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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"community forces"”.
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Resident-Led Urban Agriculture And The Hegemony Of Neoliberal Community Development: Eco-Gentrification In A Detroit Neighborhood
… to understand the utilization of neoliberal community-based development—which advocates free-market schemes to development, and a refocus from institutional and structural causes of poverty to endogenous community forces (social capital and community capacity building)—by low-income residents …
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Tragedy of the routing table : an analysis of collective action amongst Internet network operators
… to incentivize route aggregation using social forces and norms in the Internet operator community. This thesis analyzes the behavior of Internet network operators in response to the CIDR Report from 1997 to 2011 to determine whether the Report was effective in achieving this goal. While it is …
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Narrative and Personal Literacy: Developing a Pedagogy of Confidence Building for the Writing Classroom
… narratives points out how home, school, and community forces compete for different meanings of being literate. These stories are often about the struggle for and triumph of confidence. Understanding the sources of support can be especially valuable to teachers. I believe literacy narratives …
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The practice and politics of care : social service organizations, community resilience and the redevelopment of Regent Park
In 2005, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation began the ambitious mixed-income redevelopment of Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing estate. The community has long been subject to race- and class-based stigmatization, and today is one of the last areas of concentrated …
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Essays on Fertility and Fertility Preferences in India
… Using multilevel models, I find that community norms play a strong role in the use of contraception by young women to meet their fertility preferences to space or stop childbearing. I argue that community norms are an influential determinant of young women's ability to regulate their …
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A Phenomenological Study To Engage African-American Youth Voice In Deliberations Regarding Their Response To Schooling
<p>To examine disparities in education, the researcher utilized a naturalistic approach to uncover how youth think, talk, and feel about their response to schooling. Findings are based on in-depth conversations with 12 inner city African-American kids enrolled in Urban, USA middle and high schools, …
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What drives West African Diaspora students to success?
… non-confrontational behavior, and family and community support, all consistent with John Ogbu’s (1998) research. The research used the topics from the interview to categorize prominent themes the participants articulated. The percentage of the participants that mention the importance of …