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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"Cultural knowledge"”.
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative …
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Making the Maldives: exploring how the body holds cultural knowledge
… It does this by arguing that through the culturally structured physical processes involved in making kasabu, culture and the body are woven together to create an aspect of gendered cultural identity that is not visible in the finished items. By showing how the threads of knowing, body …
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Cultural themes of northern Thailand: Knowledge and emotion in everyday life and the life goals of college students
… this study is to enhance our understanding about cultural knowledge and emotion which individuals use in their life goals and everyday experiences. Empirical evidence from a year-long ethnographic study of the life goals and activities of students attending a college in Chiangmai, a city in …
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Online Knowledge Sharing in a Multinational Corporation: Chinese and *American Practices
… by providing empirical findings based on actual knowledge sharing behavior and moved knowledge sharing research toward understanding the complexity of technology-mediated knowledge sharing in cross-cultural contexts. One major contribution of this dissertation is that it has provided sound …
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Motivation des étudiants de deuxième langue, La: l'influence sur l'acquisition de la culture
… used to collect the motivation and cultural knowledge of the students, was completed three times throughout the semester, but the results did not find a statistically significant link between motivation and cultural knowledge for students of French in this context. However, there …
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He aha kei tua atu o te kohu kawata? What lies beyond the silvery mist? Epistemic agency at the intersection of mātauranga Māori and biological science knowledge worlds
… are students who come from a range of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and socioeconomic backgrounds. They bring with them into the biology classroom knowledge from their life worlds. While for some, these knowledge resources are front and centre, for others their cultural knowledge remains hidden …
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Exploring knowledge of Canadian values and social axioms in international and landed immigrant students' adaptation to Canada
… exploration of the relationship between the host cultural knowledge of newcomers and their behavioural and psychological adaptation to the host culture. Utilizing a theoretical and applied approach to this research, 160 international and landed immigrant students at the University of Saskatchewan …
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Cultural competence and knowledge of South Asian culture of registered nurses working in an urban hospital setting
Little research has been done to examine the cultural competence (CC) and knowledge of the South Asian culture of registered nurses (RNs) working in an urban hospital setting. The purpose of this correlational descriptive study was to examine the CC and knowledge of the South Asian culture of RNs …
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A Phenomenological Study of Cultural Transition and Adjustment of Asian Undergraduate International Students Using Different Cross-Cultural Treatments
… students in the U.S., experience more cross-cultural adaptation distress compared to other international student groups. The purpose of this study was to examine the pre-departure and post-arrival cultural knowledge, transition, and adjustment of Eastern Asian undergraduate international …
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Activation, Automacity, and Mental Health Implications of Colonial Mentality
… and capture the existence of a CM-consistent cultural knowledge system using explicit primes; Study 2 investigated whether CM may be activated outside of awareness, intention, or control using a more indirect and implicit priming methodology---a lexical decision priming task; and Study 3 …
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Cultural models of food in cuban miami: Roots, Yucas, and Moros
… of this research is to examine Miami Cubans' cultural knowledge about food, aiming to identify cultural factors that contribute to variation in this knowledge. There is increasing heterogeneity within the Miami Cuban enclave in terms of social class, ethnicity, and political values, and this …
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Vinyle zine: The Execution of the Pedagogy of Pro-Blackness
… magazine pedagogically driven to increase cultural literacy within the African-American community. In order to do this, this magazine must have the foundation of Pro-Blackness as a driving force towards advancing Black people in the ways this platform can offer its service. <em>Vinyle</em> …
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Working On Campus: The Impact of International Student Employees' Dining Services Job Experience on The Development of Intercultural Communication Competence
… influences international student employees’ intercultural communication competence. The Campinha-Bacote cultural competence model’s five dimensions: cultural awareness, cultural desire, cultural knowledge, cultural skills, and cultural encounters were discussed through a qualitative investigation …
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The Racialization of Dine (Youth) in Education
… and the ways they negotiate their racial and cultural identities within the historical, economic, political, and socio-cultural contexts of past and current educational policies. Particularly, an emphasis on the ways that Indigenous youth are racialized and Indigenous languages and cultural …
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Human Terrain Teams
… Security System to improve its use of socio-cultural knowledge during conflicts. A contextual narrative of team members formally involved with Human Terrain Teams and information from journalistic articles tells the story of what organizational characteristics affected the performance of the …
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Musicians Who Busk: Identity, Career, and Community in New Orleans Street Performance
… this study will contribute a new dimension of cultural knowledge.
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Cultural Metacognitive Processes: Psychological Mechanisms Promoting Intercultural Effectiveness
… In Chapter 2, I examine the association between cultural metacognition and intercultural effectiveness. In Chapter 3, I examine the conditions and cognitive mechanisms that facilitate application and updating of cultural knowledge among individuals high on cultural metacognition. I further test …
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“Mate Ni Vula”, “Masina”, “Vaʻine Fakahēʻaho”, “Eikura” Pacific sports women’s knowledge and experiences of menstruation
… Pacific sportswomen’s experiences, or how their cultural identities shape their performance, health, and well-being needs. This thesis focuses on Pacific sportswomen’s experiences of menstruation, and in so doing, makes an important contribution to both literature on Pacific sportswomen, and …
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A dissertation lecture recital of Javanese gamelan elements in Godowsky's Java Suite
… Drawing from Javanese gamelan scholarship and cultural knowledge, I identified specific compositional techniques Godowsky employed to evoke the gamelan sound world on the piano—including diatonic and pentatonic harmony, quartal chords, melodic stratification, and gamelan mediating techniques …
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A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh
<p>This thesis explores how cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices affected the humanitarian aid response to disasters in Haiti and Aceh Province, Indonesia. It examines the importance of local knowledge in post-disaster response situations and how aid workers' "expertise" interplays with local …
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