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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Agency and Community"”.
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Agency and Community: Supporting Creative Learning in a Global Online Course
… Creative Learning (LCL) is an online course and global educator community which has engaged thousands of people interested in exploring creative learning approaches through projects, passion, peers, and play. LCL has been designed in pursuit of learner agency and global community — that is, …
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Agency and community evaluations of WHWF's 2019 "Changing our forecast" report on the status of women and children in Spokane County
… their 2019 report on the status of women and children in Spokane County, titled “Changing Our Forecast.” Feedback from relevant agencies and related individuals was solicited through a series of progressively more digital and distant qualitative methods, including face-to-face interviews, …
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A Phenomenological Investigation Of The Lived Experiences of Workplace Burnout, Wellness, and Resilience in Independently Licensed Private Practice Counselors Who Operate Their Own Practice While Maintaining a Caseload of Clients
… who own their practice are unique from agency practitioners in that they function as both counselor and business owner. Therefore, these counselors must work to find a balance between the human aspects of practicing and the logistical business components of owning and operating a …
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The Social, Relational and Political Context of Eating Disorders: A Feminist-Informed Grounded Theory Analysis
… disorders often surface during adolescence and young adulthood and are far more common among females than males. Despite knowledge that the larger sociocultural context may contribute to the development of eating disorders, few studies have examined feminist-informed factors that may serve …
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Owning Home: African-American Agriculture In Lower Richland County, South Carolina, 1868-1890
… enabled some African-American farmers to own and keep their land for decades, contributing to the economic and social stability of their homes. Their stories of black agency and community, centered on agriculture, have been largely lost in the haze that surrounds historical memory of …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… the traffic between U.S. literary culture and political philosophy, this thesis surveys works by a range of leading male contemporary American novelists alongside the recent resurgent interest in friendship as a political concept. Long exiled from serious political philosophy, friendship …
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Health systems in the news: The influence of media representations on health system functioning in the Western Cape health system
… complex systems characterised by constant change and a web of interwoven relationships, connections, and interactions. Health Policy and Systems Research has called for multidisciplinary approaches to understanding health systems. Like health systems, the media has also been described as an …
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Enhancing Engagement in Online Business Learning: Exploring the Role and Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Dialogic Pedagogy
… learners. Grounded in Bakhtin’s dialogic theory and Wegerif’s notion of dialogic space, this study examines how dialogic pedagogy can be reimagined in asynchronous, digitally mediated learning environments. A central innovation is the use of Artificial Intelligence in Education …
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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!
… self as it arises out his philosophy of language and then puts that theory into dialogue with the subject as imagined William Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>. More specifically, after giving a detailed account of Rorty's theory of the self, I will illuminate shortcomings in his conception of …
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
… has traditionally focused on physical disability and, in working to deconstruct the figure of the “cripple” as a symbol of pathos, has shied away from close examinations of pain, suffering, and dependency in favor of a focus on disability pride, agency, and community. As the field has grown, …