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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Ecological framework"”.
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Examination Of College Student Achievement Within An Ecological Framework
<p>This study examined the extent to which variance in college student achievement was explained by self-efficacy, motivation, study habits, extracurricular activity involvement, perceptions of social support, and perceptions of support from faculty and the university as a whole. Participants were …
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Living the Law of Origin: The Cosmological, Ontological, Epistemological, and Ecological Framework of Kogi Environmental Politics
… Kogi leaders have been engaging in a consistent ecological-political activism to protect the Sierra Nevada from environmentally harmful developments. More specifically, they have attempted to raise awareness and understanding among the wider public about why and how these activities are …
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STAKEHOLDER CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES: APPLYING A SOCIO- ECOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE HUMAN DIMENSIONS WITH U.S. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
… growing pressures to work at the interface of ecological and social issues yet the model they use in the United States, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC), relies heavily on natural sciences. Inclusion of social science perspectives is needed to provide a consistent …
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Predicting Physical, Verbal, Social, Racial, and Sexual Bullying with Individual and Environmental Factors from an Evolutionary Ecological Framework
… and sexual bullying using an evolutionary ecological framework. Adolescents (N = 225, M = 14.05, SD = 1.54) completed self-reports on demographics, HEXACO personality, Rothbart’s temperament, parenting, friendship quality, school connectedness, and socio-economic status. Subtypes were …
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Using an Ecological Framework to Understand English Language Arts Educators’ Beliefs and Practice about How Students Learn and Develop Comprehensive Literacy Skills
… in two Title I schools. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological and ecological theories of human development postulated the theoretical framework. Educators' epistemologies were examined through their decision-making processes during ELA instruction. Pedagogies were evaluated through educators' use of …
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Using a Social Ecological Framework to Understand Healthy Relationships and Unintended Pregnancy Risk Among Youth in Rural Communities and Youth Engaged in Systems
… pregnancies and births. We used the social ecological framework to investigate the following known risks for unplanned pregnancies: early sexual onset, contraception non-use, and dating violence. First, we examined the behaviors and attitudes associated with early sexual onset and the …
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Agricultural revolutions in America’s heartland: the corn belt and the making of American capitalism
… configured and reconfigured. Utilizing a world-ecological framework, I argue that Illinois and Iowa, the heart of the Corn Belt, were the epicenter of two successive agricultural revolutions that fundamentally transformed world accumulation and world nature. The analysis is centered on the …
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Same but Different: Exploring Young Children's Understandings About Disability
The ecological framework is revisited in the discussion as a way to address issues related to school and classroom organization and structure and how they affected children's relationships with and perspectives about peers with disabilities. Furthermore, study findings are linked with existing …
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An Ecological Model of Mexican Immigration and Mental Health
… have just begun to be explored within a broader ecological framework (Acevedo Garcia et al., 2012; Coatsworth, Maldonado-Molina, Pantin, & Szzapocznik, 2005). In light of this, scholars have called for ecological models that incorporate mental health related factors (Coatsworth et al., 2005; …
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A comparative study of inclusive education in Kuwait and England
… contexts, the study applies a comparative ecological framework. The study investigates current practice in Kuwait and England at different levels to reflect the perceptions of the various people involved, namely teachers, students, and parents, by applying an ‘ecological model’. It applies …
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When Identities Collide: Best Practices for Family Therapy with LGBTQ+ Young People in Mormon Families
… intersectional modification of Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework. This study fills several significant gaps in the literature, as it is the first to specifically examine (a) family therapy best practices, (b) LGBTQ+ youth and young adults, and (c) their LDS families. The results of this study …
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Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Smoking in Rural versus Urban Environments
… living in rural and urban environments. An ecological framework was used to examine variables from the individual, family, peer, school, and community contexts. The influence of these variables was assessed on a sample of (n=3,166) 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students from Virginia public …
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Socio-ecological factors in talent development in cricketers in a diverse society
… this thesis was to determine the role that socio-ecological factors may play in the development of cricket talent in a diverse society. Methods: Qualitative research methods were used to explore the experiences and perceptions of South Africa’s male cricketers as they progressed through the talent …
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In Pursuit of Paternal Significance: Fathers' Influence on their Daughters' and Sons' Sexual Behaviors and Beliefs
… adolescent sexual decision-making and the social-ecological framework suggests that there are multiple levels of influence on adolescent development, including familial. Utilizing survey data from the Virginia Abstinence Education Initiative (VAEI), this project specifically explores paternal …
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Science on television : A representational site for mediating ideology
… as structuring an organic, holistic and ecological framework for understanding the nature of reality. The modern scientific paradigm with its characteristic underlying inorganic, reductive, and mechanistic vision of reality, discursively dominates Western societies' cultural sense-making …
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Decolonizing Home Assessment Practice at the Kitchen Table: A Thematic Analysis Identifying the Crucial Elements in the Assessment of Kinship Caregivers
… of Alberta. An anti-colonizing lens and critical ecological framework ground this research in an approach that is sensitive to the impacts of structural colonization on Indigenous children and families through child welfare practice, policy and legislation.
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Predictors of Placement Satisfaction for Foster Youth
… be a contributing factor. This study uses an ecological framework to explore the impact of the foster youth’s ecosystem, such as the foster child, foster parent, child welfare worker, and the placement environment on placement satisfaction. This quantitative study uses secondary data to …
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Parents' Goals and Practices: To What Extent do Parental Goals for Socialization Relate to Their Practices?
… their children and their parenting behaviors. An ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1990) provides the primary theoretical basis for the study, locating the relationship between parent goals and parent practices within a network of other influences on parenting practices, such as family …
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The Role of Evaluation Policy in Organizational Capacity to Do and Use Evaluation
… policy and proceeded to develop and validate an ecological framework depicting the relationship between evaluation policy and organizational capacity to do and use evaluation. The findings suggest that the role of evaluation policy in building organizational capacity for evaluation is moderated …
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