Dissertations / Theses: 'Engaging'

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Waire, Danielle N. "Connecting-engaging-exploring underwater." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Boland, Daniel. "Engaging with music retrieval." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6727/.

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Music collections available to listeners have grown at a dramatic pace, now spanning tens of millions of tracks. Interacting with a music retrieval system can thus be overwhelming, with users offered ‘too-much-choice’. The level of engagement required for such retrieval interactions can be inappropriate, such as in mobile or multitasking contexts. Music recommender systems are widely employed to address this issue, however tend toward the opposite extreme of disempowering users and suffer from issues of subjectivity and confounds, such as the equalisation of tracks. This challenge and the styles of retrieval interaction involved are characterised in terms of user engagement in music retrieval, and the relationships between existing conceptualisations of user engagement is explored. Using listening histories and work from music psychology, a set of engagement-stratified profiles of listening behaviour are developed. A dataset comprising the playlists of thousands of users is used to contribute a user-centric approach to feature selection. The challenge of designing music retrieval for different levels of user engagement is first explored with a proof of concept, low engagement music retrieval system enabling users to casually retrieve music by tapping its rhythm as a query. The design methodology is then generalised with an engagement-dependent system, allowing users to denote their level of engagement and thus the specificity of their music queries. The engagement-dependent retrieval interaction is then explored as a component in a commercial music system. This thesis contributes the engagement-stratified profiles and metrics of listening behaviour, a corresponding design methodology for interaction, and presents a set of research and commercial applications for music retrieval.

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Robinson, Schnarda R. "Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4094.

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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management reported the productivity levels of the American multigenerational workforce decreasing as leaders strive to actively engage employees to improve organizational output. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore what leadership strategies federal government managers use to engage a multigenerational workforce. The conceptual framework consisted of Kahn's employee engagement theory and Strauss and Howe's generational cohort theory. The sample consisted of 3 federal government managers within metro Atlanta, Georgia who had successfully managed a multigenerational workforce, demonstrated through the feedback they received from their employees. Data were collected using face-to-face semistructured interviews and a review and analysis of company documents. Data analysis consisted of applying Yin's 5 step data analysis process, and member checking and methodological triangulation of the data strengthened the trustworthiness of interpretations. Emergent themes included generational differences; strategies for working with multigenerational differences; and strategies for engaging a multigenerational workforce. The most effective strategies involved training, communication skills, and team building. Findings from this study may contribute to social change by providing federal government managers with the framework for understanding and engaging its multigenerational workforce, which can result in promoting positive relationships between coworkers, families, and communities. Positive relationships in the workforce may increase employee morale and motivation and decrease employee turnover and the unemployment rate.

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Rönkkö, Katja. "Engaging Hundreds of Millions, Engaging WWFers : The Internal Communication within an International NGO." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91054.

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The significance of local and international non-governmental organizations in society has beenincreasing quite rapidly. Nevertheless, the research concerning international NGOs internalactivities has not evolved in phase with the growing roles of NGOs’. The internal communicationand organizational culture have significant role on how NGOs works externally. The aim of thisstudy is to gain knowledge on WWF’s (World Wide Fund for Nature) internal communication andorganizational culture. This is achieved by researching the communicational processes aroundWWF’s global “Engaging hundreds of millions” -objective and reflecting the findings on theapproaches and theories among organizational culture and sensemaking. WWF is one of the world’slargest environmental international NGO with over 5,000 employees worldwide. The study bases onthe experiences of WWF’s managing communicators, and it reveals that a majority of them feel thatthe internal communication in the Network does not work as effectively as they hope. According tothe results, many people feel that the internal communication and participation to differentprocesses is unsatisfactory mainly because clear practices and opportunities to participate arelacking. However, the study also reveals that there is a substantial enthusiasm and will to improvethe practices together within the WWF Network.

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Tikkanen, Marjo. "Engaging users with surrealist techniques." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21557.

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Building on current methods used in the field of interaction design, this thesis aims to explore how surrealist art techniques could be applied to the fuzzy front end of a design process. This is done to inspire and expand the current range of user engagement methods. The premise is that all people are creative, but they might need tools and techniques to express themselves. This creative potential could be harnessed more in design processes. The techniques conceived by surrealist artists could serve as generative tools that empower users to create, discuss, be playful and reduce their self-censorship in expression.The process conducted follows a research through design approach, as the aim is to explore the application of methods rather than solve a specific problem. Within the process a literature review, expert interviews, workshops and experiments are conducted. The experimentation with surrealist techniques takes place mostly in the context of Malmö City Library, imagining future uses and scenarios for the library with users. The outcome is a knowledge contribution to the field of interaction design, comprising of qualities for user engagement defined in the process and techniques that seem to have potential as user engagement methods.

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Phillips, Andrew. "Engaging clinicians in cocreating health." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702335.

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This thesis contributes to the wider debate on Prudent Healthcare and Relational Practise. The study aimed to determine how to engage clinicians in cocreating health by developing a framework for cocreating health to support the patient-clinician interaction and to identify the factors in its successful implementation in health services. The interaction between patients and clinicians is at the heart of health care. They are the first point of contact and a familiar interaction with the health service for most patients. Within UK health services there are three hundred million consultations held every year. Consultations happen in a variety of contexts, locations and with many different clinical professions. The overwhelming majority of these interactions follow a set pattern, the rules of engagement, which governs how patients are examined, histories established, symptoms described, test results discussed, progress monitored, treatment options given and decisions made. However, the traditional medical model of consultation can reinforce a power imbalance between clinician and patient, and create paternalistic relationships that reduce patients' control, leading to their 'systematic disempowerment'. Cocreating health is about enablement, viewing patients as assets not burdens and seeks to support them to recognise, engage with and develop their own sense of resourcefulness building on their own unique range of capabilities. Cocreation means that health care services support people's individual abilities, preferences, lifestyles and goals. In a cocreating health model of interaction, patients work with a supporting clinician. Such interactions consider the patient's life goals, how they plan to work towards them and what support they need to help her get there. Working in cocreation, a clinician would support patients to think about goals that are meaningful and adaptive. A number of elements of cocreating health such as self-supported management and decision support have previously been developed. However, these have generally been implemented within the context of the traditional 'medical model' of consultation. In the development of the cocreating health framework, a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach was taken to explore different aspects of cocreating health and to triangulate knowledge obtained from the different methodologies. Principles of grounded theory were used in the qualitative research. Data and insights were obtained in two phases. In the first phase, over thirty workshops were held with over five hundred participants from Welsh Government, local authorities, voluntary sector and across the NHS in Wales including policy makers, leaders of health services and clinicians. Insights from these participants combined with knowledge gained from the literature review were used to develop a cocreating health framework for testing. The initial data suggested that for clinicians, working collaboratively with patients in agenda setting was the most unfamiliar and potentially transformative element of cocreating health. Accordingly, training was arranged for one hundred and sixty four clinicians whose attitudes towards cocreating health were explored using questionnaires. In the second phase, semi structured interviews were held with thirty one participants from

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Trivette, Carol M. "Engaging Families in Early Intervention." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4457.

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Come join the Military Families Learning Network Early Intervention team on Wed., June 29, from 12:30-1:30 ET for an interactive discussion related to the webinar "Engaging Families to Focus on Intervention Strategies" held on June 23. We want to hear your thoughts, opinions, and experiences related to interactions you have had with families of young children with disabilities and how those interactions strengthen the family’s ability to support their child’s learning. Were you not able to participate in the webinar on the 23rd? No worries! We would still love to hear from you! And if you want, you can go to the archived webinar and listen to it before the Lunch & Learn. Come share your expertise and learn from others during this interactive forum.

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Vasquez-Cropper, Marie E. "Engaging cognitive neurosciences in the classroom /." See Full Text at OhioLINK ETD Center (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing), 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=toledo1103302896.

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Project requirement (M.Ed.)--University of Toledo, 2005.
Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Education degree in Physical Education" Bibliography: leaves 43-46.

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Gurr, Charlotte, Adrienne McCurdy, and Sarah Rose Robert. "Neighbourhood Hubs : Engaging Communities for Sustainability." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3332.

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Society is facing a great sustainability challenge, where the design of its social systems has made it increasingly difficult for the planet to support humanity. Given the complexity of the sustainability challenge, the planet requires a shift in the way society is organised and a commitment to sustainability from individuals and communities. This thesis explores how neighbourhood hubs can serve as a platform to engage individuals to take an active participatory role in their community. Neighbourhood hubs are defined as: a fixed physical gathering place which intentionally brings people together to carry out services, activities, programs and events that serve the local community. This research sought to uncover the dynamic and engaging characteristics of neighbourhood hubs that attract participants as well as the benefits of hubs to the local community in the form of community capitals. By combining the approach of Strategic Sustainable Development with the engaging characteristics of hubs, this thesis provides a planning tool to help hubs work towards their vision and move society towards sustainability. Neighbourhood hubs are found to be an effective and inspiring way for communities to move towards a vibrant and sustainable future.

carlygurr@gmail.com; adrienne.mccurdy@gmail.com; sarahrose.robert@gmail.com

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Lim, Sharn Selina, and sharnster@gmail com. "Engaging Space: A practice of arranging." RMIT University. Architecture + Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080724.114344.

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Engaging Space focuses on arranging as means to engage with space. The adaptive arrangements and spatial negotiations of street vendors provide the stimulus for my inquiry. Noticing the various ways vendors constantly engage spatially has led me to observe the ways spatial practices are adapted to suit various requirements. What might I learn, as an interior practitioner, from the spatial practices of street vendors? How might this be applied to an interior practice, to inform an understanding of adaptive methods to engage with space? Undertaking a practice of vendoring, the projects then become engaging spaces - exploring a practice of arranging to produce interiors.

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Griffiths, Helen Gwyneth. "New school geographies : engaging young people?" Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/117645.

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In 2003 school geography was in a state of crisis: enrolment in GCSE geography courses had fallen by a third over the previous eight years. In response, a radical new ‘pilot’ geography GCSE course was designed and implemented in England. The GCSE was an attempt to rejuvenate a school subject that had become out of date, with little change to its content since the inauguration of the National Curriculum in 1988. With student-centred learning at its heart the GCSE aimed to make the subject much more exciting and relevant to young people. The following thesis examines alternative pedagogical approaches to teaching school geography that draw on young people’s experiences as citizens and consumers to make geography more relevant and interesting to them. Written as an unfolding story this multi-sited ethnography began by exploring the networks behind the pilot. This involved not only several different actors/groups of actors (including geography educators, academic geographers, geography teachers and school pupils) but also several different spaces (including schools, classrooms, organisation headquarters, working group meetings and publications). It moves on to examine how the GCSE’s approaches to teaching, learning and assessing were being played out in practice and to what extent its aims, claims and intentions were being realised in the classroom. Through exploring the pilot’s approach to the pedagogy of school geography my research became action-oriented in approach, and I became involved in co-creating critical, connective curriculum materials for the GCSE. The development of these new materials and teaching and learning strategies are situated within debates in human geography about critical pedagogy, young people’s geographies and public geographies and the thesis forges links between these different theoretical strands. I conclude by asking what lessons can be learnt from the pilot GCSE and its implications for the role of geography within a wider educational context. Written autoethnographically to reflect the collaborative and iterative nature of my research my intention has been to critically engage with multiple publics who are involved in this area.

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Franz, Mark L. "Motion graphics : engaging viewers thorugh postmodernism." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365179.

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This creative project explores engaging patrons of art by exploiting some of the postmodern methods employed in contemporary society. The methods discussed include appropriation, pastiche, and the negation of history. These techniques are used to engage viewers in conversation by their use in Motion Graphics; the medium in which the creative project artwork was produced. Topics also include: why it is important for an artist to engage viewers, how to do so, and a short history of postmodern philosophy.
Department of Art

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Smith, Samantha. "Education Through the Generations| Engaging Learning." Thesis, Prescott College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247088.

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This thesis examines the relationship between self-efficacy, parental self-efficacy, and valence toward school. Given the link between student’s higher achievement and parental involvement, a desire for deeper understanding of how to engage parents in their children’s learning was the driving force behind this study. Research was conducted to seek understanding of a potential relationship between parents’ school valence and how social constructionist theory may play a role in their self-efficacy. Further inquiry focused on how parents’ self-efficacy in learning may have an impact on engagement with their children’s learning. Follow-up questioning probed at what support parents want in order to feel more successful when engaging with their children in learning. This descriptive research is a mixed methods approach, utilizing survey and personal interview data to come to some conclusions on the interplay of these factors. Ultimately it is determined that more research is necessary to come to more concrete conclusions, though an underlying connection between self-efficacy and parental self-efficacy is made. It is recommended that further research be conducted on a larger scale. This research would investigate if there is a significant correlation between parents who had involved parents when they were in school and parents who are involved with their own children’s education.

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Martin, Christopher James. "Designing engaging learning experiences in programming." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2017. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/069f0e46-ae52-450d-84e1-1ff5c3fed38f.

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This thesis describes research into supporting the creation of engaging learning experiences with programming. A review of relevant research that could contribute to the design of engaging learning experiences informed the construction of four pieces of fieldwork. These fieldwork studies were conducted to explore the framing of learning programming in tasks that motivate and are of value to the learner. Findings resulted in the design of a set of eight Learning Dimensions. These Learning Dimensions are proposed to address three key areas: (1) design and delivery of learning task, (2) rhythm or tempo of the learning experience and (3) practicalities. The Learning Dimensions provide educators with insights to support key design decisions for the creation of engaging programming learning experiences. Finally, a web-based tool was designed to make the Learning Dimensions accessible to educators. This tool has been used to evaluate one further workshop. This thesis consolidates several threads of research into a learner-centred approach to learning to program. The Learning Dimensions identify important areas of decision-making to be considered when designing a learning experience. They support the assertion that factors outwith the content can significantly affect success in programming. The complex interplay between different skills associated with computer programming will remain a challenge to learners. When placed in a rich context that fits the learner well and supports the learning aims, many of these difficulties can be overcome. The Learning Dimensions draw together positive features of a learning experience that are key to ensuring learners have the best possible opportunity to engage with and succeed with computer programming.

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Vasquez-Cropper, Marie E. "Engaging Cognitive Neurosciences in the Classroom." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1103302896.

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Rodriguez, Patricia. "Engaging map visualization through Emotional Design." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-44800.

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Gustav Vasa association, among other things, works to inform the public about Strängnäs interesting background about Swedish history and cultural heritage. Their purpose is to promote Strängnäs as an interesting travel destination to visit and teach visitors about Swedish history during the 15th to 17th century specifically. Their objective is to promote and deliver this information through interactive and innovative platforms in order to attract a younger target group, but also to engage the user’s interaction. This research contains the strategies and methods needed in order to create a digitally interactive and cultural map of Strängnäs, that would achieve both visual engaging and guiding purposes. Under this research, multiple methodologies were performed in order to get a more in-depth knowledge about the Swedish domestic traveller needs, preferences, motivations and behaviours before and while leisure traveling. In addition to that, theories from emotional design, rhetorical, storytelling and cartographic visual techniques among others, are presented to give this thesis a base to visually engage and guide the users. The data collection methods used in this research has been both as observations, interviews with Gustav Vasa association, tourist centres in Eskilstuna, Västerås and Strängnäs and with the target group, with the purpose of gather data relevant as this research´s basis. Along with these, user testing methods such as A/B testing, think aloud and usability testing were conducted as to evaluate the resulting design concepts from the data collection methods. This thesis resulted in that a combination of both emotional and rhetorical theories, and both flat and skeuomorphic design styles, created an engaging and persuading visual content. This concluding in making users want to interact with the map´s visual and textual context within the map´s digital interaction. The use of visual concepts that could be associated by a both visceral and reflective level of design (Norman, 2005) concluded in a stronger engaging response from the users, as well as, the use of visual rhetorical theories within the map´s visual content. Finally, the use of storytelling techniques both in visual and textual context lured the user to interact with the information provided by the design.

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Ben, Halima Taoufik. "Engaging Esters as Cross-Coupling Electrophiles." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39493.

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Cross-coupling reactions, where a transition metal catalyst facilitates the formation of a new carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom bond between two coupling partners, has become one of the most widely used, reliable, and robust family of transformations for the construction of molecules. The Nobel Prize was awarded to pioneers in this field who primarily used aryl iodides, bromides, and triflates as electrophilic coupling partners. The expansion of the reaction scope to non-traditional electrophiles is an ongoing challenge to enable an even greater number of useful products to be made from simple starting materials. The major goal of this thesis research is to improve and expand upon this field by using esters as electrophiles via the activation of the strong C(acyl)−O bond. Esters are particularly robust in comparison to other carboxylic acid derivatives used in cross-coupling reactions. Success on the activation of such inert functional group using catalysis has both fundamental and practical value. By discovering new reaction modes of this abundant functional group, synthetic routes to access novel or industrially important molecules can be improved. Chapter 1 of this thesis describes a literature overview of what has been accomplished in the field of cross coupling reactions using carboxylic acid derivatives as electrophilic coupling partners. Chapter 2 discloses the first palladium Suzuki-Miyaura couplings of phenyl esters to produce ketones. The method is efficient and robust, giving good yields of useful products. The reaction is proposed to proceed via an oxidative addition to the strong C(acyl)−O bond of the ester. In contrast to previous efforts in this field that use traditional catalysts such as Pd(PPh3)4, the developed reaction requires use of an electron-rich, bulky N-heterocyclic carbene ligand, which facilitates the strong bond activation. Furthermore, a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling between aryl esters and anilines is reported, enabling access to diverse amides. The reaction takes place via a similar activation of the C−O bond by oxidative addition with a Pd−NHC complex, which enables the use of relatively non-nucleophilic anilines that otherwise require stoichiometric activation with strong bases to react. Chapter 3 discloses a nickel-catalyzed amide bond formation using unactivated and abundant esters. In this transformation, an accessible nickel catalyst can facilitate the activation of diverse aliphatic and aromatic esters to enable direct amide bond formation with amines as nucleophiles. No stoichiometric base, acid, or other activating agent is needed, providing exceptional functional group tolerance and producing only methanol as a by-product. This reaction is of both fundamental and practical importance because it is the first to demonstrate that simple conditions can enable Ni to cleave the C–O bond of an ester to make an oxidative addition product, which can be subsequently coupled with amines. This discovery contrasts industrially-common and wasteful methods that still require stoichiometric activating agents or multistep synthesis. Chapter 4 describes the evaluation of different types of cross-coupling reactions using methyl esters as electrophilic coupling partner. A high-throughput screening technique has been applied to this project. A combination between specific ligands, known by their efficiency to activate strong C−O bonds, and literature-based conditions has been designed for the chosen transformations. Using this strategy, two promising hits have been obtained using the same NHC ligand: a decarbonylative Suzuki-Miyaura and a decarbonylative borylation reaction.

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Moran, Renee Rice, LaShay Jennings, Stacey J. Fisher, and Edward J. Dwyer. "Engaging Strategies for Developing Reading Comprehension." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4689.

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Students can become more powerful readers by engaging in lively and interesting print experiences. Deep study of a topic such as The Westward Movement in a text set format can provide information and also enhance reading competencies. The authors propose that enjoyment of reading and related experiences is of paramount importance for developing competent and life-long readers.

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Knoell, Daren, Victor Nizet, Erica Rosemond, and Nicholas E. Hagemeier. "Engaging the Next-Gen Research Workforce." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5416.

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The 2019 Research Symposium will bring together leaders in research and training from colleges and schools of pharmacy to discuss opportunities and challenges in research training at pharmacy schools. Symposium topics will include engaging pharmacy students in research projects and strengthening the pipeline for pharmacy research, integrating basic and clinical sciences in pharmacy schools, the value of research experience for building professional competencies and more. Through a mix of presentations, panel discussion and open forums, symposium participants will share experience and ideas and seek to identify points of potential collaboration to advance pharmacy research training. Deans, department chairs and faculty involved or interested in expanding research training are encouraged to attend.

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Gentz, Rachel. "The effect of non-engaging vs. engaging training methods on the acceptance of sexual harassment myth acceptance." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1596972.

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Training is an effective tool for changing attitudes and behaviors. This study examined the effect of two types of sexual harassment training on the level of sexual harassment myth acceptance. Additionally, the moderating effect of gender on the level of change in myth acceptance when comparing engaging vs. non-engaging training methods is examined. A researcher used either a standard multi-media display to present the non-engaging sexual harassment training or an engaging training that also included tabletop discussions and workbooks participants completed and discussed throughout the training. Three-hundred-twenty undergraduate psychology and business students participated in this study for extra credit. Results showed that training significantly decreased myth acceptance overall. Although the engaging training had a greater decrease in myth acceptance than the non-engaging training, this difference was non-significant. Gender was not a significant moderator of post-training change. Implications for future research are discussed.

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Khazraei, Narges. "Persistence in Engaging in Formal Mindfulness Practice." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35956.

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The purpose of this study was to explore individuals’ experience with persistence in maintaining a regular practice of formal mindfulness. Employing a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the main findings derived from in-depth semi-structured interviews with five mindfulness practitioners. Other sources included the pre-interview questionnaire, which asked for experience with mindfulness, field notes, a reflective journal, and feedback from the participants (member-check). Twenty-two codes were identified through the process of thematic data analysis. After grouping them based on relevance, seven themes emerged: (a) Creating appropriate conditions to practice, (b) flexibility in practice, (c) reaching out, (d) developing and maintaining habits, (e) living the teachings of mindfulness, (f) motivated to experience benefits, and (g) learning from lived experience. All codes and themes were related to both sources of motivation and actions taken by participants associated with persistence in maintaining a regular practice of formal mindfulness. The findings of this study have implications for psychotherapists and counsellors who want to incorporate mindfulness into their therapy practice. They contribute ideas for drawing on mindfulness as a self-care practice, and also for enhancing the therapeutic relationship with clients. The study also contributes useful ideas for mindfulness instructors in supporting their trainees in maintaining a continuous and regular practice following a mindfulness program.

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Sluiter, Kristen Marie. "Engaging all students in higher-order thinking." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Sluiter_K%20MITthesis%202007.pdf.

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Donaldson, Lucy Fife. "Engaging with Performance in Post-Studio Horror." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533781.

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Phear, Nicolette. "Creating Space| Engaging Deliberation about Climate Action." Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3642993.

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In the United States public discourse, climate change is often framed as a polarized and intractable issue. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore deliberation about climate action, and to evaluate whether effective responses to climate change can be facilitated through new structures and processes that enable and encourage dialogue on the subject of how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Working with sustainability leaders at the University of Montana and in the community of Missoula, Montana, the author convened three public deliberations, in which a variety of solutions to climate change were discussed. Three questions guided this study: 1) what motivated individuals to engage in deliberation about climate action; 2) how did individual engagement vary and affect the quality of the deliberation; and 3) how effective were the deliberations in building a sense of individual agency and generating collaborative action strategies to address climate change. Based on a rigorous statistical analysis of survey responses combined with qualitative data, this action research study offers a holistic exploration of the three deliberative events convened. The deliberative processes generated collaborative action strategies and increased participants' sense of agency to take action on climate change; the findings also revealed differences in the ways individuals engaged and affected the quality of the overall group deliberation. This dissertation contributes to the literature on collaborative responses and collective action on climate change, broadens understanding of deliberative processes, and provides new insight into opportunities for leading deliberation about climate action.

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Flecknoe, Mervyn Robert. "Engaging pupils and teachers in improving education." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412881.

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Brathwaite, Darren David 1970. "Engaging the periphery : integrating port and city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64903.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 76).
The common urban waterfront is hardly approachable, much less swimmable, encrusted with wharves, switching yards, sewage out-jalls and other barnacles. It is the true civic outcast, the ghetto of ghettos, familiar only to longshoremen, sanitary engineers and carp. -- THE WATERFRONT. After World War II, a number of factors came together to affect the urban waterfront. Subsequently, these factors lead to the demise, and later the waterfront redevelopment phenomena of our time. In the 1940's, the United States led the world in a series of technological innovations in Port design and industry. Most pertinent to the urban waterfront was the introduction of the container system which revolutionized the shipping industry, much to the expense of the urban waterfront. Soon after its introduction, the container system became the benchmark system in Port technology rendering the traditional "break bulk" dock facilities obsolete. With this systemic change also came a set of infra structural requirements. Container ports require large, new spaces, plus more acreage for backup space as well as deeper and wider channels for the ships. In addition, they also require access to transportation and infrastructure, rendering the existing industrial warehouses and their waterfront rail networks useless. As a result, many urban waterfronts became deserted industrial compounds functioning neither as a viable port for industry nor as a waterfront to the city. At approximately the same time, America's entire pattern of settlement began to shift in the 1950's away from central cities to suburban sprawl. Consequently, vast amounts of urban waterfront land became available, relatively cheaply without dislocating current users. One of the first uses for these abandoned shoreline areas was to aid the burgeoning highway system. As the highway system took hold in the city's infrastructure, the city and the waterfront became alienated entities. Since the formation of the city as an inhabitable entity, the waterfront has played a key role in its development and its sustenance. Within the context of urban life the waterfront can become a pause or reconnection to serenity, vital to restoring a sense calm to the city's inhabitants. Modem waterfronts should become a "center" of sorts favoring public interests over industry and private enterprise. In this arena, the task of urban design is to provide the necessary interface between the city's core and its periphery therefore engaging the life of the city of the pulse of the people. With respect to this philosophy, this Thesis attempts to provide an interface between the city's core and its periphery.
by Darren David Brathwaite.
S.M.

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Nel, Dayne Elizabeth. "Order through improvisation : engaging the choreographic environment." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71756.

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Thesis (MDram)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the field of choreography, there are many different emerging theories and methodologies. One such theory uses the individual and unique performers to create and generate movement vocabulary. For the student-choreographer, who is still developing their artistic voice, certain markers need to be put in place in order to evaluate a creative process. The aim of this study is to critically reflect on a particular practical process, develop a language with which to structure improvisations, create the appropriate environment in which effective exploration can take place and finally deliver criticism on the process. This research study has a strong empirical component, focusing on my personal practice as a choreographer. This study also makes use of secondary source material that discusses the choreographic process in general, and more specifically the use of improvisation in choreography, with particular reference to the he theories and definitions of Michael Klien (2007) and Lavender and Predock-Linnell (2001), as and the choreographic innovations and methods of Merce Cunningham. Finally, this study makes use of primary source material, in the form of first-hand observations and personal interviews with a modern Physical Theatre Company, PUSH Physical Theatre Company in Rochester, NY, USA. Through the combination of the theories of Michael Klien (2007) and Lavender and Predock- Linnell (2001) both a philosophical and practical methodology develops and emerges. The results will show how the choreographic environment is engaged to not only simplify and shorten the choreographic process, but also to enhance it. The intangible energetic rapport between people, space and ideas can be harnessed as part of the process of choreography.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Verskeie teorieë en metodologieë word tans binne die veld van choreografie ontwikkel. Onder andere gebruik een so ‘n teorie die individu en unieke deelnemers om beweging en bewegingsfrases te genereer. Vir die studente-choreograaf, wie tans nog in die proses is om ‘n kunstige stem te ontwikkel, is sekere merkers nodig om ‘n kreatiewe proses ten einde te evalueer. Die doel van hierdie studie is om krities oor ‘n spesifieke praktiese proses te reflekteer. Die proses behels die ontwikkeling van ‘n taal waarmee improvisasies gestruktureer kan word; om die gepaste omgewing te skep waarin effektiewe eksplorasie kan plaasvind en eindelik om kritiek oor die proses te lewer. Die navorsingstuk het ‘n sterk empiriese komponent wat meestal op ‘n persoonlike praktyk as choreograaf fokus. Hierdie studie maak van sekondêre material gebruik wat die choreografiese proses in die algemeen, en meer spesifiek, die gebruik van improvisasie in choreografie, bespreek. Daar word van die teorieë en definisies van Michael Klien (2007) en Lavender en Predock-Linnel (2001), sowel as die choreografiese inovasies en metodes van Merce Cunningham, melding gemaak. Derdens maak hierdie studie gebruik van primêre bronne in die vorm van eerste-handse observasies en persoonlike onderhoude met ‘n moderne Fisiese Teater geselskap, PUSH "Physical Theatre Company" in Rochester, New York, VSA. Deur die kombinasie van die teorieë van Klien en Predock-Linnell, word beide ‘n filosofiese en praktiese metodologie ontwikkel. Die resultate wys hoe die choreografiese omgewing aangewend word om beide die choreografiese proses te verkort en te versterk. Die verweefde energieke dinamiek tussen mense, spasie en idees kan gebruik word as deel van die proses van choreografie.

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Parnell, Rosemary. "Engaging homeowners in energy efficient home improvement." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14677/.

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The UK housing stock suffers from one of the lowest energy efficiency levels in Europe. This results in high annual carbon dioxide emissions and the grave problem of fuel poverty. While new dwellings achieve a certain level of energy efficiency through the standards enforced by the Building Regulations, the rate of replacement of the existing inefficient stock is extremely low. Significant improvements are possible through refurbishment, providing appropriate resources are available. But in a society where homeownership accounts for 70% of the total number of households, the future of most UK housing depends upon the will of private homeowners. While the political climate does not support the introduction of legislation to enforce retrospective energy standards in dwellings, the only realistic means to achieve the goal of an energy efficient homeowner-stock is to engage homeowners in the process, through energy efficient home-improvement. This is the challenge that drives this study. The thesis draws on interviews with relevant domestic energy efficiency programme providers and previous research within a variety of disciplines, in order to build an integrated conceptual framework for the design of domestic energy efficiency information and advice programmes for owner-occupiers. The thesis argues that an everyday householder-centred approach be taken by experts in the development of programmes, in order to increase the likelihood of engaging householders. The study focuses on the use of the Home Energy Report as a vehicle for providing information and advice. The proposed conceptual framework is compared with the views of homeowner-occupiers who have received such reports from their mortgage lenders in order to find support for and to further refine the framework themes. The study concludes with a series of recommendations for the development of the Government's proposed seller's pack home energy report programme based on the everyday householder-centred approach.

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Lundholm, Kristoffer, and Renaud Richard. "Engaging Individuals to act Strategically Towards Sustainability." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3347.

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In order to reach sustainability, all parts of the system “individuals within organisations within society within the biosphere” must change. Individuals are major leverage points, and being more efficient in engaging them to act strategically towards sustainability is and will be of critical importance. To explore how to help the engager improve this engagement process, the authors did a broad transdisciplinary literature review; structured their information in a “Five Elements Guide – Structured information to help engage individuals to act strategically towards sustainability”; and used three brief examples to illustrate how to use their results. Based upon a deeper awareness about determinants of human behaviour and about how individuals change and become engaged, the results are structured into five interdependent elements: - ‘The Fifth Element’ – Think ‘Systems’. - ‘Earth’ – Understand yourself and what you want to achieve. - ‘Water’ – Understand the other’s behaviour and the influence of context. - ‘Air’ – Understand how change happens. - ‘Fire’ – Design an approach and perform it. This structure also allows for the addition of further findings that might be helpful for engaging individuals to act strategically towards sustainability.
För att nå ett hållbart samhälle måste alla delar av systemet "individer, inom organisationer, inom samhället, inom biosfären" förändras. Individen är mycket viktig i detta avseende och därför är det extremt viktigt att man blir bättre på engagera individer till att agera strategiskt för en hållbar utveckling. För att öka kunskapen om hur detta kan göras så har författarna av den här rapporten genomfört en transdisciplinär litteraturstudie, strukturerat informationen i guiden ”the Five Elements Guide” och använt tre exempel för att illustrera resultatet. Resultatets struktur är baserat på en förståelse av olika faktorer som påverkar mänskligt beteende, hur individer förändras och hur individer blir engagerade. Strukturen består av fem sammankopplade och av varandra beroende element: - ‘Det Femte Elementet’ – Tänk ‘System’. - ‘Jord’ – Förstå dig själv och vad du vill åstadkomma. - ‘Vatten’ – Förstå den andres beteende och kontextens inflytande. - ‘Luft’ – Förstå hur förändringar sker. - ‘Eld’ – Forma en plan och genomför den. Den här strukturen tillåter även att framtida upptäckter som kan vara hjälpsamma för att engagera individer att agera strategiskt för ett hållbart samhälle kan adderas till guiden.

renaud@systeme-change.fr kristoffer.lundholm@gmail.com

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Wallace, Rick L. "Engaging the Clergy in the Oncology Workforce." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8736.

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Morales, Carolyn J. "Intersectionality: Engaging the Epistemology of Leadership Theory." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1569507340956926.

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Louw, Christopher. "Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28017.

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This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, highlighting the challenges faced and survival strategies implemented by homeless individuals. The response focuses in part to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by creating a safe zone in which the activities of the home can be carried out. Furthermore, the intent is to engage with the homeless population across a range of thresholds, allowing them the autonomy to filter into a newly facilitated network that works with existing infrastructure to guide individuals on a journey off the street. The Dissertation culminates in a speculative design project near the fringe of Cape Town's CBD. The project deals with an undeveloped parcel of land, as well as the addition to and alterations of an existing Salvation Army building.

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Zaborowski, Rafal. "Audible audiences : engaging with music in Japan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3219/.

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In this thesis I aim to uncover the nature, quality and implications of audience engagement with popular music in everyday life. Specifically, I look at two post-war generations in modern Japan and analyse their listening practices and interpretations of music encounters. To investigate this, a mixed-method approach is used based on focus group and individual interviews, questionnaires, participant observation and expert interviews with industry representatives – 100 study participants overall. Emerging patterns and themes are identified through qualitative thematic analysis. In two case studies – of idol groups and vocaloid music - I focus on how audiences, especially fans, and producers interact, with a close bond emerging over a process of cultural co-evolution of production and reception. Then, I position this map of engagements within the experiences of two Japanese cohorts, “the lost” and “the relaxed”. I argue that their generational experiences and localities guide the frames through which they interpret music. I argue that listening to music is a complex social practice whose significance has been undervalued in audience research. Audiences make music choices and engage with musical texts according to specific modes and routines which should be analysed together. Following the legacy of literary and television audience studies, I propose an account of music listening in terms of a spectrum of audience engagements linked to texts, contexts, performances and authorship. The concepts of proximity (cultural proximity and the proximity between performers and audiences) inform the analysis of the circuit of culture, offering new insight into modes of engagement and production processes. Japan, home of the Walkman and karaoke, emerges from the analysis as not only the land of technological innovations in music, but also as a culture with wider implications for media and audience research.

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Kwolek, Queston Aureon, and Queston Aureon Kwolek. "30/30 Museum & Park: Engaging Artifacts." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625028.

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This project is located in the St. Henri neighborhood along the Lachine Canal in Montreal, Quebec. Industrial artifacts along the canal are culturally and historically significant to the people of Montreal. These artifacts are currently disconnected from public access – residents and tourists should be able to fully engage with them. The abandoned malting plant site has the potential to become an engaging destination that visitors want to explore. The proposal honors and reimagines the site’s industrial infrastructure and introduces valuable public amenities to the Lachine Canal. The 30/30 concept refers to the juxtaposition of the existing thirty silos and proposed thirty mounds. Generated from the volumetric capacity of the silos and natural form of grain, the mounds support vegetation to restore the sites pre-industrial presence of nature. Museum functions and public spaces are integrated into both the silos and mounds, resulting in an activity-driven experience for visitors that is centered on exploration and discovery. The proposal has the potential to host events, exhibitions, and outdoor activities year-round. By allowing guests to "trespass" through urban artifacts, they are invited to discover the mysterious atmosphere and cultural significance of the former factory and the site’s new public amenities.

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Rodineliussen, Rasmus. "Divers Engaging Policy—Practices of Making Water." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147293.

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In this thesis I discuss how divers in Rio de Janeiro and Arraial do Cabo, Brazil, are part of a process of making water (Barnes 2014). This I do by examining the relationship between the policies of the non-governmental organization Project Aware and these divers. These policies under question concerns the growing issue of marine debris, asking divers to directly act towards a solution by removing debris, and inform about the issue. I employ the concepts habitus and the entrepreneurial self as heuristic think-tools in order to illuminate the structuring aspect of this relationship, how it affects the way policies are negotiated, embodied, and practiced in regard to society and the environment (e.g. Bourdieu 1990; Rose 1998; Gershon 2016). My argument is based on observations, interviews, and media analysis. I show how my interlocutors are engaged in making water, in hands on actions of removing debris, and in discourse making where the issue is forwarded, emphasized, and discussed. Further I illustrate the impact that local power structures hold on practices of agents (Barnes 2014; Karlsson 2015).

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Fisher, Stacey, LaShay Jennings, Renee Rice Moran, Huili Hong, and Edward J. Dwyer. "Actively Engaging Students in Enhancing Reading Comprehension." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3443.

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Trivette, Carol M. "Engaging Families to Focus on Intervention Strategies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4453.

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Young children with disabilities have better outcomes when their families are actively involved in supporting their child’s learning. This session will help Early Interventionists, private therapy providers, and other professionals working with young children with disabilities think about their interactions with the child's family and how those interactions strengthen a family’s ability to support their child’s learning. In this 90 minute session participants will: Learn about strategies to increase parent participation in their child’s Early Intervention home visits and/or therapy sessions Explore possible strategies that can be used to engage a deployed parent in home visits and/or therapy sessions Observe through video, professionals working with a parent to enhance the parent’s use of effective intervention strategies Explore the use of tools and strategies that promote reflection on practices being used to engage families

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Strineholm, Ioana Andreea. "Engaging Teenagers in Online Ethnographic Participatory Design." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-44600.

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The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore the implications of using online ethnographic participatory design in studying communication with teenagers in the context of Carbon Dioxide Theatre, a climate action research project. By developing multiple methods, tools and activities, the implications are understood throughout the teenagers’ engagement in collaborating and co-creating using online media. The findings are then organized based on the teenagers activity from three perspectives, by following the medium, the story and the feeling. The medium shows how social media platforms such as Snapchat and Facebook Messenger can be used in order to establish a valuable collaboration with the teenagers, the story presents how the teenagers are expressing their views, thoughts and dilemmas regarding the climate action topic, co-creating one Instagram account while the feeling offers emotions raised during the process. Ultimately, inspired from the study process, the paper suggests a design method for online ethnographic participatory design data collection, consisting of a set of cards and maps that can be utilized as a guiding tool in organizing and understanding the empirical data within an exploratory research context.
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Webb, Jennifer Necole. "Engaging-Up: Compromised Spaces and Potential Partners." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5607.

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The anthropology of public policy critically examines policy and its processes and the myriad ways in which power is exercised. To explore these power dynamics, anthropologists studying policy often study up, or study through a particular policy field. This entails the risky work of studying powerful people, whose ability to retaliate against the researcher and others create methodological and ethical dilemmas and contradictions, as well as potentially harmful consequences. Politicians, bureaucrats, employees of powerful non-profits, and, in the public-private neoliberal reality, even the head decision makers within corporations are all prospective research participants--an intimidating prospect for most anthropologists. In contrast, engaged ethnography, with its presupposition that researchers will be aligned with politically marginalized groups, encourages the researcher to engage on a more transparent, reflexive, and expressly positioned level that attempts to make the researcher more exposed, thus equalizing the power differentials between the researcher and the researched. The inherent contradictions between engaged ethnography and studying up create a situation ripe for methodological and ethical dilemmas, but also for breaking new theoretical ground. This paper will critically examine my experiences with a dominant community development corporation involved in housing and urban development. As such, the purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, I aim to explore the theoretical contradictions, ethical dilemmas, and methodological quandaries that arise from pairing engaged anthropology with the studying up required by the anthropology of public policy. The aim of this query is to show how the difficulties that arose during my thesis research project expose gaps within each body of literature. Second, I hope to present engaging-up as a promising (not just problematic) method that can be employed to better understand a myriad of topical interests of anthropology. Because of its promise, it is important to document this failed attempt so that others may be better prepared. As such, my hope is that my consideration of the contradictions that were unable to be overcome will be described with enough ethnographic clarity and framed in broad enough methodological terms as to be helpful to other engaged ethnographers.

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Kwakye, William Wilson. "Engaging Employees in Sustainable Continuous Improvement Strategies." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5890.

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Lack of strategies to sustain continuous improvement initiatives to serve the needs of consumers whilst restructuring to conform to regulations has resulted in the collapse of some financial service companies in Ghana. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies some leaders of financial service companies use to engage employees to sustain continuous improvement initiatives to improve organizational performance. The targeted population comprised 6 senior leaders of financial service companies in Ghana who have engaged employees to sustain organizational continuous improvement initiatives. The conceptual framework for this study was Goldratt's theory of constraint complemented by the transformational leadership theory. Data were collected using semistructured face-to-face interviews, analysis of company reports, and field notes. Based on methodological triangulation and thematic analysis, 3 themes emerged from the study: operational excellence, employee engagement and incentives, and leadership strategies. The implications of these findings for positive social change include the potential to reduce poverty and improve quality of life in Ghana. Business leaders whose organizations attain improved financial performance can direct their efforts to increasing their organization's corporate social responsibility in the communities where they do business by supporting local charities and other initiatives.

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Edwards, Stefan. "Situation Normal Some strategies for engaging, thinking, doing." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490398.

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This portfolio comprises video and audio recordings of five projects which have formed the core of my practice during the period of study, and a document which develops some strategies for thinking about and engaging with the projects based on an understanding of their relationship to other work, to the wider world and to my working methods. Four principle issues are considered; prisms through which to view the works presented: Interaction, Feedback/Interference, Mistranslation and the Body. In addition some thoughts are given on my strategies for engaging with the objects and environments as designer, performer and listener. Themes of circularity, of recontextualisation and of ambiguity become clearly important. The works are additionally documented on a DVD comprising audio recordings, video recordings and photographs of situations, performances and events.

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Lewis, Kiara. "Engaging children and young people in physical activity." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/24271/.

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Children and young people’s physical activity levels are of continuing concern as the health implications for both childhood, and later on in adulthood, may be determined by their experiences of physical activity whilst growing up. Although many attempts have been made to increase physical activity levels relatively little attention has been paid to listening to the voices of children and how they experience physical activity. The publications presented in this thesis provide evidence to support the tenets of the Self Determination Theory. The results of three studies, one mixed methods, one literature review and one qualitative, have been synthesised to provide a commentary on why children engage with physical activity. The original contribution to knowledge arises from collecting evidence directly from active children and young people, many of whom have been previously disengaged from activity, to inform future interventions. For some children and young people being forced to be active is counterproductive as they associate activity as something that has to be ‘got out of the way’ or avoided where possible. If they are to take part in physical activity of their own volition it has to be enjoyable. The results of this thesis suggest that for it to be enjoyable participation should be in activities of their choice, where they feel competent and in control of their bodies whilst exercising. They want to be supported by parents and peers and respected, but not controlled, by teachers/instructors. Many children, in particular obese children, lack confidence in both their physical and social skills to interact with their peers in a physical activity setting. In providing separate activity sessions, which promote a caring and supportive climate, and a variety of non-traditional activities, children can develop competencies which enable them to enjoy being physically active. These findings need to be understood and further developed if we are to engage all young people in physical activity.

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Field, Patricia L. "A study of inclusive education : engaging all learners." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23301.pdf.

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Iyer, Sharanya. "Hybrid space for engaging with the living past /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1193884424.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.
Advisor: Elizabeth Riorden. Title from electronic theses title page (viewed Feb 6, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: Identity; Locale; Assimilation; Engagement; Hybrid; Mediation; Mixed-Users. Includes bibliographic references.

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Johansson, Marjana. "Engaging resources for cultural events : a performative view." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics [Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm] (EFI), 2008. http://www2.hhs.se/efi/summary/746.htm.

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Newell, Phil. "Re-engaging the church in mission through coaching." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p002-0832.

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Virk, Jasjeet S. "Has Engaging in Party Coalitions Affected BSP Ideology?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/622.

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A nation of one billion people, India is often recognized as the world’s largest democracy. The ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity in India creates a unique collection of voters whose divisions are not only brought about due to differences in ideological preferences, but also as a result of various caste and ethnic divisions that remain strongly ingrained in modern Indian society. Indian political parties must not only be able to gain voter confidence through the production and presentation of sound ideology, but also must struggle to help relate this ideology to a much divided and ethnically stratified voter base. This social construct has led to the rise of various political parties in India whose political agenda is to cater specifically to unique ethnic groups and minorities, while at times having to form political alliances gain power (Jana & Sarmah, 2002, 1). This study will analyze the rise of one such Indian political party formally established as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the state of Uttar Pradesh. More specifically, it will address the following question: Has engaging in party coalitions caused the BSP to sacrifice its ideology in the arena of Uttar Pradesh Politics?

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Dale, Crispin. "Engaging the networked learner : theoretical and practical issues." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/106818.

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The nature of learning and teaching in higher education has changed significantly in recent years. The emergence of social media and technologies has had a profound impact upon learner engagement and tutors have had to adapt their learning and teaching strategies accordingly. The thesis discusses the author’s published body of research and presents a pedagogical framework for engaging the networked learner. The framework is based upon three perspectives that have emerged from the author’s research. Firstly, different learning paradigms should be acknowledged when developing pedagogical approaches to using learning technologies. Secondly, the thesis discusses how the author’s research on learning technologies, including VLEs and iPod technologies, should embrace networked communities and learner empowerment. Thirdly, the research on learning approaches is discussed which acknowledges different learning behaviours and the adoption of differentiated methods in learning and teaching. Whilst discussing the evolving nature of the learning environment, the pedagogical framework draws together each of the aforementioned perspectives. The framework raises a number of factors for engaging the networked learner. A set of practical guidelines based around institutional, tutor and learner perspectives are discussed and underpin the application of the framework. The thesis concludes with theoretical observations on learning and learning theory and presents limitations and areas for further research.

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Lynch, Samantha. "The dark mirror : engaging multiple temporalities through drawing." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2017. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ef524972-b7a2-42e0-a211-c9543bf6f179.

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McHale, Ciaran. "Engaging in group therapy for distressing voice hearing." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2017. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/16457/.

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OBJECTIVE: Person Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT) is a promising group treatment for distressing psychosis. However, fostering engagement in group therapies can be challenging, and no theory of engagement in PBCT groups exists to guide practice or research. This study employed Grounded Theory Method (GTM) to build a theory of engagement in group PBCT. METHOD: Ten service-users and three therapists were interviewed about their experiences of participating in PBCT groups. GTM, following the procedures outlined by Corbin and Strauss (2008) was used to analyse the interview transcripts and build a theory of engagement. RESULTS: The model that was developed involves a recursive process of investing in change and continually evaluating its usefulness and safety. Barriers were often overcome through individual and group efforts, but sometimes compromised participants’ perceived safety to the point of dropout. For others, participating in the group, and incorporating learning into life, led to rewards, some of which were integrated beyond group termination. CONCLUSIONS: Group engagement can be encouraged by establishing universality around voice-hearing early, reducing uncertainty, communicating with clients between sessions and mapping group progress to create a cohering sense of collaboration on the tasks of therapy.

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