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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"cultural repertoires"”.
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Inequality in digital personas - e-portfolio curricula, cultural repertoires and social media
… contexts. Teachers often promoted highbrow cultural norms entrenched by white, English medium schooling. The predominance of such norms could disadvantage socially marginalized youths and those developing repertoires in creative industry, crafts or fan art. Furthermore, major technological …
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From Deficit to Diversity: Inviting learners to use their linguistic and cultural repertoires for Literacy Learning
… constructively employ learners’ linguistic and cultural resources can enhance their learning and participation in literacy lessons. In South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, language policies tend to favour English as the sole medium of instruction and oppose multilingual teaching (Creese and …
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class identity modes – strategic …
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An Examination of Cultural Repertoires and Social Ties Related to Surviving, Navigating, and Exiting Chronic Unsheltered Homelessness in Asheville, NC
… increasingly imperative. This study examines how cultural repertoires learned in adolescence influence the daily lives of people experiencing chronic unsheltered homelessness (PECUH) in Asheville, NC, paying particular attention to social ties. Data for this research includes 21 semi-structured …
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Spatial and Cultural Dimensions of Social Service Access in Majority Black Neighborhoods
… access which highlights both the structural and cultural barriers residents face in accessing the social safety net. In particular, I highlight the cultural processes shaping how residents view the social safety net and the cultural repertoires they draw upon to express agency in meeting their …
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IT-enabled cultural retooling: Identifying value and routine discrepancies during enterprise systems pre-implementation
Cultural failings have been blamed as a major source of Enterprise Systems implementation failure; these derive from cultural misconstructions and resistance when IT is introduced. Cultural retooling has been conceptualized as an effective method for overcoming cultural failings in organizations. …
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Language, Culture, and Learning: Supporting Multilingual Learners
This capstone project examines Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory as the main framework for understanding content-area instruction for multilingual learners (MLs). Central constructs such as scaffolding, language as a cultural tool, and social interaction within cultural contexts are explored to …
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Crisis and Prosperity: Status, Accountability and Time in Central Greece
… of the present crisis through what is termed ‘cultural proximity’. This is the notion that previous times of social and economic turmoil, apparently distant points in time, are embodied within the context of the present. Some past epochs of prosperity and crisis have proved more significant …
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Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador (Andes, Urbanism, Marginality, Ethnicity, Symbolism)
… discourse which compete with nonhegemonic cultural beliefs and practices. I therefore look at public responses of some urban, working class mestizo and indigenous residents of Cotocollao to poverty, powerlessness, and ideological themes such as mestizaje (social race mixture), and …
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Tartars at whose gates? Framing Russian identity through political adaptations of nineteenth-century French works by Astolphe de Custine and Jules Verne
… works ultimately led to their entrenchment in cultural repertoires of America and France, where they persist today at the levels of state and popular culture. The analysis concludes that an insistent myth concerning Tartar identity remains embedded in the international imaginary concerning …
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Re-Learning the Script of Parental Involvement in the United States; Three Case Studies of Mexican Parents in Southwest Virginia
… functions. In terms of learning about standard cultural practices of parental involvement parents accommodate to school demands by using various strategies and resources from their funds of knowledge. Parents learn about standard cultural practices of parental involvement and at the same time …
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Voices within sitios y lenguas: a bilingual elementary context
… opportunities to draw on their linguistic and cultural repertoires of knowledge for learning (Gutiérrez & Rogoff, 2003). States, such as Illinois, that require school districts to provide instruction in students' primary language under specific circumstances, can allow us to explore ways that …
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Planning Tremé : the community development field in a post-Katrina world
… c) the radicalization of community organizing repertoires. In New Orleans, these three mechanisms combined with intense civil society conflict, the roll-out of neoliberal deconcentration policy, a weak local political economy, and competing cultural repertoires within the Network to undermine …
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Becoming Japanese and Mexican: A Trans-Pacific Social History of Race, Mestizaje, and Resistance across Five Generations.
… and popular discourses of national, racial and cultural identity in Mexico. These discourses are informed by mestizaje defined in this thesis as a Euro-American settler colonial system that is embodied, organises social relations between indigeneity, asianness, and blackness, and frames …