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Corbett, Kevin Patrick. "Contesting AIDS/HIV : the lay reception of biomedical knowledge." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2001. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/11588/.
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Mesny, Anne. "The appropriation of social science knowledge by 'lay people' : the development of a lay sociological imagination?" Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624593.
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Frankland, J. L. "Lay knowledge, self-care and use of the community pharmacy." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.561429.
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Fryar, Jerry D. "Equipping parishioners through increased knowledge and understanding of spiritual gifts." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Tallett, Stephen. "Lay sense-making and knowledge of biotechnology : its functionality and its limitations." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2008. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/843181/.
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This thesis examines lay sense-making of biotechnological items, its functionality and its limitations, which, it is claimed, may have implications for biotechnological developments and how they are received. The theoretical approach taken to lay sense-making drew on social representations theory as an explanatory framework. This informed the aim to collect data on verbal and visual representation, and categorisation, of biotechnological items. Data was collected in three studies, through multiple sorting tasks and in-depth interviews with lay individuals in the UK, and field observation of mobilisation events and protests in the US. Methods used to analyse the data were multidimensional scalogram analysis, smallest space analysis, content analysis and thematic content analysis with data display. Representation and categorisation captured in the studies points to lay sense-making and knowledge of biotechnological items having a number of functions beyond understanding, and limitations beyond any scientific and technical knowledge-deficits of the kind suggested in ongoing surveys. Findings are supportive of previously reported findings suggesting that lay knowledge is complementary to scientific, regulatory and commercial knowledge sets. It is argued that limitations of and constraints on lay sense-making of biotechnological items are related to its rich functionality and its complementarity. Findings also suggest that lay engagement with and sense-making of biotechnology can be empowering for those involved, allowing lay people to take ownership of a concept and topic such as biotechnology that might very well affect areas of their lives. On the other hand, it is suggested that as lay people become more engaged with biotechnology, their agendas may also become more engaged, suggesting in turn that biotechnology may be progressively less likely to be judged on its own merits, or that developments may be increasingly stalled by negotiation of competing interests.
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Aphane, M. A. "Lay opinions and knowledge of Dikgopheng Community about mental illness in Polokwane Municipality." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1193.
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Thesis (M.Dev.) --University of Limpopo, 2015In preparation for the launch of the Flemish Interuniversity Council-Institutional Cooperation (VLIR-IUC) in 2010, the Development Facilitation and Training Institute (DevFTI), University of Limpopo, conducted a scoping exercise with community members in villages within Dikgale in the Limpopo Province. The purpose of the exercise was to identify both the assets within the community — as well as the challenges being experienced in the area. During discussions with leaders of the Community Based Organisations (CBOs) it became apparent that mental health related issues were an emerging issue of concern — with special emphasis placed on the levels of stigma that existed towards mental illness in the area. It is against this backdrop that the researcher was motivated to conduct a study with the aim of finding out the opinions and knowledge of the lay people about mental illness in Dikgopheng community, situated within the broader Dikgale area, in Polokwane Local Municipality in the Limpopo Province. The study used a quantitative descriptive survey research design in which participants answered questions administered through questionnaires. A random sampling strategy was used to secure a representative sample size of 249 respondents out of the total population of 700. IBM’s Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows (SPSS version 20) was used to analyse the descriptive statistics. Inconclusive results were found about formal knowledge of the psychosocial risk factors associated with the onset of mental illness. In contradistinction, patterns of cultural associations linked to the onset of mental illness were significant. Furthermore, an overwhelming majority of the community (75.1%) of the community members were found to have ‘stigmatisation’ opinions about people with mental illness. Due to the lack of the psychosocial knowledge about risk factors and the onset of mental illness, it is recommended (i) that there is a need for education and training to raise awareness about risk factors associated with the onset of mental illness and (ii) that further qualitative research be undertaken to explore issues relating to mental illness and stigma in more depth in the area that specifically focuses on ameliorative measures that address stigma that could be implemented within the community.
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Perzynski, Adam Thomas. "Between Facts and Voices: Medical and Lay Knowledge of the Spread of Hepatitis C." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1207328082.
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Shaw, Alison. "What are 'they' doing to our food? : expert and lay understandings of food risks." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343304.
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余則群 and Chak-kwan Amy Yu. "Barriers to screening: does lay knowledge account for it among Hong Kong Chinese women?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31970886.
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Yu, Chak-kwan Amy. "Barriers to screening : does lay knowledge account for it among Hong Kong Chinese women? /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25100968.
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Amietta, Santiago Abel. "Governing lay participation : power, knowledge and legal consciousness in the making of Argentina's juror." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/24515/.
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Poon, Connie Sau-kwan. "Lay personality knowledge and confidence in social inferences, individual differences, temporal change, and momentary activation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ65256.pdf.
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Vetter, Jeremy. "Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production." Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Journals Online), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/344545.
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This paper examines the field network – linking together lay observers in geographically
distributed locations with a central figure who aggregated their locally produced observations
into more general, regional knowledge – as a historically emergent mode of knowledge
production. After discussing the significance of weather knowledge as a vital domain in which
field networks have operated, it describes and analyzes how a more robust and systematized
weather observing field network became established and maintained on the ground in the
early twentieth century. This case study, which examines two Kansas City-based local observer
networks supervised by the same U.S. Weather Bureau office, demonstrates some of the key
issues involved in maintaining field networks, such as the role of communications infrastructure,
especially the telegraph, the procedures designed to make local observation more systematic and
uniform, and the centralized, hierarchical power relations that underpinned even a low-status
example of knowledge production on the periphery.
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Arksey, Hilary. "Interactions and influences between lay and expert groups in the construction of medical knowledge : the case of RSI." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306876.
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Kim, Yoon Oh. "Increasing the biblical knowledge of divine healing in a Korean Methodist church /." Free full text is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1268599581&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=456&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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King, Jenny C. "The first ever episode of non-specific low back pain : advancing knowledge of lay definitions, causal theories and attributions." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11062.
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Low back pain is a major health and socio-economic problem in Western countries. It is important therefore to learn more about its cause for prevention. To date, research has focused upon identifying risk factors that play a role in recurrent episodes of low back pain to further knowledge for secondary prevention. It can be argued however that it is more important to prevent the very first episode of low back pain from occurring by learning about the primary causative mechanisms. The aim of this thesis therefore is to advance theories about the possible causes of the first ever episode of low back pain for primary prevention. The qualitative, in-depth interview study presented in this thesis approaches the study of the first ever episode of low back pain, its antecedents and causal attributions from the perspective of subtle realism. Thirty participants presenting to NHS hospital physiotherapy and medical outpatient clinics were recruited for interview. The interview data were transcribed verbatim, and the data managed and analysed using Framework, a method developed by the National Centre for Social Research. The study’s findings advance knowledge about the possible role of psychological distress involving loss, anger, low mood and social withdrawal, and ‘pushing worries to the back of the mind’ in the genesis of non-specific symptoms including low back pain. If confirmed by further research, preventive strategies may need to address the perception that low back pain is not a stress-related condition and gender differences in the conceptualisation of stress. An area for new research is a perceived disposition to physical activity since childhood and a lifestyle described as active before the first ever episode of low back pain. Lay definitions of ‘real’ low back pain may assist the design of this research.
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Östlund, Gunnel. "Promoting return to work : lay experiences after sickness absence with musculoskeletal diagnoses." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Socialmedicin och folkhälsovetenskap, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-26344.
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Introduction: Musculoskeletal disorders constitute the greatest cause of sickness absence from work. Despite research and efforts at rehabilitation, sickness absence due to these disorders has not decreased, but has instead increased, particularly in women. Clients’ perceptions of care and rehabilitation, i.e. knowledge generated from a lay perspective, is a neglected area of research. This thesis deals with lay experiences of rehabilitation following sickness absence due to back, neck or shoulder problems, termed musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Aim: The overall aim was to examine hindering and promoting processes in rehabilitation after sickness absence due to MSD from a lay perspective. Specific aims were to study how lay persons experience rehabilitation agents and rehabilitation activities (paper I), how they describe themselves and their experience in relation to work (paper II), the significance of the private arena regarding return to work (paper III), and how clients who have experienced sickness absence due to MSD perceive contact with rehabilitation agents (paper IV). Method: The study population in the four papers is part of a cohort of persons living in the same municipality and who in 1985 were aged 25-34 years and were sick-listed due to back, neck or shoulder diagnoses for 28 days or more, n=213. During 1995, 148 persons in the cohort responded to a questionnaire, and in 1997-1998, 20 of these persons were interviewed concerning their experiences with rehabilitation. In papers I, II and III the qualitative method of Grounded Theory was used with a focus on creating an empirically-based theory concerning the area under study. Data collection was strategic and analysis of the tape-recorded interviews was done on a continual basis. How previously sick-listed persons experienced contact with professional rehabilitation agents in t he health care sector and social insurance office was investigated in paper IV. Factor analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the data in this study. Results: The interview study shed light on lay persons’ experiences with medical, social and work-related measures in rehabilitation, their perceptions of rehabilitation actors and family members in relation to rehabilitation, and their self-presentations. The descriptions of lay persons concerned three arenas, the health care arena, the occupational arena, and the private arena. Dilemmas and difficulties in these arenas were described, such as handling the duty to work, experiencing domestic strain, and the experience of lacking socioemotional support from significant persons during the rehabilitation process. In paper I some ideal types of rehabilitation agents emerged from the interviewees’ descriptions concerning the health care arena, and we called these the routine bureaucrat, the empathic administrator, the distant technician, and the professional mentor. The latter agent was requested and was described as a person who could provide socioemotional support, who had professional competence, and who could function as a unifying link during the rehabilitation process. The results from paper II showed that in their self-presentations, the interviewees expressed having a duty to work and that there were differences in how they handled this sense of duty. The selfpresentations contained descriptions of work as a part of personal identity and could be summarised in the following ideal types: the work manic, the workhorse, the workaholic and the relaxed worker. The latter used a strategy that can be considered to promote rehabilitation in that the individual himself/herself had control over his/her work and worked in accordance with his/her own needs rather than those of others. Paper III focused on the private arena. Different patterns were found in the experiences of men and women. Women related that their responsibility for the home and domestic work seldom left any time for themselves, including any time for rehabilitation. Men more often reported having time for themselves that could be used for leisure activities and rehabilitation. Some of the women said that they lacked socioemotional support from their partner and that they had a great deal of responsibility for housework, which seemed to be a hindrance in returning to work after sickness absence. Furthermore, these women, like most of the men, had little education, which could make finding other work alternatives more difficult. Based on the interviews, a hypothesis was developed regarding domestic strain that is related to the distribution of domestic work, the distribution of responsibility for the home, and the quality of the marital relationship. Paper IV dealt with clients’ perceptions of contact with rehabilitation agents in health care and the social insurance office. Three latent dimensions were found in the respondents’ ratings of these contacts: supportive treatment, distant treatment, and empowering treatment. Sex, disability pension status, mental health and diagnostic group were significantly related to how these dimensionswere rated. Women perceived the treatment from both types of rehabilitation agents as more supportive than men. Contact with the social insurance offices were rated higher by persons with disability pensions than by those who had returned to work. Men rated their contact with rehabilitation agents at social insurance offices high on the dimension of distant treatment. Respondents with mental health problems rated the contact as distant for both types of rehabilitation agents, but contact with health care was also scored low on the supportive dimension. Finally, respondents with neck/shoulder diagnoses rated contact with rehabilitation agents in health care as more empowering than was done by persons with back diagnoses. Conclusions: From a lay perspective rehabilitation following sickness absence due to MSD occured in three arenas, the health care arena, the occupational arena and the private arena, where the quality of relationships both with rehabilitation agents, persons at work and in one’s private life was described as important regarding the rehabilitation process. This thesis also showed that both sex and health were important factors regarding how lay persons’ perceived contacts with rehabilitation agents during the rehabilitation process following sickness absence due to MSD.
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David, Aurelio [Verfasser], and J. Alexander [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmidt. "Re-thinking public participation : lay-expert interaction and knowledge exchange in community-based design processes / Aurelio David ; Betreuer: J. Alexander Schmidt." Duisburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/119169125X/34.
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Kim, Young Ki. "Increasing knowledge about the laity's involvement in a Korean immigrant church /." Free full text is available to ORU patrons only; click to view:, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1299814951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=456&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2006.Includes abstract and vita. Translated from Korean. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-166).
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Garrett, Michael D. "Seeing the World Differently. An Exploration of a Professional Development Model Bridging Science and Lay Cultures." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3524.
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This study explores the rationale, efficacy, and social validity of a professional development model designed to move elementary school science activities closer to the practices of working scientists as required by the United States’ “Next Generation Science Standards.” The model is culturally sensitive and aims to create experiences with high subjective task value. The formal theory of change uses scaffolding, Piagetian agency, and Vygotskian learning opportunities to argue that culturally familiar representational tasks in culturally natural intersubjective contexts can lead to work prototypical of scientific modeling under particular facilitation conditions: when participants (a) are allowed free use of their cognitive and culturally native tools; (b) work in open dialog amongst themselves and with a science cultural adept; (c) work in groups in contexts that represent cultural aspects of science work; (d) are pressed to follow some of the epistemic and ontological imperatives of working science; and (e) maintain their agency in resolving cognitive conflict. The study implemented the model with fidelity as a professional development workshop around exploring physics with simple, everyday materials over two afternoons with a small group of elementary-school teachers in southern Appalachia. Analysis indicates that participants engaged in representational tasks with little off-task behavior, exhibited all of the targeted modeling behaviors, felt all components were inherently interesting and useful, and rated the workshop highly as professional development in science teaching but lower as coherent with local evaluation standards. Data on outcome-expectancy beliefs were largely inconclusive but may suggest that the workshop caused teachers to doubt their current ability to teach science to their students. The workshop model provided “cultural modeling” and access to participants’ “funds of knowledge,” created a “third space,” and attended to intrinsic task interest as recommended in the National Research Councils’ How People Learn II. Overall, the study endorses using genuine dialog around teachers’ descriptions and explanations of the physical world to bridge native cultural norms and behaviors with science practices.
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Roe, Miranda, and manroe@aapt net au. "FAMILIES AT RISK � A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND SERVICES." Flinders University. Politics and International Studies, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20061025.100933.
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This thesis examines policy and service delivery issues in the development of health and support for families at risk. The research focuses on families with children less than 7 years of age living in some of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods of metropolitan Adelaide. The thesis draws on evidence of (a) barriers to service support perceived by these families and (b) their strengths and resources in order to identify and develop arguments related to key issues of policy and service delivery.
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Dennis, Elizabeth. "Music, dementia and everyday life within a community day care setting." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23873.
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This multi-method ethnographic study explores the everyday lives of people with dementia living in the community, cared for by a spouse or family member. It examines three case studies of individuals with early to moderate stage dementia. The latter were attending a weekly day-centre group and this thesis explores their interactions with each other, individual histories, tastes, habits and daily habits. The primary aim of the research was to explore the natural role of music in the lives of these subjects as individuals and as a group. In doing so, this undertaking shows how, in supportive environments, agency and capacity can flourish, leading to constituents of ‘re-covery’, to use mental health terminology. This highlights some of the important matters that are overlooked where perspectives emphasise dementia as a disease of the brain. By contrast, it illuminates the role of social and environmental factors and their contribution to well-being. After initial interviews with each individual and in some cases, members of their families, five months of participant observation followed, primarily located in a home-based day care service. The data set was formed from 178 hours of field observations, a number of audio-recordings made during the sessions, and detailed field notes. This study shows that a close-up focus on the minute details of how a person lives their life and ‘dwelling’ with them for an extended period will illuminate many of the processes that work toward maintaining the well-being of people with dementia and facilitate their revitalisation. Significantly, it was the integration of music within and alongside the everyday tapestries of activities and events which helped create a space for connection and pleasure. The thesis findings reveal how the participants in this research repeatedly demonstrated expertise and insight, albeit not always verbally expressed, but shown in and through forms of practice as regards what was required for their well-being and how to achieve it. This achievement, however, also relied upon thoughtful and creative collaboration with others (carers, family members, etc.), working alongside the participants for mutually beneficial ends. The thesis concludes that what is required for people with dementia and their well-being does not differ substantially from what is generally required by humankind, but there are certain skills and modes of co-operative assistance that are necessary to ensure and maintain the well-being of people with dementia.
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Larsson, Stefan. "Law and Spatial Planning. Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Development of Wind Power and 3G Mobile Infrastructures in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00595.
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This PhD thesis in Spatial Planning argues for the importance of understanding the approaches to knowledge and rationalities embedded in spatially relevant decision-making. It emphasises the significance of seeing law as an empirical object of study for planning and environmental management. The Swedish development of wind power and 3G mobile infrastructures are used as cases to study these issues of principal interest. It is a compilation thesis consisting of a comprehensive introductory framework and five articles or chapters that have also been published elsewhere. The study is based on three main perspectives: Level of decision-making, legitimacy of different forms of knowledge involved in the process, and the sociolegal tension between formal law and its practical consequences. The thesis deals with problems stemming from the multi-level tensions in the planning and implementation that exist between the national, the regional and the local authorities. The legal context is analysed from the sociolegal perspective, in particular how the juridification of siting and permit conflicts determines what type of knowledge that can legitimately affect the decision-making and thereby set conditions for public participation. Finally, the thesis elaborates on the largely counterproductive results of the strong emphasis on efficiency in the revision of planning and permit processes for wind power and 3G-infrastructure, and what can be learnt from the experiences of the attempts at increasing efficiency. A combination of methods has been employed in the studies, and the data comes from a range of sources such as a large set of mast building permits, a sample of wind permit cases, as well as appealed permit cases. In addition, interviews have been conducted with judges from relevant courts, including regional handling officers who assess wind turbine applications. Legal documents such as preparatory work and licence conditions have also been analysed. The results show that there is a legal-rhetorical adaptation to the expert-based decision-making in court when permits are appealed. Further, the administrative levels interact poorly in the overall implementation. The national decisions, irrespective of the normative viewpoint of who should control the landscape planning, could be better informed of the preconditions at a local level that factually define the outcome of the implementation. The author, Stefan Larsson, holds a PhD in Sociology of Law, an LLM and is a sociolegal researcher who generally studies issues in the intersection of conceptual, sociolegal and technological change. The thesis has been supervised by Professor Lars Emmelin, The Swedish School of Planning, BTH, and co-supervised by Professor Karsten Åström, the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University. The thesis is the result of research within the programme Tools for environmental assessment in strategic decision-making, MiSt, funded by The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change at Lund University.Full text available: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=4587806&fileOId=4 588973
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Torres, Ospina Sara. "Uncovering the Role of Community Health Worker/Lay Health Worker Programs in Addressing Health Equity for Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada: An Instrumental and Embedded Qualitative Case Study." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23753.
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“Why do immigrants and refugees need community health workers/lay health workers (CHWs) if Canada already has a universal health care system?” Abundant evidence demonstrates that despite the universality of our health care system marginalized populations, including immigrants and refugees, experience barriers to accessing the health system. Evidence on the role of CHWs facilitating access is both lacking and urgently needed. This dissertation contributes to this evidence by providing a thick description and thorough analytical exploration of a CHW model, in Edmonton, Canada. Specifically, I examine the activities of the Multicultural Health Brokers Co-operative (MCHB Co-op) and its Multicultural Health Brokers from 1992 to 2011 as well as the relationship they have with Alberta Health Services (AHS) Edmonton Zone Public Health. The research for this study is based on an instrumental and embedded qualitative case study design. The case is the MCHB Co-op, an independently-run multicultural health worker co-operative, which contracts with health and social services providers in Edmonton to offer linguistically- and culturally-appropriate services to marginalized immigrant and refugee women and their families. The two embedded mini-cases are two programs of the MCHB Co-op: Perinatal Outreach and Health for Two, which are the raison d’être for a sustained partnership between the MCHB Co-op and AHS. The phenomenon under study is the Multicultural Health Brokers’ practice.
I triangulate multiple methods (research strategies and data sources), including 46 days of participant and direct observation, 44 in-depth interviews (with Multicultural Health Brokers, mentors, women using the programs, health professionals and outsiders who knew of the work of the MCHB Co-op and Multicultural Health Brokers), and document review and analysis of policy documents, yearly reports, training manuals, educational materials as well as quantitative analysis of the Health Brokers’ 3,442 client caseload database. In addition, data include my field notes of both descriptive and analytical reflections taken throughout the onsite research. I also triangulate various theoretical frameworks to explore how historically specific social structures, economic relationships, and ideological assumptions serve to create and reinforce the conditions that give rise to the need for CHWs, and the factors that aid or hinder their ability to facilitate marginalized populations’ access to health and social services.
Findings reveal that Multicultural Health Brokers facilitate access to health and social services as well as foster community capacity building in order to address settlement, adaptation, and integration of immigrant and refugee women and their families into Canadian society. Findings also demonstrate that the Multicultural Health Broker model is an example of collaboration between community-based organizations and local systems in targeting health equity for marginalized populations; in particular, in perinatal health and violence against women. A major problem these workers face is they provide important services as part of Canada’s health human resources workforce, but their contributions are often not recognized as such. The triangulation of methods and theory provides empirical and theoretical understanding of the Multicultural Health Brokers’ contribution to immigrant and refugee women and their families’ feminist urban citizenship.
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Reis, Maria Elidia Teixeira. "Formação de professores leigos em serviço : um estudo sobre saberes e praticas docentes em geometria." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252448.
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Orientador : Dario FiorentiniTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa analisou um processo de formação de professores leigos, em serviço, que tinha como objetivo responder à seguinte questão investigativa: Como os professores â?¿ principalmente leigos em serviço â?¿ percebem, narram e evidenciam as contribuições e as limitações da formação acadêmica ocorrida durante um curso emergencial de Licenciatura Plena Parcelada (LPP) em Matemática, especialmente em relação à sua prática e aos seus saberes docentes em Geometria? Para respondê-la, foi realizado um estudo de caso qualitativo de uma turma de Matemática de LPP da cidade de JataÃ, Goiás, envolvendo uma investigação mais aprofundada de dois de seus participantes que possuÃam mais de dez anos de experiência docente. O material de análise e interpretação foi constituÃdo por questionários aplicados à turma, documentos relativos ao projeto de LPP, entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas com três professores-formadores do curso e com os dois professores-alunos que tiveram suas aulas observadas. O processo de análise e interpretação desse material foi desenvolvido em torno de três eixos: (1) A exploração e a valorização dos saberes da experiência e a relação destes com os saberes da formação acadêmica no curso de LPP em Matemática. (2) Os problemas, limites e dificuldades enfrentados pelos professores-alunos e professores-formadores no decorrer do curso. (3) O que pensam e relatam os docentes alunos e formadores a respeito das contribuições desse curso. Os resultados mostraram que o curso de LPP em Matemática investigado, de um lado, contribuiu para que os professores leigos obtivessem a qualificação profissional almejada e exigida pela atual legislação, mas, de outro, apresentou poucas evidências de desenvolvimento profissional de seus participantes. Essa conclusão apóia-se no fato de que, embora o projeto de LPP do Estado de Goiás tivesse, no papel, o propósito de articular teoria e prática, na prática, os saberes experienciais e a prática pedagógica dos professores-alunos não foram valorizados/explorados e nem tomados como objeto efetivo de reflexão e problematização durante o curso. Talvez essa seja a principal razão pela qual seus participantes tenham apresentado poucos indÃcios de mudança de suas práticas e de seus saberes docentes relativos ao ensino de Geometria
Abstract: This research was aimed at analyzing the educational process of a group of lay teachers during a period of teaching activity, seeking to answer the following investigative question: How do teachers â?¿ especially lay teachers during teaching activity â?¿ perceive, narrate, and elicit the contributions and limitations to academic education acquired during a remedial emergency course of full partitioned licensorship (â?¿Licenciatura Plena Parceladaâ??, or LPP) on mathematics, especially in relation to their practice and their teaching knowledge in geometry? In order to answer this question, a qualitative case study of a mathematics LPP group was carried out in the city of JataÃ, Goiás, involving a deeper investigation of two of its participants, who had been through over ten years of teaching experience. The material for analysis and interpretation was composed of questionnaires answered by the group, documents related to the LPP project, semi-structured interviews with three teachers-educators of the course and two teachers-students who had their classes observed. The process of analysis and interpretation of this material was developed on three bases: (1) The exploration and valorization of experience knowledge and its relation to the knowledge from academic education in the mathematics LPP course; (2) the problems, limits and difficulty faced by teachers/students and teachers/educators during the course; and (3) what teachers-students and educators think and tell about the contributions of this course. The results showed that, on the one hand, this LPP mathematics course has made it possible for the lay teachers to have the professional qualification that they desired and that is legally required, but, on the other hand, it has presented little evidence of professional development for its participants. This conclusion is drawn from the fact that, although the LPP project in the state of Goiás had been planned to connect theory and practice, the experience knowledge and the teachers-studentsâ?¿ pedogogical practice were not actually valued or explored; neither were they taken as the real object of reflection and questioning throughout the course. Maybe this is the main reason why its participants presented few signs of change in their teaching habits and knowledge regarding geometry teaching
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Centrén, Philip, Mustafa Mehmed, and Martin Werner. "Knowledge Management The presence of Knowledge Management theory in companies." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Health and Society, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4731.
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Knowledge is regarded as key resource in today’s business environment. Many researchers argue that it is the key resource to create a competitive advantage. Still, it differs itself from ordinary resources. Knowledge cannot be quantified or specified numerically to recognize the quantity of knowledge a company possesses. Furthermore, companies may lack the ability to achieve an absolute control over the supply of knowledge that will occur when trying to extract it from employees. Knowledge Management is the field which presents an approach to manage the valuable resource of accumulated knowledge. By implementing processes and actions in a company, it will obtain a control over the knowledge in the organization. This dissertation also presents diverse definitions of Knowledge Management. By investigating the components of these definitions, we see that various academic researchers recognize different notions upon Knowledge Management as theory. When reviewing theory, one could question the validity of the word management in Knowledge Management. The theory declares management as an enhancement of practices in organizational context.
The purpose of our dissertation was to investigate if theoretical Knowledge Management is a coexisted factor in companies. By looking at the elements extracted from theory, this notion became apparent. When implementing Knowledge Management, an individual company creates opportunities for people to learn and share their knowledge.
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Chen, Hsinchun, Daniel Zeng, Homa Atabakhsh, Wojciech Wyzga, and Jennifer Schroeder. "CopLink: Managing Law Enforcement Data And Knowledge." ACM, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105522.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaIn response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, major government efforts to modernize federal law enforcement authorities’ intelligence collection and processing capabilities have been initiated. At the state and local levels, crime and police report data is rapidly migrating from paper records to automated records management systems in recent years, making them increasingly accessible. However, despite the increasing availability of data, many challenges continue to hinder effective use of law enforcement data and knowledge, in turn limiting crime-fighting capabilities of related government agencies. For instance, most local police have database systems used by their own personnel, but lack an efficient manner in which to share information with other agencies. More importantly, the tools necessary to retrieve, filter, integrate, and intelligently present relevant information have not yet been sufficiently refined. According to senior Justice Department officials quoted on MSNBC, Sept. 26, 2001, there is “justifiable skepticism about the FBI’s ability to handle massive amounts of information,” and recent anti-terrorism initiatives will create more data overload problems. As part of nationwide, ongoing digital government initiatives, COPLINK is an integrated information and knowledge management environment aimed at meeting some of these challenges.
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Leith, P. "Legal knowledge engineering : computing, logic and law." Thesis, Open University, 1985. http://oro.open.ac.uk/56914/.
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The general problem approached in this thesis is that of building computer based legal advisory programs (otherwise known as expert systems or Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems). Such computer systems should be able to provide an individual with advice about either the general legal area being investigated, or advice about how the individual should proceed in a given case. In part the thesis describes a program (the ELl program) which attempts to confront some of the problems inherent in the building of these systems. The ELl system is seen as an experimental program (currently handling welfare rights legislation) and development vehicle. It is not presented as a final commercially implementable program. We present a detailed criticism of the type of legal knowledge contained within the system. The second, though in part intertwined, major subject of the thesis describes the jurisprudential aspects of the attempt to model the law by logic, a conjunction which is seen to be at the heart of the computer/law problem. We suggest that the conjunction offers very little to those who are interested in the real application of the real law, and that this is most forcefully seen when a working computer system models that conjunction. Our conclusion is that neither logic nor rule-based methods are sufficient for handling legal knowledge. The novelty and import of this thesis is not simply that it presents a negative conclusion; rather that it offers a sound theoretical and pragmatic framework for understanding why these methods are insufficient - the limits to the field are, in fact, defined.
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Funn, Nashira. "Law Enforcement Officer Knowledge of Mental Illness." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4057.
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Media and activist groups have recently exposed the problem of negative interactions between law enforcement officers and civilians. Many of these civilians have a mental illness. Various researchers attribute these negative interactions to insufficient officer knowledge of mental illness due to a lack of training, education, and personal experiences. Very little research addresses how insufficient knowledge of mental illness may influence interactions. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and analyze self reported law enforcement knowledge using Malcolm Knowles' conceptualization of adult learning theory and andragogy as the theoretical framework. This framework bases self-directed learning/training on a needs assessment of the individual's knowledge. The main research question was: 'What factors related to officer knowledge of mental illness impact interactions between law enforcement and people with mental illness?' Data were collected through recorded and then transcribed in-depth interviews with 8 law enforcement officers with experience interacting with mentally ill people. Using aspects of modified Van Kaam method of data analysis, word recognition computer programing identified repetitive words and phrases from the data. This resulted in significant common themes, namely: the need for more effective formal training on mental illness and the influence of personal lived experiences in the interaction with people with mental illness. The implications for social change are positive for officers and people with mental illness, as this study will inform the development of more effective officer training models about mental health, which will reduce the number of negative interactions.
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Macy, Robert Scott. "Knowledge competency acquisition in the knowledge economy : links to firm performance /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1196407371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Study based on data derived from a sampling of 189 large U.S. law firms. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-101). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Lopez-Lorenzo, Miguel-Jose. "Truth and knowledge in law : the integration challenge." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1565299/.
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There is a challenge that needs to be addressed in general jurisprudence, and the challenge I have in mind is composed of two questions: one of these raises a metaphysical issue about what makes it the case that the law requires what it does—call that the constitutive question; the other question raises an epistemological issue about what it is to know what the law requires in the instant case—call that the problem of legal knowledge. Although these questions raise different issues that need to be addressed by general theories of the nature of law, my view is that they are best regarded as two facets of a larger problem: how, if at all, can we reconcile a plausible account of what makes it the case that the law requires what it does with a credible account of what it is to know what the law requires on a particular issue? That, in a nutshell, is the integration challenge confronting the legal domain, and my discussion of it proceeds as follows: I shall begin, in Chapter II, by introducing the integration challenge for the legal domain and demonstrating why that challenge merits scrutiny in philosophical discussions of the nature of law; I shall then establish, in Chapters III-IV, the programme of legal dispositionalism and its attendant objectivity, relevance, and epistemological conditions that constrain adequate solutions to this pressing theoretical problem; as I explain in Chapter V, the problematic is confounded here in that our two leading theories of the nature of law, the orthodox view and the model of principle, fail to negotiate those constraints satisfactorily in their respective accounts of what law is and how it works; so, in Chapter VI, I shall review the importance of taking up our challenge in earnest.
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Leow, Rachel Pei Si. "Companies in private law : attributing acts and knowledge." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270291.
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This thesis is about corporate attribution in private law. Unlike human persons, companies are artificial legal persons. They lack a physical body with which to act, and a mind with which to think. English law therefore developed the concept of attribution so that legal rules could be applied to companies. Attribution is the process of legal reasoning by which the acts and states of mind of human individuals acting for a company are treated as that of the company, so as to establish the company’s rights against and obligations owed to other parties. This thesis examines the rules of attribution across the private law of obligations, focusing on the law of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and selected aspects of equitable liability. Three main arguments are made in this thesis. First, there is a sharp distinction between the rules of attribution and the substantive rules of private law to which they apply. The former belongs in the law of persons, and it concerns when the acts and states of mind of an individual can be attributed to a company. The latter belongs in the law of obligations. Second, the same rules of attribution should be, and have largely been used across the entire expanse of private law. Regardless of the area of private law in which the question of attribution arises, the same question is being asked, and so the law’s answer should be the same. Like should be treated alike. This is normatively desirable, because it ensures coherence across private law. Third, it is therefore possible to state the rules of attribution that apply in private law. The acts of an individual A will be attributed to the company C where they were (i) specifically authorised (‘specific authority’), (ii) where A performs an act within the class of acts that A has power to do on behalf of C, even if A is acting in breach of duty (‘actual authority’), or (iii) where A has either been placed in a position or been held out by C such that a reasonable person in the position of a third party would reasonably believe that A had the power to act for C (‘apparent authority’). A’s knowledge will be attributed to C where it is material to the class of acts that A had specific or actual authority to do on behalf of C. Although commonly thought to be a series of diverse, disparate rules found in different doctrines and different areas of law, the rules of attribution form a remarkably coherent, consistent whole across private law.
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Forstenlechner, Ingo. "Impact of knowledge management on law firm performance." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2005. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3536.
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It is a management truism that you cannot manage what you cannot measure. To manage knowledge effectively organisations need to understand how to measure their knowledge management performance against organisational goals. The case study organisation has developed a balanced scorecard, which is used to monitor key drivers for performance within the remit of the knowledge management function, thereby aiming to improve the delivery of value adding services. The set of cause and effect relationships at the heart of the scorecard - referred to as the success map - is at the core of this research, which aims to investigate if the link between managing knowledge and financial performance really exists and - if it does - how it can be influenced. By means of analytical methods including regression, correlation and semi-structured interviews the existence of this link is supported by evidence and the success map updated to reflect the relationships among key performance drivers that were positively identified as relevant. The outcome is a model for managing knowledge that can be applied to professional service firms or comparable organisations that are highly dependant on knowledge. In relation to this model, cultural variations were investigated and found to significantly influence the relevant performance drivers in several regions and countries across the case study organisation. Ignoring these cultural variations was found to carry the risk to base action on deceitful insights. In addition to this, the analysis of the survey also gave a clear indication of how to foster knowledge sharing among lawyers of different nationality and levels of seniority. This thesis provides the empirical evidence for a link between knowledge management and organisational performance.
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Magaisa, Alex Tawanda. "Knowledge protection in indigenous communities : the case of indigenous medical knowledge systems in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2630/.
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This study examines the contentious issues relating to the exploitation of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) within the context of the expanding regime of intellectual property law (IP law). The study focuses specifically on the area of indigenous medical knowledge (IMK) within the geographical context of Zimbabwe as a country case study. The study examines the centrality of knowledge in the global economy and using international political economic theory and practice, demonstrates why it is a key site of struggles between and among nations and various stakeholders. While it considers the narrow issue of the applicability or otherwise of IP law to IKS, this study takes the approach that it is necessary to understand the socio-historical developments that account for the peripheral status of IKS in relation to the dominant western knowledge systems (WKS). A key argument of this study is that the lack of legal protection of IKS is directly connected to their marginal status in social, intellectual, cultural and economic terms arising from the dominance of the predominantly WKS. It is argued that far from being a narrow legalistic debate, the matter of the protection of IKS is a wider socio-cultural, economic and political issue that centres on the power relations between and among people, corporations and states. Through a combination of theoretical and field investigations, the study seeks to explore the factors that account for the marginalisation of IKS generally and IMK systems in particular. The “struggle thesis” demonstrates that from an historical viewpoint knowledge systems are in a state of constant interaction and struggle resulting in problems. The key to resolving the problems is to acknowledge difference and accept the legitimacy and validity of different knowledge systems and to democratise the regime of knowledge protection both nationally and globally. It proposes that solutions lie in not only reconstructing the legal architecture but also in ensuring that the social, economic and political structures are reconstructed to safeguard and nurture the IKS. The study investigates the needs and expectations of the indigenous communities including their rationale for the protection of their knowledge systems. Finally, it also contributes to the development of indigenous research methodologies.
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Mondragón, Carlos Perezgrovas. "Las ples, las aelan, las tingting : living respect and knowledge in the Torres Islands, Vanuatu." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619672.
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Anderson, Jane Elizabeth Law Faculty of Law UNSW. "The production of indigenous knowledge in intellectual property law." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Law, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20491.
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The thesis is an exploration of how indigenous knowledge has emerged as a subject within Australian intellectual property law. It uses the context of copyright law to illustrate this development. The work presents an analysis of the political, social and cultural intersections that influence legal possibilities and effect practical expectations of the law in this area. The dilemma of protecting indigenous knowledge resonates with tensions that characterise intellectual property as a whole. The metaphysical dimensions of intellectual property have always been insecure but these difficulties come to the fore with the identification of boundaries and markers that establish property in indigenous subject matter. While intellectual property law is always managing difference, the politics of law are more transparent when managing indigenous concerns. Rather than assume the naturalness of the category of indigenous knowledge within law, this work interrogates the politics of its construction precisely as a ???special??? category. Employing a multidisciplinary methodology, engaging theories of governmental rationality that draws upon the scholarship of Michel Foucault to appreciate strategies of managing and directing knowledge, the thesis considers how the politics of law is infused by cultural, political, bureaucratic and individual factors. Key elements in Australia that have pushed the law to consider expressions of indigenous knowledge in intellectual property can be located in changing political environments, governmental intervention through strategic reports, cultural sensitivity articulated in case law and innovative instances of individual agency. The intersection of these elements reveals a dynamic that exerts influence in the shape the law takes.
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Chen, Hsinchun, Jennifer Schroeder, Roslin V. Hauck, Linda Ridgeway, Homa Atabakhsh, Harsh Gupta, Chris Boarman, Kevin Rasmussen, and Andy W. Clements. "COPLINK Connect: information and knowledge management for law enforcement." Elsevier, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106338.
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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaInformation and knowledge management in a knowledge-intensive and time-critical environment presents a challenge to information technology professionals. In law enforcement, multiple data sources are used, each having different user interfaces. COPLINK Connect addresses these problems by providing one easy-to-use interface that integrates different data sources such as incident records, mug shots and gang information, and allows diverse police departments to share data easily. User evaluations of the application allowed us to study the impact of COPLINK on law-enforcement personnel as well as to identify requirements for improving the system. COPLINK Connect is currently being deployed at Tucson Police Department (TPD).
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Gonzalez-Angiulo, Hilda 1960. "Las Senoras: From funds of knowledge to self-discovery." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288787.
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Literacy as a critical tool for understanding the relationship among text, self, and world (Freire, 1987, p. 30) is vital in order for students to relate their own reality with that of the characters'; for students to read their world while they read the word, as Freire and Macedo (1987) would put it. For over three years, I have met with a group of women (Las Senoras1 to explore their views of themselves and how they relate to the school and society around them. Las Senoras are all Spanish-Speakers, some of them Spanish/English Bilinguals. The vehicle for our discussions was El Club de Literatura (the Literature Club) wherein we read such novels as Hasta no Verte Jesus Mio, Arrancame la Vida, Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchu, y asi me Nacio la Conciencia and short stories, for example, Detras de la Reja, Out of the Mirrored Garden) to explore our own lives as women, within our families, communities, and society at large. A goal of this phenomenological orientation is the rediscovery of self-knowledge through literature discussions infused with personal experience, through extensive dialogical conversations, interviews, letters, journals, and observations, facilitated by a researcher as "friend" role. These are among the methodological tools used to provide a panoramic of women's lives. This work analyzes the process of Las Senoras' personal transformation through the rediscovery of their own knowledge in El Club de Literatura. Why this focus on Las Senoras? Because as an educator of working-class, language minority students, I am aware of how mothers are generally the ones most intimately involved in the education of their children and how they serve as the primary connection to the schools, yet at the same time they are held at bay with respect to their rights as women, mothers and wives. Further, an important finding of this work has had to do with my own evolution from teacher to pedagogue. This evolution has encompassed my breaking from my earlier training as a teacher which strictly dictated the curriculum and prescribed my role as a teacher, to the joint creation of curriculum with my students and their families. The process has led me from reflecting upon my practice to understanding the implications of my actions in communion with my students. A communion where I am not always the teacher, but a lifelong learner. For those who ask, "Can I do this work?" The answer is, "If you are willing to learn and change, then you can be the teacher." Further, as commented by Patricia, one of Las Senoras, "It depends on what you are going to teach us." (1)Las Senoras: in Spanish one refers to a woman as a Senora as a gesture of respect, be it out of age, experiences, or legal status. In this study, Las Senoras, are women who are treated respectfully by me and others who know them through me. Age and legal status are not important in our group, life experiences are what give them the status of Senoras.
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Vermeylen, Saskia A. F. "Between law and lore : the tragedy of traditional knowledge." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2007. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1057/.
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Johnson, Tom. "Law, space, and local knowledge in late-medieval England." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2014. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/73/.
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This thesis explores the manifold ways that people encountered and adapted to legal processes and concepts in late-medieval England. It argues that these encounters with law were inextricably related to space and local knowledge, that is, to particular physical places, and the localized information that was produced within those places. The thesis makes two historiographical interventions. Firstly, it argues that the huge variety of different law courts operating in late-medieval England created a situation of ‘legal pluralism’, meaning that there were far more opportunities to become involved with legal institutions than has generally been assumed. Secondly, it argues that previous attempts to understand how ordinary people interacted with law have been too focussed on the central and ecclesiastical law courts. In order to redress these problems, the thesis posits the idea of the ‘local legal regime’: the localized cultural logic that informed people’s encounters with the particular formulation of legal pluralism in the locality within which they lived. The thesis examines three case studies of different local legal regimes. The first chapter looks at the provincial city of Hereford; the second chapter examines the coast of East Anglia; the third chapter looks at the Forests of Yorkshire. In each case, particularly local institutional arrangements, landscapes, and socioeconomic and demographic features crucially shaped the way that people encountered and drew upon law in their everyday lives. Overall, the thesis has two important implications. Firstly, what we often take to be generic aspects of the late-medieval English legal system – such as property rights or nuisance litigation – were in fact underpinned by distinctively local arrangements and expectations. Secondly, we ought to understand law as something rooted physically in the locality. As people moved through the late-medieval landscape, they were encountered with, and able to adapt to, a variety of different legal claims.
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Halfvardsson, Terese, Jagoda Maracic, and Peter Sjöberg. "Knowledge Harvesting from International Joint Ventures." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3263.
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This dissertation explores and analyses factors which could facilitate Knowledge
Harvesting, and also how important it is for the parent companies. Knowledge
Harvesting is one of the knowledge processes within an international joint venture
network that has not received much attention from the academic community. After
relevant review of the literature in the area of international joint ventures and
knowledge management, the authors of the dissertation created a model. The model
consists of five factors: Motive, Absorptive capacity, Knowledge characteristics,
Trust, and Control. Eight hypotheses are formulated in order to test the model. The
empirical study is concentrated on Swedish companies involved in an international
joint venture with a foreign company. A deductive approach is chosen in order to
answer the research questions, and primary data is collected using an online survey.
The results of the questionnaire are analysed in a descriptive manner and several
conclusions are drawn.
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Farrar, Cathleen May. "Attitudes and knowledge of law enforcement officers regarding child maltreatment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2276.
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This study was conducted in an effort to explore the attitudes and knowledge held by law enforcement officers regarding child maltreatment. This study was completely exploratory in nature, with no hypothesis about the outcome.
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Katherman, Harolyn Joy. "Factors Which Influence School Administrators' Knowledge of Special Education Law." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26951.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between professional characteristics and training of building level school administrators in Virginia and their knowledge of special education law. The research question was, to what extent and in what manner can school administrators' knowledge of special education law be explained based upon administrative position, school level, number of special education courses, number of school law courses, and experience?
Knowledge of special education law was a total score on a survey instrument developed by Hines (1993) and updated to include eight areas of the 1997 Amendments to IDEA. A second part of the instrument collected information on professional characteristics and training. The survey was mailed to school building administrators throughout Virginia. The subjects in the study were randomly selected from Virginia public K-12 schools. Sampling was stratified by school level and wealth. The data were analyzed using a step-wise regression. Number of special education courses accounted for 4% of the variation in knowledge. Number of school law courses completed also entered into the analysis but had an inverse correlation with knowledge. The average knowledge score for administrators in this study was 18 or 56% correct.
Identification of factors which have the greatest influence on principal knowledge of special education law can be used to plan effective preparation of school building administrators. School building administrators who are knowledgeable of special education law can ensure the protection of the rights of disabled students, build positive relationships within the community, and avoid costly litigation.Ed. D.
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Hickey, Julian James Bernard. "The taxation of intellectual property and commercially valuable knowledge." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312820.
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Lassonde, Marie-Claire. "The protection of indigenous medicinal knowledge in international intellectual property law /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78220.
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For 20 years, and more intensively during the last decade, indigenous knowledge has challenged the regime of intellectual property. If this field of law has been, in the past, challenged by new technology, it is now, with the problematic of indigenous medicinal knowledge, put to the test by "old invention". The present thesis examines the status of indigenous medicinal knowledge in international intellectual property law. Thus, we will proceed to the study of the main international conventions and the common regime of intellectual property law in order to determine the treatment accorded to medicinal indigenous knowledge within the actual system. The role that intellectual property could play in the future will also be examined.
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Chanthavong, Saiyadeth Pimonpan Isarabhakdi. "Knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission among female youth in Lao P.D.R. /." Abstract, 2008. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2551/cd421/5038599.pdf.
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Collard, Juliane. "Tracing knowledge and the law : the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44831.
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In response to public concern over the prolonged serial killings of Vancouver’s Missing Women, in 2010 British Columbia’s provincial government called a public inquiry into the police investigation of Robert William Pickton, the convicted murderer of six women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Commissions of Inquiry advocates suggest that the quasi-legal framework makes it an ideal tool for exploring this case of juridico-political silence. As an inclusive and collaborative process, public inquiries create a space for hearing the voices that might be silenced in a formal trial. And yet, accounts of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (MWCI) suggest that it was a highly divisive and exclusionary process. This thesis explores the empirical details of the MWCI asking how modes of knowledge production are mobilized within the legal space it generates and with what effect. Drawing on inquiry transcripts, interviews with legal professionals and community organizers, and theoretical contributions from critical legal studies, performance studies, and archive theory, I query the epistemological and ontological exclusions that shaped the MWCI and their rootedness in naturalized legal codes and categories.
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Power, Donna M. "A Study of Selected Virginia Principals' Knowledge of Special Education Law." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26036.
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With the re-authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the federal mandates of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the role of the principal has new implications regarding the free and appropriate education of students with disabilities. As a result of the inclusion model of special education instruction being supported as the most effective learning environment for students with disabilities, principals now need to know the definitions of types of disabilities, appropriate placements, how to provide correct feedback for parents and at a minimum, the basics of special education law. The literature review focused on principals’ attitudes and concerns for special education placements and how knowledgeable school principals are with regard to issues of special education law and the possibility of litigation when planning for the free and appropriate education of special education students. Few U.S. studies have focused exclusively on the actual principals’ knowledge of special education law.
This study researched the knowledge of Virginia principals on special education. A geographical random sample of 462 principals from the state of Virginia were asked to complete an on-line survey of 24 hypothetical scenarios based on the following components of IDEA: free and appropriate public education, due process, individualized education plans, least restrictive environment, related services, student discipline and liability for reimbursement of parents.. Experts, practitioners, and researchers in the field reviewed these scenarios.
The survey was e-mailed to the principals from October 1st to November 1st, 2006. A follow up e-mail was sent two weeks after the initial contact as a reminder to complete the survey. From November 2nd to November 15th 10% of the respondents who did not respond were contacted by phone and asked why they did not respond. Out of 49 phone calls, 12 principals responded. The instrument was anonymous and color coded according to the eight Superintendents’ Study Groups across the state of Virginia in order to identify the number of schools that participated.
A total of 236 principals responded resulting in a 51% response rate. Upon completion of the questionnaire principals were provided correct responses.
Using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed on all demographic variables and the principals’ test score. An item analysis of each of the hypothetical scenarios determined the areas of deficiencies in the principals’ knowledge base. Results of this study show that there is no significant difference between principals’ test scores and each of the demographic variables. Seven areas of special education law were tested: free and appropriate public education (FAPE), individualized education plan (IEP), least restrictive environment (LRE), student discipline, related services, due process and liability for reimbursement of parents This study identified two significant areas of weakness: related services and FAPE. The information from this study will be beneficial in determining school districts’ professional development needs and coursework in university education programs that addresses special education law.Ph. D.
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Espinoza, Brandon, Alexis Castañeda, Luis Amaya, and Camila Ríos. "La televisión y las repercusiones en la sociedad: Teoria del conocimiento." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/344090.
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Trabajo ganador durante en el Curso Taller de Periodismo Literario 2014-2, Facultad de Comunicación y Periodismo, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC. Lima, PerúEn la actualidad existen muchos programas en la televisión peruana con el objetivo de entretener a un público que cree que lo que ve es divertido, dinámico e informativo, pero en realidad, es solo presentar personajes cuya vida llamen la atención a los televidentes y genere con esto, titulares. Tales como se ve en los periódicos “chichas”, los cuales utilizan la vida y escándalos de los demás para hacer de esto, un tema de interés público y así aumentar la comercialización del medio (el periódico informante). Mediante este documento se busca entender un poco más de el por qué la telebasura tiene tanta acogida en la población. También se podrá entender ¿Quiénes son los verdaderos responsables de que la telebasura se mantenga en nuestra pantalla? Por un lado, el sector privado que se respalda bajo la idea de la libre empresa o la población, que ha desarrollado la idea de que la televisión es un medio para la distracción y la diversión. En el presente documento se analizaran cuatro manifestaciones presentes en la televisión que hacen que este medio este en decadencia. Primero se analizara la presencia de la prensa amarillista en la televisión peruana. Se dará a conocer las causas por las cuales dicha prensa logra influir en la sociedad al manipular la opinión pública. En la segunda parte de la monografía se ha logrado identificar una serie de estereotipos que se manifestaran con una serie de ejemplos que facilitaran la comprensión del tema. Después, se relacionara la telebasura con el interés de los sectores privados, para que dicho estilo de televisión prevalezca en nuestras pantallas. Finalmente, se mostrara un breve panorama de la situación de la mujer en la televisión peruana que pese a que la población ya ha desarrollado ideas más inclusivas y adecuadas para un país en vías de desarrollo; en contraste, la telebasura presenta a la mujer como un objeto de estimulación sexual ya sea mediante los programas o la prensa sensacionalista. Con el objetivo de que la monografía sea interpretada de manera adecuada, se relacionaran las repercusiones en la sociedad peruana por parte de la telebasura, con algunos conocimientos ya aprendidos. En primer lugar, se eligió como primer pilar de la monografía La teoría del juego del lenguaje de Wittgestein, que como ya se podrá comprobar la tele basura no respeta aquel principio que nos dice que el lenguaje es una representación pictórica de la realidad. En segundo lugar, otro pilar del presente trabajo es el Humanismo y los medios de comunicación que nos refleja los cambios drásticos que han sufrido los medios como la televisión.
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Neuschl, Jens, and Yang Yingfei. "Key Success Factors of Knowledge Management in Multinational Corporations." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-3795.
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Knowledge is increasingly substituting old (tangible) factors of production and becomes the most important (intangible) productive means and competitive weapon for the companies. Knowledge Management (KM) provides a particular opportunity to help the employees work more effectively and intelligently under these circumstances.
Since knowledge becomes more and more important within all kinds of industries the research is aimed to analyse, identify and clarify the parameters from a multinational corporation’s point of view which are influencing and facilitating the development of a company’s Human Capital (HC) most and therefore can be regarded as essential for long-term corporate success
Two parts – a theoretical and an empirical one – are the main components of this dissertation. The theoretical part covers important aspects related to knowledge and KM as well as globalisation. The empirical study was based on several hypotheses developed as a result of the theoretical discussion, identifying four key success factors of KM. In order to conduct a statistical analysis the necessary data has been obtained by using a questionnaire which was sent to companies in Sweden, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK.
As a result, three factors could be confirmed as being paramount whereas only one has been recognised as not being as important as expected.