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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Access to opportunities."”.
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Practice, power and learning in UK recorded music companies
This thesis adopts a practice-based approach to understanding how power, knowledge and knowing intermingle in organizations to facilitate/constrain individual access to opportunities for knowing-in-practice (learning). It explores how organizational mechanisms and technologies of regulation …
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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Low-Income Urban Minority Students in Turnaround Schools
<p>As we prepare to address and stem many of the systemic racist policies that plague our low-income minority students, we have to remain diligent and innovative in our attempt to provide our low-income minority students, as early as pre-kindergarten, access to opportunities that will ultimately …
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Universal design in forest recreation: planning for a transition towards the accessibility of U.S. National Forest recreation areas
… tests two methods of transition planning for accessibility to developed National Forest recreation sites. Accessibility is defined in terms of access to opportunities for persons with disabilities as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The subject of the study is the Mount …
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School Choice: The Black Middle-class Dilemma
… The concept of community has been central to the success of blacks in America since Reconstruction. However, as the Civil Rights Movement helped eliminate some of the legal obstacles facing blacks and provided them with more access to opportunities, it also had the unfortunate consequence …
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An assessment of the extent to which the city of Johannesburg's Rea Vaya bus rapid transit system is achieving its intended socio-economic and political objectives
… education and spatial arrangements, as well as access to opportunities and public services. My dissertation examines the impact of the City of Johannesburg's Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, and the transit-oriented development programme, known as Corridors of Freedom, in transforming …
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Exploring Black Students’ Perceptions of How Location Affects Timely Graduation in Higher Education
… including generational poverty and unequal access to resources, continue to shape educational outcomes. This qualitative study examined how institutional location affects timely degree completion among African American students from a large urban Midwest city. Using an interpretative …
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A Love-Hate Story : Perception of Discrimination of Hispanic-American Women in Finland An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… of their experiences, giving voice to their concerns and the emotions elicited by those concerns. Discrimination and its pervasive nature and negative consequences are well researched. Several studies support the view that discrimination has a negative effect in many different areas …
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The relationship between social skills and challenging behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders
… in social interaction skills are considered to be the hallmark set of symptoms and are given the most weight in current diagnostic systems. Although not considered among the core symptoms of ASD, challenging behaviors in the form of physical aggression, property destruction, and self-injury …
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Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighborhoods
… and isolation, limiting residents’ access to opportunities for upward mobility. Place-based concentration effects can be detrimental to individual health outcomes and overall community health. Communities require assets and resources across multiple types of capital, and in …
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Torn wheels and rough pavements: an ethnography of navigation towards informal and indigenous urban futures amidst crisis in Warwick Junction, Durban
… approach, the study explores the navigatory responses of barrow operators and recyclers to the ‘friction' and ‘roughness' which make up the fabric of life-making projects in a city in crisis, and investigates the State and Municipal logics of governing informality. I show that eThekwini …
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A Better Bus Map: How Good Transit Map Design Can Strengthen the MBTA’s Bus System
Greater Boston is poised to radically reimagine its bus system in the coming years. With an ongoing network redesign by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) seeking to create a dense network of high frequency bus lines as well as growing political momentum for fare-free transit …
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Analysis of Social Equity in Transportation in Washington DC Region Considering Sea Level Rise Using Advanced Travel Demand Models
… urban areas, the urban infrastructures are bound to be stressed. Furthermore, people from every walk of life live in urban areas in search of better economic opportunities. These diverse people have diverse needs. To make matters worse, governments have a limited budget. And, they are faced with …
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The lived experience of non-religious healthcare chaplains entering faith-based healthcare chaplaincy teams
… are also important as a point of reference, and to provide a broader understanding, aiming to contribute to a deeper knowledge of healthcare chaplaincy in the UK. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study includes a qualitatively dominated online survey (44 non-religious, 64 faith-based) analysed …
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Constructing the interface: Crossings between the public and the private
The built fabric of the city of Cape Town reflects the social and economic inequalities within its citizenship. Contemporary practices of inner-city living tend to cater to the wealthy while social housing on the periphery continues to exclude the poor from basic services and access to …
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A Transport Justice Evaluation of Employer-Based Transit Subsidies
… that employer-based transit subsidies may be inaccessible to the vast majority of the working poor. My main purpose with this study is to increase our understanding of employer-based transit subsidies from a transport justice perspective. I apply the theory of transport justice developed by …
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Social strain : a sociological analysis of violent crime rates in Europe
… institutional frameworks and socially structured access to opportunities. Secondly, to describe the form in which these components are articulated in particular contexts to generate criminogenic contexts. Thirdly, to find a theoretically-based model capable of being applied to empirical research. …
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Emphasizing relations in an accountability driven era: a qualitative study of a caring-centered after school program for black and Latina/o students
… small urban school district with a documented history of discrimination against students of color. I aim to reveal the complexities of Project [em]POWER, the learning opportunities provided to its participants, and the experiences of the students themselves. I conducted this research of Project …
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Financing equitable TOD in Denver, San Francisco, and the rest of the nation
Equitable TOD is an integrated approach to community development that links affordable housing production and preservation strategies to regional transportation and economic development planning. This approach has strong potential to improve access to opportunities for low- and moderate-income …
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Towards an Inclusive Multinational Society in Myanmar : Ethnic Perceptions and State Building
… been gradually institutionalised. Thus, in order to support peace, one of the main challenges of state building in Myanmar will be to develop institutions that reflect the multinational character of the country. In this thesis, I argue that more attention should be paid to the perceptions of the …
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