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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"capitals"”.
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The Two Capitals of Islam
Saudi Arabia and Iran have long been fomenters of radical Islam and terror. One purpose of this thesis is to explain and give examples of Saudi and Iranian efforts to increase Middle Eastern instability. The other purpose of this thesis is to lay out a series of policy recommendations for the …
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Ghanaian diasporic migrant students: challenges, culture and capitals
… children in lower set classes on arrival; the capitals that the children possess that enable them to navigate their learning and acculturation, as well as familial and community capitals. The data also raises issues of institutional racism and how this is experienced and managed by the …
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Migrants becoming mathematics teachers : personal resources and professional capitals
… discuss how these student teachers adapt their capitals, as described in migration studies by Erel (2010) and Nowicka (2015) and how, during initial teacher training (ITT), they develop professional capitals for the teaching of mathematics (Nolan, 2012). Recent migration flows have led to a …
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Community capitals, community attachment, and migration in the Iowa small towns
… will use a modified version of the community capitals framework to better understand what community factors affect in- and out-migration in Iowa small towns. The study uses data from a survey of 99 small Iowa communities combined with information from the American Community Survey in 2014 to …
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CONCEPTUALIZING ONE’S SELF-EFFICACY AS ADVOCATE: PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AS EMBODIED IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CAPITALS
… as embodied in social and cultural capitals, as espoused by Bourdieu (1986). The present study was guided by the following research questions: How do educator-parents and non-educator parents perceive their efficaciousness as advocates for their own children with exceptionalities? …
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Sponsored brain drain? Examining the lived experiences of Ghanaian scholarship recipients and administrators' perspectives through capitals and a postcolonial lens.
While many studies on brain drain have examined its impact on migrant-sending countries, few have explored its implications for government-sponsored education. This study introduces the concept of "sponsored brain drain" to describe situations where students funded by state scholarships do not …
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Analyzing cultural initiatives¿ effects on subjective wellbeing in urban areas. Capitals of Culture compared through textual analysis and Machine Learning.
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Cumulative Disadvantage, Poverty, And The Role Of Community Capitals: A Spatial Analysis Of Uneven Development In The Multi-State Delta Region
… as human and social capital. These community capitals can be recognized, and then cultivated to increase a community's agency, even in the face of accumulated disadvantage. This study takes a spatially-oriented approach to sociology to evaluate household income and family poverty when …
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The Capital Sculpture of Wells Cathedral, c. 1184-1210
… this project examines the Wells figural capitals in five case studies: labour, Old and New Testament Scenes, animals and beast fables, busts, and monsters and hybrids. Each group of capitals will be approached with an understanding that this type of art was viewed by people of different …
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ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΑΚΑ ΚΙΟΝΟΚΡΑΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΨΙΜΗ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ
… TECHNICALLY AS WELL AS STYLISTICALLY 129 CAPITALS AND 45 PILASTER CAPITALS FROM THE WHOLE PROVINCE WHICH TODAY BELONGS TO GREECE, YUGOSLAVIA AND BULGARIA.
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Cataract surgical services in Madagascar
… 1st and December 31st, 2012 in 8 regional capitals (districts) of Madagascar. 1072 cataract operated eyes from 8 regional capitals supported by Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology (KCCO) satellite centers were analysed. Results: The study findings demonstrated a borderline …
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Identification and Explanation of Regional Development Poles in Haiti
… the potential growth poles are the regional capitals that have a constitutional mandate to promote and manage the development of their region. I have tested some of the assumptions of dependency and growth pole theories on Haiti, using the eight regional capitals as units of analysis. Using …
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Critical analysis of the contribution of smallholder dairy farming to the livelihoods of households: The case of Nharira, Zimbabwe
… terms of human, social, physical and financial capitals, have improved. Nor is there knowledge on its negative contribution to the farmers’ livelihoods. Thus, this study was undertaken to critically analyse the contribution of smallholder dairy farming towards the livelihoods of rural households …
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Designing national identity : recent capitols in the post-colonial world
… conditions, the architecture of national capitals raises especially complicated questions about power and identity. The architecture of a national capitol, as the seat of government within a national capital, is often a continuation of politics by other means. Part One provides an overview …
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
… and subconsciously developed practical capitals such as linguistic infrastructure, earned strength and durable social networks to negotiate the "everyday disasters" that they face. In conjunction with disaster capital, this unexpectedly became a major source of their remarkable …
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Navigation of food insecurity in LSES Latina students through community cultural wealth.
… analyzed how the seven Community Cultural Wealth capitals interacted with these elements. All three categories had significant familial and social capital within them. Aspirational capital, which was found in the indirect non-material category, was also found to lead to navigational capital in the …
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Explaining the low rate of migrant self-employment in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
… focusing on the role of the social and economic capitals at the disposal of migrants in generating the above trend. I demonstrated this through an analysis of the two most prominent challenges discussed by participants: weak consumer demand for their goods and services and the struggle to access …
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Access to mainstream primary education environments: the case for pupils with an intellectual and/or a pervasive developmental disability
… objectives through the provision of appropriate capitals at multiple levels. The research argues that appropriate cultural capital is not widely available to educators toward the provision of equal citizenship rights for these pupils and that inadequate investment in multiple forms of capital …
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‘Working for nothing?’ : how do students and graduates utilise unpaid work for career mobilities?
… with less social, cultural and economic capitals. New graduates in 2016 accrued an average debt of £44,500 plus interest and faced strong competition in the labour market due to the record numbers of graduates and insufficient appropriate vacancies. Whilst paying for a degree may …
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