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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"cultural gap"”.
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The Exodus Experiment: Theatrically Bridging the Cultural Gap
As a theatre professional and a practicing Christian, I have found it very difficult to bring my two worlds together. Theatre is a tool for education, discussion, and understanding. In my work on this project, I have explored the ways in which theatre can and cannot help us understand each other on …
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Evangelical and Aboriginal Christianity on Baffin Island: A Case Study of Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik), 1929-1934
… in defining the parameters of that physical and cultural gap between the Anglican missionaries and the Tununermiut, the traditional residents of that area, in their first five years at Pond Inlet (Mittimatalik). In framing this discussion not only in terms in history and society, but those of …
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Intersection : poems and permutations
… to establish a stable home across a wide cultural gap.
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An art museum for a small city
… time. It can sponsor and house local social, cultural and scientific projects. It can, if it will, do all of these things, and it may be designed to serve more specialized needs or an individual community… The purpose, then, of this thesis is to design a museum type for the small city; one …
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Wrestling with Tradition: Japanese Activities at Amache, a World War II Incarceration Facility
… inter-generational practices helped to bridge a cultural gap that existed between several generations of Japanese Americans. For many incarcerated Japanese Americans, their first exposure to many traditional activities occurred during incarceration. The resulting social environment incorporated …
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"Relationships Between Human and Planets": Student Housing Based on Courtyard Planning
… with each other and share their social and cultural values. At the same time creating spaces that provides a sense of safety and privacy has become important. The site was located in the hustle and bustle of the city, which itself challenging in terms of maintaining a quite and calm …
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Unpacking The Cultural Relevance Of The High School Experiences Of African-American Males
<p>Despite the vast research on cultural competence and student engagement, little is known about the perspectives of the Black male students who have graduated from any New Jersey public schools This qualitative, phenomenological, multi-case study examines the experiences of Black male students …
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Sisterhood or surveillance?: the development of working girls' clubs in London 1880-1939
… investigates the Girls' Club Movement in multi-cultural London from the 1880s to 1939 and situates it within the context of gender, class and race. Part One places the clubs in their historicalcontext and critically examines issues of poverty, sexual purity, morality, femininity and ethnicity. …
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Understanding Chinese American Parents: The Interplay of Chinese Tradition and Early Childhood Music Education in the United States
… a reciprocal relationship that bridges this "cultural gap" and balances traditional Chinese values with early childhood music education best practices in the United States.
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Contributing Factors that Affect the Achievement of African-American Females Taught by Caucasian Teachers on the Arkansas Literacy Exam: A Case Study
… need to include culture.</p> <p><em>Keywords: Cultural gap, Caucasian teachers African-American females, high school, functional literacy, achievement gap, high expectations, resiliency, self-efficacy, multicultural education </em></p>
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The role of education in maintaining the Islamic identity of Muslims in Bradford
… Muslim and non Muslim. They also reflect a cultural gap between Muslim youths and their parents and between Muslims and non Muslims. Education could play a very important role to fill this gap.
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Enclave : testing city for Korean reunification
… of that movement to reduce the economic and cultural gap between two countries. To do so, this thesis proposes a sequence of urban strategy and architectural types that transforms their everyday life toward a mixed type of city, instead of a replication of one country.
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Metaphors in translation : an investigation of a sample of Quran metaphors with reference to three English versions of the Quran
… as a means to enhance communication among multicultural nations. Translation studies have contributed significantly in bridging the linguistic and the cultural gap among languages. However, the key literature of this study suggests that, translating metaphors and translating metaphors of the …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… logic of their own ontology and cosmology, or cultural mode of being. Drawing upon field research with the Gurindji people of Daguragu in Northern Territory, this thesis explores the Gurindji analysis of Australian colonial history. This project represents an alternative framework, namely a …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… logic of their own ontology and cosmology, or cultural mode of being. Drawing upon field research with the Gurindji people of Daguragu in Northern Territory, this thesis explores the Gurindji analysis of Australian colonial history. This project represents an alternative framework, namely a …
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A qualitative case study exploring high school teachers' perceptions of culturally relevant pedagogy on fostering equitable and inclusive classrooms.
… (Gay, 2010; Sleeter, 2017). Bridging the cultural gap between teachers and students must be addressed to ensure student achievement in diverse student populations. This qualitative holistic single case study explored how high school teachers perceive culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) for …
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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY : ERASING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST
… world. Assuming political, economic, and cultural superiority, the Western powers imposed their methods of governing system, economy, language and culture upon the colonized countries. Distinctions between European and non-European were prevalent in every area: history, linguistics, race …
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Twelve Tales of Engineering in the "Real World:" Narratives of Newcomers' Agency in Transitions to Engineering Work
… and higher education. There may not be a gap between school and work (Modestino, Shoag and Balance, 2016), and if there is one, it might be a socio-cultural gap that is unreasonable for universities to accept the full responsibility of narrowing. More problematic is that establishing …
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The Project Community Framework: Towards Bridging the Gap between User Centred Design and Academic Scientific Software Development
… itself.<br/>This research investigates the gap between UCD and SSD, so that UCD may be more widely applied to the scientific software development process. The research explores how UCD may become more closely integrated into the development of scientific software, so that scientific software …
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Ethical leadership: A multi-study Eastern perspective
… conceptualisations, overlooking the unique cultural nuances of the East. The cultural traditions, philosophical views, and religious beliefs in the Eastern world imply culturally specific ethical leadership characteristics that may not align with Western-centric measures. This underscores …
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