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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"civic identity"”.
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Town Planning, Architectural Conservation, and Civic Identity in Portsmouth, 1939-1974
… that led to this thesis sought to understand how civic identity, and particularly historic civic identity, was imprinted on Portsmouth’s built landscape after the heavy architectural losses of the Second World War. Three thematic concepts, emerging from the initial reading, form the core of the …
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The Transformation of Civic Identity and Local Patriotism in Hamburg, 1790 to 1815
… events stimulated the emergence of a new local identity--Hanseatic solidarity. The city's need to defend its sovereignty and neutrality during the wars of the French Revolution and later Napoleonic conquest prompted Hamburg to unite with the cites of Bremen and Lubeck to improve their common …
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Architecture, festival and order: the history and persistence in the Florentine Feast of San Giovanni and its significance to the city's civic identity
… history - every year church processions and civic parades have been augmented by a series of other events that together combine to represent the city to itself and to others. This re-presentation is not a mask that conceals Florence’s "true" identity, or one that invents something that is not …
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The trajectory of the shifts in academic and civic identity in South African and English secondary school History National Curriculums across two key reform moments
… the trajectories of the kinds of academic and civic identities that four different history curriculums would seek to produce. The curriculum documents chosen are two South African (Curriculum 2005 [1997] and the Curriculum and Policy Statement [2011]) and two English (the first national …
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Literatūros mokymas mokyklose kaip lietuviškos tapatybės politikos priemonė /
… Education Programs as an Instrument of National Identity Politics. It is hard to see the function of ideology in democratic state. One of the fields, where the impact of ideology can be seen in educational policy. Secondary education programs that are provided by political institutions are …
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Patterns of Exile in Greek Tragedy
… in the tragic plays an exploration of civic identity by means of its opposite, reinforcing its importance through its very antithesis. This ideological view of tragic exile is supported by the plays examined which are organized around the following patterns: (1) Tragedies which draw on …
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The evolution of an American small town : an intervention focusing upon re-centralization and diversification
… county farmers with their monthly business and civic needs. This thesis researches the town's origin form and follows its growth after the introduction of the automobile, the connections brought by U.S, Highway System, the effects Industrial Revolution, movement away for an agrarian based …
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Perceptions of citizenship through civic action : a qualitative case study of personally responsible, participatory, and social justice-oriented citizenship in 6th and 7th graders.
… States lack meaningful opportunities to develop civic understanding because social studies instruction has been deprioritized in schools. National data show that most middle school students score below proficiency in civics, and research highlights how the lack of authentic civic learning …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… myth of Telamonian Ajax as a way to express its civic ideology and sociohistorical identity in the decades following the Second Persian Invasion. I argue that Athens used the Ajax myth in order to promote its political interests as Hellenic liberator to the larger Greek world. Because the Persian …
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Baseball's manifest destiny: The good, the bad, and the ugly
… rooting for a collection of superb athletes; civic identity rested in one's baseball team. Losing a team to another city was devastating. For some cities baseball provided the affirmation of civic status, which provides part of the impetus for team relocations. Baseball can provide a portal to …
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Changing Tactics, Changing Identities: Woman’s Suffrage Protests in Washington, D.C., 1913-1920
… the photographs in order to determine which identity, civic or feminine, suffragists embraced. The analysis of photographs from the women’s suffrage movement demonstrations in Washington, D.C. confirms that feminine identity more frequently occurs in parade photographs, while photographs of …
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L.A. Micro-Publics : expanding the seams of the transportation system
… in practice," where traditional notions of identity and citizenship are being radically reconstructed. This thesis examines contemporary Los Angeles as such a site, a heterotopia built on difference, without a coherent civic identity. In this context, the region's transportation system …
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How Public-Private Partnerships and Islam Are Related to Student Achievement: A Case Study of Pakistan
… second educational outcome - student ethics and civic identity. Combining answers to both research questions shows that both top-to-bottom interaction between the government and schools, and bottom-to-top interaction between parents and schools are important for informing education policy that …
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Megaform : a frame of opposition
… have grown outwards over the past 100 years civic identity has been destroyed and the public realm has been lost. Inexpensive land values, the widespread adoption of the internal combustion automobile, government subsidies and propaganda have resulted in a homogenized and privatized city with …
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"Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and Citizenship in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1865
… in the northeast slowly abandoned a vision of civic non-consumption that rested on the strength of imperial boycotts and instead converted their consumption of luxury goods and products into a civic act. This dissertation reveals how these citizens challenged the limitations that a republican …
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Evaluating civic technology design for citizen empowerment
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. Despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Valley companies that espouse design goals potentially hazardous to participatory democracy. In this dissertation, I explore: How might we design civic technologies for …
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Shaping the Dream: A Survey of Post-World War II St. Petersburg, 1946-1963
… comfort. City leaders reaching for a dynamic civic image worried about the city's reputation as a haven for the elderly, but education leaders ordered three new high schools built to serve the burgeoning white student population. The mid-century boom revived an optimistic spirit while raising …
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Peripheral backwater or innovative upland? : patterns of Franciscan patronage in renaissance Perugia, c. 1390 - 1527
… in training, political stability, increased civic identity, and an aspirational humanist court. Chapters 3 and 4 assess the dominance of the Peruginesque style. They propose that Raphael's early success lay in his perfection of this aesthetic, along with female BaglionilOddi and Franciscan …
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Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese
… merely reflect the socio-political ideals and identity of the city, but actively participate in and shape these agendas. Some of these small temples were administered by the city state, but located outside the urban space and functioned as markers of expansion and territorial influence of the …
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Contesting for power in public performance: hegemonic struggles in the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival
… of hegemony on the creation of cultural identity-specifically the cultural identity of Morgan City, Louisiana-through the annual performance of the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival of that city. The information utilized in this study was assembled from a variety of sources: …
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