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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Social Advocacy"”.
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Consumer Attachment and Corporate Social Advocacy: Leveraging Political Behaviors to Bolster Organization-Public Relationships
… political debates. As these types of corporate social advocacy become increasingly common, much is still unknown as to how they affect consumer perceptions of the organization, attitudes regarding their relationship with the organization, and their future purchase or behavioral intentions.</p> …
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Corporate social advocacy and racial justice : a critical analysis of Dove's CROWN Act campaign
… how Dove's CROWN Act campaign utilized corporate social advocacy (CSA) to challenge or reinforce dominant racial, gender, and cultural norms while positioning itself as an advocate for Black women. A critical textual analysis was conducted of Dove's web-based campaign materials, and Critical Race …
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Music, musicians, and social advocacy: Environmental conservation, knowledge-sharing, and cultivating a culture of wisdom in northern Tanzania
… on the relationship between hip hop and social problems such as poverty and drug-use among urban youth. While individual artists and groups of people brought together by their shared interest in music have both been included in this research, their engagement with local and global …
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Graphic communication design practice for sustainable social advocacy in Pakistan: Co-developing contextually responsive communication design (GCD) methodologies in culturally diverse contexts
… design, as a significant tool for sustainable social advocacy, is still under-explored both academically and within creative practices worldwide. In a developing country like Pakistan, the role of social advocacy as an effective tool for social change is ambiguous. This practice-led research …
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Transforming Words Into Action: Factors Predicting Social Justice Engagement Among Psychology Doctoral Students
… our understanding about factors that predict social justice advocacy engagement can aid educators in choosing learning approaches that promote both personal and institutional change (Goodman et al., 2004). The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that may be related to social …
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Teacher social justice advocacy for children: a scale development and preliminary validity
Social injustices on the school, neighborhood, societal, and family level can affect certain populations of children and these injustices have been associated with school-related consequences, including: unequal access to education opportunities, decreased academic achievement, grade repetition, …
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National Social Work Faculty Responses About BSW and MSW Practice Domains: Working Within a Dilemma
… flexibility is a viable, conceptual model for social work practice. Bounded flexibility allows social work to fulfill its historic mission of social advocacy while maintaining methods that have a high degree of standardization and predictability of outcomes. The author asserts that further …
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A qualitative case study identifying leadership roles that significantly impact the integration of technology in secondary schools
… (c) professional learning communities, and (d) social advocacy/digital citizenship. Furthermore, focus-group sessions were conducted with principals in order to determine (a) pre-existing policy and practice concerning technology integration, (b) significance of leadership behaviors and …
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Coming of Age in Spite of the Contrast of Vagueness: Native Speaker and The House on Mango Street as Erziehungsroman
… That both characters eventually turn to social advocacy as a solution not only to their own educational struggles but also to the ghettoization of their ethnic communities suggests cosmopolitanism as a solution to the constraints of the contract of vagueness, both for Henry and Esperanza …
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The Experiences of Women Reintegrating After Prison: An Explorative Qualitative Study on Women Released from Prisons and Jails in Canada
… custody, with system-related, economic and social needs for reintegration enduring following community re-entry. Insights from this project support the development of targeted programming to address gender-specific needs, such as individualized and holistic service, trauma-informed …
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Shifting the Atmosphere : An Examination of the Relationships among African-American Female Discourse(s), Culturally Competent Education, and Social Action through the Black Church against Domestic Violence
… rural African-American women's discourses and social advocacy/action against the social ill of domestic violence in order to provide insights into existing knowledge about the relationships among womanist discourse(s) and cultural competence used in effective educational practices. In this …
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Illuminating the Trauma of the Closet Among Sexual Minorities: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Study of Existential Rights
… research method to produce social advocacy films (<a href="http://pfcollective.com/">pfcollective.com)</a></p>
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Heterosexual Parents' Gender Role Attitudes, Religious Orientation, Heterosexist Beliefs, Support Group Experiences, and Relationship Functioning with their Lesbian or Gay Children
… parents' experiences with psychoeducation and social support (including overall involvement in a support group as well as involvement in support, education, and advocacy activities). Participants were contacted through chapters of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). The final …
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Toward a Biblical and Missiological Framework for Transformational Advocacy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… accommodation, positional statements, and direct advocacy approaches. Although advocacy has become more prominent among Adventist thinkers since the end of the twentieth century, there is a lack of empirical data which answer questions related to contemporary Adventists' beliefs and practices in …
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The Seminarts experience: restructuring a ninth grade transitional program in a whole school arts academy
… maneuver all of these experiences with complex social-emotional and physiological upheavals associated with adolescence. For some students, this transition to high school has negative consequences that lead to achievement loss and dropping out of school. Because of this, effective transitional …
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Speaking up-speaking out: What does it take to prepare early childhood professionals to advocate for children and families?
The early childhood profession regards advocacy as a professional and ethical responsibility yet little is known about advocacy instructional practices in teacher education programs. This study surveyed selected early childhood teacher educators who currently prepare undergraduate preservice …
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The impact of childhood homelessness in Aotearoa’s education spaces: Educators’ ever-expanding roles with children and whānau
… to understand, consider, and address physical, social, and mental-emotional well-being when working with children experiencing homelessness. Specifically, the educators shared that, unless there was a focus on “Hauora” (an Indigenous Māori language term for holistic well-being) when working with …