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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Building community"”.
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Intertwinements: Building Community Through Intertwining Conditions
… physical relationships, the relationship of the building to the site, and how the architecture impacts human relationships and interactions. •Ideas of pushing and pulling as a condition of intertwinement •Ideas of unrestrictive, loose, ambiguous boundaries These three main concepts were analyzed …
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Folk Dance: An Occupation For Building Community
… members of a central Appalachian folk-dancing community. The participants were four women, three adults and one teenager, each of whom were long-standing members of the community. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, as the principal researcher had …
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Building Community in a Standards-Based Classroom
<p>Creating a sense of classroom community has social, emotional, and academic benefits. The problem confronting schools today is how to create community in a standards-based environment, where teachers are no longer the primary decision makers about how time and resources are allocated in their …
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Building community : design in the organizational mind
In the search for meaning, the architectural profession legitimately seeks culture to sanction its products. However, in business organizations, culture is complex and tacit- richer and deeper than any of its external manifestations, including architecture. To compensate for culture's incoherence, …
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Building community in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood
Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) is a new approach to community development that utilizes a "trauma" lens when engaging with communities that have been negatively impacted by concentrations of poverty and crime, social isolation and economic disinvestment. TICB first acknowledges the …
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Creative agencies : a model for building community capacity
… disparity between the missions and processes of community-based arts initiatives and non-arts initiatives in practice and in literature. However, this thesis evaluates both types of initiatives against a set of measurements for successful capacity building and finds that all cases enlist a …
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Peer Education: Building Community Through Playback Theatre Action Methods
… of knowledge through the experience of building community. The impact of action methods on group dynamics and the relationship among methods, individual perceptions, and the acquisition of knowledge were analyzed. The researcher suggested that playback theatre action methods provided a …
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From services to ideological formation: Building community agency in Palestine
… organizations (NGOs) can lead to progressive community change. While locally grounded in the socio-political context of Palestine, this research addresses broader questions concerning the role of organizational ideology in community and social changes specifically in the Middle East. This is …
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Building community--learnings from a pilot project targeting freshmen at MIT
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The National Organization For Women: Building Community in the Face of Diversity
… to point out the usage of identification and community building efforts used by the different facets of the organization. The ethnography is a retelling of the narratives gathered from an eleven month field experience with the organization by the researcher. The results of the analysis of the …
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Building Community in the Classroom for Culturally Linguistically Economically Diverse Gifted Learners
… study was to explore the perceptions of active community building in a classroom with culturally linguistically economically diverse (CLED) gifted learners in a semirural school district who underachieve. The central research question was, how does actively building classroom community interact …
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Building community while building responsibly : a sustainable housing complex for Central Los Angeles
Thesis: S.B. in Art and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2001.
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From Vacant to Valuable: Building Community Wealth through Brownfield Redevelopment in Legacy Industrial Cities
… brownfield redevelopment might utilize community wealth-building (CWB) strategies to advance equitable economic development. Focusing on the work of the Site Readiness for Good Jobs Fund in Cleveland, Ohio—a nonprofit preparing long-vacant industrial land for job-dense uses—it examines …
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Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… the decision-making process for growing an asset-building program through strategic partnerships with other community-based organizations (CBOs). The impetus for this paper came from Lawrence CommunityWorks, a CBO in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is interested in substantially expanding the number …
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Building community health from the ground up: community gardens and food insecurity in North Carolina
Community gardens are a potential option to help alleviate food security problems. This research evaluated North Carolina community garden cases that are in operation within counties where food security is a significant problem. The research sought to understand if North Carolina community garden …
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Building community in low-income areas : designing a new architectural language for community centers in Jordan
… of principles to be used in the design of future community centers in Jordan. Community centers provide the stage for bringing members of the community together to meet and discuss community issues, and for increasing their sense of community spirit which advances social and economic development. …
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Building community capacity in the rebuilding of New Orleans : the role of philanthropic funders post-Katrina
How can funders strengthen community capacity in post-Katrina New Orleans? Residents of low-income, minority neighborhoods have historically faced government neglect, and consequently distrust decisionmakers, in a city of extreme race and class segregation. These communities are now being …
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Unity in the Elementatry School Classroom: Building Community Through Increasing Positive Social Interactions Between and Among Students
<p>Children’s sense of a community is essential in elementary schools. This helps gives students a sense of belonging and control over their environment.</p> <p>The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of several strategies from the Toolbox Project and their effect on building community …
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Everyday Challenges of Building Community and Empowerment: An Ethnographic Study of Immigrant Mexican Parents Advocating for School Reform
… project in schools and other community settings where Latino American parents come into contact with each other and other members of their children's school. The parents who are the focus of the study perform many of the behaviors typically understood as ""effective"" parent …
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