Nicolini [ 22], a practice theorist, describes an innovative method of observation where, rather than shadowing people, he followed the conduct of particular practices which he had previously identified as key to the phenomenon he was studying (telemonitoring of cardiac patients).
But something has happened to cause Charnes to question her "practice" (as theorists like to call their work) in terms almost as critical as Kermode.
In practice, string theorists admit that even their equations are still only approximations, and physicists outside the fold complain that the effects of "stringy physics" happen at such high energies that there is no hope of testing them in today's particle accelerators.
In practice model theorists often draw themselves pictures of structures, and use the pictures to think about the structures.
Her book chronicles what she depicts as the generally dismal war practiced by educational theorists in the 20th century against high academic standards.
Following the general practice in economics, game theorists refer to the solutions of games as equilibria.
Faced with the slippery slope, as they see it, of one-off acts of torture in extreme emergencies transmogrifying into institutionalised torture, and/or simply appalled by the inherent evil of the practice of torture, many theorists (Davis (2005); Luban (2005); Brecher (2008); Matthews (2008)) have opted for the opposite extreme and argued that torture can never be morally justified.
As in Europe, so in the U.S: The first management theorists were practicing business people: John D. Rockefeller Sr., J. P. Morgan and, especially, Andrew Carnegie (who still deserves to be studied and who had the most lasting impact).
This connection points toward a new recognition of relational power as the aim of therapeutic practice, what the political theorist Hannah Arendt described in The Human Condition, "not force or strength... [but a power that] springs up between men [and women] when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse".
The paper showcases the value of structuring a research in such a manner, i.e. from theory to practice, enabling strengthening the bounds between theorists and practitioners.
