Critiquing research

Part 1 of ebook "The social construction of social policy: Methodologies, racism, citizenship and the environment" provides readers with contents including: critiques of the policy research process; how (and how not) to design research to inform policy-making; racism, health and policy thinking; consanguinity and related demons; representations of Asians' mental health in British psychiatry;...

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Part 2 of ebook "Marketing and social construction: Exploring the rhetorics of managed consumption" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 4 - Mediated marketing and communications; Chapter 5 - Marketing's birth, death, re-rebirth and re-re-resurrection; Chapter 6 - Tell me, George, where did it all go wrong; Chapter 7 - Marketing and social construction, knowledge, critique and research in marketing;...

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Part 1 of ebook "Under construction: Working at the intersections of composition theory, research, and practice" provides readers with contents including: the research/theory/practice relationship; composing composition studies, scholarly publication and the practice of discipline; critiquing theories in practice; the dialogic function of composition pedagogy, negotiating between critical theory and public values;...

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Initial teacher education (ITE) programmes have been critiqued widely for failing to connect educational theory with everyday practices in schools. More meaningful collaborations between schools and teacher education providers have featured prominently among key recommendations addressing the traditional theory-practice divide.

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Ebook "Challenging popular myths of sex, gender and biology" presents contributions from international researchers from a variety of disciplines—biology, history of science, anthropology, human evolution, and social sciences all with the aim of challenging popular misconceptions of sex differences. The chapters in this collection offer not only a critique of conventional understandings of sex and gender, but the authors also demonstrate that current research fi ndings suggest alternative ways of conceiving of sex, gender, and biology.

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In ebook "Biotechnology in Africa: Emergence, initiatives and future" Florence Wambugu and Daniel Kamanga of Africa Harvest Biotech Foundation International bring together expert African authorities to critique various biotechnology initiatives and project future developments in the field in Africa. For the first time, African voices from multidisciplinary fields as diverse as economics, agriculture, biotechnology, law, politics and academia, demand to be allowed to set the continent’s biotech development agenda.

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Ebook "Phenological research: Methods for environmental and climate change analysis" providing critiques of current methods, as well as detailing novel and emerging methodologies, the book, with its extensive suite of references, provides readers with an understanding of both the theoretical basis and the potential applications required to adopt and adapt new analytical and design methods.

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Part 2 book "The ethical case against animal experiments" includes content: Animal experimentation in classical antiquity; gender and the animal experiments controversy in nineteenth century america; is “necessity” a useful concept in animal research ethics; science fiction and science fact - ethics and nonhuman animal experiments; harms versus benefits - a practical critique of utilitarian calculations; utilitarian benefit and uncertainty under emergent systems.... and other contents.

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Ebook "Accounting and emancipation: Some critical interventions" elaborates a critique of contemporary accounting. The authors encourage those with a close interest in accounting to make the search for a more emancipatory and enabling accounting a core area of their interest. The book will stimulate debate and activity in the arenas of education, research, practice and policy-making.

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Part 1 of ebook "The critical turn in tourism studies: Innovative research methods" provides readers with contents including: the critical school of tourism studies - crafting the epistemological grounds; critical tourism - rules and resistance; resisting rationalisation in the natural and academic life-world; a realist critique of the situated voice in tourism studies; the problem with tourism theory;...

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The contents of Ebook Educational research: Competencies for analysis and applications (Tenth edition) – Part 1 includes: Chapter 1 introduction to educational research, chapter 2 selecting and defining a research topic, chapter 3 reviewing the literature, chapter 4 preparing and evaluating a research plan, chapter 5 selecting a sample, chapter 6 selecting measuring instruments, chapter 7 survey research, chapter 8 correlational research, chapter 9 causal–comparative research, chapter 10 experimental research, chapter 11 single-subject experimental research, chapter 12 descriptive statistic...

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This research has been undertaken by theoretical and practical investigation via a critique of the historical and contemporary topics surrounding women’s apparel size definitions. This analysis has informed the development of an alternative size model to assist design and production of mass market apparel. There is expectation from both apparel manufacturers and consumers that apparel standards are necessary for the efficient production and distribution of mass market apparel.

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This research emphasises Marxist feminist standpoints in order to study typography in its commodity form. Undertaking a critical analysis of typography and the context in which it has been marketed and sold, I intend to problematise the fetishisation of language and interrogate its sociomaterial relations as expressions of commodity feminism within a postfeminist landscape.

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This thesis is comprised of eight chapters. Following this introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides a summary of literature relating to OHS accountability and examines issues relating to OHS performance management. Chapter 3 presents a review of stakeholder, legitimacy and institutional theory literature. The research method employed is discussed and justified in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 presents the results of the stakeholder survey and in doing so describes stakeholder demand for OHS disclosure.

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The research draws, in theory and practice, on Australian colonial and Federalist art tropes, philosophies of national identity, and the contemporary practices of artists who address national critique. The methodological and conceptual spaces employed in the researchmaking of the project are re-enacted in the open and divergent installation of it, and the viewing encounter. The project seeks to re-position identity construction from something received to something personally enacted and renewable, drawing on subjective experiences and histories.

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The article demonstrates that centralised, fragmented regimes contain weaknesses in their ability to implement policy and pursue long-term development, whilst centralised dominant regimes have a weakness from supressing critique. Overall, this reinforces the importance of analysing the manifestation of political power within the ruling elite, and the way this shapes key political pressures and policymaking horizons.

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In accordance with critical reflective thinking on colonialisation, we respond to Dunlap’s critical remarks on our article by deconstructing some of the themes presented in the debate on internal colonialism in the context of large-scale wind energy developments in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.

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This article seeks to critique scientific inquiry’s uncontested position as the sole method in which to advance social work research and knowledge generation. Through making a comparison to the field of medicine and the tremendous advances achieved in the past 100þ years by its use of scientific inquiry.

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The major findings of this research show the challenges Vietnamese students face in academic writing due to not only the interference of L1 to L2 in the process of second language acquisition, but also the current academic writing instructions (e.g. critique essays, argumentative writing). Some pedagogical implications for both teachers and students to improve their writing teaching and learning are proposed.

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Critical cultural awareness – the key component in the framework of intercultural communicative competence of Byram (1997) – highlights the importance of training critical thinking skills for foreign language learners. Much research has been conducted on how critical cultural awareness can be developed in language classrooms, yet very few takes classroom of native culture as a fertile context for raising such awareness. This paper is to highlight the necessity of fostering that awareness in native culture classroom.

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