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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"intercultural relations"”.
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Improving intercultural relations through the teaching of American history
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Intercultural Relations: Direct Audience Address in Contemporary Theatre in Canada
… on how it informs discussions of theatrical interculturalism. It addresses a dearth of scholarship on this common theatrical device, while arguing that limited mainstream understandings of direct address have contributed to its marginalized position in scholarship. The chapters that follow …
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A Discussion of Intercultural Relations as a Critical Component of Corporate Social Responsibility
… study is the conceptual and pragmatic links of Intercultural Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility. This research focused on an identified informational gap in social responsibility literature and investigated the possible impact of culture and intercultural competence on Corporate …
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Discovering Korean learners' perceptions of intercultural encounters with their classmates
<p>This thesis aimed to study and analyze the intercultural and intracultural encounters of students enrolled in an ESL writing class at a large community college in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Two basic questions guided the study: first, how did ESL students from Korea react to …
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'We know them, but we don't know them': a grounded theory approach to exploring host students' perspectives on intercultural contact in an Irish university
This study is concerned with intercultural relations among students in an Irish university. Specifically, the study explores host culture students’ perceptions of cultural difference within the student body and their experiences of intercultural contact on campus, including the factors which inform …
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Mediation and Middlemen Undone: The Demise of the Colonial Go-Between in Revolutionary New York
… for multiple reasons, and the changes in intercultural relations between the British Army, imperial and provincial leadership, and the Iroquois were some of them. The colonial go-between who had mediated exchanges between these two groups since contact and who could represent multiple …
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Monkey see, monkey do? An intercultural exploration of the dynamics between humans and non-human primates in a professional animal research setting
… study is a novel investigation in the field of intercultural relations, exploring the values and beliefs of a group of research employees, and the intercultural competence and sensitivity these employees model in their interactions with the animals they work with. A focus group was conducted at …
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The impact of intercultural differences in change agentry interventions in technology transfer
<p>This qualitative study explored the effects of intercultural differences on technology transfer interventions. More specifically, the emphasis was on key differences between the worldviews of change agents and clients that impact such change agentry attempts. Utilizing frameworks taken from …
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Education for global citizenship : an intercultural and cosmopolitan perspective
… two existing frameworks, cosmopolitanism and intercultural relations, in an effort to establish a strong theoretical foundation for the support and development of a moral, ethical, and social justice perspective of education for global citizenship programs in colleges and universities that …
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INTERNATIONAL CHINESE AND CANADIAN STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION AT A CANADIAN UNIVERSITY
… of higher education impacts students’ intercultural relations, identities, intercultural sensitivity, critical understandings, and notions of citizenship. A postcolonial perspective is used to explore how students perceive the influences of globalization. Contemporary ideological …
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Clashes of civilizations: critical conditions for evocation of hostile attitude toward foreign intrusion of cultural space
… to 3 tested this proposed framework in different intercultural contexts: Chinese’s responses to the opening of a new McDonald’s shop at the Great Wall of China (Experiment 1); Americans’ responses to an image of Mao Zedong superimposed on that of the Statue of Liberty (Experiment 2); and …
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Intercultural factors in the Peace Corps' role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women
… women, and includes an exploration into the intercultural factors that may have affected the outcomes. I used my Peace Corps site of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala as the case study for this research. I reviewed literature in five areas to use as a foundation to guide my research. This …
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An examination of the influences of cultural differences on peace corps projects in Guatemala
… I have examined literature focusing on intercultural communication, cultural group membership differences, cultural identities, value orientations, and organizational value dimensions. I have also looked deeply into many of the differences between the collectivist culture of Guatemala …
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Somos Indígena: Ethnic Politics and Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1694-1965
… communal ownership. Through an examination of intercultural relations and government relations, I analyze how Indian Pueblos and Hispano villages that once shared a sense of common destiny grew apart by the middle of the 20th century. This dissertation explores ethnic politics in Hispanos …
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Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity Encounters amongst New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand
… generating cosmopolitan sociability and building intercultural relations. The research findings demonstrate that being able to engage in cosmopolitanism is not a given result of increasing levels of cross-border mobilities or cross-cultural interactions, but rather occurs through and in relation …
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Marimba music, boundaries of diaspora, and epistemologies of the Colombian border in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
… histories, diaspora discourses, afro-indigenous relations, nation-state borders, and ideas of binationalism. I argue that in Esmeraldas the reality of the border influences epistemic engagement with questions of history, homelands, and identity that are reproduced and rearticulated through music. …
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Cultural attitudes to corruption : a perspective on the interplay between cultural and legal norms for Western businesses operating in China
… in doing so, it draws attention to aspects of intercultural relations which may be applied to any international business activity. In this way, it is hoped that this research may in fact be applied beyond the realms both of corruption and of China.
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Organological geopolitics and the Balaban of Azerbaijan: comparative musical dialogues concerning a double-reed aerophone of the post-Soviet Caucasus
… those politics spill over into international and intercultural relations. Specifically, it is about a shared double-reed musical instrument found throughout the South Caucasus. In Azerbaijan this instrument is called the balaban; in Armenia, the duduk; and in Georgia it is known as the duduki. The …
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Facilitating Euro-Moroccan Musical Encounters: the Process and Politics of Jazz Interculturalism in and beyond Morocco
… of jazz in and from Morocco as a vehicle for interculturalism and cultural diplomacy framed by the wider context of Euro-Moroccan cultural and geopolitical relations. While providing a historical outline of early jazz encounters in Morocco, it focuses on the development of the Moroccan jazz …
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Somatic transformation goes main stream in organisational development and coaching
… the confluence of themes: experiential learning; intercultural relations; community revitalisation; gender dynamics; resilience and generative leadership. The subtle language of the body functions as the vessel carrying my three public works of organisational development endeavors downstream with …
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