Dissertations / Theses: 'Social change professional- India'

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Thalberg, Pedersen Nathalie, and Linda Staflund. "Innovating in 'the dream-factory' : social change through mindset-change: evidence from Kerala, India." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-22567.

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Background The mindset of an individual is made up by perception and motivation. Motivation is in turn driven by personal experiences, values and goals. Many times, a personal experience can act as a ‘Gandhi-moment’ or a triggering event to take action towards achieving a specific outcome. For a social entrepreneur, this outcome is many times some type of positive social change. In order for the social entrepreneur to create this, he or she needs to be innovative and creative, and therefore stay open towards new opportunities and perspectives to not get stuck in a particular mindset. Purpose The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the role of personal experiences and a person’s mindset in the start-up of a social project. Furthermore, the study aims to explore how a change in one’s mindset can result in social projects or enterprises that are successfully able to create social change. Method The research approach of the thesis takes the form of a multiple case study; one main large case and four illustrative smaller ones. The data analysis is of abductive style, going back and forth between theory and empirical data. Conclusion It can be concluded that personal experiences can serve as a motivational platform for an individual starting a project or enterprise, aiming to create a social change. However, other elements of a person’s mindset will also influence this process, in terms motivation and perception. Furthermore, for changes in society to occur, changes first needs to be made from within. Therefore, in order for a social entrepreneur to create actual social change; he or she needs to go through a process of mindset-change.

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Menon, Vikram. "Popular princes : kingship and social change in Travancore and Cochin 1870-1930." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390428.

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Rathnaiah, K. "Social change among Malas : an ex-untouchable caste of South India /." New Dehli : Discovery publ. House, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37483181h.

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Prost, Audrey Gabrielle. "Exile, social change and medicine among Tibetans in Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), India." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405953.

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This thesis is a study of the predicaments of exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala. It examines the ways in which structural and cultural factors linked to exile underpin local understandings of health and the provision of healthcare. The study demonstrates that exile uncertainty is reflected in illness explanatory models put forward by Tibetan refugees, and in the organisation of healthcare provision in Dharamsala. The first part of the thesis. (Chapters 2-3) is an account of changes in social organisation and economic strategies as a consequence of exile. Chapter 2 looks at transforming social networks in relation to exile identity politics and economic strategies. I discuss societal tensions within the Tibetan refugee community, principally in relation to the group of `newcomer' (tsar `hyor ba) refugees, and the local Indian community. Chapter 3 focuses on two examples of economic strategies linked to dependency and the predicaments of exile: firstly rags ram, or the sponsorship offered to Tibetans by foreigners, and secondly, `grogsp a, or mutual help and reliance on intra-communal networks of solidarity. The second part of the study (Chapters 4-6) examines how the physical and psychosocial hardships of exile, in addition to social uncertainty, have influenced individuals' understanding of health and disease, and, consequently, the activities and status of the two most prominent exile medical institutions, the Delek Hospital and the Tibetan Astro-Medical Institute (Men-Tsee-Khang). Chapter 5 discusses the rise and institutionalisation of Dharamsala's Men-Tsee-Khang and the systematisation of traditional medical teaching as linked to the predicaments of exile. Chapter 6 provides individual case studies of Tibetan exiles' experiences of illness. Chapter 7 is given over to a discussion of the political significance of discourses relating to physical suffering in the context of exile.

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Ravindran, Neeraja. "PARENT AND PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES ABOUT AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN SOUTH INDIA: BELIEFS, PRACTICES, AND PARENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2836.

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the experience of parents and professionals living in a large metropolitan city in South India who were raising and/or working with a child with an autism spectrum disorder. The study explored the unique perspectives of parents and professionals regarding their beliefs and practices about autism, as well as the nature of the parent-professional relationship. Nineteen parents (all mothers) and 21 professionals were interviewed in person at four schools, an early intervention program, a hospital clinic, and a physician’s office. Themes were developed using qualitative software, and reliability was established through multiple coders and member checks. The meaning of health, illness, and disability vary greatly across cultures and across time. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model provided the conceptual paradigm to examine how broad cultural beliefs in the macrosystem, local services in the exosystem, parent- professional relationships in the mesosystem, and practices at home and school in the child’s microsystem worked together to explain autism spectrum disorders for this group of participants at this point in history. Four major themes emerged from the study that related to parents’ and professionals’ beliefs about causes of autism, expectations from treatments and services, nature of parent-professional partnerships in managing a child’s autism, and the current ‘state of things’ with regard to autism in one South Indian city. Across the themes, parents and professionals embraced two seemingly contradictory yet perfectly compatible cultural beliefs: a modern, scientific approach and a traditional Indian viewpoint. The treatments offered to children were similar to Western practices, with the addition of traditional Indian practices (e.g., yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, Siddha). Parents were mostly happy and comfortable with their interactions with the professionals. Parents valued collaboration and respect but also acknowledged that the relationship was vertical in nature, with professionals having more authority. Professionals’ assessment of their relationship with parents was influenced by their overall views about the families—positive or negative—which in turn was influenced by what they believed caused the child’s autism (e.g., genetics/scientific causes vs. cold parenting and departure from traditional family structure). Services for children with autism in India are rapidly expanding, though the vast majority of those affected are not diagnosed or treated.

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Johnson, Kirk. "Television and social change in rural India : a study of two mountain villages in Western Maharashtra." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/NQ44468.pdf.

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Gioia, Milena. "Grassroots Women's Organizations in Rural India: Promoting Social Change Through Self-Help Groups." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20683.

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Development work focused on gender equality usually concentrates on easily measurable practical needs, but rarely on structural change and social justice. The purpose of the present research is to analyze a women’s grassroots organization’s (MBUP) role in promoting social change through Self-help groups, a medium commonly used to give women access to credit. The analysis explores how collective action can bring about structural change to oppressive gender norms. Drawing on a power-conscious feminist approach, the study involves 32 in depth qualitative interviews. The findings show that MBUP is promoting social change and women’s rights in certain ways, namely in creating social awareness in women, access to information for women, and active citizenship in women. However, the organization is limited in encouraging systemic change through the promotion of collective struggle. Moreover, while the organization is inclusive and displays diversity in the entirety of its structure, its critical introspection remains limited.

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Kunze, Isabelle [Verfasser]. "The social organisation of land use change in Kerala, South India / Isabelle Kunze." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), 2016. http://d-nb.info/1122041535/34.

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Kasper, Eric Calvin. "Nurturing emergent agency : networks and dynamics of complex social change processes in Raipur, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66943/.

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This thesis takes up the question, how can agency for people living in informal settlements be strengthened? To address this question, I carried out systemic action research with two NGO partners and residents from seven informal settlements in Raipur, India. This involved organizing ‘slum improvement committees' (SICs) in each of the seven settlements and carrying out joint actions in support of housing rights and implementation of the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) housing policy. The data on which my analysis is based includes over one hundred conversations between myself and the project participants (both from the settlements as well as the partner NGOs), records of two public events, a social network survey of 46 people living in the participating settlements, a separate set of 9 participatory social network maps (NetMaps), and over two hundred pages of my own field notes based on my observations and participation in the research activities. My thesis makes an original contribution to the study of community agency by analysing it through the lens of complex systems theories and utilising the tools of social network analysis. My thesis also makes an original contribution to research methodology by making the technical analysis participatory, accessible, and useful for the participants. This allowed me to combine analysis of relational structures (social networks) with relational dynamics to show how significant social change happened over the course of the project. My thesis suggests that agency can be strengthened through an organizing practice that brings NGOs, academic researchers, and residents of informal settlements together to build relational power, take collective action, and create social change.

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Kutzer, Roxanne. "Maternal and professional identity change during the transition to motherhood." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2013. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8064.

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Becoming a mother derails many women’s chances for career progression. One reason for this is that women leave organisations when they become mothers, or reduce their working hours. Another reason is that people within the organisation start to view them as less career-orientated as a result of being mothers. At the core of this issue is that who a woman is – her identity – is being redefined in the transition to motherhood, by herself and by those around her. But, little is known about how her professional identity develops during the transition to motherhood, or whether its development is related to her growing maternal identity. This paper, therefore, presents a systematic review of the literature concerning changes in maternal and professional identities, as well as the relationship between them. Based on the evidence, this review concludes that although the development of maternal identity has been well documented in the literature, little is known about how a woman’s professional identity develops, as she becomes a mother. Suggestions for further research and practice are discussed.

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Bockman, Johanna K. "Economists and social change : science, professional power, and politics in Hungary, 1945-1995 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9975032.

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Endicott, Michele Anne. "Peer-Mediated Teacher Change and Professional Learning in Networks: Specialist Languages Teachers' Experience of Networking and the Production of Social Capital in a Context of Curriculum Change." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366140.

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This study focuses on teachers as peer-learners and producers of social capital in a global context of ongoing educational change and a national context of current curriculum change (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2010) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. More specifically, it investigates the network-based professional learning of specialist teachers responding to mandated curriculum change in Queensland, Australia, in the first decade of the century. The specialist teachers studied are teachers of languages other than English (LOTE) and the specific mandated curriculum change they are responding to is the introduction of the first-ever formal languages syllabus for primary and lower-secondary school students in the state of Queensland. The curriculum change challenges associated with implementation of this new syllabus (Queensland School Curriculum Council (QSCC), 2000) were many and varied. An investigation of specialist language teachers’ reported experience of collaborative professional learning within their regional, non-school-based teacher networks during this time of curriculum change had the potential to provide some unique understandings about teachers as lifelong learners responding to change. Accordingly, the research was designed to address the broad question: What is the experience of change, professional learning and network participation for specialist languages teachers attempting to implement a new syllabus in this particular context of curriculum change? The main purpose of this exploration and analysis, using a qualitative (interpretive) multiple case-study approach, was to gain a better understanding of these processes, from the perspective of the teachers themselves, to inform the design of professional learning experiences for languages teachers, and others, during future curriculum change efforts, such as the implementation of the new Australian Curriculum – Languages (ACARA, 2011).The findings of this study are presented in a narrative report containing a rich description of the curriculum change research context and the meanings constructed by the teacher-participants, and the researcher, in that context.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Languages and Linguistics
Arts, Education and Law
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Sharma, Devendra. "PERFORMING NAUTANKI: POPULAR COMMUNITY FOLK PERFORMANCES AS SITES OF DIALOGUE AND SOCIAL CHANGE." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1150982520.

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Stewart, Peter. "Ideas against imperialism, Gandhi, the Communist party of India and some ideas related to social change /." Title page and abstract only, 1990. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ars851.pdf.

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Ramachandran, A. (Arvind). "A little space for democracy:finding place for (and among) youth driven social change in Chennai, India." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201510132060.

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A country of 1.2 billion people. More than 800 million voters. The world’s largest democracy. Despite these fascinating facts, contemporary Indian politics in reality is considered a murky field with which only a select few dare to engage. Architecture has served these powerful through history, by helping erect monuments that capture the leaders’ influence over the inhabitants and the inhabited. A generation of youngsters, often highly educated, technologically savvy, and fiercely enthusiastic, is questioning the status quo characterized by corrupt politics and inefficient administration. By working towards a better society, while bypassing the traditional party based political system, an endeavour is being made to wipe out the pervasive sense of helplessness. These youth have found innovative ways of collaborating towards positive social change, instead of waiting for conventional approaches to bear fruit. Education, employment, health care, transportation — few sectors have been left untouched by this wave of youngsters in their 20s and 30s who are thirsty for a more equitable society. What can architecture do to support this laudable development? If it can reinforce the existing power structure, it can surely help question in too? ‘A Little Space for Democracy’ is an attempt to recast the architect as an active participant within the realm of youth driven and community focused social change movements in urban India. A neighbourhood in Chennai, a city of 10 million inhabitants, is used as a test case to discover the contribution that architecture can make towards such initiatives’ continued success. Departing from an understanding of the current socio political context through theoretical research and on-site observations, proposals are made at three levels: 1. neighbourhood level visionary (urban strategy), which encompasses: 2. local level permanent (public building architecture) 3. local level temporary (frameworks for improvised design).

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Roberts, Simon William. "'Another member of our family' : aspects of television culture and social change in Varanasi, north India." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22592.

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This thesis examines the uses and place of television in Varanasi, the major city of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. The focus of the thesis is the household consumption of television and the gender and kinship relations through which viewing is organised. Particular attention is given to household negotiations with satellite television and on attempts to find a place for what is often represented as an intrusive medium. It explores some of the processes through which television has become implicated in the lives of household and its members. The current lively debate about the effects of satellite television, seen most clearly with reference to children, is explored as an issue which both informs household responses to television and has wider symbolic currency in contemporary Indian society. A result of participant observation in Varanasi is ethnographic description of the organisation of satellite services in the city and the production and reception of local television programmes. So that the implications of television within this environment can be examined a discussion of newspaper consumption is included. By attending to the media environment in the city the thesis provides a localised account of global processes and places the discussion within the pre-existing media framework of the city. Description of public and domestic space in Varanasi acts as a context through which the relation of television to both these arenas is examined. Shifts in the evaluation and use of the 'outside' act as a significant commentary on changes in the physical and social landscape of Varanasi in which television has played a role. Similarly, attention to domestic space and its social and aesthetic organisation provides the setting for a discussion of the place of television within everyday household life. The widespread involvement of television sets in dowry prestation is examined as a phenomenon which simultaneously bears on consumption, concerns about television content, aspects of contemporary marriage and the spatial organisation of the house.

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Chiang, Yan-Nan. "Occupational commitment under conditions of social change : the case of professional marine engineering in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2200.

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The thesis is concerned with investigating the area of occupational commitment to marine engineering of students from various levels of higher education in maritime institutions. From a general description of socioeconomic change and its relationship to the seafaring profession, the study focuses on the case of Taiwan. A review of literature on commitment demonstrates that commitment may vary as the social-economy changes over time. As technology changes, ships' officers, more specifically marine engineers, are required by shipowners to be educated to degree level. The emphasis in this study is upon the commitment to the shipping industry of young engineering students at university. The theoretical model established takes individual intentions, willingness to study, and occupational commitment, as the dependent variables while students' demographic backgrounds, personal needs and values are taken as the independent variables. The theoretical model is tested with the aid of data from questionnaires administered to a sample of engineering students from various levels of academic institutions. The SPSS statistical package, including factor analysis and chi-squares, is employed on the data analysis. One result is that traditional Chinese cultural values, including "studying is superior to all other professions", and the current entrance examination system for Taiwanese universities, predominate in students "willingness to study", which in turn, affects the occupational commitment of engineering students. Another result shows that the "willingness to study" of students in seafaring-oriented departments is not related to their "occupational commitment". Marine Engineering at sea is not perceived as being able to satisfy the higher level needs of graduates. To overcome this disparity, the job characteristics of ships' engineer officers need redesigning to create a more challenging work context for graduate marine engineers. If, for whatever the reason, the job of the seagoing marine engineer cannot be redesigned to satisfy graduate engineers then the only alternative is to recruit non-graduate seagoing engineers from five year junior colleges.

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Sathianathan, Sudarshan. "Tribes, politics and social change in India : a case study of the Mullukurumbas of the Nilgiri Hills." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:10769.

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Mainstream studies on Indian politics have delineated the people of India into two categories, variously described as the rich and the poor, the elite and the masses, the bourgeoise and the proletariat, among others. This has resulted in the emergence of a common theme which suggests that a powerful dominant minority have been able to use the forces of social change to subject the masses to a position of weakness. Nowhere else is this more obvious than in studies analysing the politics of tribal people in India, which goes further to suggest that except for a few groups, the rest are politically naive and placid. This study takes issue with such a view by describing the political behaviour of the Mullukurumbas: a tribal group in Nilgiris, South India numbering around 1300. In spite of their low numbers and cumulative wealth - which places them squarely within the category of the so-called exploited - the Mullukurumbas reveal by their actions that they are not social dummies but actors. Analysis of their behaviour shows that they, by discernment of the socio-political contexts and through evaluation and reflection of their relative standing with others, find methods to manoeuvre social change in a direction preferable to them. This study also highlights the following: the fact that mainstream studies on Indian politics has focused attention almost entirely on the terrain of high politics. It sees in it a discrepancy that leads to the emergence of a view, which varying in degrees suggest, an active and powerful strong placing under their domination a subjected and powerless weak. This study stretches the parameters of analysis further into the terrain of low politics where much of the transactions of the weak with the state, society and the strong take place. It shows how valued means of politics - land, money and identity - universally accepted within the context of the political culture in Nilgiris is acquired and conserved by the Mullukurumbas. This study moves beyond the mainstream theorists in describing the politics of tribal people in India today by showing how the actions of the weak are (1) sustained in subtle and well calculated ways in the terrain of low politics and (b) is institutionalised within so called non-political structures such as family and religion. This, in spite of the pressures of change, set in motion (1) by the underlying conflict between the state and society and (2) by the settling in of the strong in niches that emerge in the power structure. By doing so, this study sheds light on the active role of the tribal people, conventionally presented merely as the weak.

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Demarest, Anne T. "'The ladies, they need to change': The Nutrition Transition among Urban, Affluent Women in India." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/188.

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Following rapid economic growth in the 1980s and subsequent rising urbanization in the 1990s, urban centers of India have undergone a “nutrition and lifestyle transformation” regarding dietary choices, cooking methods, food accessibility, and average daily activity level. These changes have been pivotal in the increasing prevalence of obesity and lifestyle–related diseases for Indian adults. With an estimated 71.4 million people living with diabetes, India represents the largest diabetes population worldwide—and numbers are expected to continue growing. These health conditions are not affecting all populations of India; they are affecting the urban middle and upper classes. This thesis will examine the contributing causes behind shifts in food distribution, marketing and consumption in urban parts of India and how the diets and lifestyles of the middle and upper classes have changed, or reacted to such changes, as a result. It will analyze changing patterns of food consumption, as well as corresponding topics, such as lifestyle shifts and emerging health concerns that have developed as a result of rapid urbanization and globalization. My research will primarily focus on how these issues have impacted women. Women, in their roles as wives and mothers, largely control the domestic sphere, central to which is food; thus, they are the primary determiners of their respective “household nutritional status,” as they are responsible for providing food for, as well as shaping the dietary choices of, their husbands and children. I also argue that recent processes of globalization have transformed the food consumption culture of India’s urban middle and upper classes. Following the liberalization of India’s economy in 1991 that resulted in the global integration of international food trade, India’s urban female populations are not only reconsidering what they eat, but when, where, and how they eat. Now, they are facing the repercussions of the food choices and corresponding lifestyle changes that they have made irrespective of the increasing health problems and associated risks. Consequently, India’s urban youth has also begun to reevaluate their consumption habits as a result of globalization processes catalyzed by India’s economic liberalization. These changes in consumption habits have resulted in the emergence of a distinct “youth culture,” in which India’s younger generations are challenging traditional practices and attitudes that older generations have made regarding food and lifestyle choices, with the influence of media at the forefront. India has undergone a nutrition transition, but at what cost to consumer health and well–being, specifically affluent? This thesis will examine how globalization has led to an emerging consumer, specifically affluent urban females significantly impacted by both the introduction of new technologies and the process of globalization that is affecting cultures around the world.

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Braithwaite, Peter Franklin. "Commercial pressures and social justice in the Indian textile and garment industries : rules, conventions, commitments and change." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39450/.

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This thesis explores the tensions that arise when business enterprises respond to situations that have both commercial aspects and implications for workers. Using Grounded Theory methodology it examines data from 56 case profiles, extensive interviews and secondary sources in order to understand the nature and variety of the social and commercial commitments that enterprises in the Indian textile and garment industries make and how these are influenced by the rules and conventions inherent in global value chains and in the local culture. It uses concepts drawn from Convention Theory, from social realism and from the social justice literature to develop an analytical framework that explains how priorities are coordinated in three arenas – within enterprises, in interactions connected with the workplace and in society as a whole. The findings show that, in the mainstream, social commitments are generally weak and behaviour towards workers is inconsistent, reflecting a reactive stance that ethical trading has done little to change. Most social enterprises have similarly weak commercial commitments and efforts by Fair Trade organisations to reach mainstream markets have proved problematic. Few examples have been found of commercial success achieved in a way that also meets the criteria of social justice. Those cases that have come closest have created new business models that integrate social and commercial values, forged by means of long-term business relationships or partnerships. A variety of mutually-reinforcing factors combine to determine the balance of priorities – public discourse, engagement by stakeholders, including workers, and internal processes for resolving differences – and these are affected by the level of scrutiny and openness to organisational learning. Interventions aimed at greater social justice in the industry or at scaling up social enterprise need to recognise the complexity of these interrelationships and the ways in which rules, conventions and commitments blend to determine behaviour.

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Freer, Elaine Abigail Odette. "Professional associations, agency, motivation and capacity for change : the case of social mobility and the Bar." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3233/.

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This thesis uses a mixed methods approach utilising questionnaires, focus groups and interviews to explore how and why an embedded professional association may act to alter a longstanding trait of its profession. Focussing on the trait of social closure at the English Bar, it uses an access programme (Pegasus Access and Support Scheme - PASS) created by a professional association of the Bar (The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple) as a case study. Social closure occurs through mechanisms controlling access to the profession. Whilst formal and explicit exclusionary strategies existed historically, more informal exclusionary barriers still operate. These indirectly disadvantage those from lower socio-economic backgrounds as they emphasise aspirant entrants’ social capital and habituation to the social norms of the Bar. One way in which these attributes can be assimilated or increased is through mini-pupillage; work experience in barristers’ chambers. PASS provides mini-pupillage opportunities to non-traditional aspirant entrants. More widely, it could be construed as a challenge to exclusionary recruitment practices. However, such a challenge requires that the conceptions of merit underlying exclusionary recruitment practices, as well as the practices themselves, are altered. By maintaining the privilege attached to mini-pupillage, PASS was not as radical as sometimes portrayed. The educational and social contexts of students participating in the programme also influenced its efficacy. A challenge to patterns of social closure requires a collaboration between the professional association’s elite, and salaried staff with specialist knowledge of access and education from other professional backgrounds. This emphasises the role of individuals and agency in such action. Despite the general diminished power of professional associations, there remains potential for innovative action. This is realised when the attributes of the professional association combine with acts of agency by individuals which cause elite influence and alternative institutional logics to mutually reinforce one another.

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Saxena, Alark. "Evaluating the resilience of rural livelihoods to change in a complex social-ecological system| A case of village Panchayat in central India." Thesis, Yale University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663589.

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This dissertation thesis details an interdisciplinary research project, which combines the strengths of resilience theory, the sustainable livelihood framework, complex systems theory, and modeling. These approaches are integrated to develop a tool that can help policy-makers make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, with the goals of reducing poverty and increasing environmental sustainability.

Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including reducing poverty and hunger, and increasing environmental sustainability, has been hampered due to global resource degradation and fluctuations in natural, social, political and financial systems. Climate change further impedes these goals, especially in developing countries. The resilience approach has been proposed to help populations adapt to climate change, but this abstract concept has been difficult to operationalize.

The sustainable livelihood framework has been used as a tool by development agencies to evaluate and eradicate poverty by finding linkages between livelihood and environment. However, critiques highlight its inability to handle large and cross-scale issues, like global climate change and environmental degradation.

Combining the sustainable livelihood framework and resilience theory will enhance the ability to simultaneously tackle the challenges of poverty eradication and climate change. However, real-life systems are difficult to understand and measure. A complex-systems approach enables improved understanding of real-life systems by recognizing nonlinearity, emergence, and self-organization. Nonetheless, this approach needs a framework to incorporate multiple dimensions, and an analytical technique.

This research project attempts to transform the concept of resilience into a measurable and operationally useful tool. It integrates resilience theory with the sustainable livelihood framework by using systems modeling techniques. As a case-study, it explores the resilience of household livelihoods within a local village Panchayat in central India.

This method integrated the 4-step cross-scale resilience approach with the sustainable livelihood framework through the use of a system dynamics modeling technique. Qualitative and quantitative data on social, economic and ecological variables was collected to construct a four-year panel at the panchayat scale. Socio-economic data was collected through questionnaires, focus group discussions, participant observation, and literature review. Ecological data on forest regeneration, degradation and growth rates was collected through sample plots, literature review of the region's forest management plans, and expert opinions, in the absence of data.

Using these data, a conceptual, bottom-up model, sensitive to local variability, was created and parameterized. The resultant model (tool), called the Livelihood Management System, is the first of its kind to use the system dynamics technique to model livelihood resilience.

Model simulations suggest that the current extraction rates of forest resources (non-timber forest produce, fuelwood and timber) are unsustainable. If continued, these will lead to increased forest degradation and decline in household income. Forest fires and grazing also have severe impacts on local forests, principally by retarding regeneration. The model suggests that protection from grazing and forest fires alone may significantly improve forest quality. Examining the dynamics of government-sponsored labor, model simulation suggests that it will be difficult to achieve the Government of India's goal of providing 100 days' wage labor per household through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

Based on vulnerability analysis under the sustainable livelihood framework, eight risks to livelihoods were identified based on which six scenarios were created. One scenario was simulated to understand the resilience of local livelihoods to external shocks. Through these simulations, it was found that while climate change is a threat to local livelihoods, government policy changes have comparatively much larger impacts on local communities. The simulation demonstrates that reduced access to natural resources has significant impacts on local livelihoods. The simulation also demonstrates that reduced access drives forced migration, which increases the vulnerability of already risk-prone populations.

Through the development and simulation of the livelihood model, the research has been able to demonstrate a new methodology to operationalize resilience, indicating many promising next steps. Future undertakings in resilience analysis can allow for finding leverage points, thresholds and tipping points to help shift complex systems to desirable pathways and outcomes. Modeling resilience can help in identifying and prioritizing areas of intervention, and providing ways to monitor implementation progress, thus furthering the goals of reducing extreme poverty and hunger, and environmental sustainability.

Many challenges, such as high costs of data collection and the introduction of uncertainties, make model development and simulation harder. However, such challenges should be embraced as an integral part of complex analysis. In the long run, such analysis should become cost- and time-effective, contributing to data-driven decision-making processes, thus helping policy-makers take informed decisions under complex and uncertain conditions.

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Månsson, Josefin. "Cannabis discourses in contemporary Sweden : Continuity and change." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-140931.

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The aim of this thesis is to study how cannabis is constructed in contemporary Sweden, which policy responses are promoted as rational, and how international cannabis trends are received in this context. The four papers are the result of analyzing empirical material from three different sub-studies: 1) a qualitative study of online discussions about cannabis and drug policy, 2) a qualitative and comparative study of print media articles from 2002 and 2012, and 3) a qualitative study of oral presentations from cannabis information symposia. All papers are based on a social constructionist approach. A point of departure is that attitudes and regulations on cannabis have changed in large parts of the Western world. In Sweden, however, strict prohibition of cannabis is still central in the national drug laws. Some of the main findings can thus be gathered in discussions on continuity and change. In Swedish online discussions, there seems to be a strong desire to change the national cannabis policy in line with international developments. This discussion propagates alternative views on cannabis, in which comparisons to alcohol become vital and more liberal cannabis policies become logical. These discussions are also characterized by continuity, as many arguments for liberal cannabis policies seem to be based on traditional social democratic values and prohibitionist “scaremongering” arguments. Continuity is also what seems to characterize traditional print media, where cannabis is generally portrayed as a potent and illegal drug producing social problems. However, this arena also shows signs of change, as the material from 2012 includes stories on cannabis as an economic asset as well as a recreational substance. Both traditional print media and cannabis information symposia focus on youth consumers, who are seen as particularly vulnerable to cannabis effects. Such constructions seem important for protecting prohibition from international influences and for a continuous discourse centered on the dangers of cannabis. It is concluded that cannabis appears to be able to represent almost anything. As such it can be “used” for any purpose to promote a whole set of ideas related to policy often based on what is considered as scientific evidence. Depending on the context, it thus seems possible that cannabis is medicinal, recreational, harmful, and addictive. If so, and if all of these constructions are in some way “real,” then it is suggested that cannabis necessitates a much more tailored and nuanced response than that which prohibition can offer.

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Johnson, Sally Elaine. "Continuity and change : a study of how women cope with the transition to professional programmes of higher education." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1997. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/4626/.

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The aims of the present study were to investigate how women manage the transition to professional programmes of higher education and to identify what might assist and hinder their coping. Initial conceptualisations were based on an assumption that there would be an interaction between the different spheres in which the women operate; the private, the professional and higher education. The literature reveals a preoccupation with either psychological or social factors but there is a lack of theory which integrates these and 'solutions' put forward, aimed at assisting women in education, are broad and general. The investigation took place in a School of a British University where the professional areas chosen were social work and health care education. A feminist ethnographic approach using multiple methods of data collection was taken. However, as the central focus was an investigation of subjective accounts a phenomenological perspective was adopted and the methods used were mainly qualitative. The investigation took place over two phases, covering the period of transition to programmes over two consecutive years. The overarching theme to emerge is the importance of continuities in terms of what women 'bring' from the private sphere and their professional context. Aspects of these continuities were found to centrally impinge upon the women's sense of who they are and their current situation, and arise from their social situation. Higher education does not always recognise the importance of these continuities. The private sphere, the professional Context and higher education are conceptualised as 'greedy institutions', with competing demands and value bases. It is the movement between these contexts which causes problems for women. An integrative framework based largely on Breakwell's (1986) theory of coping with threatened identity is developed. The framework is extended to include a feminist analysis of the social context in order to understand the women's coping. Specific suggestions are put forward to assist mature women students 'manage' the transition.

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Poonamallee, Latha. "FROM THE DIALECTIC TO THE DIALOGIC: GENERATIVE ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION – A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY IN INDIA." online version, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=case1145044613.

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Godsell, Matthew John. "The social context of service provision for people with learning disabilities : continuity and change in the professional task." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/1b6457fb-b778-4d43-89b7-cb967a664bdc.

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Pant, Saumya. "Enacting Empowerment in Private and Public Spaces: The Role of “Taru” in Facilitating Social Change Among Young Village Women in India." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1178310514.

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Jensen, Karsten. "Connecting professional identity and workplace learning in a public sector context of change : the case of Danish social workers." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40034.

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This study explores the inter-related roles of professional identity and informal learning in shaping responses by social workers to the context of change. The background for the study is the multiple policy reforms, changing the modality of public services of Denmark into the requirements of the competition state. Aiming to understand the relations between professional identity and informal learning, the study examines, how workers engage in informal learning in microrelations of everyday practices in a context of change. The study employs a qualitative research strategy, leaning on an interpretivist and a social constructivist approach. The data collection is done through semi-structured interviews, involving 20 social workers located in different municipalities in Denmark. The study concludes that the social workers' adjustment of professional identity in response to organisational change is mediated and facilitated by informal learning through microrelations of the workplace. Confirming the essential role of microrelations, the study illustrates, how the microrelations at work provide a space that facilitates informal learning to strengthen the capacity to act and to adjust professional capacity in relation to the context of change. Finally, the study documents how professional identity is based on a core of professional autonomy that itself is formed by exclusion of ‘the other’. The study adds to an area of research that is not yet well documented. Giving a voice to social workers, this study is the first to explore the narratives of social workers in terms of, how workers adjust professional capacity in a context of change as well as documenting how microrelations emerge at the workplace, offering a space for informal learning and adjustment of professional identity.

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Alm, Björn. "The un/selfish leader : Changing notions in a Tamil Nadu village." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Anthropology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-948.

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'The un/selfish' leader explores notions of selfishness, as they were perceived by people in the village of Ekkaraiyur, Tamil Nadu, India, at a time they associated with thorough changes in their lives.

Discussing locally held notions about agrarian change, seen as causing the erosion of earlier village loyalties and leading to the emergence of a new type of leaders, the study focus on the censure of the alleged corruption of these leaders. Expressed in a rich repertoire of stories about the ideals of leadership and about the excellence of the past and foreign societies, the censure was routinely voiced in public debates and in everyday conversations.

Set against a background an increasing role of the state for the people in Ekkaraiyur, the censure of leaders implied a critique of the contemporary society they were taken to represent. Moreover, the study argues that the critique was grounded in evaluations of individualism and selfishness in human nature.

The study is based on fieldwork carried out in Ekkaraiyur between 1988 and 1990

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Karunaratne, Priyantha Padmalal. "Secondary state formation during the early iron age on the island of Sri Lanka the evolution of a periphery /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3389774.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 17, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268).

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Singh, Karmjit. "Post-positivist study exploring the resettlement experience of professional Asian Indian women." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1329.

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Tang, Bo. "Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India : collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2014. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/4538/.

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This research investigates the nature and creation of common places in informal peri-urban settlements in North India through negotiation and sharing. It aims to develop a profound understanding of the effect of the post-hoc introduction of amenity buildings and city infrastructure in the creation of common places. The approach takes collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change, discussed primarily through first-hand experience of practical small-scale live interventions in two urban conditions of scarce resources. These interventions serve as case studies. The research hypothesises that the social structure and order of shared spaces is continually transforming, adjusting and being re-made to accommodate the changing urban conditions within low-income settlements. The informal negotiation of these common spaces creates a shared collective identity. This study suggests that collaborative place-making engenders a renewed understanding or interpretation (by the urban migrant/citizen) of the nature of common places, in which the origins or memory of the traditional rural village are transformed into a new situation of the urban village within the host city. Central to the research was the development of spatial practices through small-scale interventions in two peri-urban settlements, which acted as vehicles for understanding the civic and institutional order of town for all constituents (including myself as PhD by Practice). The contribution to knowledge proposed by this research is two-fold: (a) the first part (chapter 2) addresses spatial practices and develops a methodology for collaborative making by which this is both understood and created. (b) the second part (chapter 3) uses these methods as a basis (research tool) to understand the nature of civic order in informal peri-urban settlements in North India, and the way the institutional/civic order of these settlements is made. In this way, the thesis provides insights which broaden and deepen our understanding of shared spatiality beyond the concept of 'public space'. The two case studies of on-going live projects provide the empirical basis for this study: (1) The Kachhpura Settlement Upgrading Project (KSUP) started in 2006 focuses on sanitation in Agra, beginning with the introduction of household toilets leading to a natural Decentralised Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS) turning foul drain effluent into a community resource for clean water. (2) The Quarry Classrooms Project initiated in 2008 deals with amenity buildings in quarry worker settlements in Navi Mumbai. Both projects were carried out in collaboration with Indian Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), local communities, and architectural researchers and students from London Metropolitan University, involving a strong hands-on participatory approach from the bottom up. Connections are established between improved access for basic services, amenities and facilities, and the opportunities for creating common places, leading to suggestions for improving, appropriating and cultivating shared territories in today's informal peri-urban settlements, both culturally and physically. Insights are gained into the role of architectural professionals and students as designers, makers and curators in partnering with the local NGO and settlement families. The study concludes with suggestions on how the notion of cooperative place-making might be applied in other situations of rapid change and scarce resources where architect, NGO and local population might collaborate to provide shared infrastructure and community facilities, creating opportunities for improving livelihoods and the quality of life within informal peri-urban settlements in North India. Through the approach of collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change, this study makes explicit a process that was implicit before, a process which enables the creation of social and political institutions for marginalised people to participate as citizens within the host city.

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Becker, Vera Antonia. "The root causes of the gender digital divide and its consequences on the adoption and use of app-based climate warning systems in rural India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-424344.

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In the wake of climate change to provide timely information is a must to ensure that the most vulnerable people are protected, and development gains secured. Particularly in agriculture and food security, providing information on time is vital to secure people’s livelihoods. Many actors in the development and humanitarian field have therefor adapted seemingly neutral technologies in their programs to ensure localised and timely information. However, passive technologies are actively implemented into intersecting local power dynamics. Gender among race, class, ethnicity and caste is an essential determinant of the access to power and resources. In India, women contribute up to 80 per cent of the work in rural settings if accounting for care work and unpaid labour on the family farm. However, women are also significantly less likely to own and operate a smartphone or generally benefit from the digitalisation process as they lack digital skills. This study explores the root causes of this disadvantage, detangling economic and social drivers through qualitative expert interviews. Primarily, it investigates the importance of social norms as the main driver. The interviews were analysed through thematic coding with the program Atlas.ti. The results strongly indicated that gender norms lead to the minimisation of women’s contributions in the rural economy while reverting their existences to their reproductive functions. Economic barriers, such as economic dependency, meanwhile can be primarily attributed to strict social norms rather than being own determents of inequality. The financial dependency then again leads to structural imbalances which consequentially solidifies already existing marginalisation’s. While India in recent decades has not needed mayor humanitarian interventions, the learnings from this study are equally applicable in the humanitarian setting as technology important. Technology is not neutral or passively adapted. Only when interventions combine their work with gender-sensitivity measures, it can reach the ones most in need. On the other hand, if programs lack to consider these implications, their programs the interventions are not gender-neutral but solidified inequalities and power imbalances. In the last sections, I, therefore, provided recommendations on how to make a technology-based intervention more gender-inclusive. These recommendations are easily adaptable and applicable to other fields of intervention.

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Kiessling, Brittany L. "Ethnographic Investigations of Commercial Aquaculture as a Rural Development Technique in Tamil Nadu, India." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2560.

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Since the 1960s, international aid organizations and governments have invested millions of dollars in promoting aquaculture as a way to stimulate local economies and improve food security. India is one such country, incorporating aquaculture research and extension programs as part of their development plans as early as 1971. India’s aquaculture promotion efforts gained momentum in 2004, following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The government sees aquaculture as a post-disaster development tool and a method to increase community resilience in rural areas of India. Aquaculture currently constitutes nearly half of global seafood production today. Due to this importance, and the attention such practices receive through funding and extension, many scholars have focused on the social impacts that aquaculture practices have on rural communities. In particular, scholars have investigated the effects of aquaculture on environmental conditions, food security, livelihoods, gender relations, and social conflict. However, more scholarship is needed concerning the historical legacies that have contributed to how aquaculture is promoted and practiced, particularly connections to the Green Revolution. Furthermore, there needs to be more research about commercial aquaculture as a post-disaster development strategy. My research – based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork and archival analysis in Tamil Nadu, India – contributes to this body of literature. I synthesized post-development theory with that of environmental risk and vulnerability, building upon the work of scholars such as James Ferguson, Tania Li, and Piers Blaikie. My analysis uncovers large disparities between the goals of aquaculture development programs and actual aquaculture outcomes. I attribute this to the technocratic governance structure of the aquaculture industry, which leads to a lack of engagement and participation between aquaculture managers, researchers, and practitioners. This lack of engagement ultimately makes the communities in which aquaculture is being practiced more vulnerable to anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Additionally, I found that aquaculture practices in the study site are causing significant changes to local agrarian structures, particularly through changes to labor. These changes have implications for social stratification and disempowerment of women. Overall, these findings contribute to the anthropological study of aquaculture as well as to theories of post-development.

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Coffey, Kathleen M. "Mobile Technology and Civic Engagement: Heuristics and Practices for Developing Mobile Applications for Social and Civic Change." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408123367.

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Warr, Dartanian Warr. "THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MINDSET:A KEY INGREDIENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERS." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case15227478737613.

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Roksana, Kaniz. "Women in Male-Dominated Industry :The Construction Industry : A Study of Women's Disinterest, Professional & Social Barriers, Walkout from Construction Industry." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42904.

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Problem: Many women experience problems when trying to enter the construction industry and perceive several barriers in professional practice. As a result, day by day women are losing their interest in building their career within this male-dominated industry and diverting towards other professions. The fact that women are showing less interest to work within construction industry and leaving the industry has been found as a major problem. Since in this male dominated industry around ninety percent labour are men and expecting a large numbers of retirement in the future, therefore today’s construction industry has a strong demand for labour. The construction industry’s representatives want to increase the number of women in this trade, but because of the previous reputation and discriminatory work environment it’s become difficult to attract more women. Therefore, to enhance the participation of women in construction trades, it is necessary to understand women’s perceptions about the nature of work and level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the job. It is also important to know what kind of changes in the work environment can motivate women not to leave this industry? How to eliminate the barriers in professional practice? Purpose: This thesis explores the current position of women in construction industry, and seeks to identify the reasons of women’s disinterest about the industry, job satisfaction and the barriers (professional and social) that compel women to think to change career and leave the construction industry. Method: This study has been performed through a qualitative interview study based on themes, on the subject of women in male-dominated industry. The research data is collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with professionals from Sweden, the USA, Canada, Latvia, Greece, The Netherlands and Bangladesh. The participants were active within the construction industry, and had the designation of project manager, construction engineer or structural engineer. To analysis the data in this research the Thematic Analysis approach has been adopted. Findings: The interviewed women stated that the unpleasant work environment, gender discriminatory behaviours from the male colleagues, less career development opportunities, unfair promotion system and unequal salary compel them to rethink about their career choice and leave the construction industry. The results of this study showed that the barriers women face in professional practice also depends on the geographical position and societal culture.

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Banta, Patricia. "An Analysis of Social Justice in Teacher Education Using W. B. Gallie's Framework." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6064.

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Essentially contested concepts result in continual disagreement over their meaning and use because important consequences flow from these disputes. Evidence of the contested nature of the concept social justice, in the context of teacher education, is documented in academic literature. Empirical evidence of the contested nature of the term is found in the transcripts of National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)’s 2006 reauthorization hearing. Scholars note the complex nature of social justice and that teacher educators and colleges of education frequently use the term (e.g. Hytten & Bettez, 2011; North, 2008; Zollers, Albert, & Cochran-Smith, 2000). This study focuses on the various understandings and applications of the concept social justice in academic writing within teacher education. A directed qualitative content analysis of academic journal articles, guided by Gallie’s (1956) framework, was conducted to identify how the phrase, social justice, is used in the context of teacher education. Gallie’s framework was chosen because it has proved a useful tool to analyze complex concepts (Collier, Hidalgo & Maciuceani, 2006). One of Gallie’s goals in designing his framework was to help scholars’ reason about complex concepts. This study found evidence to support the classification of social justice as an essentially contested concept in teacher education. Additionally, this study found indications in the data that the term may be terminologically contested in the context of teacher education and recommends further investigation. I argue that teacher educators interested in social justice as a reform measure for teacher education should define the concept and come to a consensus about what social justice in teacher education means. The lack of precision in the term makes debate over the merits of concept, in the context of teacher education, difficult.

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Peñarrocha, Giménez Carmen. "Rescuing the Adivasi Identity from their Invisibility. The encounter between Jesuits and the Indigenous peoples of India." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/403536.

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Este trabajo se puso en marcha para estudiar las relaciones entre la Compañía de Jesús y la población indígena de la India. Los antecedentes de esta investigación se remontan a la primera visita de la autora a la India en el año 1997, y a 2003 con el Trabajo Fin de Máster en el marco de la cooperación al desarrollo. Así, el primer contacto con los misioneros jesuitas supuso también el primero con los habitantes autóctonos de la zona, llamados genéricamente adivasis. Descubrir a una desconocida población indígena, expoliada, vulnerable y olvidada, que había convertido a los jesuitas en un referente, despertó mi interés en comprender las relaciones identitarias entre estos dos grupos. De este modo, la investigación iniciada en el TFM tuvo su continuación en la presente Tesis Doctoral. En ella se profundiza en la relación entre las Identidades Adivasi y Jesuita desde la perspectiva psicosocial de la psicología social.
This work started out to study the relations between the Society of Jesus and the indigenous peoples of India. The background to this research dates back to the author's first visit to India in 1997, and to 2003 with the Master's Thesis in the framework of development cooperation. Thus, the first contact with the Jesuit missionaries was also the first contact with the native inhabitants of the area, generically called Adivasis. Discovering an unknown, plundered, vulnerable, and forgotten indigenous population, to which the Jesuits had become a reference, aroused my interest in understanding the identity relations between these two groups. Thus, the research initiated in the Master's Thesis had its continuation in the present Doctoral Thesis. In it, the relationship between Adivasi and Jesuit Identities has been studied in depth from the psychosocial perspective of social psychology.

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Mann, Philip A. G. "Achieving a mass-scale transition to clean cooking in India to improve public health." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:41ca7cfc-c3e2-43af-93ae-aab09f4e3178.

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This research provides policy-relevant insights into how a mass-scale, equitable transition to the use of Advanced Biomass (cook) Stoves (ABSs) can be achieved in India, with the aim of improving public health, especially for women and children. The research uses socio-technical systems to provide a characterisation of transition processes, and governance to explain issues of power influencing transition. A review of previous government cook-stove programmes in India and China highlights governance shortcomings in the former, in particular a lack of functional links between layers of administration and poor engagement with community institutions and cooks. Primary data from West Bengal and Karnataka highlighted sophisticated, skilful, flexible and culturally context specific cooking practices. Reasons for apparent low demand for improved stoves, characterised as lock-in, are found to include a combination of risk aversion and habits, lack of affordability, low awareness of the health consequences, as well as a mis-match between the normative priorities of policy makers – currently health- and those of cooks. It is found that the majority of polluting emissions within households - as well as greenhouse gases - from cooking derive from poorer households. A sectoral carbon offset strategy is proposed as a means of funding subsidies for ABSs and programme support measures. Several large corporations have invested significant sums in technology development, community outreach and dissemination, resulting in sales of over 600,000 ABSs. Reasons for their involvement appear mixed. Their market-based activities have generally not reached poor households and there are questions about their ability to build viable businesses in this highly dispersed and heterogeneous sector. A fundamental dichotomy is highlighted between large, centralised cooking programmes and the diverse, complex and changing reality of cooking activities, beliefs and behaviours on the ground. The research concludes that functional multi-level and multi-actor governance structures would be required to achieve a mass-scale transition to clean cooking using ABSs, with a lead role for the public sector. A key component of future success will involve building structures that ensure the agency of cooks and account for their socio-cultural cooking practices in the processes of technology and programme design and implementation.

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Flores, Araya Jesserina. "The effects on cotton production due to climate change : an assessment on water availability and pesticide use in two different cotton growing regions in India." Thesis, Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7824.

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According to several scientific reports, climate change will have an impact on water provision and thus agriculture, which depends on soil moisture for plant survival. India is a country that is heavily dependent on agriculture as a source of income. One of the country’s future challenges is securing water for irrigation. Cotton in India is an important cash crop which is grown under high evapotranspirative demand, using about 15% of the national water resources, making the crop vulnerable to changes in water availability.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the resilience of cotton production with regards to water availability and pesticide use in Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. Three aspects of resilience: latitude, resistance and precariousness has been used to analyse three variables, precipitation, irrigation and pesticide in order to understand how these cotton growing systems are going to be affected by climate change. By bringing together existing data from several scientific reports and governmental websites, assumptions could be made whether these systems are resilient or if they are reaching a threshold. The results show that the cotton growing regions of Punjab are highly vulnerable when it comes to water provision in the region and that they might be reaching a threshold. Changes in climate are predicted to affect precipitation and temperature in the area, which in time might ultimately affect water resources in the region. Groundwater depletion and water logging are already prevailing problems in the area where almost all cotton production is irrigated. Cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh are struggling with pest infestation which induces them to overconsume pesticides, affecting not only water quality in the area, but also farmers’ livelihood. It is likely that climate change will not minimize the outbreaks; on the contrary it might benefit some pests, which might increase the consumption of pesticide in the region. Coastal districts are more exposed to extreme weather which can harm cotton cultivation.

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Dautarienė, Lina. "Visuomenės socialinių grupių požiūris į bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos kaitą." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100707_104733-33652.

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Švietimo kaitos vadyba mūsų šalyje niekada nebuvo tokia ryški, kaip dabar, XXI-ame amžiuje, kai pasaulis priartėjo prie mūsų, o mes prie jo, įžengėme į globalizacijos, žinių ir informacinių technologijų visuomenę. Dabartinė nepriklausomos Lietuvos švietimo kaitos vadyba, turinti dviejų dešimtmečių istoriją, yra dinamiška, artima Vakarų Europos ir kitų išsivysčiusių pasaulio šalių švietimo sistemoms. Prie to daug prisidėjo mokslininkų vykdyti tyrimai gerosios patirties skleidimas. Pasirinkta magistrinio darbo tema, aktuali ir pasižymi naujumu: girdisi įvairių vertinimų tiek iš besimokančiojo jaunimo, tiek iš jų tėvų ir kitų socialinių gyventojų sluoksnių. Tyrimo objektas – mokinių tėvų, prekybos centrų ir bankų darbuotojų, aukštesniųjų kursų studentų požiūris į švietimo kaitos vadybą ir jos tobulinimą. Tyrimo problema – kaip visuomenė vertina dabartinę švietimo kaitos vadybą ir ją lemiančius veiksnius. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti visuomenės požiūrį į švietimo vadybos kaitą ir jos tobulinimą. Tyrimo imtis – 229 respondentai, iš jų: 62 mokinių tėvai, 45 prekybos darbuotojai, 44 Swedbank darbuotojai, 78 III–IV kursų studentai. Tyrimo bazė. Tyrimas atliktas Vilniaus miesto dviejose vidurinėse mokyklose, Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, Swedbanke ir Kosmados parduotuvėse. Atliekant tyrimą naudoti šie tyrimo metodai: mokslinės literatūros ir teisinių dokumentų analizė, anketinė apklausa, kontent analizė, matematinių – statistinių duomenų analizė. Tyrimo rezultatai: išsiaiškinta... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
The topic of the change management of education in our country becomes important as never before. The current system of the change management of education in Lithuania is very dynamic and has much common with Western Europe or the educational systems of other developed countries. Lithuanian scientists have made a big contribution to achieve the current level of the development of the education system. The issues covered in the thesis have some features of novelty and are topical. They are widely discussed by students, their parents and other interested parties from different social groups. The object of the research is the attitude of students‘ parents, emploees` of supermarkets and banks, students of the higher grade towards the change management of education and its development. The issue of the research is society‘s attitude towards the change management of education and the factors which have impact on it. The main aim of the research is to reveal society‘s attitude towards the change management of education and its development. The survey of 229 respondents was caried out during the course of the research: 62 of the parents of students, 45 supermarket emploees, 78 – III-IV year students. The basis of the research. The research was performed at two secondary schools in Vilnius, Vilnius pedagogical university, bank “Swedbank“ and supermarket “Kosmada“. During the course of the research the following research methods were applied: the analysis of scientific... [to full text]

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Rutledge, Randy Anita. "Improving Professional Skills through Adversity: A Phenomenological Study of Mergers and Acquisitions." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/8.

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Company mergers and acquisitions often create tremendous conflict for employees because they force them into a spiral of organizational change. In this environment, employees are challenged with redefining themselves within a new organization. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover and explain the particular conflict experiences of professional employees who experienced the merger and acquisition of their company. A phenomenological research study was conducted to discover and describe the shared conflict experiences of professional employees during the merger and acquisition of their consulting firm. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 17 self-identified professional employees. It was found through an extensive phenomenological data analysis that: (a) the merger and acquisition experience is believed to have strengthened and improved the participants' skills for their professional advancement. With M&A, (b) the major conflict experienced by participants was the feeling of indifference and apprehension by the employees being merged with or acquired by another company as trust and credibility needed to be regained. Lastly, (c) the participants' sense of identity (confidence and professional identity) is still present as they are willing to accept the new factors and aspects of changes and developments that come with the merger and acquisition. The study contributes to the field of conflict analysis and resolution by providing new understandings and perspectives on how mergers and acquisitions are experienced and how they impact employees' conflict experiences and sense of identity.

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Thomas, Nakpangi. "The Experiences of Counseling Graduate Students Who Participated in Professional Legislative Advocacy Training." Thesis, Walden University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13805568.

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Legislative advocacy efforts are increasingly becoming part of a counselor’s professional identity, yet scholarly literature lacks studies about experiences of counseling students involved in legislative advocacy for the counseling profession. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the meaning counseling students ascribe to their involvement in legislative advocacy for the counseling profession. Astin’s student involvement theory was the conceptual framework utilized to explore the lived experiences of counseling graduate students and recent graduates who participated in a 4-day long American Counseling Association Institute for Leadership Training on legislative advocacy and leadership or in professional legislative advocacy at the state level. Convenient and snowball sampling yielded 8 participants who engaged in semistructured interviews. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, the data were analyzed to identify essential themes. Thematic analysis was conducted by hand using literature-based codes and lean coding as well as NVivo software. Themes included awareness, faculty mentor, involvement, incorporating legislative advocacy into the curriculum, lack of confidence, student learning and personal development, legislative culture, motivation, student obstacles to professional legislative advocacy, and problems in working with other professions. Findings may be useful for counselor educators seeking to integrate professional legislative advocacy into the counseling curriculum. Implementing a professional legislative advocacy approach into the counseling curriculum might contribute to counselor students’ developing a propensity for leadership, advocacy, and professional legislative advocacy beyond graduation.

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Taqi, Fatmatta B. "An investigation into the new emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women in Sierra Leone." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2010. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/266832/1/Taqi_Breaking_barriers_phd.pdf.

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Sierra Leone is in transition to peace and development, from a previous decade long civil war. Educated Muslim women appear to have a great deal of expression, interest and passion to offer the process. The study investigates the new emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women in Sierra Leone society and explores their views and experiences of identifying and attempting to overcome the burdens of patriarchy, oppression and exploitation perpetrated by religious, social and cultural beliefs. The research and thesis consider in what ways these women and their views ‘fit’ in or challenge society and their perceptions of the potential they have as models to impact on the lives of Sierra Leonean Muslim women nationwide. Using feminist influenced research practices in order to focus on the stories and voices of these women, the study contributes to the growth of knowledge related to the emergent changing roles and perceptions of Muslim women in present day Sierra Leone. This qualitative and interdisciplinary research develops a critical focus and deliberately combines literary sources in an informative context, with feminist research methods of interviews and focus groups on issues of gender equality and empowerment. Through the interviews and focus group discussions conducted, the research portrays the perceptions of the emerging social sub group of professional Muslim women, a cross section of grass-root Muslim women and a selection of male Muslims regarding empowerment, knowledge, culture, independence and oppression. These are also illustrated as the ways the participants embrace the concept of feminism and adapt it by drawing on their Sierra Leonean, Islamic, cultural and social traditions. The research examines the various ideologies that stifle the growth of Sierra Leonean Muslim women from their perspective and it analyses the strategies used by the professional women to tackle the oppressive and repressive customs and stand up against patriarchy. It was discovered through the findings that the research gives an insight into the determination and the conviction of professional Muslim women in advocating for social change and in making their voices heard. As an outcome, it is evidenced that this emerging social sub group of Muslim women appear to be inspiring self-development moves and changes not only among the uneducated grass-root majority, but in the fold of their Muslim men-folk, resulting in a visible impact of self development and self empowerment among Sierra Leonean Muslim women.

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Prashar, Yuvender Kumar. "Did the 'Troubled Families Programme' intervention contribute to positive change and outcomes being achieved for families worked with in a local authority? : if so, how? : a realistic evaluation using parent and professional perspectives." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8142/.

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This research adopted a Realistic Evaluation approach (Pawson and Tilley, 1997) to elicit and refine the theoretical understanding of how the Troubled Families programme (TFP) may have facilitated positive outcomes for a proportion of service-users within one focus local authority. A Realist Synthesis approach (Pawson, 2006) was undertaken to identify the context-mechanism-outcome configurations (programme theories) underpinning the TFP. These identified programme theories were presented to key stakeholders (parents and family support workers) to be validated, refined or falsified. The theoretical basis of the TFP was refined to explicate how: ‘a dedicated family support worker’, ‘delivering practical support’, ‘adopting a persistent and assertive approach with families’, ‘understanding families as a whole’ and ‘establishing common purposes and actions’, as theories, facilitate positive outcomes for families, as per the TFP success criteria. The findings of the present research refined understanding of ‘what works, for whom and under what circumstances?’ in relation to the TFP. To this end, findings are discussed with respect to the implications for family support practices. In addition, the implications for the practice of educational psychologists with respect to the methodology adopted as well as the area of intensive family support are also discussed.

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Hobart, Leigh. "The current context of Queensland primary teacher engagement with professional learning through professional associations." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46122/1/Leigh_Hobart_Thesis.pdf.

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Engaging Queensland primary teachers in professional associations can be a challenge, particularly for subject-specific associations. Professional associations are recognised providers of professional learning. By not being involved in professional associations primary teachers are missing potential quality professional learning opportunities that can impact the results of their students. The purpose of the research is twofold: Firstly, to provide a thorough understanding of the current context in order to assist professional associations who wish to change from their current level of primary teacher engagement; and secondly, to contribute to the literature in the area of professional learning for primary teachers within professional associations. Using a three part research design, interviews of primary teachers and focus groups of professional association participants and executives were conducted and themed to examine the current context of engagement. Force field analysis was used to provide the framework to identify the driving and restraining forces for primary teacher engagement in professional learning through professional associations. Communities of practice and professional learning communities were specifically examined as potential models for professional associations to consider. The outcome is a diagrammatic framework outlining the current context of primary teacher engagement, specifically the driving and restraining forces of primary teacher engagement with professional associations. This research also identifies considerations for professional associations wishing to change their level of primary teacher engagement. The results of this research show that there are key themes that provide maximum impact if wishing to increase engagement of primary teachers in professional associations. However the implications of this lies with professional associations and their alignment between intent and practice dedicated to this change.

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Elkins, Sharon Patricia. "Continuing professional nursing education and the relationship of learner motivation, the nature of the change, the social system of the organizational climate, and the educational offering : a reliability study." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115730.

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Dr. Ronald Cervero (1985) identified learner motivation, the nature of the change, the social system of the organizational climate, and the educational program as factors affecting the application of learning to professional practice. A repeated measures research design was used to measure stability over time of instruments developed to measure variables in Cervero's model. Participants, N=27) graduate students, completed the instruments, "New Ideas and You" which measures learner's motivation to change, "The Nature of Change" which measures the learner's perception of the proposed change, and "Organizational Climate of the Social System" which measures the learner's perception of the social system's affect on the implementation of change. Staff nurses (N=27) completed the instrument "Continuing Education Offering Evaluation" which measures the learner's perception of the educational offering. Participants then completed the instruments again in three weeks. Procedures for the protection of human subjects were followed. The test-retest reliability coefficients were: "New Ideas and You," r=.72 L)-.01; "The Nature of Change," r.84 p=.01; "Organizational Climate of the Social System," r.83 p=.01; "Continuing Education Offering Evaluation," r.91 p=.01. The significance of this study was the initial establishment of stability over time of instruments developed to measure specific factors that affect the application of newly gained knowledge to nursing practice. Establishing reliability coefficients of instruments to measure the variables in Cervero's model is a step forward in the investigation of the larger question, "Does continuing education change practice?"
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Trevaskis, Douglas F. "At the heart of change : teachers and studies in Asia." Thesis, View thesis, 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43426.

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This Doctor of Education (EdD) focuses on the professional development of primary and secondary school teachers in Studies of Asia Across the Curriculum. Studies of Asia gained currency in Australian schools with the establishment of the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) in the early 1990s and took more extensive hold as a result of the Commonwealth National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools (NALSAS) Strategy from 1996 to 2004. The EdD comprises two parts. Part A consists of an historical narrative of my personal journey as a state and national leader in Studies of Asia and an account of the impact of that journey on the teaching profession. It also includes three published refereed journal papers that were presented at a state or national conference, and one paper published in the refereed proceedings of a national conference. The contents of Part A focus on documenting, evaluating and critiquing key professional learning programs for teachers, including Asia in-country experiences, such as study tours and exchanges, that were funded by the AEF, NALSAS and schooling jurisdictions. Part A uses a mixed methods approach, following Hoepfl’s (1997) injunction to discover “the meaning events have for the individuals who experience them”. Based on these analyses, Part A argues that teachers are pivotal to bringing about enduring, authentic change in the area of Studies of Asia. At the heart of such change, in line with Shulman’s (1987) concept of pedagogical content knowledge, is quality professional teacher learning that involves both pedagogical expertise and knowledge of Asian societies and cultures. Studies of Asia professional learning programs for teachers also need to accommodate the wide variation of professional and personal interests, needs and motivations amongst teacher participants. Part B of the portfolio features a substantial body of original curriculum and teaching resources for schools and professional development materials for teachers that I developed either as principal or collaborating writer. This body of work applies the research, scholarship and theoretical arguments about teachers and teacher professional development presented in Part A to the development of practical, educational resources to meet the needs of teachers, school and curriculum leaders in implementing Studies of Asia Across the Curriculum.

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Johnson, Kimberly S. "Effecting Change in High Risk Families through Home Visiting. An Analysis of Clients’ Perceived Value of the Process Based on Professional Attire Worn by Home Visitor; White Coat vs. Business Casual." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1558882770959141.

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