We dedicate this page to dissertations/theses based upon social constructionist ideas. Many new scholars from around the world are finding intriguing and innovative ways to employ social constructionism as the substantive focus of their work, as a guide to methodological designs, or as an organizing framework for the entire dissertation/thesis enterprise.

Posting entire dissertations/theses in PDF format on this site provides a worldwide platform for others to read, appreciate, and build upon significant achievements in social constructionist scholarship. We hope these "noteworthy dissertations" from around the world will stimulate networking conversations among all who read them. Authors of these dissertations have granted the Taos Institute non-exclusive rights to post their dissertations on its website in a PDF format. Please use correct citation when quoting from any of these documents.

If you have any questions about this page or would like to submit a dissertation for consideration on this site, contact Dan Wulff at dwulff@ucalgary.ca

The Taos-Tilburg Ph.D. program is also a rich source of "noteworthy dissertations" based upon the ideas of social constructionism.  We invite you to view and download these noteworthy dissertations by students from our own Taos-Tilburg PhD program in Social Sciences click here.

Keith Paul Bahde
Riding the Whitewater: A Social Constructionist Approach to the Mergers and Acquisitions Integration Process and the Role of the Integration Manager
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Robert Stephen Busch
Contextualising a Problematic Relationship between Narrative Therapy and Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Evaluation in Psychology
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Martha Jean Cockell
MAKING MAGIC: FACILITATING COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES
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Michelle T. Carter
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY AND ADULT TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK TO GUIDE LIFE COACHING PRACTICE
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Shari J. Couture
Moving Forward: Therapy with an Adolescent and his Family
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Sandra Davidson
THE EXPERIENCES OF NOVICE NURSING FACULTY: A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE
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Art Dewulf
Issue framing in multi-actor contexts. How people make sense of issues through negotiating meaning, enacting discourse and doing differences
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Gabrielle Donnelly
Drawing on theories of critical postmodernism and social constructionism, this paper aims to unpack the incomplete and unhelpful meta-narratives of religion that are prevalent today even within the post-modern turn.
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Karen Frewin
Theorising 'Self': Postructuralist Interpretations of Self Construction and Psychotherapy
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Gerardo Gacharná
Diferencias Naturales ­ Diferencias Sociales: Construcciones Sociales en torno a la Discapacidad
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David Laurance Giles
Exploring the teacher-student relationship in teacher education: A hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry
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Jackie Glasgow
An Appreciative Inquiry Case Study: Recognizing the Positive Core of Teachers in a Low SES Elementary School that Met Standard of Excellence
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Susan G. Goldberg
The Social Construction of BiPolar Disorder: The Interrelationship Between Societal and Individual Meanings
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J. Christopher Hall
Social Constructionism: A Unifying Metaperspective For Social Work
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Mäntylä Hans
On "Good" Academic Work: Practicing Respect at Close Range
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Sean Patrick Hatt
ADHD in Black and White:A Comparative Inquiry in Narrative and Photographs
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Tarja Kantola
Transcending “the Impossible”: From Dead End to Expansive Learning
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Mette Vinther Larsen
Strategising through organising: The significance of everyday relational sensemaking
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Stephen Loftus
Language in Clinical Reasoning: Learning and Using the Language of Collective Clinical Decision Making
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Christina Mauléon
'Getting' it Together In Joint Directed Action Department of Technology Management and Economics Division of Quality Sciences
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Marian Naidoo
I am because we are (a never ending story). The emergence of a living theory of inclusional and responsive practice
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Bill Nordenbrock
Appreciative Inquiry in the Praxis of Reconciliation
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Neil Olonoff
Organizational Knowledge: The Relational Dimension
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Daniel K. Saint
The Firm as a Nexus of Relationships: Toward a New Story of Corporate Purpose
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Teresa L. San Martin
Director of Elementary Education/District Assessments for Maize Unified School District 266, Maize, KS
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Kimberley A. Seitz
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Relationship Between Positive Psychology Coaching and Thriving
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Darrell K. Smith
Unearthing Cognitive Frames and Sowing Interactional Framing within Indigenous-Mining Conflict
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Olga Sutherland, M.A.
Therapeutic Collaboration: Conversation Analysis of Couple Therapy
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Jacqueline Stavros
CAPACITY BUILDING An Appreciative Approach. This study proposes a relational process of building an organization’s future using Appreciative Inquiry. It supports a greater appreciation and awareness of the importance of building multiorganizational and global capacities.
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Deborah Turner
This dissertation proposes and explicates the concept of an oral document as a way to ground an exploratory discussion on orality and information behavior. This study isolates and focuses on information conveyed orally.
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Rita Marie Valade
Participatory Action Research with Adults with Mental Retardation: "Oh My God! Look Out World!"
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Anne Hedvig Vedeler
Do you hear me? About therapeutic listening, creating space for voices to emerge and to be heard. Dialogical Action Research
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Ilene Wasserman
Discursive Processes that Foster Dialogic Moments: Transformation in the Engagement of Social Identity Group Differences in Dialogue
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Dona J. Witten
Psychosocial factors that bind adults in a long-term, spontaneous group process: A grounded theory inquiry
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Jeffrey Zacko-Smith, Ed.D.
The Leader Label: Using Social Constructionism and Metaphor to Influence the Leadership Perceptions of Graduate Business and Public Adminstration Students
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Don Zeman, D.C., M.Sc.
Facilitating Conversations about Sexuality between Minority Sexuality Athletes
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