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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Rural place"”.
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Food, art, books : a case study of the cultural politics of rural place branding
… this thesis examines the development of <i>rural</i> place brands in three towns in Scotland. Engaging with the literatures on place branding and entrepreneurial governance, and the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis critically examines how and why the place brands in a rural …
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Where roots run deep: fostering youth environmental motivation through livelihoods in rural place-based education
… comes with a few challenges (especially in rural school districts). Additionally, youth in the US are less likely to be motivated to act on environmental issues in comparison to youth in other countries. To target student environmental science motivation in an intermountain west region of …
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Experiences of Place and Change in Rural Landscapes: Three English Case Studies
This thesis examines how changes to rural places and landscapes are experienced by residents and incorporated into place attachments and identities over time. It does so through exploring findings from seventy-eight qualitative, ‘emplaced’, oral history interviews in three English villages: Mullion …
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Exploring the Role of Rural Community–College Partnerships in Sustainable Community Development: A Case Study of Selkirk College, British Columbia, Canada
This study examines how rural community–college partnerships contribute to sustainable community development in rural Canada through an explanatory, embedded case study of Selkirk College, located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. Three embedded units were investigated: the School …
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Sustainable Digital Neighbourhoods: A Case Study of People, Place and Technology under the Rural Village Condition
… broadband use, social interaction and the place in which people live. Fieldwork has involved working in an embedded manner within a central case study neighbourhood, a rural Cornish village – St Breward. A wide range of methods has been employed, including social network analysis, survey …
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Understanding Place and Rurality in Engineering Education through Pathways and Engagement
… has given little attention to the impacts of place, or geography, on educational access particularly as it relates to academic preparation resources, educational pathways, and careers in engineering. My multi-method dissertation seeks to address this gap in the literature across three …
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Contemporary Spirituality, the Physically Active Rural Tourist and the Geography of Place: a case study of the Lake District
… of space-specific tourist activities, such as rural tourism. Once the domain of philosophers, academic knowledge of place, sense of place and place attachment has largely become the territory of human geographers who have contributed to defining these concepts and who, moreover, are responsible …
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Public policy alternatives for self-help (Harambe) schooling in Kenya
… the increase in the number of secondary school places in most parts of the country. The government has accepted that Harambe schools have been a blessing to the rural people. The government has encouraged the traditional efforts of self-help in the rural communities of Kenya. Harambe schools …
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Examining a Place-Based Curriculum for High-Performing Learners: A Place-Based, Critical, Dialogic Curriculum for High-Performing Rural Writers
Students' connections to place are important to bring into the classroom to help them make meaning. This multimethod study investigated the overarching research question: What is the influence of a place-based curriculum on high-performing, rural students as writers? This was broken into two …