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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"bedroom community"”.
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What We Are Nostalgic For: Place-Making and Social Capital in Local Museums
… between the Sooke Region Museum and its community of Sooke, British Columbia. Employing ethnography, autoethnography, and an interdisciplinary framework, this research contributes to an understanding of the importance of local museums to community self-definition and place-making. I make …
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The once and future steel town: The narrative identities of a local community
… thesis examines the changing identity of a local community, Weirton, West Virginia, in terms of narratives shared by members of that community. Weirton was home to Weirton Steel, one of the largest steel mills in the United States. Since 1909, when Weirton Steel was founded, the mill provided …
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A school council's influence on community involvement in a Saskatchewan community
… the role a school council played in encouraging community involvement in a K to 12 school located within a bedroom community. This qualitative case study included data collected from 35 semi-structured individual interviews conducted with Sunshine’s School Community Council (SCC) members, …
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The community loses when it loses farmers: impacts of a changing local farmland market
An ethnographic community case study was conducted to document the impact of recent farmland-market changes on the social fabric of a small, typical Central Illinois rural community of 1,000. Using a multi-method research design, data were obtained from: 1) extensive participant-observation of …