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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Community Voice"”.
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Revitalizing Inner-City Neighborhoods And The Community Voice: A Look At Winston-Salem, North Carolina
A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty of Wake Forest University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
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Distant Neighbors: Negotiating Space and Urban Development in a Southern Mississippi Community
… place at the forefront the need for a collective community voice in the discussions and negotiations of future development, and argue that a lack of that voice has contributed to stunted economic growth.</p> <p>In addition, through this case study I demonstrate that there may be systems in place …
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Uncovering an Alternative Social Structure to Social Dominance: A Blend of Ethnography and Community Based Participatory Research
… between populations. This study explored one community organizing group who is challenging social dominance by creating alternative social structures. The methods of this study included Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Arts Based Research (ABR) as ways to generate middle-range …
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Thriving to Surviving: Stakeholder Lived Experiences of School District Takeover in Texas Under Broad Academy Leadership
… narrative inquiry examines how former community stakeholders experienced and interpreted the 2023 state takeover of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) under broad Academy-aligned leadership. Guided by critical policy race analysis, neoliberal education reform theory, and the …
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Beyond the failing school: Race, space, and opportunity in Chicago public schools
… officials, urban planners, or the business community. Instead much of the research today looks to parents, school administrators, or students in an attempt to understand the problems of America’s public schools. The objective of this project is to explore the use of public schools in the …
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Listening to the Community: An Appreciative Case Study of Service-Learning Initiatives Within a Higher Education Institution
… a higher education institution listens to the voice of the community in which it resides throughout its implementation of service-learning initiatives. The concept of power, as described by Lukes (2005), provided the primary theoretical framework for this case study informed by Appreciative …
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Queens Speak - A Youth Participatory Action Research Project: Exploring Critical Post-Traumatic Growth among Black Girls within the School to Prison Pipeline
… of this qualitative study was to elevate the voices of Black girls, through YPAR, by engaging them in a process of inquiry that allowed them to share their experiences within the school-to-prison pipeline; develop counter narratives to the dominant, deficit based, view of trauma; and share the …
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Enabling more Holistic Consideration of Value in Socio-ecological Relationships:: A Well-being Centred Approach
… of humans in nature and a step change in whose voices, views and values are heard and<br/>considered when it comes to shaping our shared future. I draw on a decade of mixed<br/>methods research, activism, and transdisciplinary practice to develop a novel conceptual model and a typology of …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… efforts of an emergent Latinx immigrant community in Westplain, Minnesota to construct and assert their individual and collective identities within the public sphere through a range of multimodal and face-to-face communicative resources. I address enduring questions within the fields of …
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Hierarchical organisation of voice and voice gender perception
… sound in our auditory environment is the human voice. Voice professionals, whether they are teachers, radio hosts, sport coaches, use their voice on a everyday basis to earn their living and communicate information and knowledge. We grow up spending most of our time everyday listening to voices …
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Engineering community engagement partnerships: Investigating motivation, nature, and structure
<p>Engineering community engagement programs have increased in popularity over the last decade or so, with related research and scholarship in this area focused primarily on student motivation and learning outcomes. Since 2000, however, the wider service-learning field has started investigating …
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Humility in Practice: Examining the Ethical Alignment of Evaluator Values and Reporting
… values of equity, cultural responsiveness, and community partnership, one overall question remains unexamined: do evaluation reports reflect the values evaluators claim to hold as a profession? This study addresses this question by operationalizing and assessing evaluator humility; a concept …
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The Church and the Voice of the Other: The Growth of the Faith Community and Dialogue in the Church
Since the Second Vatican Council ended over forty years ago, the Catholic Church has been struggling to find a firm ground in a world of ever-advancing technological change and increasing globalization. Prior to the convening of the Council, the church virtually isolated itself from the rest of the …