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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Alternative community"”.
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The mechanisms behind alternative community states: Understanding producer composition in temporary and semipermanent wetlands
… appears discontinuous, in that a discrete set of community states (or distinct taxa assemblages) have been observed repeatedly in one ecosystem type. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this discontinuous variation in community composition over space and time. I examined the …
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Finding our place in the garden : a holistic approach to art education
… research based on the art practices of an alternative community-based rehabilitation program for children with disabilities. The program takes place in an outdoor natural environment in which children with and children without especial needs are offered a variety of workshops directed by an …
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Democracy in education: a philosophical analysis and ethnographic case study
… up the to the ethnographic case study of an alternative school that has been in existence for twenty-two years and is a member of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools. As an ethnographic work, I "write the culture" as I find it at Connectionist School with a special …
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Health promotion in the field of substance misuse in post-Soviet Russia
… significant barriers to the development of alternative community empowerment approaches and confirmed that the medical model of health is indeed still hegemonic among approaches to health promotion in post-Soviet Russia.
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‘The Most Wonderful Wonderful Parties’ Gossip and anecdote as feminist epistemology in women’s oral histories of the creative community in postwar St Ives
… thesis explores the history of St Ives' creative community using oral history interviews with women from the St Ives Archive. Focusing on gossip and anecdote, I take and develop eavesdropping as a methodology. In doing so, this reveals the importance of feminine sociability and the locus of the …
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Community Food Work as Critical Practice: A Faith-based Perspective
… some, are poverty and inequality. As a promising alternative, community food work is a radical approach to food system change that imbues values of justice, sustainability, and equity into the food system to reduce the pervasiveness of poverty and inequality in society. I used narrative inquiry as …
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The Relationship Between Hospital Care and Outpatient Care in Mental Health: A Historical and Statistical Analysis
… public mental hospital through an expansion of community-based outpatient care. It was assumed that an increased use of outpatient care would reduce the use of the mental hospital. This study tested that assumption. The state of Ohio served as the setting for the cross sectional design. The …
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The Black Freedom Movement and community planning in urban parks in Cleveland, Ohio, 1945-1977
… neighborhoods and unifying symbols of community identity. When access to these spaces was denied or limited along lines of race, gender, sexuality, or class, parks became tangible locations of exclusion, physical manifestations of the often invisible but understood fault lines of power …
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Ethical entanglements: human-animal relationships in modern and contemporary Spain
… suggest more inclusive visions of multispecies community? Second, what can these representations of animal protagonists tell us about the ways in which authors might resist hegemonic practices of socially-sanctioned violence toward both humans and non-humans? Finally, more broadly speaking, how …
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Facilitating the mental health of individuals living with chronic mental illness in the Northwest health directorate - Northern Namibia: A community involvement approach
… Health Directorate of Namibia, there are no community care facilities for individuals living with chronic mental illness. There are no alternative community aftercare modes for discharged individuals living with chronic mental illness. Post-discharge of the patient from the hospital, there …
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The Intellectual Impact of Interdisciplinarity: A Series of Studies of Graduate Students and Faculty Engaged in Interdisciplinary Scholarship
… training effort promotes the creation of an alternative community of practice for participating students and faculty. The studies were part of a larger mixed methods assessment of the efficacy of the EIGER program. Participants were selected based upon their affiliation with one specific …
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Economic Determinants Of Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes
… levels of local market competition from these alternative providers of long-term care, as well as other nursing homes. Findings reveal that faced with greater competition from assisted living facilities, nursing homes are left to care for more disabled, less healthy patients. Although the …
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Deseos de comunidad en el personaje intersticial y marginal: en la novela y el cine de los noventa en México
… succeeds, on the one hand, in creating an alternative community in response to the failure of national institutions. The marginal character, on the other hand, lacks narrative agency and fails in his or her attempts to build group cohesion based on values and community ideals. These …