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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"cultural pluralism"”.
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The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
… federal government’s official policy of multiculturalism. The first half employs the methodology of historical biography and examines the life and thought of three Canadian public intellectuals: T. Watson Kirkconnell, Robert England, and John Murray Gibbon. While each of these men developed …
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Literature and cultural pluralism : East Indians in the Caribbean
… which have bedevilled the political, social and cultural life of these societies. For reasons explained in Chapter One, the study focuses mainly on the literature by writers from and about the Indian section of the population. However, the study is concerned not only with the way that the context …
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Cultural Pluralism and Complexity: Analyzing a Cahokian Ritual Outpost
In this study I use micro-scale evidence of day to day living and macroscale regional comparisons, to suggest that toward the end of the Lohmann phase (A.D. 1050-1100), a series of administrative centers were founded in order to more fully integrate upland people into the Cahokian sphere. This in …
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Problems of assimilation and cultural pluralism among Chinese-Americans in San Francisco : an exploratory study
<p>For many years a difference of opinion has existed regarding inter-ethnic relations dealing specifically with the Chinese-Americans. This is all part of the process of social change which is currently taking place in the United States. Not only the Chinese-Americans, but other minorities as …
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Cultural Pluralism, Migration and Ceramics: Reconsidering An Eighteenth Century Yuchi Settlement On the Savannah River (9Ef169)
… Rivers to determine the effect of migration and cultural interaction on cultural continuity through the lens of pottery. Although studies have been conducted in the past, rarely has there been an opportunity to isolate artifacts attributed solely to them. This study attempts to distinguish …
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The Right and the Good: A Case for a Moral System in the Context of Cultural Pluralism
… system is to be preferred in the context of cultural pluralism, this work will consider a line of reasoning which belongs to the teleological tradition of Aristotelian and communitarian ethics. It will not absolutely privilege the good over the right, but rather it will privilege the good …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Origins, Meaning, and Implications for Education of Horace M. Kallen's Cultural Pluralism
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Thinking as a Mere Citizen of the World: Kantian Morality in a Pluralist Frame
… that Kantian morality is more compatible with cultural pluralism than has thus far been acknowledged. Cultural pluralism denotes a normative commitment to the idea that we ought to uphold diversity and protect the rights of individuals within a given society to hold a multiplicity of divergent …
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Community College Faculty Members' Perceived Multicultural Teaching Competence and Attitudes Regarding Cultural Diversity
… and professional skill review to meet multicultural student body needs. In addition, the relationship between these perceptions and faculty characteristics, such as faculty status, gender, race/ethnicity, age, years of teaching experience, program area, teaching locale, instructing locality, …
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Assimilating hybridized architecture
… processes; these include Anglo Conformity, Cultural Pluralism, and Melting Pot. From these theories, it is suspected that the Melting Pot model has the most potential for generating unconventional program usage while being the most challenging model in reconciling pre-determined functions. …
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Development, Delivery, and Utilization of Services Under the Older Americans Act: A Perspective of Asian-American Elderly
… of citizen participation, the theory of cultural pluralism, and the concept of service partnership, this study focused on the Asian American elderly in a large midwestern city to examine the problems related to the development, delivery, and utilization of the services sponsored by the …
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African-American attitudes toward higher education and their struggle with collective identity and the burden of "acting White"
This project explores the cultural shift from the value African- Americans during the time of Washington and DuBois placed on industrial and higher education to the value placed by contemporary African- Americans. This cultural shift is linked to African-American collective identity and the …
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Second Generation Immigrant Adaptation: Construction of a Hybrid Cultural Identity
… perspective to examine the construction of cultural identities in second generation South Asian women. It critiques traditional strategies of immigrant incorporation, including assimilation and cultural pluralism, for their androcentric and essentialist tendencies. It was found that the …
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A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum
… the method, the influence of social context, and cultural pluralism. Next is a review of the theorists whose works support experiential learning: Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Lewin, Bruner, Eisner, Hein, and David Kolb plus master parks interpreter Freeman Tilden. The 8 characteristics they support …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… Some Protestants grew more comfortable with cultural pluralism by midcentury, while remaining reluctant to embrace a religious pluralism that would replace their vision of a Protestant Christian nation. Many Protestant leaders, often holding positions in the Federal/National Council of …
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A study of the 1961 controversy over Chinese and Western cultures in Taiwan
… of 1961. The ethos of what can be called the “cultural conservatism” of Chinese intellectuals – attachment to the ontological perspective on culture and the overemphasis of Chinese spirituality – excluded reflection of the flaws of Chinese culture and could not help intellectuals find the …
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Constructing the Navajo Capital: Landscape, Power, and Representation at Window Rock
… construction technologies were used to establish cultural hierarchies and reinforce discrimination against Navajos in their own homeland, despite other attempts by that administration to promote cultural pluralism. I contend that the design of Window Rock did not reflect the values or concerns of …
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Multiculturalism and identity in Canada : a case-study of Ukrainian-Canadians
… Canadian Congress (UCC) – a national ethno-cultural organisation that ostensibly represents over one million Canadians of Ukrainian heritage and a historically important player in the development of multiculturalism in Canada. The impetus for such an analysis is to explore whether there are …
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[Black] Regional Conferences in the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church Compared with United Methodist [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Annual Conferences with White SDA Conferences, From 1940 - 2001
… 2001. The hypothesis of this study is that the cultural pluralism model is superior to the cultural assimilation model. In addition to the comparative nature of this study, it is also heuristic and descriptive.</p>
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