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Showing 1 to 20 of 1371 for “"belong"”.
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Where I Belong
<p>This project compiled research of my family history to present an honest and creative portrayal of my family’s journey, connecting the stories of my ancestors to the common struggle, movement, and growth of humanity. The Duckworth’s were farmers who came to West Virginia from Maryland in the …
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A Place to Belong
Memoir.
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these words don't belong to me
This thesis, and its companion exhibition, uses my writing as the primary source in its written and visual iterations with a focus on memory and trauma. I examine the “auto-” as it relates to the self while adopting my lived experience as the main subject matter. The goal of this thesis is to …
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
This study explores the lived experience of being parented in childhood and adolescence in individuals with a long history of heroin/crack cocaine dependence. This investigation uses attachment theory (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) as a central pillar of the explanatory …
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LONGING TO BELONG: IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
… by identity self interest - or the "longing to belong" - as by instrumental self interest. The first paper (chapter 2) spells out this insight and its implications for the governance of knowledge intensive organizations; the second paper (chapter 3) offers an empirical test of the fundamental …
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Belong: Poetry and Prose on Being Adopted
<p>A collection of poems and short prose pieces representing various viewpoints of adopted people.</p>
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Becoming to Belong: An Essay on Agency and Democratic Rights
My project develops what I call a dignity oriented model of human agency, and a related approach to human rights; especially democratic rights. I also juxtapose my model of agency against those offered by the liberal and post-modern approaches, and the political positions which flow from these …
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We Belong to the Trees, A Collection of Short Stories
… class in the farming industry. At its core, We Belong to the Trees highlights the tropical regions of Limpopo as the ordinary navigate Post-Apartheid South Africa. It implores one to think about issues such as land-restitution, violence, racism, poverty, crime, and greed. The main concern as a …
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The Need to Belong and Student Grades: Is There a Correlation?
… research examined whether adolescent’s need for belonging is correlated with their first semester grade point averages. This exploratory research will attempt to asses middle school students sense of belongingness through the use of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (Goodenow, …
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A place to belong? The changing place of Church in rural life.
… ethnographic case study explores the process of belonging within a hermeneutic framework. By listening to people talk about their emplaced experiences, I examine how place‐related meanings and identities interact to construct participant’s sense of place. The analysis of the narratives offered by …
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Learning How to Become an Effective Teacher: Creating a Space to Belong
<p>Qualitative observational research, interviews, and student samples explain the complex social structure in my math classroom and my effectiveness as a teacher. The ethnographic narrative will be divided into four major sections. The major sections are Part A, Part B, Part C, and Part D. Part A …
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Peer Victimization and the Need to Belong within the Context of Recess
… context of recess relates to children’s sense of belonging. Participants included 464 students between grades 4 to 8 from nine Southern Ontario elementary schools. Self-report measures on peer victimization and belongingness were completed, along with open-ended questions regarding the recess …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
<p>In this thesis, I examine Elizabeth Gaskell’s development as a middle-class author, which is a position that most scholars take for granted. Moving away from traditional Marxist readings and drawing on revisionist class studies, I reconsider Gaskell as the typical bourgeois woman of her era by …
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“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class
<p>In this thesis, I examine Elizabeth Gaskell’s development as a middle-class author, which is a position that most scholars take for granted. Moving away from traditional Marxist readings and drawing on revisionist class studies, I reconsider Gaskell as the typical bourgeois woman of her era by …
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“If you don’t have anyone in school that’s like you, regardless, you won’t feel like you belong there”; What It Means to Belong for Secondary-aged Pupils from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds, an Emancipatory Study
Introduction Belonging as described by Baumeister and Leary (1995) is a fundamental psychological need. When one does not feel they belong, this can be correlated with negative outcomes such as poor mental health, stress, physical illness and suicide (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). In schools, Goodenow …
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Learning to belong: A study of the lived experience of homeless students in Western Australia
… it was about searching for a place to belong, and a place to be at ‘home’. The study challenges the idea that schooling and housing are merely practical issues. Instead, it illustrates how the social and psychological implications of homelessness have a strong negative impact on …
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