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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"community research"”.
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Ethnographic Narrative Project: Becoming Ms. Vue
… opportunities ahead. With the ethnography research of my own classroom and students, this will inform me of who and how to love my students. And with the community research, it’ll help my students become human and allow me to contextualize what they bring into the classroom.</p>
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Sensitivity Training Symposium: For Museum Staff and Docents
… how to apply techniques learned to the disabled community. Research was done with the use of two different approaches to sensitivity training techniques, four books, seven journal articles, and four websites. Three major points of focus for the Symposium will be inclusion, sensitivity training, …
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HISPANICS' UNDER-UTILIZATION OF HOSPICE CARE SERVICES
… of hospice services by the Hispanic community. Research in hospice services indicates that the Hispanic community underutilizes end-of-life resources when compared to their majority counterparts, European Americans. Research that has controlled for variables such as socio-demographic …
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Positive Youth Development Among Latino/a Youth in a Service Learning Program
… with age. Results and implications for future research are discussed, as are issues related to academic-community research collaborations.
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A contemporary civil rights issue: the thoughts of African American Christian religious leaders and university professors on seeking public office (a life history method)
"This research examines the historical evidence abounds with examples of how African Americans sought control and agency in the struggle for freedom throughout American history. More specifically, it is a study of their fight for economic, political, and educational rights from the 1960s to the …
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Community: Collaboration For Leadership And Professional Learning In Rural Northern New England
<p>Through instrumental case study, this research sought to better understand a potentially effective model for rural principals’ professional development, illustrated by one bounded case--here a self-convened professional learning community. Research questions included inquiry into the needs or …
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Correlates and outcomes of severe bullying: internalizing maladjustments of adolescent bullies, victims and bully- victims
… was completed by the Youth Lifestyle Choices: Community Research Alliance (YLCCURA). The students completed a self-report questionnaire on a number ofmeasures; including, bullying, victimization, self-esteem, social anxiety, depression and body image. The results of this study suggest that …
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An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy
… and paradoxical situations faced by Native researchers in the academy and in research with their own communities or with other Native communities. Thematic analysis was conducted on narratives from 12 semi-structured interviews from participants across the country. Three major themes emerged …
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The Student-Leader Voice in Restorative Justice Practices
… to determine what works best for their school community. Research suggests that there are numerous benefits to developing a restorative program at a school but studies largely exclude the student perspective. Since students are a central part of a meaningful restorative justice program, it is …
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On the life history, systematics and ecology of Ruppia maritima L. (Potamogetonaceae) in lower Chesapeake Bay
… form an important submerged aquatic vegetation community. Research in Chesapeake Bay has focused primarily on Zostera marina. Ruppia maritima occurs abundantly in large monospecific stands as well as in mixed stands with Zostera marina. Recent surveys have shown that natural revegetation in some …
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Computational criminology: at-scale quantitative analysis of the evolution of cybercrime forums
… by members to share hacking techniques, general community-building discussions, and trade hacking tools. While there is a large corpus of literature studying these platforms, from a cross-forum ecosystem comparison to smaller qualitative analyses of specific crime types within a single forum, …
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Aspects of Japanese computer-mediated communication : linguistics and socio-cultural perspectives
… <p>In the following chapters, concepts of online community are employed to discuss politeness issues in conjunction with the sense of community. Here differences in discussion topics are found to be relevant to both the sense of community and linguistic choices of polite/impolite language, across …
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Water management in Latin America: political resistance strategies and types of community. Comparative case studies of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia
This research investigates the causal relation between resistance to water management strategies and types of community in Latin America, and establishes whether communitarianism, communicative community or post-modern community are merely ideal-types or if they coexist in real-life communities. …
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Far-UV to Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby Merging Galaxies
… Inclusion” have become buzz words in STEM, as research continues to show achievement and participation gaps for women, people of color, disabled persons, those of low socio-economic status, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Research about the STEM gaps has existed for decades, particularly …
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Evaluation of spatial fragmentation of protected areas using the Spatial Assessment for Coastal Protected Areas in Caribbean Small Island Developing States
… of storms. Although there is substantial research to support the retention of contiguous coastal ecosystems as a response to disasters, coastal ecosystems in Caribbean SIDS are plagued with the continued human encroachment. Resulting in heighten vulnerabilities for burgeoning coastal …
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Gender-based violence: strengthening the role and scope of prehospital emergency care by promoting theory, policy and clinical praxis
… a 'conceptual compass' for preventing systemic research bias. The cohort study found bio-psycho-social responses and prehospital screening for domestic violence effective and that the evaluation of prehospital met/unmet need was prudent. The historical domestic violence detection rate was found …
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Modelling socio-economic dynamics in a working class desegregation area in post-industrial, post-Apartheid South Africa : the case of Danville-Elandspoort, Pretoria
Within post-Apartheid research there is little to no research into poor historically White areas which are experiencing rapid rates of desegregation. It is in these cases a researcher could pose a question to whether or not Apartheid’s race-class divisions are still prevalent. A further gap in …
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'Thinking-through-Complicity' with Te Iwi o Ngāti Hauiti: Towards a Critical Use of Participatory Video for Research
… and dangers of participatory video for research (PVR) involving Indigenous Māori and Pākehā research partners. The project within which PVR was used focused on exploring relationships between place, identity and social cohesion within ‘remote’ rural communities. It involved about 15 …
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Reciprocal Technologies: Enabling the Reciprocal Exchange of Voice in Small-Scale Farming Communities through the Transformation of Information and Communications Technologies
… exchange of voice—an element for constructing community and strengthening political recognition—may be fostered in small-scale farming communities by (1) the appropriation and transformation of information and communications technologies, (2) artistic intervention, and (3) cross-community …
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A Superintendent's Role in Creating Community
… and encourage risk-taking. The literature on community seeks to provide models for schools to adopt in an effort to build relationships that significantly impact teaching and learning. Those relationships occur internally within a school and school district as well as externally with the wider …
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