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Showing 1 to 20 of 773 for “"Privilege"”.
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Disrupting Privilege: A High School Curriculum
<p>Current privilege pedagogy scholarship demonstrates the importance of understanding privilege as an entryway into critical studies and everyday community engagement. Thus, this dissertation argues that privilege must be introduced into education earlier, such as high school. In order to …
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Severance pay - a right or a privilege?
It is widely accepted that an employee should be paid severance pay in the event of him losing his job through no fault of his own. In 1963 the International Labour Organisation ("ILO") reflected upon the predicament of such employees and passed a recommendation that "Some form of income protection …
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An exploratory scale of Christian privilege: The development of a scale to measure the attitudinal constituents of Christian privilege
<p>Research surrounding measures of privilege awareness commonly involve White privilege awareness. However, relatively few (i.e., Privilege and Oppression Inventory) look other forms of privilege (i.e., heterosexual, sexism, religion). As such, this study looked to create a more extensive scale …
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Becoming an educator: identity, music education, and privilege
… for access of white male students and privilege in music education. An overarching question guiding this research is: How does the interrogation of such white privileges inform how one develops their identity as a music educator, a researcher, an academic, a husband, a father, a human, …
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Privilege in Families: Complexity in Adult Sibling Relationships
The purpose of this study was to examine privilege in families and uncover the complexities of sibling relationships in adulthood. Through interviewing 13 adult siblings and 3 mothers from 4 families my goal was to gain a clearer picture of what privilege in families means. The sample consisted of …
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Learning Through Privilege: My Teaching and Educational Journey
<p>This ethnography traces my journey teaching kindergarten in the Pico Union neighborhood in Los Angeles. Its purpose is to understand the macro and micro levels of the community to inform my teaching practices and support my students and families. On a micro-level, I conducted case studies on …
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Reproduction of white privilege in visual art education
… the theories of reproduction, hegemony, White privilege, “Other”-ing, colorblindness, and dominator relations as they relate to race and class normalization as found in six separate journals of art education over a five-year period. An exposition of the current literature of art education for …
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Jewish Perspectives on Christian Privilege: a Consensual Qualitative Study
<p>Although multicultural considerations, privilege, and oppression are of current interest across the field, much of the extant research has failed to explore religiosity as a component of the psychological literature. Using Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) the authors set out to gain an …
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White Privilege Attitudes Scale—General Version: A Validation Study
<p>The White Privilege Attitudes Scale assesses the level of awareness and attitudes of White privilege in counseling students. The current study provided further validation for this scale in use with the general public by collecting data from 305 adults. The subsequently revised WPAS-GV contains …
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White privilege in the face of COVID-19 threat.
Recent work on the psychology of privilege posits that evidence of White Privilege poses a threat to White individuals' self- regard, motivating defensive responding. However, existing literature explores this phenomenon as a unitary source of threat, without consideration of external conditions …
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PRIMA - Privilege Management and Authorization in Grid Computing Environments
… working groups, direct delegation of access privileges among users, procedures for establishing trust relationships without requiring organizational level agreements, precise management by individuals of their privileges, and retention of authority by resource providers. Existing systems fail …
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Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health
… health sector practice institutional racism and privilege and how it can be transformed. Through dialogue with Māori working within the health sector, fuelled by critical analysis and strategic advice from a research whānau (family) of Māori health leaders and a Pākehā Tiriti worker, and …
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Placental angiogenesis and immune-privilege in normal and pathological pregnancies
… in IUGR. Additional studies pertaining to immune-privilege of trophoblasts and choriocarcinoma have also been provided which indicated co-expression of Fas and FasL in malignant trophoblasts. The data suggest that choriocarcinoma cells could evade immune attack by down regulation of Fas receptors …
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White Lies: A Critical Race Study of Power and Privilege
This was a phenomenological study of racial privilege as experienced by White people who have struggled to become more racially aware and socially active in dismantling racism and White privilege. The primary conceptual framework for this study was Critical Race Theory with Transformative Learning …
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Partner selection in post-reform China: Power, privilege, and norms
… redistribution of resources enjoyed most of the privileges in the regime. The re-introduction of market brought new incentives and opportunities that altered the distribution of resources and hence the sources of power and privilege. Inspired by and extended from the investigations on the sources …
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A General Legal Right to Conscientious Exemption: Beyond Religious Privilege
The thesis shows that there is a general legal right to exemption for conscientious objectors in the US, Canada and UK. It shows that it is a limited right: exemptions may be lawfully denied to protect the rights of others or important public interests. The thesis then investigates whether such a …
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Whose Streets? Our Streets!: Identity, Institutions, and Privilege in Student Activism
… identity, and the role of social structures and privilege in activism. The study uses data from two years of in-depth fieldwork including over 18 months of participant observation and interviews with 13 key respondents. I took on this research project to better understand how students come to …
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First Generation Learners in Higher Education: Tales of Shame and Privilege
… ability to maintain the systemic barriers and privilege that surrounds HE. This thesis will explore HE’s systemic barriers and the academic culture of privilege by connecting HE’s oppressive practises to an institutional sense of cultural privilege, classist approaches and marginalization of …
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Multicultural Efficacy Among White Resident Hall Directors: Predicting White Privilege Attitudes
… research examining the various aspects of White privilege attitudes. This study extended White privilege research by incorporating the predictive relationships of multicultural efficacy, multicultural empathy, multicultural experience, and multicultural training in assessing White privilege …
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