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Using meta-ethnography to understand the emotional impact of caring for people with increasing cognitive impairment. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.comThe majority of people with degenerative neurological conditions are cared for within their own families. Cognitive impairment can be a significant and increasing symptom of these conditions.
Frost, J   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There has been a proliferation of qualitative approaches to researching education. While this has resulted in the construction of a rich tapestry of knowledge about education, it has also resulted in disparate research ideas, processes and practices, and created tensions relating to what constitutes rigorous qualitative research in education ...
Anthony J. Maher
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering habits of mind in preschool children at Scottish forest nurseries and Australian bush kinders

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based learning environments for early childhood are expanding, as is research into their affordances and pedagogies. Engineering in these environments is not well studied. Previous work considered engineering experiences through the lens of ‘designerly play’, finding that natural materials, the space for larger creations and ...
Rebecca Donnelly   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specifics of planigraphy and improvement of a Siberian town in XVI–XVIII centuries

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2017
The results of 2007–2016 archaeological excavations of Tara and historical materials on the town planigraphy in the period under consideration gave birth to this work.
Tataurov S.F., Tikhonov S.S.
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of real-time data collection on introductory algebra-based physics [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2007
Including real-time data collection technology is a common practice to upgrade physics labs, and the assumption is such technology improves student learning, yet little has been done to demonstrate the effects of technology. Specific activities have been shown to be enhanced by technology, but the effects on the class as a whole has been left ...
arxiv  

A field full of researchers: fieldwork as a collective experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A version of this paper was originally written for a plenary session about "The Futures of Ethnography" at the 1998 EASA conference in Frankfurt/Main. In the preparation of the paper, I sent out some questions to my former fellow researchers by e-mail. I
Werthmann, Katja
core   +1 more source

Positioning patients for robotic‐assisted surgery: A qualitative study of operating room nurses' experiences

open access: yesNursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 469-478, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim One of the challenges of robotic‐assisted surgery is related to positioning of the patient on the operating table. Technological developments place increased demands on operating room nurses' competence to prevent positioning injuries and ensuring care quality.
Benedikte Bjøro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expectations and Reality: Why an enterprise software system didn't work as planned [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2011
Over two decades, we and other research groups have found that ethnographic and social analyses of work settings can provide insights useful to the process of system analysis and design. Despite this, ethnographic and social analyses have not been widely assimilated into industry practice.
arxiv  

An Ethnography Study of Nutritional Conditions of Pregnant Women in Banten Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Maternal mortality in childbirth in developing countries is still high. The study describes the qualitative methods used to examine the knowledge, attitude, beliefs and behaviour related to nutrition and nutritional supplementation of pregnant women. The
Setyowati, S. (Setyowati)
core  

Risk Perception and Risk Communication: Multi‐Actor Perspectives on Pretrial Decision‐Making

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As jurisdictions across the United States implement pretrial risk assessments to advance pretrial reform, there has been a limited research focus on factors affecting risk assessment‐guided decision‐making. To advance this work, this study examined: (1) differences in perceptions of risk and utility of risk assessment information by criminal ...
Ashley E. Rodriguez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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