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Researching podcasting in museums: Can new broadcasting models of publication make art more accessible?

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During times of continuing growth of digital resources for teaching, learning and
research, the key objective of this study is to evaluate the genuine suitability of
online publishing tools – podcasting in particular – as a means to make art more
accessible.
The first part of the thesis addresses the nature of the changes which affect museums today: the rapid digitisation of culture, changes in the way artists produce, museums present and audiences consume art, and finally the challenges and opportunities which arise for museums within a Web 2.0 environment.

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The legal and human rights basis of HIV positive undocumented African migrants’ access to healthcare services in the UK and US: a non-governmental organization based study

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This thesis established the relationship between actual practices, law and
human rights in HIV positive undocumented African migrants’ quest to gain
health related services in the United Kingdom and the United States. The
thesis establishes this through an examination of extant law and literature
and an empirical exploration of actual practices.

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Access to Social Security Benefits for People who are Unable to Work because of Mental Illness

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This thesis examines the difficulties which people with mental health conditions may experience in establishing and maintaining entitlement to the social security benefits which underwrite incapacity for work.

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Teachers' anecdotes: Access to cultural perspectives through narrative analysis.

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Teachers often tell anecdotes about children or classroom events. Such accounts are regarded as oral narratives of personal experience which are a natural part of teacher-to-teacher talk in occupational culture. In this thesis, models of
narrative analysis are reviewed from the
disciplines of sociology and sociolinguistics, psychology, literature and anthropology. In the empirical work, nearly one thousand narratives told by primary teachers were elicited in interviews or
recorded in teachers' meetings.

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Integrating information and communications technology (ICT) into pre-service science teacher education : the challenges of change in a Turkish faculty of education

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Developments in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and its applications in teaching and learning science are calling for teachers to integrate ICT into science curriculum and instruction. This requires a strategic ICT training for prospective teachers.

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Open and Distance Learning for Initial Teacher Education

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Open and distance learning (ODL) has played an important role in initial
teacher education and training since the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA)/UNESCO Institute of Education was set up in the 1960s. Early
programmes addressed crisis situations by, for example, providing qualified
teachers for Palestinian refugee children. The first decade of the 21st century
has seen ODL emerge as an established and embedded part of national initial
teacher education and training provision in both developing and developed
countries.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Educación›Temas especiales de Educación

A Combined Framework for Investigating Communities of Practice and the Function of the Learning Organization: A Case Study of an Industrial Training Unit in the United Arab Emirates

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Organisational change aimed at increasing individual, group and organisational learning has been widely discussed over the last two decades in bodies of literature surrounding Communities of Practice and the Learning Organisation. Both bodies of work are ultimately concerned with ways that learning and practice development is pursued and constructed within organisations and the groups of people working within them. Emphasis in literature on Communities of Practice is placed on groups of individuals developing and maintaining a body of practice focused on specific tasks.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Educación›Temas especiales de Educación

KS3/4 Wider Curriculum Choice - Personalisation or Social Control? A contemporary study of influences on Year 9 students’ decision-making in an English comprehensive school

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This research concerns tensions between ‘personalisation’, a neo-liberal concept adapted by New Labour to empower and motivate students and ‘performativity’, an aspect of governance whereby institutional effectiveness is monitored by statistical outcomes. Their ambiguous reconciliation in Personalised Learning (DfES 2004a) continues to develop in schools and colleges. A research focus on Key Stage 3/4 wider curriculum choice, one of five key but under-researched elements in this policy, provides the opportunity to explore this paradox.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Educación›Temas especiales de Educación

Intra-community cross-border e-commerce: a consumer confidence enhancing package

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the barriers posed by the special characteristics
of e-commerce that undermine consumer confidence in intra-Community crossborder
e-commerce and to introduce possible substantive legal solutions to
eliminate those barriers. This thesis is based upon the argument that the answer to
increasing consumer confidence vis-à-vis intra-Community cross-border ecommerce
lies in empowering individual consumers with effective remedies for
goods with quality defects.

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Semantic memory deficit in schizophrenia

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This study is designed to study the extent of semantic memory deficit in schizophrenia, its nature, and its correlates, in community-based schizophrenic patients using a semantic memory battery. The patients’ performance was compared with that of matched controls. About six months later, the same cohort was tested again using the same battery. Patients’ performance was analysed using the criteria proposed by Warrington and Shallice (1979), to decide whether this deficit conforms into an access or store type disorder.

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