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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"culturally grounded"”.
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Righteous Commitment: Renewing, Repairing, and Restoring the World—Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement
… addresses decades of mis-education through culturally grounded adult education activities that help communities understand the linkages between environmental degradation and poor governance, and educate people to participate in democracy. The study describes Maathai’s philosophy and how it …
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Japanese Perspectives on Supporting the Well-Being of Maltreated Children in State Care: The Concept of Ibasho
… significance of this study is its explication of culturally grounded beliefs and practices related to child well-being, which give voice to maltreated children as well as frontline workers. By conducting research in Japan that examines Ibasho for maltreated children who lived in state care, I …
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A dissertation lecture recital of Javanese gamelan elements in Godowsky's Java Suite
… his assimilation as uniquely informed and culturally grounded.
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Exploring Thriving of Inuit Youth Through an Engagement Lens: A Strengths-Based Focus on Factors Related to Nunavummiut Youth's Participation in a Psycho-Educational Mental Health Project
… in mental wellness using a strengths-based, culturally grounded approach. Existing literature primarily focuses on environmental science and addresses solely physical and educational barriers. The current study aimed to identify multi-systemic factors that may directly or indirectly support …
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Integrating Aesthetics: Transforming Continuing and Professional Education Through Africentric Practice
… at African Centered institutions, and 4) what culturally grounded strategies can be transferred to a traditional continuing education model for K-12 practitioners? The data collection instruments were document analysis, interviews, site visits (observations), and photography. To interpret field …
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Whakapakari i te maia tikanga i roto i te kaupapa Māori: Strengthening tikanga practice with Māori survivors of sexual violence
… violence within a kaupapa Māori service context. Grounded in Kaupapa Māori theory and conducted at Te Puna Oranga, a Māori-led social service organisation, this study investigates how workforce development, strengthening practice, enhancing capability, and knowledge building intersect to foster …
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Imagery, Technology, and Remote Adult Aboriginal Teacher Candidates: A Brock University Pilot Project
… as methodology is used to keep the research culturally grounded, and tenets of narrative inquiry further support the study. Results indicate there are strong connections to curricula enhanced with imagery—most notably a spiritual connection. Findings also reveal that identity associated to …
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
… I find that Western rationality is ultimately a culturally-grounded discourse. Using Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God, I examine the intersection between Western rationality and other forms of cultural knowledge, an intersection that occurred through British colonialism. Achebe argues against the …
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The Relationship Between Historical Trauma, Ethnic Identity, and Well-Being in Sikh Emerging Adults
… protective factor and underscore the importance culturally grounded, responsive frameworks for understanding trauma and resilience in diasporic Sikh communities.</p>
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Aboriginal women in education : Honouring our experiences a vision of access to and success within the university
… educational specifications for responsive and culturally relevant programming that will assist Aboriginal women in developing and maintaining strong cultural identities. Findings reveal the need for curriculum that focuses on decolonizing and reclaiming Aboriginal women's identities, and …
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Colonialism, Customary Authority, and Constitutionalism: Rethinking Gender, Justice, and Tenure Reform in South Africa through Ubuntu and Intersectionality
… ambiguity and hinder substantive equality. Grounded in feminist legal theory, this study conceives law as a gendered and contested social field rather than a neutral instrument. It draws from feminist socio-legal scholarship to interrogate how power, discourse, and interpretation reproduce …
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Disaster risk reduction in Africa: is the institutionalization of traditional leaders key?
… management, environmental stewardship, and culturally grounded adaptation practices. Overall, the study finds that traditional leaders can play an important role in shaping DRR governance and that formally recognizing and integrating them into DRR frameworks can strengthen preparedness, …
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Family Risk Factors Present in Hispanic Latine Children Who are Undergoing an Extended Forensic Interview
… behavior standardized measures may not have been culturally relevant, and only the presence of relatively severe abuse involving penetration was predictive. Recommendations include validating trauma measures on Hispanic-Latine samples, using precise acculturation measures, ensuring assessments are …
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN OPPORTUNITY: FACTORS INFLUENCING ENGAGEMENT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN IN THE U.S. CORPORATE WORKPLACE
… uplift. Resilience was sustained through culturally grounded coping mechanisms, including faith, intergenerational ambition, and same-race mentorship. Engagement was described not as a stable trait, but as a strategic act tied to legacy, community representation, and moral responsibility. …
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Critically exploring the influence of cultural values on young Iranian consumer experiences with clothing longevity: a phenomenological approach
… enabled an in-depth exploration of the culturally embedded meanings consumers attach to clothing use, care, and disposal. The findings reveal two overarching cultural value systems—Restraint and Collectivism—manifested through several subthemes. These include temporal frameworks such as …
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Identifying impacts of non-climatic factors on food security of Indigenous Peoples in the pan-Arctic region
… policy efforts are aimed at building equitable, culturally grounded, and resilient Arctic food systems.
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… 1990s Iran, resulting in a socially conscious, culturally grounded adaptation. Chapter two centers on Farzad Motamen’s White Nights (2003), adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights. It analyzes how Motamen’s film reimagines Dostoevsky’s female characters while drawing on Persian literary …
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A Different Shade of Grey: Intimacies of Older Filipino Gay Men in Canada
… collection. These methods were informed by a culturally-grounded approach, called kuwento, a Filipino version of storytelling. This type of storytelling allowed the informants of the study to articulate their experiences in a manner that was comfortable, accessible, and convenient for them. …
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Akapapa – The Journey Home
… to the growing field of trauma-informed, culturally grounded approaches by examining how sustainability can be reimagined within professional counselling and therapeutic spaces. At the heart of this study is an exploration of spiritual abuse as a barrier to sustainability, disrupting …
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Navigating national priorities, regionalism and internationalisation in National Universities of Moana Oceania
… drawing on talanoa, tok stori, and storian as culturally grounded, responsive, and relational knowledge-sharing, supported by collaborative sensemaking and critical policy analysis. The findings revealed three interrelated insights. First, national universities consistently positioned …
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