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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Cultural Activity"”.
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Levels of Cultural Activity: Differences by Type of Roommate
… to experience a living arrangement with a cross-cultural focus. Researchers have explored the impact this type of arrangement can make in the lives of students during their college career. However, no extensive research has been conducted to see if a connection can be made between roommate …
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Promoting mental health and psychological wellbeing in Children: a socio-cultural activity theory analysis of professional contributions and learning in a multidisciplinary team
… primary mental health workers working within a culturally diverse urban community. Activity theory was used as a theoretical framework and methodology to examine the sociocultural processes involved in multidisciplinary work. Individual interviews, focus group discussion and developmental work …
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‘Rise Up Dead Man and Fight Again’: Reviving and Defining Mumming in County Fermanagh
… them. mumming exists on the margins of Irish cultural activity. There are no academic departments established to study it, no dedicated archives to store its history, nor are there rules or regulations to bind its existence. Its continuation depends on those involved redefining the tradition. …
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From the DSM to Ophelia: Teenage Girls and the Psychological Complex
… on three different yet interrelated sites of cultural activity: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual's political reverberations; the construction of teenage girls as modern-day Ophelias; and the notion of ""girl power"" as a recuperative moment for teenage girls. A variety of cultural texts …
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"Youth, murder, spectacle: The cultural politics of ""youth in crisis"""
… is understood. A key concern is that realm of cultural politics which pertains to the stakes of ""youth in crisis"" as it enters and reverberates in common sense. To this end, the dissertation focuses on the case of a sensational crime, the ""preppy murder,"" and on four different but …
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The Aristocratic Body and the Memory Economy of Church Reform, 900-1300 C.E.
… Centering the analysis on these sites of cultural activity allows close readings of the complex dialectic which develops around memory. Using memory as the central focus of the study allows insight into the ways in which the semi-literate communities of the secular nobility participated in …
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A visual arts center
… seeing, learning and touching become as one cultural activity. Appreciation of the arts literally lies at the back of learning more about the materials, ideas, styles and making things. One can only understand himself and his abilities through making things.
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"Dance your style!" : towards understanding some of the cultural significances of pow wow references in First Nations' literatures
… Your Style": Towards Understanding Some of the Cultural Significances of Pow Wow References in First Nations' Literatures References to pow wows, pow wow dancers, and pow wow songs abound in First Nations' literatures. This dissertation proposes attending, observing and listening at pow wows - …
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Architecture symbiosis--a study of cultural synthesis : urban design proposal for Boston Chinatown
… the role of mediator in order to achieve the cultural synthesis of the built environment. Boston Chinatown is the fourth largest Chinese neighborhood in the United States. This unique community represents part of Boston's rich and culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods. For most of …
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The aesthetics of solo bagpipe music at the Glengarry Highland Games.
… and attitudes that are inherent in this cultural activity.
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Corporal punishment: cultural-historical and socio-cultural practices of teachers in a South African primary school
… that teachers, particularly those who have been culturally exposed to corporal punishment and other forms of violence, believe that corporal punishment is still an effective mode of disciplining children. Drawing on Vygotsky's cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), this study seeks to …
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Gambling with regeneration: seaside resort regeneration and casino development
… resorts that wished to utilise casinos as cultural regeneration tools. However, this is a unique example of a regeneration lever that generates new policy processes. This thesis explores the development and passage of the casino regeneration strategy in three seaside resorts: Great …
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The Process of Research in Developing an Effective Local Tourism Planning Strategy and Policy - A Community Based Tourism Model from Malta
… understanding, interpreting and managing tourism activity as a broad socio-cultural activity rather than a socio-economic industry. The catalyst for these projects was the frustration of reading a number of literary works and following intricate theoretical frameworks for tourism strategies and …
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Networks in nature: applying cultural ecology for stewardship
… and information systems to enfranchise their activity. The systemic theory that underlies the Western model is outlined in part 3, describing how social and ecological arrangements are within a biophysical context. Part 4 discusses how information about interactive social and biophysical …
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Sixty-eight & sunny : the un-modern architecture of climate
… control of the thermal environment was a deeply cultural activity: fireplaces distributed throughout buildings needed to be fed to keep burning, drafts needed to be stopped by hanging heavy tapestries. The industrial revolution filled the air with toxic exhaust, but modernist architects promised …
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Cardiff City Fans: a sociological explanation of their involvement in football cultures and football violence
… understand football hooliganism as a socio-cultural phenomenon existing within the general field of football. Football as a field of activity will be discussed, as will the fact that whilst being a field of socio-cultural activity, professional football also has developed as a distinct …
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The Principles of Philosophical Community
… as it were, that grounds philosophy as a cultural activity. The two commonly known modes are, first philosophical geniuses who make models of reality in their “solitary burrows” (such as a Kant and Peirce); and, second, philosophical wanderers who have an embodied praxis, performing wisdom …
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CMT-based translator competence training and suggested curriculum in China
… social-economically, professionally, legally and culturally, and re-examines issues standardisation that can help to recognise and enhance the quality of translation service and translators' current status, in order to enhance professionalisation and to mitigate against the ever present risk of …
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
… renaissance was period of intense literary and cultural activity that coincided with a protest movement surrounding Maori rights in New Zealand during the 1970s and 80s. The Anglophone Maori fiction that flourished during this period raised important social questions about contemporary Maori …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
… international comparison. Furnishing a house was cultural activity, and a construction of culture. In this study, objects are regarded as participants in cultural activities, strategies, and the construction of values.<br/><br/>Sixteenth-century inventories are often impersonal and tend to show …
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