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A critical analysis of initial teacher education policy in Australia and England : past, present and possible futures
(2009)The quality of schooling and the teaching workforce are global issues. The author uses a futures methodology to reflect on the past and speculate on the future of initial teacher education policy. The first section looks ... -
A Critical Assessment of the Higher Order Thought Theory of Consciousness
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-05-28)David Rosenthal’s higher-order thought theory is a theory of state consciousness. The HOT theory posits that a form of higher-order awareness is required for a subject to be conscious of the mental states they bear. ... -
A critical assessment of the impact of conformity on collectivist families’ meal social interaction behaviour in Sierra Leone
(2018-04-10)Background: Conformity is sanctioned at Sierra Leonean families’ mealtimes not only to streamline behaviour, but also to overhaul the character of individuals in order to increase their acceptance in society. These norms ... -
A Critical Assessment of Transaction Cost Theory and Governance of Public Services with Special Reference to Water and Sanitation
(2016-01-06)This paper aims to provide a critical assessment of Oliver Williamson’s work on the choice between public and private governance by focusing on his central proposition that public governance should be considered as an ... -
A critical asssessment of incomplete contracts theory for private participation in public services : The case of water sector in Ghana
(2013-08-30)This paper provides a critical analysis of the recent developments in the incomplete contracts theory and its conclusions for privatisation of public services. Drawing upon a case study of management contract for urban ... -
Critical Care Network in the State of Qatar
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Critical care work during COVID-19: a qualitative study of staff experiences in the UK
(2021-05-18)Objective: To understand National Health Service (NHS) staff experiences of working in critical care during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Design: Qualitative study using semistructured telephone ... -
Critical discourse analysis and conceptualisation: Mental spaces, blended spaces and discourse spaces
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Critical discourse analysis and higher education research
(Emerald Publishing, 2013)This chapter explores the use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) within higher education research. CDA is an approach to studying language and its relation to power, ideology and inequality. Within CDA, texts are not ... -
Critical discourse analysis and metaphor: toward a theoretical framework
(2008)Critical discourse analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis into the Policy and Debate Relating to “Adults at Risk” detained within Immigration Removal Centres in the UK
(2023-10-31)This research uses a critical discourse analysis to explore the discourses in a UK parliamentary debate and a policy document about “adults at risk” in immigration detention. Immigration detention centres in the UK are ... -
A Critical evaluation of the impact of religion on collectivist families’ meal social interaction behaviour in Sierra Leone, International Journal of Advanced Research
(2017-01-16)The symbolism of religion in the Sierra Leonean collectivist society is encouraged to promote increased inter-dependency and social bonding among families that share similar belief system. This belief is further accentuated ... -
Critical Friendships Among Beginning Philosophers : research report on a mini-project funded by the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Higher Education Academy
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011)In a mini-project funded by the Subject Centre, we reviewed the educational literature on peer support and used focus groups to explore students' ideas of academic and critical friendship. We report on our findings, make ... -
Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity : A Review of Recent Threats and Violations
(2013-07-12)Most of current industries and their critical infrastructure rely heavily on the Internet for everything. The increase in the online services and operations for various industries has led to an increase in different security ... -
Critical Innovations in the UK Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Equity Alternative Finance Markets for Small Firm Growth
(2016-08-01)This paper examines the disruptive nature of financial innovations available to small firms by the growing range of online platforms that have emerged in the UK since the financial crisis. It is unveiled that finance ... -
Critical Judo Elements in Self-Control Development and Emotional Control
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Critical macro-finance, Post Keynesian monetary theory and emerging economies
(2020-05-28)In our contribution to this forum, we suggest that critical macro-finance (CMF) scholars and Post Keynesian monetary theorists would profit from a more explicit engagement with each other. Post Keynesian scholars would ... -
A Critical Mapping of Practice-Based Research as Evidenced by Swedish Architectural Theses
(2011)This article presents an investigation that was funded by the Swedish Institute into the role of creative practice in architectural research as evidenced in Swedish doctoral theses. The sample was mapped and analysed in ... -
Critical moments of (un)doing doctoral supervision: : Collaborative writing as rhizomatic practice
(2017-08-25)Despite the proliferation of doctoral training courses within universities, little attention is paid to the complexity of supervision as a process of becoming for both students and supervisors. As post-qualitative researchers ... -
Critical perspectives on 'consumer involvement' in health research : Epistemological dissonance and the know-do gap
(2010-03-01)Researchers in the area of health and social care (both in Australia and internationally) are encouraged to involve consumers throughout the research process, often on ethical, political and methodological grounds, or ...