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Grégoire, Stéphanie. "The dialectical tools : theory and practice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0016/NQ47571.pdf.
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Konishi, Takuzo. "Stasis theory and arguers' dialectical obligations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ62232.pdf.
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Serper, Alan. "An analytical critique, deconstruction, and dialectical transformation and development of the living educational theory approach." Thesis, University of Bath, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526626.
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This thesis critically analyses, reconstructs and deconstructs the Living Educational Theory (LET) approach. It examines, challenges and modifies it, dialectically transforms it and offers a more suitable alternative to it. Whilst LET has not been well received in academia for two decades, this thesis is being written at a point in time when LET has greater recognition and influence. The thesis is composed of three parts. The first part examines and reconstructs the LET approach as a theoretical possibility and a practical methodological and heuristic approach. It introduces the LET approach and its key features, components, intentions and practices. It examines and interrelates the writings of the developers of that approach and its history and development. It also relates that approach to educational, action, reflective practice, practitioner and ontological research and the work and educational development of this author. The second part criticises, deconstructs and transforms the LET approach and proposes an alternative heuristic tool, solution and approach. It criticises the claim of living educational theorists that LET is an improved approach to the theorisation of a human existence and the educational, ontological, professional and epistemological development of practitioners. As well as criticising the new directions which the LET approach has recently taken, it introduces an alternative educational action research heuristic tool and approach that is based on self-dialectical reflective enquiry. The proposed alternative is based on creative and auto-phenomenological writing, self-dialectical and cathartic logging, public blogging and enquiring-within-writing logging into the question: how do I lead a more meaningful existence in the world for myself? It seeks to transform the LET approach into a deeper ontological, auto-phenomenological, and self-therapeutic auto-analysis, self-reevaluation and auto-empowerment. The third part concludes the thesis and reflects on my learning from my engagement with the LET approach and my hopes and intentions for the future.
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Elgarah, Wafa. "A DIALECTICAL METHODOLOGY FOR DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS DESIGN." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2336.
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As organizations continue to grow in size, reaching global proportions, they have ever increasing impacts on their environments. Some believe that a much broader array of concerns should be brought into organizational decision-making processes, including greater consideration of social, political, ethical and aesthetic factors (Mitroff and Linstone, 1993; Courtney, 2001). Decision environments such as these are decidedly "wicked" (Rittel and Webber, 1973). Designing decision support systems in such environments where there is a high level of interconnectedness, issues are overlapping and a multiplicity of stakeholders is involved, is a very complex task. In this dissertation a methodology for the development of a DSS for wicked situations is proposed using the design theory building process suggested by Walls et al. (1992). This proposed theory is based on dialectic theory and the multiple perspective approach suggested by Linstone and Mitroff (1993). The design process consists of identifying relevant stakeholders, their respective worldviews, and conflicts in these worldviews. A design (thesis) and "counter design" (antithesis) are created, and a prototype systems based on these designs are developed. These prototypes are then presented to the different stakeholder groups who engage in a dialogue which leads to the development of a synthesized design. The process is repeated until all conflicts are resolved or resources are exhausted, and a final system is produced. Using action research and system development research methodologies, the proposed design theory was applied to zoning decision process in Orange County, Florida. The results of this study led to the following: 1. It is feasible to implement the MPDP methodology proposed in this dissertation. 2. The MPDP methodology resulted in a synthesized design that accommodates the different views of the stakeholders. 3. The MPDP methodology is suitable for contentious situations and may not be feasible for structured decisions. 4. Most of the subjects did achieve a more understanding of the decision process. These results suggest that the MPDP design theory can be effective in developing decision support systems in contentious situations.Ph.D.
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Poynter, Danielle M. "Siblings, Emerging Adulthood, and Facebook: A Dialectical Analysis." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307104419.
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Straß, Hannes, and Johannes Peter Wallner. "Analyzing the Computational Complexity of Abstract Dialectical Frameworks via Approximation Fixpoint Theory." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-129614.
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Abstract dialectical frameworks (ADFs) have recently been proposed as a versatile generalization of Dung's abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs). In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the computational complexity of ADFs. Our results show that while ADFs are one level up in the polynomial hierarchy compared to AFs, there is a useful subclass of ADFs which is as complex as AFs while arguably offering more modeling capacities. As a technical vehicle, we employ the approximation fixpoint theory of Denecker, Marek and Truszczyński, thus showing that it is also a useful tool for complexity analysis of operator-based semantics.
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Caringer, Kelly Heath. "To Produce and Persist: A Dialectical Investigation of Purpose in Commercial Stereophony." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1343.
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This dissertation seeks to identify the purposive force that determines the form and function of commercial stereophony in capitalist society, and the ways in which this force affects the productive and consumptive activities of stereophonic practitioners and listening audiences. Employing dialectical materialism, I examine three social processes that either historically established or continue to influence the mediative potential of stereophonic sound: the invention and industrial standardization of the stereophonic apparatus, the professionalization of stereophonic practitioners, and the social construction of stereophonic listeners as a mass consuming audience. These interrelated studies reveal perceived economic necessity as the dominant causal force that governs all stereophonic processes and practices under the capitalist economic system. Informed by my chapter findings, which complicate Karl Marx’s materialist base and superstructure schema – a coarse conceptual abstraction of capitalist production, I construct a more refined and flexible schematic diagram that offers a distinctive bird’s eye view of the universal interplay between capitalists, producers and consumers. This novel conceptual schematic depicts productive forces and productive relations as coterminous expressions of the dual-purpose of capitalism: to produce surplus-value for accumulation by capitalists, and to do so in perpetuity.
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Hanasono, Lisa Kiyomi. "A Dialectical Approach to Rethinking Roommate Relationships." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1187033891.
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McNair, Louisa Catherine. "Dialectical behaviour therapy for adults with intellectual disabilities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/dialectical-behaviour-therapy-for-adults-with-intellectual-disabilities(5a2821c3-824c-4cb7-be27-7cceb3cee7f9).html.
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This thesis explores the use of adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) with individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (ID/D). DBT is a multi-modal psychological intervention that aims to increase skills in interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and mindfulness. It was initially developed for individuals who presented with parasuicidal behaviours, and is recommended for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). This thesis is presented in five papers; a systematic literature review, three empirical papers (a, b &c), and a critical review and reflection of the research process. The systematic literature review provides a narrative review of published research regarding the adaptations and outcomes of DBT for individuals with ID/D. Seven studies were reviewed using the Evaluative Method for Determining Evidence Based Practice (EBP) (Reichow, 2011). The findings detail the adaptations, results and critical appraisal of the research to date. The empirical papers consider the outcomes of adults with ID/D who received adapted DBT in a community psychological therapies service. The papers present different methodologies, and combined produce a consilience of evidence regarding the suitability of DBT for this population. Paper 2a found significant reductions on measures of depression, anxiety and anger, and increased mindfulness skills amongst 18 participants following DBT. Paper 2b uses repertory grid technique to explore the psychological changes that occur following DBT for seven participants, and found overall changes in personal construing and improvements in self-esteem. Paper 2c considers the psychological changes that occur in further depth through the presentation of two case studies. The case studies consider the complexity and idiosyncrasy of the individuals and gives consideration to the use of repertory grids to identify implicative dilemmas as part of clinical assessments. The final paper provides a critical review with personal reflections of the thesis. The author considers the research and clinical implications of the study.
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Jenkins, Joseph Jacob. "Community as Metaphor: Dialectical Tensions of a Racially Diverse Organization." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4341.
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In recent years, a sense of community has declined throughout the United States. Common Point Community Church has responded to this trend by prioritizing "community" as an organizational metaphor. The present study explores how this metaphor is co-constructed through the communication practices of current organizational leaders and members. I begin this process, first, by positioning the study within existing literature on institutional theory, institutional legitimacy, community, community of practice, social construction of race, sensemaking, organizational metaphor, tension-centered approach, and dialectic theory. Building upon more than three years of ethnographic field work, I then outline the study's context and methodology. Next, I discuss (a) specific ways in which "community" is understood by the organization's racially diverse leaders and members, (b) potential limitations that result from this metaphor, and (c) ways in which dialectical tensions are managed in order to maintain the organizational metaphor of community. I then offer three theoretical implications - collectively referred to as the diversity paradox - as well as three practical implications: (a) Common Point "Voices," (b) Congregational Videos, and (c) Creative Arts Team. I conclude by reflecting on the research process itself.
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Rainford, Lydia. "Feminism and irony." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340003.
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Schöpf, Simon. "The Commodification of the Couch : A Dialectical Analysis of Hospitality Exchange Networks." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225128.
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Hospitality exchange (HospEx) networks – online platforms facilitating the connection between a traveler and a local resident – embody many of the cyber-utopian promises intrinsic to the Web as it started out 25 years ago. Such sites have often been conceptualized as a new and daring trend in a booming ‘sharing industry’ and have been researched for topics such as trust, reputation, and online identities. Yet, a more critical look uncovers that crucial issues of ownership, power, digital labour, and organizational structures have often been left out. To fill this gap, this thesis investigates upon the antagonistic struggle between the commons and processes of commodification in the light of critical theory and political economy. The research shows that examples with characteristics of both concepts are manifested in the niche social networking space of HospEx platforms. The biggest of those platforms, Couchsurfing.org, changed its organizational orientation from a non-profit, commons-based project towards a for-profit company in 2011 – an instance of commodification. An analysis of both quantitative and qualitative community data shows that the transformation consequently concerns a member on multiple levels. The structural change of ownership results in a loss of transparency and privacy, an alteration of the platform’s integrity, a sacrifice of the ‘uniqueness’ of the community, and a differing relationship between the user and the platform. To shed light on an antagonistic force and suggest an alternative, community-based governance approach, the work further explores the specifics of a platform guided by the logic of the commons. Interviews with volunteers of the non-commercial, non-profit HospEx platform BeWelcome.org helped to deepen an understanding of how a digital commons can be sustained and what challenges they face. The thesis concludes that the developments observed on Couchsurfing are not an exception but rather characteristic and part of a broader trend manifested in all areas of digital media, and indeed modern society in general: commodification processes frequently jeopardize the commons and incorporate them into the logic of capital.
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Waszkiewicz, Elroi. "Getting by Gatekeepers: Transmen's Dialectical Negotiations within Psychomedical Institutions." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11182006-151959/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.1 electronic text (218 p.) : digital, PDF file. Title from title screen. Mindy Stombler, committee chair; Elisabeth O. Burgess, Wendy Simonds, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 5, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218).
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Brown, Mark R. "An analysis of freedom in Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of dialectical reason, Volume I, a theory of practical ensembles." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/MQ36101.pdf.
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Dadosky, John Daniel. "The structure of religious knowing, a dialectical reading of Eliade's notion of the sacred through Lonergan's theory of consciousness." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ64774.pdf.
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Kinsey, Kathleen Marie. "A Critical Ethnography of the Compatibility of a Culturally Modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Native American Culture and Context." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/321004.
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Purpose: Describe the Suquamish cultural influences on defining living a life worthwhile and to describe the compatibility of a culturally modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with a Native American community's culture and context. Background: Native Americans experience serious psychological distress, suicide, and substance abuse at higher rates than other racial groups. Studies using DBT found a significant decrease in parasuicidal risk behavior and substance abuse. However, research has not demonstrated that DBT is efficacious or compatible within the Native American culture. Specific Aims: 1) Describe the Native American cultural influences on defining living a life worthwhile. 2) Describe the compatibility between Healthy and Whole, a culturally modified DBT intervention with Native American culture. Methodology: Critical ethnographic study with in-depth interviews (13) and participant observations (10 months) was conducted. Sample was tribal members and clinicians exposed to the Healthy and Whole and tribal members who are identified as knowledgeable regarding tribal tradition. Analyses included semantic domain, taxonomic, and theme analysis for aim1 and compared DBT curriculum to results of aim 1 to accomplish aim 2.Findings: An intergenerational cycle of relational trauma was initiated by structural cultural genocide with systematic abuse and neglect of Native Americans especially children. Relational trauma of abuse and neglect is the source of a variety of maladaptive behaviors. These maladaptive behaviors lead to relational trauma in the next generation. A dual process of maintaining and revitalizing Suquamish cultural values coupled with skills taught in a culturally modified DBT intervention, Healthy and Whole, help Suquamish members live more worthwhile lives and recover from intrapersonal trauma. Implications: Healthy and Whole is a community approach to healing from relational trauma. Healthy and Whole approach to DBT may help other indigenous people live more worthwhile lives and recover from relational trauma and break the cycle because Suquamish cultural values are collectivist and many indigenous peoples share similar values and histories of historical trauma.
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Higley, Ramona Avis Linville. "The Case of Youth Gangs in the Mormon Cultural Region A Synthetic, Dialectical Theory of Social Problems: Bridging Social Constructionism and Objectivism." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4688.
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This dissertation uses the case of youth gangs in the Mormon Cultural Region to present a synthetic, dialectical theory of social problems, bridging the perspectives of social constructionism and objectivism. The primary assertion of this dissertation is that communities use social problems as tools to establish and maintain social boundaries and to protect the core values and beliefs of the established communal order.
The case of youth gangs in Utah, core of the Mormon Cultural Region, demonstrates that both social problems and the organizations involved with social problems follow a natural-history cycle similar to that reported in social movement literature. Anti-gang organizations, youth gangs, and the gang movement all seem to change forms as they progress through this cycle. Further, the relationship between the claims-making and the ontological increase in social problems is dialectical.
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Mantell, Cole. "Love and Refusal: Contrasting Dialectical Interpretations and its Implications in the Works of Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, 1941-1969." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin156096672701227.
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Levy, Marshall Ira. ""A misreading of tropological space" : an investigation of Harold Bloom's theory of poetic transumption in the construction of a dialectical spece in architectural drawing." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22404.
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Trombetta, Luis Carlos. "A formação e a prática profissional dos educadores igrejinhenses : um estudo de caso." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15522.
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Esta tese de doutorado aborda o processo de formação e a prática profissional dos educadores da rede pública municipal e estadual da cidade de Igrejinha, RS. Este é um estudo de caso que segue a teoria materialista e utiliza as categorias filosóficas do Materialismo Dialético, as categorias sociológicas do Materialismo Histórico e também as categorias da Economia Política de Marx. A partir do Materialismo Dialético, analisamos os princípios, as leis e as categorias que estão imbricadas no processo de formação dos professores e também envolvidas em sua prática profissional. Esta tese é caracterizada como um estudo de caso que procura analisar as contradições existentes entre a formação e a prática profissional dos professores da rede pública municipal e estadual de ensino dentro de uma visão de totalidade. Com esta tese procuramos conhecer e compreender as contradições existentes entre a formação e a prática profissional e, num segundo momento, sugerimos ações concretas e viáveis no sentido de melhorar a prática dos educadores em sala de aula e, conseqüentemente, contribuir para a melhoria do nível de qualidade da educação pública na cidade de Igrejinha, RS. Nesta tese, afirmo que as contradições existentes entre a formação e a prática profissional dos educadores estão relacionadas com o baixo nível de qualidade da educação igrejinhense e também contribuem para que haja um clima de desânimo e desmotivação entre os professores, alunos e os diferentes profissionais que estão envolvidos com a educação. Os dados que expusemos nesta tese são provenientes de pesquisas em fontes bibliográficas e documentais e, como técnicas de coletas de dados, utilizamos a entrevista semi-estruturada e a observação semi-dirigida das aulas de dez professores. A partir desta tese, podemos afirmar que é urgente a viabilização de projetos destinados a organização de ações concretas voltadas à formação continuada/permanente dos professores para que estes consigam harmonizar mais a dimensão teórica com a dimensão prática presentes no processo pedagógico. O aumento dos investimentos em educação para a concretização de uma política salarial justa, bem como o aumento dos salários, são soluções que se impõem em regime de urgência como saída para estimular os professores que lutam em diferentes salas de aula em diversas turmas de alunos. Preconizamos que a educação e a formação são fenômenos políticos capazes de contribuir no processo de emancipação dos seres humanos e, a partir disto, preparar os jovens para o exercício consciente da cidadania e, desta forma, estaremos criando condições para aperfeiçoar a democracia e transformar a sociedade.This doctoral thesis addresses the educators’ professional training and practice process of the municipal and state public network of the city of Igrejinha, RS. This is a case study that follows the materialist theory and uses the philosophical categories of the Dialectical Materialism, the Historical Materialism sociological categories and also Marx's Political Economy categories. From the Dialectical Materialism we discuss the principles, laws and categories that are interlinked in the training process of the teachers and also involved in their professional practices. This thesis is characterized as a case study that tries to analyze the existing contradictions between the municipal and state public network education teachers’ training and practice within a vision of totality. With this thesis we try know and understand the contradictions between the professional training and practice, and at a second time, we suggest concrete and viable actions in the sense of improving the educators’ practice in the classroom and thus contribute to improving the level of quality of public education in Igrejinha, RS. In this thesis I state that the existing contradictions between the educators’ professional training and practice are linked to the low quality level of Igrejinha’s education and they also contribute to a discouragement atmosphere and demotivation among the teachers, students and various professionals who are involved with education. The data that we outlined in this thesis come from research in bibliographic and documentary sources, and as data collection techniques, we used the semistructured interview and the semi-directed observation of ten teachers’ lessons. From this thesis we can claim that the viability of projects for the organization of concrete actions focusing on teachers’ continuing/permanent education is urgent so that they can harmonize more the theoretical dimension together with the practice dimension present in the pedagogical process. The education investment raise to the achievement of a fair wage policy, as well as the wage raise, are solutions that are required under the emergency regime as a way out to stimulate teachers who struggle in different classrooms in various students’ groups. We advocate that education and training are political phenomena able to contribute in the process of emancipation of human beings and from that prepare young people to the conscious exercise of citizenship and thus we are creating conditions for enhancing democracy and transform the society.
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Day, Angela M. "Family Business Daughters: The Ties that Bind and Divide." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002567.
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Davis, Christine S. "A future with hope the social construction of hope, help, and dialogic reconciliation in a community children's mental health system of care /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001040.
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Short, Leonie Marianne, and n/a. "Conflict Escalation in Response to Continued Pushy, Dominating Behaviour in the Workplace: Ideal and Everyday Response Strategies Examined." Griffith University. School of Applied Psychology, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040416.141210.
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The aim of the current research program was to investigate the social context of escalation in response to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. In doing so, this research program contributes to the development of communication skills by investigating the entire context of skills required for effective communication in managing everyday conflict in the workplace. The response class, Responding to continued pushy or dominating behaviour in the workplace, was selected as a vehicle for examining the context of escalation for two reasons. Firstly, this response class, by the very nature of pushy behaviour, embodies a continued interaction. In the past, assertive communication research has focused on one off responses rather than a continued interaction. Secondly, this response class has been identified in previous research as being of interest to assertiveness trainees (Cooley, 1979, Lefevre & West, 1984, Wilson & Gallios, 1993). The theoretical premise of the current research program resides in the application of Social Rules Theory to the difficult face-to-face communication situation, or response class, of responding to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. In doing so, this approach also takes into account dialectical theory, conflict resolution theory, and the concept of response components that can be selected and/or combined in order to meet the requirements, or rules, of a specific situation. In adopting the Social Rules approach, the current research program addresses the key criticisms of the traditional approach to assertion and assertion training, namely that people behaving assertively are sometimes negatively evaluated for assertive behaviour (Wilson & Gallois, 1993); and that assertion traditionally focused on the expressiveness of a response at the unintended cost of social or contextual appropriateness (Crawford, 1988); that finding a response is assertive does not delineate which aspects of the response are producing which types of effects (Galassi, 1978; Mullinix & Galassi, 1981). Most importantly, the current research contributes to the field by examining the negative response class in terms of a response sequence of escalation, rather than a one-off response. This is new research and contributes to the field theoretically and to the conceptualisation of assertion and communication. In order to meet the goals of the current research program, the response class Responding to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace, was defined precisely in terms of the situational context. This response class implies a workplace relationship of an ongoing nature. Four other variables were involved in defining and investigating the situation. These were status, gender of message sender, gender of message receiver, and response level (initial response, first escalation or second escalation). The current program of research was carried out in a series of three related studies, and these four variables were examined in each of the three studies. The purpose of the first study was to elicit social rules and goals for interpersonally effective and appropriate escalation strategies in response to pushy dominating communication in the workplace. This study was conducted in two parts, a qualitative questionnaire completed by 20 females and 20 males, and two focus groups, one for females and one for males. Content analysis revealed a set of rules for an escalation sequence for each combination of status and gender. These rules were then operationalized, filmed and analysed in the second study. One hundred and twenty-three participants (64 females and 59 males) with work experience watched the operationalized responses and rated them on a series of seven scales. These scales were effectiveness in stopping the pushy behaviour (task effectiveness), effectiveness in maintaining the relationship (maintenance effectives), social appropriateness, interpersonal skill required, risk involved, personal difficulty in making the response, and likelihood of making the response. Analyses included descriptive statistics, which indicated that the operationalized responses were perceived to be effective and socially appropriate. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were also conducted and revealed a number of significant interactions for each status level (manager, colleague, subordinate). The third and final study in this research program adopted a qualitative approach to examine continued pushy or dominating communication in the workplace. Eighty-two (45 female and 37 male) participants completed a qualitative questionnaire utilizing an open-ended approach. This questionnaire was designed for the purpose of the third study to elicit the typical behaviours, emotions and cognitions participants have in response to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. Also, a data analysis process was designed specifically for the third study to provide an analytical procedure that was as systematically rigorous and replicable as possible. This process is explained in detail in Study 3. The results of the third study revealed differences between actual behaviour and rule based behaviour in response to continued pushy behaviour, namely that actual responses are more public and direct in nature, and more likely to promote destructive conflict escalation. This finding implies that typical responses are not as effective as rule based responses, highlighting the benefits of applying social rules to manage difficult face to face communication situations. In summary, the current research project utilized a multi-method approach in a series of three studies to reveal the nature of Social Rules based responses and typical responses. The results of this research program have implications for both the theory and practice of effective communication and effective communication training. Evaluation of both social rules based and typical responses have implications for communication trainees who wish to make informed choice based on a consideration of functionally effective behaviour and personal satisfaction. For example, social rules for escalation in response to continued pushy behaviour from a male manager may indicate that it is most effective for a female subordinate to acquiesce. However, the female subordinate may choose to violate social rules and risk being perceived as inappropriate and damaging the relationship, to achieve a super-ordinate goal or for personal satisfaction. Conversely, the social rules and responses developed in the current research program have implications for professional effectiveness in the workplace by providing guidelines for dealing with dominating behaviour.
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Short, Leonie Marianne. "Conflict Escalation in Response to Continued Pushy, Dominating Behaviour in the Workplace: Ideal and Everyday Response Strategies Examined." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367646.
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The aim of the current research program was to investigate the social context of escalation in response to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. In doing so, this research program contributes to the development of communication skills by investigating the entire context of skills required for effective communication in managing everyday conflict in the workplace. The response class, Responding to continued pushy or dominating behaviour in the workplace, was selected as a vehicle for examining the context of escalation for two reasons. Firstly, this response class, by the very nature of pushy behaviour, embodies a continued interaction. In the past, assertive communication research has focused on one off responses rather than a continued interaction. Secondly, this response class has been identified in previous research as being of interest to assertiveness trainees (Cooley, 1979, Lefevre & West, 1984, Wilson & Gallios, 1993). The theoretical premise of the current research program resides in the application of Social Rules Theory to the difficult face-to-face communication situation, or response class, of responding to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. In doing so, this approach also takes into account dialectical theory, conflict resolution theory, and the concept of response components that can be selected and/or combined in order to meet the requirements, or rules, of a specific situation. In adopting the Social Rules approach, the current research program addresses the key criticisms of the traditional approach to assertion and assertion training, namely that people behaving assertively are sometimes negatively evaluated for assertive behaviour (Wilson & Gallois, 1993); and that assertion traditionally focused on the expressiveness of a response at the unintended cost of social or contextual appropriateness (Crawford, 1988); that finding a response is assertive does not delineate which aspects of the response are producing which types of effects (Galassi, 1978; Mullinix & Galassi, 1981). Most importantly, the current research contributes to the field by examining the negative response class in terms of a response sequence of escalation, rather than a one-off response. This is new research and contributes to the field theoretically and to the conceptualisation of assertion and communication. In order to meet the goals of the current research program, the response class Responding to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace, was defined precisely in terms of the situational context. This response class implies a workplace relationship of an ongoing nature. Four other variables were involved in defining and investigating the situation. These were status, gender of message sender, gender of message receiver, and response level (initial response, first escalation or second escalation). The current program of research was carried out in a series of three related studies, and these four variables were examined in each of the three studies. The purpose of the first study was to elicit social rules and goals for interpersonally effective and appropriate escalation strategies in response to pushy dominating communication in the workplace. This study was conducted in two parts, a qualitative questionnaire completed by 20 females and 20 males, and two focus groups, one for females and one for males. Content analysis revealed a set of rules for an escalation sequence for each combination of status and gender. These rules were then operationalized, filmed and analysed in the second study. One hundred and twenty-three participants (64 females and 59 males) with work experience watched the operationalized responses and rated them on a series of seven scales. These scales were effectiveness in stopping the pushy behaviour (task effectiveness), effectiveness in maintaining the relationship (maintenance effectives), social appropriateness, interpersonal skill required, risk involved, personal difficulty in making the response, and likelihood of making the response. Analyses included descriptive statistics, which indicated that the operationalized responses were perceived to be effective and socially appropriate. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were also conducted and revealed a number of significant interactions for each status level (manager, colleague, subordinate). The third and final study in this research program adopted a qualitative approach to examine continued pushy or dominating communication in the workplace. Eighty-two (45 female and 37 male) participants completed a qualitative questionnaire utilizing an open-ended approach. This questionnaire was designed for the purpose of the third study to elicit the typical behaviours, emotions and cognitions participants have in response to continued pushy behaviour in the workplace. Also, a data analysis process was designed specifically for the third study to provide an analytical procedure that was as systematically rigorous and replicable as possible. This process is explained in detail in Study 3. The results of the third study revealed differences between actual behaviour and rule based behaviour in response to continued pushy behaviour, namely that actual responses are more public and direct in nature, and more likely to promote destructive conflict escalation. This finding implies that typical responses are not as effective as rule based responses, highlighting the benefits of applying social rules to manage difficult face to face communication situations. In summary, the current research project utilized a multi-method approach in a series of three studies to reveal the nature of Social Rules based responses and typical responses. The results of this research program have implications for both the theory and practice of effective communication and effective communication training. Evaluation of both social rules based and typical responses have implications for communication trainees who wish to make informed choice based on a consideration of functionally effective behaviour and personal satisfaction. For example, social rules for escalation in response to continued pushy behaviour from a male manager may indicate that it is most effective for a female subordinate to acquiesce. However, the female subordinate may choose to violate social rules and risk being perceived as inappropriate and damaging the relationship, to achieve a super-ordinate goal or for personal satisfaction. Conversely, the social rules and responses developed in the current research program have implications for professional effectiveness in the workplace by providing guidelines for dealing with dominating behaviour.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Applied Psychology (Business)
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Franklin, Rodrigo Straessli Pinto. "Um ensaio sobre a dependência a partir das relações econômicas do Brasil contemporâneo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/70015.
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O presente trabalho busca, por meio de uma análise crítica da teoria da dependência, estabele-cer os princípios metodológicos e os elementos centrais para a aplicação do aludido referenci-al teórico ao caso concreto brasileiro das últimas duas décadas. Para tanto, resgata-se os de-senvolvimentos anteriores da teoria, buscando desde suas origens na escola estruturalista da CEPAL, com os trabalhos de Raúl Prebisch e Celso Furtado, até a sua consolidação nas duas vertentes marxistas da teoria da dependência, os neomarxistas, com as contribuições de Ruy Mauro Marini, e os cardosianos, a partir da análise das obras de Fernando Henrique Cardoso e Enzo Faletto. É realizada, então, uma crítica metodológica das referidas vertentes marxistas, com o intuito de extrair dos escritos precedentes aquilo que poderia servir de base para a construção de uma teoria adequada tanto à situação histórica atual quanto às interpretações contemporâneas da obra de Karl Marx. Por fim, com base nas críticas realizadas, busca-se construir uma nova proposta para a análise, em que a categoria da dependência se constrói como síntese das relações de exploração, subordinação e vinculação entre países centrais e periféricos. Para que a referida categoria e suas múltiplas determinações sejam compatíveis com a realidade brasileira contemporânea, utiliza-se para a sua construção de dados referentes às relações econômicas entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos nos últimos vinte anos.Through a critical analysis of the dependency theory, the present work attempts to create the methodological principles and core elements for the usage of the aforementioned theoretical framework to the Brazilian case of the last two decades. To do that, the prior developments of the theory are rescued, since its origins in the structuralist school of ECLAC, with the work of Raúl Prebisch and Celso Furtado, until its consolidation in two different Marxists strands of dependency theory, the Neo-Marxists, with the contribution of Ruy Mauro Marini, and the Cardosians, through the work of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto. Then, a methodological critic of these Marxists strands is done, in order to extract what could be used as base for the construction of an adequate theory both to the present historical situation as to the contemporary interpretations of the work of Karl Marx. Finally, based on these critics, a proposal for a new framework is made, in which the dependency category is built as a synthesis of relations of exploitation, subordination and linking between central and peripheral countries. For this category and its multi-determinations to be compatible with contemporary Brazilian reality, data concerning about the relations between Brazil and United States in the last twenty years are used in its construction.
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Winkel, Geellis. "IS-implementation : a tri-motors theory of organizational change : case study of how an IT-enabled process of organizational change because of the presence of a teleological, life-cycle, and dialectical motor unfolds within a Dutch government organization." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5203.
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The reason for the study is that IT-enabled organizational change processes such as information system implementations have high costs and disappointing results. Studies to identify causes of the mentioned failures are mainly based on a variance approach. This study applies another approach which is not yet performed in this field of research and affects several themes. Based on a process approach data is compared with ideal-process theories to identify the generative mechanisms causing the unfolding of the process. Thus, the study identifies a recipe and not the ingredients.
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Green, Miriam. "What counts as knowledge? : parameters of validity for the meaning and representation of a contingency theory in the organisation and management accounting literature." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/9658.
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The main problem posed in this thesis is an epistemological one to do with what counts as knowledge in the organisation/management and management accounting areas of scholarship. This question arose regarding discrepancies between an original text, Burns and Stalker's The Management of Innovation (1961, 1966, 1994), and longstanding representations in the mainstream literature. The discrepancies were between the largely objectivist representations focussing on the relationship between organisation structure and environmental contingency, while omitting subjectivist factors and organisational processes, also significant in Burns and Stalker's analysis. The analysis in this thesis is concerned with two main questions: the similarities and differences between The Management of Innovation and mainstream representations; and explanations for these, particularly for the differences. The analytical framework is critical realist theory underpinned by an Hegelian dialectical methodology, looking at phenomena from different perspectives with inconsistencies addressed by a more holistic analysis. This thesis is based on a non-linear, multi-angled approach, which examines each of the two questions from different perspectives through two dialectical circles. A detailed analysis of Burns and Stalker's work and mainstream representations enabled clarity regarding the different foci in the two sets of texts. The absenting of human factors and organisational processes in much mainstream scholarship was found to extend beyond representations of Burns and Stalker's work to orthodox scholarship more widely, despite strong and persistent critiques from within the field. The dialectical opposition constructed between objectivist and subjectivist factors was investigated further and linked to attitudes regarding the commensurability of different approaches in the social sciences, particularly in the organisation/management and management accounting fields. It is suggested that this opposition is based on a particular view of science and scientific method. A broader interpretation however shows that science is also influenced by researchers' subjectivities. This has led to an argument for the complementary, more holistic approaches already present in the field becoming more widespread in the interests of more sustainable and emancipatory knowledge.
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Oliveira, Natássia Duarte Garcia Leite de. "Teatro dialético em terras estranhas: a (in)diferenciação entre sujeito e objeto na formação cultural." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2013. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3649.
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This work is a result of a research developed from 2009 to 2013, compounding the set of productions at the study line Culture and Educational Processes of the Post-Graduation Program in Education at Faculty of Education/UFG, being bound to the Nucleus of Research and Studies: Society, Subjectivity and Education (NUPESE). The title of the thesis, Dialectical Theater in strange lands: the (in)differentiation between subject and object in cultural formation, searched theoretically the relationship between the Bertolt Brecht’s dialectical theatre and the critical theory of School Frankfurt, represented in the Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin’s works. The central problem of the research is: why and how brechtiano epic theatre is relevant for the conception of epic form overwhelmed by cultural industry? As a main objective, it sought critical theory contributions about (in)differentiation between subject and object for a reflection about epic theatre constitution. For this, concepts of strangeness and detachments were analyzed, dialoguing with: meaning of identification in freudiana theory; categories of strangeness, strangeness in himself and strange work in the marxist conception; and the bejaminiano concept of experience. In this sense, the work is a reflection of the dialogue of many voices, and its theoretical referential is Constantin Stanislavski, Berlot Brecht, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno. We still based on readings of Viktor Choklovski, Eric Hobsbawn and Iná Costa’s works, like other ones, and the negative dialectical body and conceptual analysis of Adorno. At the end of the research, it was concluded that it is primordial the differentiation in the relationship between subject and object for the cultural formation of the subjects, in the actor, director, dramaturge or spectator positions. This question pervades through the mediation process, in which the subject constitutes himself, as well as the form and content of the object. Thus, it is necessary to intend the affective approach of the subject to what it is aesthetically produced, and the critical distance of the artistic experience, in ambivalent and contradictory relationship between particular and universal, subjectivity and objectivity, individual and society. Such dialectical movement may enable the subject to recognize himself in the critical creation with/of the object. So there is this experience for and by the formation, it is fundamental the affective link with the art work and subjects involved on the artistic work; and, still, the necessary strangeness and distance to the critical reflection in the possibility of overcoming barbarism in the sense of the subject autonomy.
O presente trabalho resulta de uma pesquisa desenvolvida no período de 2009 a 2013, compondo o conjunto de produções da linha Cultura e Processos Educacionais do Programa de Pós Graduação em Educação da Faculdade de Educação/UFG, estando vinculado ao Núcleo de Pesquisa e Estudos Sociedade, Subjetividade e Educação (NUPESE). A tese intitulada Teatro dialético em terras estranhas: a (in)diferenciação entre sujeito e objeto na formação cultural investigou teoricamente a relação entre o teatro dialético de Bertolt Brecht e a teoria crítica da Escola de Frankfurt, representada nas obras de Theodor Adorno e Walter Benjamin. Definiu-se como problema central da pesquisa: por que e como o teatro épico brechtiano é relevante para a concepção da forma épica, subjugada pela indústria cultural? Como principal objetivo, buscou-se as contribuições da teoria crítica acerca da (in)diferenciação entre sujeito e objeto, para uma reflexão sobre a constituição do teatro épico. Para tanto, analisou-se os conceitos de estranhamento e de distanciamento em Brecht, dialogando com: a acepção de identificação na teoria freudiana; as categorias de estranhamento, estranhamento-em-si e trabalho estranhado na concepção marxista; e o conceito bejaminiano de experiência. Nesse sentido, o trabalho é reflexo de diálogo de muitas vozes, tendo como referencial teórico Constantin Stanislavski, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno; apoiando-nos, ainda, em leituras como Viktor Choklovski, Eric Hobsbawm, Iná Costa, entre outros. A análise conceitual e do corpo teórico cotejado na pesquisa foi realizada com base no materialismo histórico e na dialética negativa, de Adorno. Ao final da pesquisa, concluiu-se que é fundamental a diferenciação na relação entre sujeito e objeto para a formação cultural dos sujeitos, quer estejam na posição de ator, diretor, dramaturgo ou espectador. Essa questão perpassa pelo processo de mediação, pela qual o sujeito se constitui, assim como constitui a forma e o conteúdo do objeto. Destarte, faz-se necessário tencionar a aproximação afetiva do sujeito ao que é produzido esteticamente, e o distanciamento crítico da experiência artística; numa relação ambivalente e contraditória entre particular e universal, subjetividade e objetividade, indivíduo e sociedade. Tal movimento dialético pode possibilitar ao sujeito que ele se reconheça na criação crítica com/do objeto. Para que haja essa experiência para e pela formação, é fundamental o vínculo afetivo com a obra de arte e com os sujeitos envolvidos no trabalho artístico; e ainda, o estranhamento e o distanciamento necessários à reflexão crítica na possiblidade de superação da barbárie no sentido da autonomia do sujeito.
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Moss, Sean. "The dialectica models of type theory." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280672.
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This thesis studies some constructions for building new models of Martin-Löf type theory out of old. We refer to the main techniques as gluing and idempotent splitting. For each we give general conditions under which type constructors exist in the resulting model. These techniques are used to construct some examples of Dialectica models of type theory. The name is chosen by analogy with de Paiva's Dialectica categories, which semantically embody Gödel's Dialectica functional interpretation and its variants. This continues a programme initiated by von Glehn with the construction of the polynomial model of type theory. We complete the analogy between this model and Gödel's original Dialectica by using our techniques to construct a two-level version of this model, equipping the original objects with an extra layer of predicates. In order to do this we have to carefully build up the theory of finite sum types in a display map category. We construct two other notable models. The first is a model analogous to the Diller-Nahm variant, which requires a detailed study of biproducts in categories of algebras. To make clear the generalization from the categories studied by de Paiva, we illustrate the construction of the Diller-Nahm category in terms of gluing an indexed system of types together with a system of predicates. Following this we develop the general techniques needed for the type-theoretic case. The second notable model is analogous to the Dialectica category associated to the error monad as studied by Biering. This model has only weak dependent products. In order to get a model with full dependent products we use the idempotent splitting construction, which generalizes the Karoubi envelope of a category. Making sense of the Karoubi envelope in the type-theoretic case requires us to face up to issues of coherence in our models. We choose the route of making sure all of the constructions we use preserve strict coherence, rather than applying a general coherence theorem to produce a strict model afterwards. Our chosen method preserves more detailed information in the final model.
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Marriott, Stephen Charles. "Critical theory : reason and dialectic." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2823/.
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Whilst Hegel's influence upon the Frankfurt School's reconstruction of Marx has not gone unnoticed, this influence has never really been adequately theorised. In particular, the question of how the Frankfurt School understood the relation between Hegel's method and Marx's materialism has received very little systematic attention. The present study is a response to this situation: it presents the Frankfurt Marxist tradition as a significant although by no means uncritical contribution to the theory of historical materialism. Moreover, that contribution is shown to derive from some of the central concepts of Hegel's philosophy. Thus in opposition to those commentators, Marxists and non-Marxists alike, who have tended to view Frankfurt Marxism as an exercise in eclectic revisionism, I argue that the work of Horkheimer and his colleagues constitutes an attempt to restate and defend, on the basis of an immanent critique of Hegel's idealism, the fundamental principles of Marx's historical materialism. Accordingly, the central chapters of this thesis are devoted to a close examination of the way in which members of the Frankfurt School, building on the work of Lukács and Korsch, sought to appropriate Hegel's subject-object dialectic on behalf of materialism. In the course of this investigation the following themes come to prominence: the relation between Hegel's social philosophy and a critical theory of society; Horkheimer's project of multi-disciplinary materialism; the methodological significance of the category of totality; materialism as the preponderance of the object; the possibility and nature of a Freud-Marx synthesis; the concept of a critical as opposed to a traditional scientific theory of society. Taken together these themes constitute the basic problematic of the Frankfurt Marxist tradition. The intention of this study is to demonstrate the importance of that problematic for the further development of the materialist theory of history and society.
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Cuim, Amanda da Silva. "A abordagem de gênero textual nos anos iniciais de escolarização : um olhar ontológico /." São José do Rio Preto, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/191179.
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Orientador: Maria Eliza Brefere ArnoniResumo: A intencionalidade desta pesquisa é investigar a organização didático-pedagógica de atividades que objetivam o desenvolvimento do conceito de gêneros textuais nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Selecionamos como objeto de análise o conceito educativo, ou seja, a organização metodológica do conceito científico de gênero textual no processo educativo, tendo a mediação dialética como categoria de análise, segundo a “Teoria Pedagógica da Metodologia da Mediação Dialética M.M.D.” que fundamenta a perspectiva ontológica da atividade educativa (ARNONI, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018). Elegemos como objetivos: estudar os fundamentos ontológicos da linguagem, em especial, sua natureza social que reflete as relações sociais e veiculam o efeito das lutas sociais, numa sociedade organizada em classes sociais; compreender a linguagem das crianças como diversificação de gêneros textuais que expressam a natureza social de seu cotidiano; analisar a apresentação de gênero textual no livro didático (LD). Em relação aos gêneros textuais, apontamos os limites dos exercícios do LD, os quais dificultam e cerceiam a compreensão conceitual das crianças e apresentamos a proposição teórico-metodológica da M.M.D. como possibilidade do professor estudar e desenvolver o conceito científico de gênero textual, resgatando as ideias iniciais que os alunos trazem deste conceito, via linguagem cotidiana, valorizando-a (RESGATANDO), para, então, elaborar a questão problematizadora, pautada no conceito científico ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: The intent of this research is to investigate the didactic-pedagogical organization of activities that aim the development of the concept of textual genres in the early years of elementary school. We selected as an object of analysis the educational concept, ie the methodological organization of the scientific concept of textual genre in the educational process, with dialectical mediation as a category of analysis, according to the “Pedagogical Theory of the Methodology of Dialectic Mediation MMD” that underlies the perspective. ontological analysis of educational activity (ARNONI, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018). We chose as objectives: to study the ontological foundations of language, especially its social nature that reflects social relations and convey the effect of social struggles in a society organized into social classes; understand children's language as a diversification of textual genres that express the social nature of their daily lives; analyze the presentation of textual genre in the textbook (LD). Regarding the textual genres, we point out the limits of the exercises of LD, which hinder and limit the conceptual understanding of children and present the theoretical-methodological proposition of M.M.D. as a possibility for the teacher to study and develop the scientific concept of textual genre, rescuing the initial ideas that students bring from this concept, through everyday language, valuing it (RETURNING), to then elaborate the problematizing question, based on the ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Rosiek, Susan L. "Navigating the Paradoxes of Working from Home: An Investigation into the New Communication Practices of Telework." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1212984331.
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Thesis (M.Ap.C.T. & M.)--Cleveland State University, 2008.Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 8, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center. Also available in print.
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Medrado, Jackelyne de Souza. "A atividade de ensino de Matemática na formação inicial de professores para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos /." Bauru, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/191325.
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Orientador: Roberto NardiResumo: Esta pesquisa desenvolveu-se na correlação entre escola e universidade, no âmbito da formação inicial de professores de Matemática de uma universidade pública, cujo referencial teórico-metodológico utilizado foi a Perspectiva Histórico-Cultural, particularmente, a Teoria da Atividade de Leontiev e os pressupostos do Materialismo Histórico-Dialético. Objetivou-se investigar o movimento de constituição da atividade de ensino, no contexto da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), desenvolvido no processo de formação inicial de professores de Matemática, por meio do Estágio Curricular Supervisionado (ECS). Percebemos que compreender a formação de professores em suas diferentes particularidades faz-se necessário, considerando a função social do seu trabalho, enquanto agente da práxis transformadora. Diante desta necessidade, apresenta-se a seguinte questão: Quais aprendizagens teórico-práticas, da formação inicial de professores de Matemática, desenvolvidas no ECS, contribuem para a constituição do ser professor para a EJA? A obtenção dos dados empíricos ocorreu por meio de questionário aberto, observação participante, diário de campo, produções dos participantes ao longo do desenvolvimento do estágio e gravações em vídeo das intervenções, regências de estágio e dos momentos de reflexões sobre estas ações. Em consonância ao método Materialista Histórico-Dialético buscou-se a apreensão do objeto de pesquisa em seu movimento lógico-histórico, embasado no conceito de unidades de análise... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This research was developed in the correlation between school and university, in the scope of the initial training of Mathematics teachers of a public university. The theoretical-methodological framework used was the Historical-Cultural Perspective, in particular, Leontiev’s Activity Theory and the assumptions of Historical-Dialectical Materialism. The aim was to investigate the movement of constitution of the teaching activity, in the context of Youth-and-Adult Education (EJA), developed in the process of Mathematics teachers initial training, through Supervised Internship (ECS). We realized that comprising teachers’ training in their different peculiarities is necessary, considering the social function of their work, as agents of transformative praxis. Because of this need, the following question arises: What theoretical-practical learning from mathematics teachers’ the initial training, developed during the ECS, contributes to the constitution of being a teacher at EJA? Empirical data were obtained through an open questionnaire, participant observation, field diary, participant productions during the internship and video recordings of the interventions, teaching and moments of reflection on these actions. In line with the Historical-Dialectical Materialist method, we sought to perceive the object of this research in its logical-historical movement, based on the concept of units of analysis proposed by Vigotski. Two units emerged from the data: particularities of the senses... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Maialeh, Robin. "Critical Theory and Dialectics of Contemporary Economics." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-358999.
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The subject of this dissertation thesis is a confrontation of contemporary economic thought with critical theory. Based on the holistic critique of the production process, the author deals with elementary principles of wealth creation and allocation, mirroring themselves in the issue of economic inequality. An applied transdisciplinary approach leads to dialectical understanding of market mechanism which accentuates an antagonistic character of its actors´ aims and reveals its non-empirical causalities. These abstract connections then become a viable explanatory complement to already advanced empirical apparatus of economic inequality. The goal of the thesis is to formulate an economic model that takes into consideration both empirical findings of contemporary studies on economic inequality and reflection of the critical theory. The value added lies in the fact that the economic model presents an interaction of economic agents and through probabilistic drive towards deepening economic inequalities exposes market mechanism as the diverging factor of social reproduction. Further, the model shows that Pareto-optimization, a frequently used analytically-normative tool of contemporary economics, principally does not suffice in grasping market-based inequalities. The contribution of the thesis is researching particular economic phenomena from the unique perspective which has not been yet fully accomplished in the context of modern economics.
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Smets, Michael. "Doing deals in a global law firm : the reciprocity of institutions and work." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:48185e10-6537-4305-8af3-8ccb27a07ebb.
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Since the early 1990s, institutional approaches to organizations have increasingly focused on explaining the role of agency in processes of institutional creation and transformation. The paradox of embedded agency, the question of how actors can become motivated and enabled to transform supposedly taken-for-granted practices, structures and norms has become the fundamental puzzle of contemporary institutional theory. Recent attempts to resolve this puzzle under the label of “institutional work” focus on practices aimed at creating, maintaining, and disrupting institutions, but portray them as planned, discrete episodes that unfold in isolation from everyday organizational or social life. Thereby, the label highlights institutionalists’ current neglect of work in its literal meaning as actors’ everyday occupational tasks and activities. The detachment of institutional work from practical work constitutes a significant blind spot in institutionalists’ understanding of agency and calls for research that examines the reciprocity of institutions and work. Drawing on illuminating constructs from theories of practice, this study extends existing field-level approaches to the paradox of embedded agency. It argues for a practice-based institutionalism that focuses on individual actors and the role of their collective micro-level praxis in constituting macro-level institutions. It re-connects institutional arguments to every-day activity rather than organizational or managerial action, unpacks the micro-practices and micro–politics by which actors negotiate institutional contradictions and demonstrates the reciprocity of institutions and work. The research addresses the detachment of institutional and practical work through a single-case study of a global law firm’s banking group. It explores what banking lawyers do when they ‘do deals’ and how their practical work may attain institutional relevance. Positioned at the intersec-tion of local laws, international financial markets, commercial and professional logics, banking lawyers operate across multiple institutional frameworks. Observations and accounts of their work provide particularly rich insights into the dynamics of institutional persistence and change, because they illustrate empirically how contradictory institutionalized concepts, practices and logics are experienced, negotiated, and constituted at work.
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Bower, Matthew S. "Catastrophe in Permanence: Benjamin's Natural History of Environmental Crisis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984263/.
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Walter Benjamin warned in 1940 of a certain inconspicuous threat to political thinking, not least of all to materialism, that takes progress as an historical norm. Implicit in this conception is what he describes as an empty continuum of time along which the prevailing tradition chronicles its own mythic development and drains everyday life of genuine historical experience. The myth of progressive history advances insidiously today in consumeristic and technocratic attempts at reconciling cultural imagery with organic nature. In this dissertation, I pursue the contradictions of such images as they crystallize around the natural history of twenty-first century commodity society, where promises of ecological remediation, sustainable urban development, and climate change mitigation have yet to introduce a true crisis of historical experience to the ongoing environmental crisis of capitalism. A more radical way of seeing the cultural representation of nature would, I argue, penetrate its mythic determination by market forces and bear witness to the natural-historical ruins and traces that constitute, in Benjamin's terms, a single "catastrophe" where others perceive historical continuity. I argue that Benjamin's critique of progress is instructive to interpreting those utopian dreams, ablaze in consumer life and technological fantasy, that recent decades of growing environmental concern have channeled into the recovery of an experience of the natural world. His dialectics of nature and alienated history confront the wish-image of organic abundance with the transience of its appropriated expression in the commodity-form. Drawing together this confrontation with a varied literature on collective memory, nature, and the city, I suggest that our poverty of experience is more than simply a technical, economic, or even ecological problem, but rather follows from the commodification of history itself. The goal of this work is to reflect upon the potentiality of communal politics that subsist not in rushing headlong into a progressive future but, as Benjamin urges, in reaching for the emergency brake on the runaway train of progress.
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MACHADO, Cacilda Tenório Oliveira. "Concepções epistemológicas e experiências de professores de matemática sobre números fracionários : as implicações em suas práticas na 5ª série do ensino fundamental." Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, 2007. http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/5815.
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The aim of this work is to investigate the existence of relationships among the conceptions of the Mathematic teachers about fractionary numbers and the teaching process of this subject in the 5th level of the fundamental school. Based on the theory of the Conceptual Fields from Vergnaud, we analyzed data by doing the comparison between two situations: how the teacher learned and how does he teaches the concept of fraction. Our exposition was compound by ten Mathematic teachers who teach in the 5th level, that, in the beginning were interviewed through out the DHC–Dialectical Hermeneutical Circle and after they had their fraction concept introductory class observed. Being this research made on a qualitative character, it was utilized the Interactive Methodology, cause of its meaningful contribution to collect and analyze data. The DHC technique made considerably easier the data collection and gave us the opportunity of a better interaction among the interviewed ones and the researcher. The results we found showed that as men as women were capable of carrying out good didactical transpositions, those teachers between 40 and 45 years old, the ones with more general time of teaching, the ones with more experience in the 5th level and those who act only in the Prived School were better in the observed classes. Other important factor to be considered is that the Mathematical Education haven’t influenced conceptions and parctices of teachers differently. We observed that there are teachers with a very well made conceptions about fractions, conscious that the didactical transposition which they are doing in their classes is disconnected from the pupils’ reality and as they know the necessity of a contextualized teaching of this subject, meanwhile they can not be free from old practices. This studying points to future researchers which ones can clarify the incoherence between teachers’ speeching and doing. We confirmed that there is a relationship between the conceptions that the teachers have about the Mathematic Knowledge and the procedures to teach and evaluate adopted by them. The part/all model is the most worked by the collaborator teachers of this research and almost always it is associated to the procedure of double counting which makes the pupils to think about fraction not as numbers to learn, but as part of things. We concluded that many difficulties from the pupils to learn about fraction is a consequence from the model of the Didactical Transposition done by the teacher in the moment of teaching that concept.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar a existência de relações entre as concepções de professores de matemática sobre númers fracionários e o processo de ensino desse conteúdo na 5ª série do ensino fundamental. Baseados na Teoria dos Campos Conceituais de Vergnaud analisamos os dados coletados fazendo um confronto de duas situações: como o professor aprendeu e como ele ensina o conceito de fração. A nossa amostra foi composta por dez professores de matemática de 5ª série, que, inicialmente foram entrevistados através do Círculo Hermenêutico Dialético (CHD) e, posteriormente, tiveram observadas as suas aulas introdutórias do conceito de fração. Sendo esta pesquisa de caráter qualitativo, nela foi utilizada a Metodologia Interativa, pela sua contribuição significativa na coleta e análise dos dados. A técnica do CHD facilitou consideravelmente a coleta dos dados oportunizando uma maior interação entre os entrevistados e a pesquisadora. Os resultados encontrados apontam que tanto homens como mulheres foram capazes de realizar boas transposições didáticas, que professores da faixa dos 40 aos 45 anos, os com mais tempo geral de ensino, os com mais tempo de ensino na 5ª série e os que atuavam apenas na rede particular de ensino se saíram melhor na aula observada. Outro fator importante a ser considerado é que a formação em matemática não influenciou diferentemente concepções e práticas dos professores. Observamos que há professores com concepções bem elaboradas sobre fração, conscientes de que a transposição didática que estão fazendo em suas salas de aula está desarticulada da realidade dos alunos e sabedores da necessidade de um ensino contextualizado desse conteúdo, entretanto, não conseguem se desvencilhar de antigas práticas. Este estudo sinaliza para pesquisas futuras que possam esclarecer a incoerência entre o dizer e o fazer dos professores. Não observamos uma relação entre as concepções que os professores têm acerca do conhecimento matemático e os procedimentos de ensinar e avaliar por eles adotados. O modelo parte/todo é o mais trabalhado pelos professores colaboradores desta pesquisa e quase sempre é associado ao procedimento de contagem dupla, o que leva os alunos a pensarem frações não como números, mas, como partes de coisas. Concluímos que muitas das dificuldades dos alunos na aprendizagem de frações é conseqüência do modelo da transposição didática feita pelo professor no momento do ensino daquele conceito.
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XAVIER, Maria do Carmo da Silveira. "A contribuição das artes plásticas na aprendizagem de conceitos científicos." Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, 2008. http://www.tede2.ufrpe.br:8080/tede2/handle/tede2/5927.
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In this research we investigate the construction of concepts, through technological material of artistic production of Conceptual Art, a transdisciplinary procedure with Science. It is confirmed the potential of continuing towards art, and its contribution to the learning of scientific concepts for students in high school. As expressive materials for the conceptual artistic productions, it is mentioned: the PET (Ethylene Politereftalate) and a bioplastics (made by students). These materials support the discussions and conceptual constructions about the curriculum content of high school to the Chemistry of Materials, to Biology and Ecology (environment), with the themes: polymers, synthetic and natural biopolymer, and transversal issues as: garbage, recycling, reuse, sustainability, environmental aesthetics and new technologies. As theoretical and methodological we have Kelly’s, Theory of Personal Constructs with emphasis on the Cycle of Experience is had. The hermeneutic-dialectic methodology the research’s methodology, seek refuge alteration of CHD and enables the structuring of interactive methodology/constructive, new learning tool, from proposed changes of CHD, allows you a closer cross between areas of knowledge, Art and Science. Personal Constructs that allows the simultaneous participation of all involved in the project and it grants primordial speech of freedom for the students through the spoken language and the conceptual constructions of art;collected data and allowing following the attitude and cognitive process of students. The project involves a group of 10 students from 1st year grade of high school of CODAI, institution associated to UFRPE, in the City of SAO LOURENCO DA MATA, State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The research results presents a satisfactory development from the participants and it also presents in the consensus final constructions, a very approach of the formal definition that could be found in the sciences literature as well as in the conceptual art.
Nesta pesquisa investiga-se a construção de conceitos através do material tecnológico da produção artística de Arte conceitual, em procedimento transdisciplinar com a Ciência. Verifica-se a potencialidade do material expressivo utilizado na produção conceitual da arte e na sua contribuição para a aprendizagem de conceitos científicos de alunos do ensino médio. Como materiais expressivos têm-se: o PET (Politereftalato de etileno) e um bioplástico (confeccionado pelos alunos). Esses materiais auxiliam nas discussões e construções conceituais sobre conteúdos curriculares do Ensino Médio relativos à Química dos Materiais, à Biologia e à Ecologia (meio ambiente), com o tema: polímero (sintético, naturais e biopolímero), e abordagens transversais como: lixo, reciclagem, reaproveitamento, sustentabilidade, estética ambiental e novas tecnologias. Como aporte teórico e metodológico tem-se a Teoria dos Construtos Pessoais de Kelly, com destaque para o Ciclo da Experiência. A metodologia hermenêutica-dialética fundamenta a metodologia da pesquisa. Também ampara as modificações efetivadas no círculo hermenêutico-dialético (CHD) e viabiliza a estruturação da metodologia interativo/construtiva como um novo instrumento pedagógico, eficiente tanto para construir dados em pesquisa qualitativa, quanto, como ferramenta pedagógica para construção da aprendizagem. O novo instrumento proposto a partir das modificações do CHD facilitou a aproximação transdisciplinar entre as áreas do conhecimento, Arte e Ciência, e possibilitou a participação simultânea de todos os pesquisados na mostra. Assim, envolveu: entrevistados e observadores, privilegiando a liberdade de expressão dos envolvidos através da fala e das construções e reconstruções conceituais durante as fases do instrumento. O CHD modificado viabilizou a construção dos dados da pesquisa e também facilitou acompanhar os processos atitudinais e cognitivos dos envolvidos durante a construção da aprendizagem. Foram pesquisados 10 alunos do 1º Ano do Ensino Médio do CODAI, Instituição vinculada a UFRPE situada no Município de São Lourenço da Mata, PE. Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram satisfatório desenvolvimento das construções conceituais dos participantes e mostraram nos resultados consensuais finais, muita proximidade às definições formais encontradas na literatura da área de Ciência, bem como da Arte Conceitual.
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Skelley, Steven J. "Yeats, Bloom and the dialectics of theory, criticism and poetry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13628/.
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This thesis begins by showing how a strong and subtle challenge to poetry and theories of poetry has been recently argued by writers like Paul de Man and J. Hillis Miller—critics whose ironic linguistic "disfigurations" of lyrical voice have thrown poem and poet into an anti-mimetic free fall, an abyss of bewilderment or undecidability. To its credit, de Manian deconstruction strongly misreads various mimetic approaches to William Butler Yeats, as its corrosive irony empties out theories of imitation. Chapter two explains how New Criticism, biographical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical criticism, all treat Yeats's poetry as a reflection or imitation of some prior being, text, or doctrine; and chapter three how, most recently and energetically, various new historicisms treat his poems as ideological artifacts determined by the world or history, but as artifacts that must seek to change the world in order to have value. Harold Bloom's theory meets such challenges. It enacts deconstruction's misreading of poem and poet without reducing them to a linguistic abyss; and it re-envisions mimetic approaches by reading poems in terms of genealogical influence, without moralizing. Chapter four investigates Bloom's vision of strong poetry as a "supermimesis" or in terms of gnostic figures of "negative transcendence." Bloom's work, however, also needs Yeatsian creative correction. As the fifth and sixth chapters show, it needs, like Yeats's poetry, to hold itself more open to the chaos of history. Invoking instruction from the very poetry that has so influenced Bloom's theory of influence, yet from which Bloom has turned away, this thesis re-interprets Yeats's poems and Yeats criticism generally. Using Yeats's openness to history to revise Bloom and his pragmatic theory of misreading to re-interpret Yeats, the thesis attempts to advance dialectically both Yeats criticism and Bloomian theory.
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Best, Stefanie A. "Using Relational Dialectics Theory to Better Understand Autistic Communication Competence." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339700806.
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Sculos, Bryant William. "Worlds Ahead?: On the Dialectics of Cosmopolitanism and Postcapitalism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3195.
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This dissertation argues that the major theories of global justice (specifically within the cosmopolitan tradition) have missed an important aspect of capitalism in their attempts to deal with the most pernicious effects of the global economic system. This is not merely a left critique of cosmopolitanism (though it is certainly that as well), but its fundamental contribution is that it applies the insights of Frankfurt School Critical Theorist Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics to offer an internal critique of cosmopolitanism. As it stands, much of the global justice and cosmopolitanism literature takes global capitalism as an unsurpassable and a foundationally unproblematic system, often ignoring completely the relationship between the psycho-socially conditioned ideological aspects of capitalism and the horizon of achievable politics and social development. Using the philosophies and social theories of Adorno and Erich Fromm, I argue that there is a crucial psycho-social dimension to capitalism, or capitalistic mentality—represented in and functionally reproduced by transnational capitalism—that undermines the political aspirations of normative theories of cosmopolitanism, on their own terms.
The project concludes with an exploration of Marxist, neo-Marxist, and post-Marxist theories as a potential source of alternatives to address the flaws within cosmopolitanism with respect to its general acceptance and under-theorizing of capitalism. The conclusion reached here is that even these radical approaches fail to take into account the near-pervasive influence of capitalism on the minds of radicals and activists working for progressive change or simply reject the potentials contained in existing avenues for global political and economic change (something which the cosmopolitan theories explored in earlier chapters do not do). Based again on the work of Adorno and Fromm, this dissertation argues that the best path forward, practically and theoretically, is by engaging cosmopolitanism and neo-/post-Marxism productively around this concept of the capitalistic mentality, building towards a praxeological theory of postcapitalist cosmopolitanism framed by a negative dialectical resuscitation of the concepts of class struggle and unlimited democracy. This postcapitalist cosmopolitanism emphasizes non-exploitative economic and political relations, cooperation, compassion, sustainability, and a participatory-democratic civic culture.
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Cochrane, Regina M. "Feminism, ecology, and negative dialectics, toward a feminist green political theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0022/NQ39260.pdf.
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Hillyard, Sam. "An exploration of the dialectic between theory and method in ethnography." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1241/.
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The thesis poses three core questions: 1. What is ethnography? 2. What is the role of theory in ethnography? 3. What (and how) can ethnography contribute to the cumulative development of sociologieal theory? The thesis develops a reflexive awareness of the persuasiveness of the theory-method dialectic in ethnography. It explores the processes through which ethnography generates knowledge through social research and hence the basis upon which ethnography rests its claims about the social world. The thesis conducts a specific case study of one ethnographic 'theory' that was developed through a series of classic ethnographic research monographs. The context of the theory in relation to the historical development of ethnography is evaluated and an area for further theoretical development identified. This area was then tested in new, original fieldwork with the aim to contribute to further theoretical cumulation. The thesis offers two conclusions. The first considers what lessons have been learned through the approach to theorising used by the thesis and if it represents a model for future ethnographic research to follow. The final conclusion of the thesis calls for a greater awareness of the capacity of ethnography to contribute to theory cumulation. It suggests the role of theory has become more implicit than explicit. However, the ethnographic research conducted here has, albeit in one small case study, acknowledged the potential of theory for ethnography. This is vital if ethnography is to offer a sophisticated approach to social research and to contribute to sociological knowledge.
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Nemiroff, Greta Hofmann 1937. "From humanistic education to critical humanism : the dialectics of theory and praxis." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59423.
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This thesis articulates the philosophy of The New School of Dawson College, an alternative pre-university Arts programme in a community college in Montreal. The roots of The New School's philosophy are examined and critiqued in the works of: Dewey, the existentialists, popular educational critics of the 1960s, Maslow, Rogers, the humanistic and "Values" educators, Kozol, Freire, Aronowitz, Giroux and feminist educational theorists.The thesis focuses, however, on the dialectical relationship between theory and praxis in the development of educational philosophy. It describes the process by which various elements to be found in the works of these educational philosophers are tested by and integrated into the pedagogy of the school, contributing to its educational philosophy of Critical Humanism.
This thesis combines philosophical analysis with concrete examples of a praxis which is informed by and, in turn, informs educational theory.
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Santos, Manoel Gon?alves dos. "A rela??o teoria e pr?tica na forma??o do pedagogo ? luz do materialismo hist?rico-dial?tico." Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2014. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/93.
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The quality of teacher education is currently too questioned and discussed by researchers from Brazil and the world, in view of the importance that is attributed to education in this social scenario characterized by the expansion of globalization and the globalization of capital. In this discussion about the teacher qualification, the theme of the relationship between theory and practice has gained relevance, considering the formative potential of this binomial is coated, as well as by the dichotomous perspective with which the same has historically been conducted in curriculum settings and training practices. Taking this scenario as motivation, the investigation stems from the following question: What are the implications of the curricular and pedagogical organization of the course in pedagogy of UEFS in the process of appropriation of the relation theory and practice realized by the students of this course? While theoretical and epistemological orientation, this research is based on principles of historical- dialectic materialism. It is a qualitative research, whose l?cus is the course of pedagogy of the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana/Bahia, and the subjects are 47 students attending the seventh or the eighth semester. The data derive from the application of a questionnaire and documentary analysis of pedagogical political project of course. The theoretical-conceptual framework includes a historical foray that explains the process of structuring the concepts of theory and practice in the history of knowledge, and some eployment of relations arising from these concepts in the configuration and interpretation of reality. Also includes a historical and critical- political analysis of the influence of the interests of the dominant social classes, based in the dominion and expansion of capital, of the Brazilian State, and how these interests have been reverberating in teacher education. Seeking to problematize the reality of our empirical field regarding the theme on screen, as well as trying to demarcate formative principles aligned to theoretical ballast that guides the research, were used as interlocutors, among others, the following authors: Adolfo Sanchez Vasquez, Dermeval Saviani, Luis Carlos de Freitas, Leda Sheibe, Selma Garrido Pimenta and Iria Brzezinski. The results allow to infer that the implications in question have an impact on the training politic and on the technical training of future teachers, understood as complementary dimensions. In the first dimension, taking as a higher ideal of training overcome capitalist mode of production, it was noted that the proposal of the course a countersignature emancipatory direction, but does not define explicitly which joins training history project, if one legitimating of the dictates of capital, or its opposite. It is understandable that such vagueness can be competing for its students to share, as the data show, a vision of the social function of school entered in the capital's landmarks, as well as a concept of relationship between theory and practice circumscribed preponderantly on training model constituted consisting of technical rationality and practical rationality, both hallmarks of teaching practice which does not enhance the ideological and political nuance of education, although noticed signs of a building movement of a vision based on the epistemology of praxis. Regarding the repercussions on the technical dimension, while meeting process to know how to do, the findings indicate a positive perception from the students about the knowledge studied for the expansion of their vision about the reality of the craft in which they will operate. However, their voices reveal, primarily, the existence of a dichotomy of the bargain theory and practice on the course, pointing to problems related to pedagogical work and teaching, and indicating the need for the course thinking, institutionalize and operationalize a collective and interdisciplinary work in such a way, enforcing what assumes its pedagogical political project, to promote effective appropriation of the relationship between theory and practice by students and therefore a better political and technical instrumentalization of these future professionals of basic education.
A qualidade da forma??o de professores ? atualmente muito questionada e discutida por pesquisadores do Brasil e do mundo, tendo em vista a import?ncia que ? atribu?da ? educa??o neste cen?rio social caracterizado pela expans?o da globaliza??o e mundializa??o do capital. Nesse debate sobre qualifica??o docente a tem?tica da rela??o teoria e pr?tica tem ganhado relev?ncia, haja vista o potencial formativo de que este bin?mio se reveste, bem como pela perspectiva dicot?mica com a qual o mesmo historicamente tem sido conduzido em configura??es curriculares e pr?ticas de forma??o. Tomando este cen?rio como motiva??o, a investiga??o decorre da seguinte quest?o: Quais as implica??es da organiza??o curricular e pedag?gica do curso de Pedagogia da UEFS no processo de apropria??o da rela??o teoria e pr?tica realizado pelos estudantes desse curso? Enquanto orienta??o te?rica e epistemol?gica, a pesquisa est? pautada em princ?pios do materialismo hist?rico-dial?tico. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, cujo l?cus ? o curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana/Bahia, e os sujeitos s?o 47 estudantes cursando o s?timo ou o oitavo semestre. Os dados derivam da aplica??o de question?rio e de an?lise documental do Projeto Pol?tico-Pedag?gico do curso. O quadro te?rico-conceitual inclui uma incurs?o hist?rica que explicita o processo de estrutura??o dos conceitos de teoria e de pr?tica na hist?ria do conhecimento, e alguns desdobramentos das rela??es oriundas destes conceitos na configura??o e interpreta??o da realidade. Inclui, ainda, uma an?lise hist?rica e cr?tico-pol?tica da influ?ncia dos interesses das classes sociais dominantes, calcados no dom?nio e expans?o do capital, no direcionamento do Estado brasileiro, e de que forma estes interesses v?m se reverberando na forma??o docente. Buscando problematizar a realidade do nosso campo emp?rico no tocante ? tem?tica em tela, bem como tentando demarcar princ?pios formativos alinhados ao lastro te?rico que norteia a pesquisa, foram utilizados como interlocutores, dentre outros, os seguintes autores: Adolfo Sanches V?squez, Dermeval Saviani, Luis Carlos de Freitas, Leda Sheibe, Selma Garrido Pimenta e Iria Brzezinski. Os resultados permitem inferir que as implica??es em quest?o repercutem sobre a forma??o pol?tica e sobre a forma??o t?cnica dos futuros professores, entendidas como dimens?es que se complementam. Na primeira dimens?o, tomando como ideal maior de forma??o a supera??o do modo capitalista de produ??o, notou-se que a proposta do curso referenda um direcionamento emancipat?rio, mas n?o define explicitamente a qual projeto hist?rico de forma??o se filia, se ?quele legitimador dos ditames do capital, ou o seu contr?rio. Compreende-se que tal indefini??o pode estar concorrendo para que os seus estudantes compartilhem, como os dados revelam, de uma vis?o de fun??o social da escola inscrita nos marcos do capital, bem como de uma concep??o de rela??o teoria e pr?tica circunscrita preponderantemente no modelo de forma??o constitu?do pela racionalidade t?cnica e pela racionalidade pr?tica, ambos balizadores de um fazer docente que n?o real?a a nuance pol?tico-ideol?gica da educa??o, embora se perceba ind?cios de um movimento de constru??o de uma vis?o pautada na epistemologia da pr?xis. Quanto ?s repercuss?es sobre a dimens?o t?cnica, entendida como processo de conhecer para saber fazer, os achados indicam uma percep??o positiva dos estudantes sobre os conhecimentos estudados para a amplia??o de sua vis?o sobre a realidade do of?cio em que atuar?o. Contudo, suas vozes revelam, precipuamente, a exist?ncia de uma dicotomia no trato da teoria e da pr?tica no curso, apontando para problemas relacionados ao trabalho pedag?gico e docente, e indicando a necessidade de o curso pensar, institucionalizar e operacionalizar um trabalho coletivo e interdisciplinar, de maneira a, fazendo valer o que pressup?e o seu PPP, favorecer a uma efetiva apropria??o da rela??o teoria e pr?tica pelos estudantes e, por conseguinte, uma melhor instrumentaliza??o pol?tica e t?cnica desses futuros profissionais da educa??o b?sica.
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Skandalis, Sotirios. "The social character of Marx's theory of value : an inquiry into 'systematic dialectics'." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66421/.
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This thesis is a theoretical investigation into Marx’s theory of value through a close reading of the ‘systematic dialectical’ tendency in the area of value-form theory. It investigates theories, which emphasize the import of Hegel’s Logic on Marx’s Capital The main argument is that many of the arguments that are associated with ‘new’ Hegelian Marxism are sound and valid, but that they also require a closer look into Marx’s emphasis on the social concepts under investigation. In this context, the thesis compares and contrasts ‘systematic dialectics’ with core texts of Marx’s intellectual project. It is argued that the main exponents of ‘new dialectics’ and Hegelian Marxism have left unexamined such crucial topics as those of the critique of private property and class struggle. In this context, the thesis affirms that the ‘systematic dialectic’ can be utilized to conceptualize the transition to a different social order, with the latter being a by-product of the logic of capital itself.
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Guzman, Dahlia. "The “Permanent Hegelian Deposit” in John Dewey’s Theory." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1279387271.
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Karabela, Mehmet Kadri. "The development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96696.
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This dissertation is an analysis of the development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history. The central concerns of the thesis are; treatises on the theoretical understanding of the concept of dialectic and argumentation theory, and how, in practice, the concept of dialectic, as expressed in the Greek classical tradition, was received and used by five communities in the Islamic intellectual camp. It shows how dialectic as an argumentative discourse diffused into five communities (theologicians, poets, grammarians, philosophers and jurists) and how these local dialectics that the individual communities developed fused into a single system to form a general argumentation theory (adab al-bahth) applicable to all fields. I evaluate a treatise by Shams al-Din Samarqandi (d.702/1302), the founder of this general theory, and the treatises that were written after him as a result of his work. I concentrate specifically on work by 'Ad}ud al-Din al-Iji (d.756/1355), Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani (d.816/1413), Taşköprüzâde (d.968/1561), Saçaklızâde (d.1150/1737) and Gelenbevî (d.1205/1791) and analyze how each writer (from Samarqandi to Gelenbevî) altered the shape of argumentative discourse and how later intellectuals in the post-classical Islamic world responded to that discourse bequeathed by their predecessors. What is striking about the period that this dissertation investigates (from 1300-1800) is the persistence of what could be called the linguistic turn in argumentation theory. After a centuries-long run, the jadal-based dialectic of the classical period was displaced by a new argumentation theory, which was dominantly linguistic in character. This linguistic turn in argumentation dates from the final quarter of the fourteenth century in Iji's impressively prescient work on 'ilm al-wad'. This idea, which finally surfaced in the post-classical period, that argumentation is about definition and that, therefore, defining is the business of language—even perhaps, that language is the only available medium for understanding and being understood—affected the way that argumentation theory was processed throughout most of the period in question.The argumentative discourse that started with Ibn al-Rawandi in the third/ninth century left a permanent imprint on Islamic intellectual history, which was then full of concepts, terminology and objectives from this discourse up until the late nineteenth century. From this perspective, Islamic intellectual history can be read as the tension between two languages: the "language of dialectic" (jadal) and the "language of demonstration" (burhan), each of which refer not only to a significant feature of that history, but also to a feature that could dramatically alter the interpretation of that history.Cette dissertation est une analyse de l'évolution de la théorie dialectique et d'argumentation dans l'histoire intellectuelle islamique post-classique. Les préoccupations centrales de la thèse sont les suivantes: les traités sur la compréhension théorique de la notion de la théorie dialectique (de logique) et d'argumentation, et comment, en pratique, la notion dialectique, tel qu'elle est exprimée dans la tradition grecque classique, a été reçue et utilisée par les cinq collectivités du camp intellectuel islamique. Cette étude démontre comment la notion dialectique en tant que discours argumentatif a été diffusée dans cinq collectivités (théologiens, poètes, grammairiens, philosophes et juristes) et comment ces notions logiques locales, développées dans les différentes communautés, se sont fusionnées en un seul système pour former une théorie d'argumentation générale (adab al-bahth) applicable à tous les domaines.J'évalue un traité de Shams al-Din Samarqandi (d.702/1302), le fondateur de cette théorie générale, et les traités qui ont été écrits après lui en tant que succession de son travail. Je me concentre spécifiquement sur les travaux de 'Adud al-Din al-Iji (d.756/1355), Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani (d.816/1413), Taşköprüzâde (d.968/1561), Saçaklızâde (d.1150/1737) et Gelenbevî (d.1205/1791) et analyse comment chaque auteur (de Samarqandi à Gelenbevî) a modifié la forme du discours argumentatif et comment les intellectuels, venus par après dans le monde post-islamique classique, ont répondu à ce discours transmis par leurs prédécesseurs.Ce qui est frappant, de la période que cette thèse étudie (de 1300-1800), est la persistance de ce qu'on pourrait appeler le tournant linguistique dans la théorie de l'argumentation. Après plusieurs siècles, la notion dialectique de la période classique basée sur jadal fût remplacée par une nouvelle théorie d'argumentation qui était principalement de caractère linguistique. Ce tournant linguistique dans l'argumentation est daté du dernier quart du quatorzième siècle dans le travail sur 'ilm al-wad' impressionnant et prémonitoire d'al-Iji. Cette idée, qui est finalement émergée dans la période post-classique, disant que l'argumentation décrit une définition et que, par conséquent, la définition est l'utilité du langage —et même peut-être, que le langage est le seul moyen disponible pour comprendre et être compris— a influencé la façon dont la théorie d'argumentation a été formulée dans la majeure partie de la période en question.Le discours argumentatif qui a commencé avec Ibn al-Rawandi au troisième/neuvième siècle a laissé une empreinte permanente dans l'histoire intellectuelle islamique qui s'est remplie de concepts, de terminologie et d'objectifs de ce discours jusqu'à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Selon cette perspective, l'histoire intellectuelle islamique peut être lue comme une divergence entre deux langues: le "langage dialectique" (jadal) et le "langage démonstratif" (burhan), dont chacun se réfère non seulement à une caractéristique importante de cette histoire, mais à une caractéristique qui pourrait changer radicalement l'interprétation de cette histoire.
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