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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Majority World"”.
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Representing the MAJORITY WORLD famine, photojournalism and the Changing Visual Economy
Our knowledge of the world is mediated. This means knowledge depends on representations provided to us from a variety of sources. However, we should not limit representation to a concern with language, or suggest that representations produce fictions unconnected to the real world. To avoid these …
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Productively Undoing a Doctoral Study: Ethically Researching Early Childhood Education and Care in the Majority World
… the universal application of dominant Minority world discourses to the lives of young children living diverse childhoods in the Majority world. Using a combination of Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological systems theory, Vygotsky’s socio-cultural historical theory, and post-colonial theory the study …
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A Competency-Based Model for Gospel-Centered Vocational Education
… for an institutional model replicable to a Majority World context. Three trade schools in the United States were purposively selected from the populations of Christian-based trade and technology institutions that provide skill-oriented training. The researcher gathered data through the …
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Dynamics of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana
… to take note of the ways of thinking in the majority world. Important to missiological conceptualisation of many in the majority world is the role of migration, and it offers perspectives into what may very well be an unfolding mission paradigm. As a mainline church with strong roots in …
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Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
… in Bengaluru, India and as a signpost of the majority world in the global South. Platform work as defined by workers from the global South or majority world is contradictory because it holds opportunities for educated workers for whom education has not created social mobility, access to good …
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Repositioning speech language pathology practices: engaging with family and community narratives to evolve communication supports for neurodivergent children
In South Africa and the Majority World, Speech-Language Therapy services are not easy to access. The profession with its medical model roots can be elitest, reductive and ineffective in areas where therapists are a finite resource. The purpose of this study was to engage with families and …
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Repositioning speech language pathology practices: engaging with family and community narratives to evolve communication supports for neurodivergent children
In South Africa and the Majority World, Speech-Language Therapy services are not easy to access. The profession with its medical model roots can be elitest, reductive and ineffective in areas where therapists are a finite resource. The purpose of this study was to engage with families and …
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Assessing the measurement characteristics of prominent social, emotional and behavioral skills among rural Indian girls
… skills and issues related to measurements in the majority world.
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Children Serving Children: Exploring relations between child domestic workers and the children of employing families in Mwanza, Tanzania
In the Majority World context of Tanzania, child domestic workers, the large majority of whom are female and ‘live in’, are distinctively characterised by complex and ambiguous relations with employing families, situations which are often motivated and made acceptable by notions of kinship, …
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Understanding the Role of Sport for Development in Community Capacity Building in a Refugee Camp in Tanzania
… using sport as a development tool in majority world communities. Specifically, Sport for Development programs have been promoted as a means to promote peace, a forum for social mobilization efforts and health initiatives, and a tool for sustainable community development (SDP IWG, 2008; …
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International study visits and the promotion of intercultural capabilities: an exploratory study
Internationalisation is high on the agenda of Higher Education in the UK, with the promotion of the students’ intercultural capabilities seen as key for their future careers and lives as global citizens. Within this agenda international study visits are considered beneficial for student teachers, …
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Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
… contexts with findings often generalised to majority world settings1. Emerging evidence, however, reveals that language acquisition is embedded in culturally specific socialisation practices and that factors such as area of residence (urban versus rural) can shape developmental trajectories, …
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Physical punishment in Nigerian secondary school: a children's rights perspective
… and indeed many countries across Africa and the majority world, see the UNCRC and the international human rights framework as a form of cultural imperialism that imposes a Western concept of human rights on countries with different norms and cultural values. As a result, conflicts arise between …
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The negotiation processes between remotely acculturating divorced coparents in relation to children's adjustment in urban Turkey: The moderating role of coparenting quality
… their divorced parents have different cultural worldviews and may expect an interparental clash; thus, when they are being pulled (i.e., triangulated) into the arguments, they may attribute the reason of the argument to the gap in their divorced parents’ degrees of cultural orientation. Hence, …