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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Marginalized populations"”.
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Artist as Citizen: Transnational Cultural Work in the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines
… more importantly organizers working closely with marginalized communities, and in many ways are "popular educators" and "organic intellectuals."</p> <p>The purpose of this study is twofold: to examine the extent to which cultural work brings political consciousness to marginalized populations in …
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Organizations and Agencies that Support People Experiencing Homelessness in Calgary, Alberta During the First Wave: A Case Study
… discussed social vulnerability theory and how marginalized populations are disproportionately impacted by disasters and emergency events, however few focused on homelessness related topics specifically. Through interviews and focus groups, this research project investigated how participants …
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The practices of critically conscious teachers; exploring the roles of lived experience, teacher preparation and working contexts
… their success with children from historically marginalized populations. Using interviews of participants, their students, classroom observation, and collected documents, the researcher conducts inquiry into participants’ lived experience, classroom practices, and students’ voices. These enable …
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Adolescent Male Perspectives’ on Civic Engagement: A Pilot Study on Youth Conceptualization of Citizenship and Social Participation in Southern Trinidad
… and meaningful civic engagement curricula for marginalized populations.</p>
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Advancing Digital Health Equity in a Safety-Net Health System: Identifying Barriers, Evaluating Training, and Assessing Impact on Diabetes Outcomes
… methods to address critical questions about marginalized populations and digital health technology use, thereby filling gaps in the literature and advancing digital health equity. In the first paper, I employ mixed methods to examine fundamental skill and usability barriers to digital health …
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The Chicano/Mexicano experience: a phenomenological investigation of accomplishment through the voices and essence of elderly Chicano/Mexicano former agricultural workers in northern Colorado
… for addressing perseverance and achievement of marginalized populations in contemporary school systems. The actuality that these predecessors persisted and addressed issues of racism, language barriers, and isolation through modified levels of assimilation and acculturation, and had positive …
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Exploring the Impact of Leadership Values and Practices to Support Equity and Social Justice in an Urban School
… and awareness of the historical contexts of marginalized populations; (c) moral courage for all members of the school; (d) equity as an initiative or program; (e) resistance to deep equity work. From these themes, I devise three recommendations to support substantial and better-aligned work …
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Engaging the Center: On Being Indonesian Citizens in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia
… this perspective, understanding the demands of marginalized populations in the periphery, both spatial and economic, should be the starting point for inclusive participatory development.
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Broken windows and dancing bodies: Politics of movement in New York City’s salsa scene
… that these laws had drastic impacts on marginalized populations within the city. Although I include other genres within my exploration of these laws, I give particular focus to salsa music and dance, which I contend were silent casualties of Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s enforcement of the …
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Black jazz-informed dance: The performance of rhetoric and resistance in Los Angeles-based Jazzantiqua Dance and Music Ensemble
… through movement vocabularies that emerge from marginalized populations. Specifically, this project examines how artistic director Pat Taylor, through enacting a jazz philosophy and a jazz-centric approach to her artistry, develops a set of jazz-informed, signature steps and creates …
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LONG-COVID AND COGNITION
… the different factors to consider when assessing marginalized populations reporting neurocognitive concerns. By synthesizing the available research on how Long-COVID affects cognitive function, psychologists will have a blueprint for navigating psychological testing to measure specific …
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The impact of anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion legislation on clinicians and their decision-making and care for marginalized patients : a case study
… and inclusion (DEI) on clinicians' care for marginalized patients in an academic health system. Specifically, the research focuses on the changes initiated in Missouri during 2023, which amplified significant health disparities. This case study employs the primary qualitative method of …
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Investigating the Effects of Facilitating a Participatory Action Research Study at a High School with Small Learning Communities
… in autonomy, empowerment, and giving voice to marginalized populations; and a reflective process that charges participants to look inward, at their immediate context, and at the larger landscape of public education. In separate yet corresponding articles, I hope to contribute to the literature …
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Barriers for Establishment of Clinical Research Units in Safety-Net Health Systems: A Qualitative Study of Leadership Participants With Experience in Federally Qualified Health Centers
… in health systems, healthcare delivery for marginalized populations in specialized healthcare systems, and the research that is conducted within those systems. Additionally, insight is given into the ideas of organizational change readiness and polycentric governance, and how theories within …
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Intersectional Approaches to Climate Action: A Comparative Study of Women's Equality and Indigenous Voices in Iceland and New Zealand
… patterns and irreversible environmental damage. Marginalized populations such as women and indigenous peoples have been disproportionately impacted by climate change and offer unique and valuable perspectives and lived experiences of climate change. This paper adopts an intersectional approach. …
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Integrating health equity into implementation science to advance chronic disease prevention and control
<p>Marginalized populations are inequitably burdened by chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer. The goal of health equity work is to ensure all people have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health. Implementation science has made health equity a greater …
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Fostering Voice, Inviting Dialogic Transformation: Exploring Emergent Communication Practices in Community Collaboration Efforts
… transformation amongst stakeholders coming from marginalized positions within their local communities. Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, inquiry into participant experiences of community conversations amongst four immigrant groups in a small city in the Midwest …
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The Prison-to-School Pipeline & the Role of Private Higher Education in California
… that the criminal justice system has on already marginalized populations-particularly men of color-and our currently very high rates at which the formerly incarcerated return to prisons or jails, it is necessary to determine which programs reduce recidivism and create new opportunities for the …
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Mental Health Care at the Margins: A Critical Ethnography of Psychological Practice in an Inner City Mental Health Setting
… when it comes to mental health care services for marginalized populations. Various studies have addressed the issue of this "gap" in mental health care; however, most adhere to positivist assumptions regarding sociocultural aspects of experience, understanding culture and identity as immutable …
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A Critical Policy Analysis of Universal Preschool in Colorado: Its Roots, Intentions, and Development
… remains limited, particularly for children from marginalized communities. This qualitative critical policy analysis examines transitioning from the targeted Colorado Preschool Program (CPP) to a universal preschool approach through the 2022 Colorado House Bill 1295: Department of Early Childhood …
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