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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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Reification and the consciousness of the patient [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology, 1980 Abstract The signs and symptoms of disease do something more than signify the functioning of our bodies: they also signify critically sensitive and contradictory components of our culture and social relations. Yet, in our standard medical practices this social “language” emanating from our bodies is manipulated by concealing it within the realm of ...
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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
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EMPIRIA: Revista de Metodología de Ciencias Sociales, 2015 This paper presents a theoretical and methodological discusssion on a visual etnography that took place in a sports training. We propose an integrated model of expert knowledge that explains the swimmers’ and trainers decisión-making as part of the ...
Dafne Muntanyola
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The Reflexive Turn in Systems Engineering: A Disciplinary Response to Complexity
Systems Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) programme has called for the discipline to evolve as a transdiscipline capable of engaging complex eco‐socio‐technical challenges. Yet the pace of that evolution has been slower than the arguments for it would predict. This article examines why.
Raul Leal Ascencio
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From the Culch: Lost in the Archives, Found in the Community
VIEW Journal of European Television History and CultureThe author’s documentary From the Culch1 is the central case study in a practice-based research enquiry into archival filmmaking in the vernacular tradition.
Paul Mulraney
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Reification without evaluation [PDF]
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming, 1988 Constructing self-referential systems, e.g. Brian Smith''s 3-Lisp language, is actually more straightforward than you think. Anyone can build an infinite tower of processors (where each processor implements the processor at the next level below) by employing some common sense and one simple trick.
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Supporting Pathways into College and Careers: The Case of Adult Education ESL in Community Colleges
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Research has increasingly focused on the importance of college preparation and career and technical education (CTE) for multilingual learners (MLs), many of them classified as “English Learners,” in K‐12 schools. Less attention, however, has been paid to the collegiate and professional aspirations of another significant population of MLs in ...
Kylie A. Kenner +2 more
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SpekiThe Holocaust and the terrorist attacks that occurred in Norway on July 22, 2011, are the only two historical events explicitly mentioned in the Norwegian national curriculum (LK20).
Tomas Stølen
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