urban development processes towards a spatially just, economically viable, climate-friendly and resource-efficient urban future. The city of Cape Town serves as a …
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Situating Critical Indigenous Worldview within Western Academic Traditions: Place-Based and Culturally-relevant Science Education for Human Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability
… ability to critically problem-solve and evoke transformative action by increasing the diversity of perspectives and talents focused on an endeavor. Central to this research is an exploration of the strategization involved in supporting cultural, cognitive, and creative capital—the gifts endowed …
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Using Visual Storytelling to Design Solutions-Based Approaches to Homelessness
… service providers and policy makers to take transformative action. This study used visual critical ethnography to collaboratively co-produce a short documentary with one homeless man in San Diego. Conversations with city, state and some federal leaders about the obstacles to secure housing …
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"How Do We Make that Change?" Analysis of Transformative Dialogue in a Community Initiative
… and consequently moved to engage in civic action. Proponents within critical pedagogy have underscored the significance of dialogue for motivating hope, agency, and civic engagement. The importance of conceptualizing dialogue as transformative has been underscored in light of research and …
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The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945
… articulated technology as unexpected invention, transformative action, and creative self-formation. Such possibility was found within the very technologies that systematically structured society. By examining the thought and activities of the philosopher, Nakai Masakazu, I illuminate another …
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Examining systemic and dispositional factors impacting historically disenfranchised schools across North Carolina
… of eight Likert subscales around four tenets of transformative leadership (Shields, 2011) and aspects of critical race theory (Bell, 1992; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Ladson-Billings & Tate, 2006) to understand systemic inequities and leadership attitudes.</p> <p>The qualitative phase comprised three …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
… that reflect their public advocacy messaging and action framing. These materials were analyzed using the method of qualitative content analysis and interpreted in dialogue with literature on social movements, resistance and Global South perspectives, centering participants’ insights. The findings …
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Building communication interventions for children with severe disabilities on cultural resources: an action research enquiry
… area of the basic human right to meaningful interactions and communication. Sustainable strategies to provide opportunities for basic communicative participation of these children are urgently sought. The focus of this study, grounded in the transformative paradigm, was on culturally determined …
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Leadership in the community sector: promoting collaboration and social change in Belfast
… Ireland (Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, 2012). Through a series of qualitative, in-depth interviews with people playing leadership roles in local communities, the study critically explores and analyses their experiences and perceptions in relation to leadership and collaboration. …
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The "Equalizer" Administration: Managerial Strategies in the Public Sector
… dissertation is to understand the managerial "action" of public administrators in the management of their organizations within the Brazilian context. The research seeks to understand the relationships between managers and formal management mechanisms by exploring the complementary nature of the …
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The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
… concerned with how a sense of responsibility and transformative agency may be developed amongst privileged peoples. It is in the projects of community gardening and my life that I have chosen to ‘notice’ the prevalence of a mechanistic, functionalist world view that infuses the moral limitations …