This descriptive case study explores the implementation of a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) in a Jewish supplemental school setting. The research was conducted to present the recollections and reflections of three constituent populations of a new technology exploring cons…
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This study includes two main parts. In the first part, the three-perspectives, realism, liberalism, and constructivism, of international relations are explained using a specific methodology. In the second part, I analyze Turkish foreign policy between 2002 and 2010 as a case stu…
This study investigates how practicing teachers conceive of learning in their teaching. Recent research indicates that learning is viewed as part of either a transmission or a constructivist paradigm. Categorizing learning into such constructs can be quite difficult and somewhat…
This research examines in general the process of normative change and nascent norm emergence in issue areas of global policy making through the convening of United Nations global conferences. A constructivist approach to international relations is utilized as the theoretical fra…
From the end of WWII to the end of the Cold War Greek foreign policy was shaped by the dynamics of the Cold War. The major issues facing Greek foreign policy decision makers in the post-cold war era are its relations with its Northern neighbors, Albania, The Former Yugoslav Repu…
This thesis examines the foreign policy evolution of Japan from the time of its modernization during the mid-nineteenth century though the present. It is argued that infringements upon Japanese sovereignty and geopolitical vulnerabilities have conditioned Japanese leaders toward…
The inter-scalar interaction of norms is pervasive in African hydropolitics due to the nature of freshwater on the continent – shared, strategic and that which necessitates cooperation. However, with few exceptions, particular norms created at specific levels of scale have been …
This thesis adopts a Wendtian constructivist perspective in order to explore how Iran defined its interests in the context of the nuclear issue during the Ahmadinejad presidency. Against realist-type approaches which often attributed a nuclear weapons rationale to Iran and frame…
This thesis seeks to answer the following question: How and to what extent does identity and Self-Other perception influence the foreign policy of the EU and Russia toward the establishment of a sovereign and viable Palestinian State? The thesis scrutinises the assumption that i…
Post-structuralist IR has often treated foreign policy/security discourses and their effects on policy through a “representational model”, i.e. how one dominant representation makes possible particular policy outcomes. However, in a longitudinal analysis, where the concern with …
This thesis contributes to the general body of knowledge of research into engineering education. The main scope of the thesis is on enhancing laboratory education. There are three main types of laboratory: virtual, hands-on and remote. The hands-on lab is the oldest and most com…
Utilizing an heuristic model that incorporates aspects from several theoretical perspectives this dissertation examines the German Green Party debate on the use of military force from 1990-2002. From the absolute rejection of any use of force to evict Saddam Hussein during the G…
Most international relations scholarship concentrates exclusively on cooperation or aggression and dismisses non-conforming behavior as anomalous. Consequently, Chinese foreign policy towards small states is deemed either irrelevant or deviant. Yet an inquiry into the full range…
Over the past two decades, the field of International Relations has become increasingly attentive to how language constructs identities, changes state interests, and makes certain actions—but not others—possible. However, despite the 'mainstreaming' of social theoretic perspecti…
Why has the United States failed to seize apparent opportunities for rapprochement with the Islamic Republic of Iran? The two countries have been estranged since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent seizure of American hostages. Variation in Iranian behavior and system…
In Turkey, the secondary mathematics curriculum, students' mathematical proficiency, and their preparation for the university entrance examinations are inextricably connected. The Ministry of National Education adopted a new curriculum in 2005 that was built on constructivist th…
This research will see to assess the degree to which teacher education faculty members were able to employ a classroom environment that encouraged a constructivist learning environment and how pre-service teachers feel about their teacher education methods courses at The Univers…
Bu çalışma, Fizik Öğretmenlerinin eğitim felsefeleri ile uygulamaları arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmak amacı ile yapılmıştır. Bu süreçte öğretmenlerin sahip oldukları felsefelerin temeline inmek ve sebeplerini araştırmak amaçlar arasında yer almaktadır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda mülak…
2015 yılında patlak veren mülteci krizi, bugün birçok ülkenin hem dış işlerinde hem de iç işlerinde birçok karışıklığa ve politika değişikliklerine sebebiyet vermiştir. Mülteci krizinin odağındaki AB, 2015 yılı itibari ile mülteci krizinin yan etkilerini en çok hisseden birlik o…