Reflections suggest that attention is required to manage risk and support stakeholder analysis, particularly in understanding contested values and overcoming power differentials between industry and self-interest groups.
In contrast to much of this literature which focuses on differences and tensions between female and male roles, we argue that the interplay between and complementarity of such gendered roles might be highly relevant in understanding contested resource use, but are often neglected.
The effect of incorporating DCV on learners' conceptual understanding, however, is contested.
This understanding has been contested by some (Árnason, 2004; Caulfield, 2007; Greely, 2007).
The issue of taking children's values into account but also of helping them to build understandings of wider contested societal values can be addressed by studying the process by which children design and change games affording such experiences.
The conceptual framework for understanding personality disorder however remains contested and the evidence base for effective treatments has still not been absorbed into mainstream psychiatric practice [ 37].
Most remarkable in this quiet, liberal upper-middle class suburb 12 miles north of San Francisco is the unapologetic joy of being American, especially in a time when both American education and cultural self-understanding have become highly contested.
The plurality of modern political ideologies implies a plurality of different conceptions of human nature – which implies, in turn, that the conservative understanding of human nature is contested.
Varied definitions of rape have thus been part of a political, social and racial struggle, Freedman argues, undertaken by "generations of women's rights and racial justice advocates" who "have contested the narrow understanding of rape as a brutal attack on a chaste, unmarried white woman by a stranger, typically portrayed as an African American male".
However diagnosis and understanding of personality disorders remains contested, challenging any assumption that mainstream recovery thinking can be directly translated into personality disorders services.
Post-positivist philosophies of science over the past half century have contested the popular understanding of observational evidence as value-free, pretheoretical, self-apparent, and therefore sufficient to verify or at least falsify scientific hypotheses [ 30].
