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Journeys
My art is about journeys, mapping, and layering. Two archetypal images in my work are the camel and the desert. Much of this imagery was inspired by my personal journey over the Sahara and into Western Africa. On another level, this journey connects to my metaphorical journey through life. As a …
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One transition: three journeys
The focus of the research was to explore the transition period from primary to secondary education for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder, their parents’ and the professionals’ perspectives. This would facilitate future recommendations of the challenges faced and alterations to improve current …
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Educational journeys of Barbadian women
… criteria for participation. These educational journeys represented the field and cultural world under study. Through analysis, themes emerged from each woman's description of Influential Others; Protagonist Self; and Educational Settings within her storied journey. Storied experiences in …
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Borderland Journeys: A Layered Autoethnography
The collection of pages spread before you now, this story-thesis, is a collection of stories about my journey from cult member to the place in life I am now, stories about those stories, and stories about the people who lived or read them, talked about them, and were changed by the tellings. Most …
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Everyday Entrepreneurs: Documenting African Entrepreneurial Journeys
… have become popular online, highlighting the journeys, success and challenges that emerging entrepreneurs experience. However, many of these stories and platforms focus mainly on opportunity entrepreneurs and exclude necessity entrepreneurs who operate medium to small businesses, despite the …
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Educational journeys of Hispanic women in nursing
<p>Hispanics continue to be the fastest growing minority population in the Nation. According to U.S. Census Bureau (2011; 2008)., the Hispanic or Latino population was 16.3 percent in 2010 and is projected to be over 30 percent in 2050. However, only 3.6% of the RN population is Hispanic indicating …
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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces
Beat Sociology: Ethnographic Journeys in Event Spaces proposes a new theory and methodology for Sociology to better investigate and describe the social experiences of individuals. I call this new set of theories and methodologies Beat Sociology--I have developed this project utilizing the work of …
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Educational Journeys Of Successful Hispanic Science Professionals
… were asked to reflect on their 1) educational journeys including obstacles they encountered during their education, 2) support systems while in college, 3) science identities, and 4) their advice for future Hispanic science majors. To capture the stories of successful Hispanic science …
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Fridge space : journeys of the domestic refrigerator
… the lifecourse of the refrigerator and its journeys through multiple sites and spaces, enabling me to analyse diverse refrigerator knowledges and practices from repair shops and recycling facilities to scrap yards and museums, in addition to the home. Although using a refrigerator is …
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Forever Wild: Journeys Through the North Fork
The North Fork of the Flathead River runs for eighty-five miles, starting in southeastern British Columbia and ending in Flathead Lake in northwestern Montana. The river flows through a rugged valley that plays a vital role in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. In the United States, the North …
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Forever Wild: Journeys Through the North Fork
The North Fork of the Flathead River runs for eighty-five miles, starting in southeastern British Columbia and ending in Flathead Lake in northwestern Montana. The river flows through a rugged valley that plays a vital role in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. In the United States, the North …
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Crossing borders: conscious journeys with my family
… experiences of growing up during apartheid. The journeys are undertaken over a period of 18 years, starting in 1993, just before the birth of a democratic South Africa. Crossing borders refers to both personal and physical expansion, juxtaposing the isolation of apartheid with the freedom to …
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First-year music teachers' journeys of place consciousness
… This study explored first-year music teachers’ journeys of place consciousness within a new classroom, school, and community, and how they manifested this knowledge and understanding in their pedagogy. Research questions focused on how first-year music teachers developed place consciousness and …
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Journeys towards well-being: men, meditation and mental health
… findings suggested that men negotiated difficult journeys towards meditation: for example, they came up against traditional and other hegemonic forms of masculinity, and most described subsequent strategies to be emotionally 1 One participant did not complete the cognitive neuroscience component. …
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Faith and Leadership: The Spiritual Journeys of Transformational Leaders
… undertaking an in-depth study of the spiritual journeys of ten transformational leaders. The purpose of the study was to develop a clearer understanding of the ways in which faith and the spiritual journey interact with the process of transformational leadership. The study utilized the …
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From the Ground Up: Journeys Through the Leitrim Landscape
This research uses the landscape of county Leitrim as a spatial lens through which to view alternative forms of knowledge past and present. In the physical act of journeying through the landscape, by boat and on foot, I have encountered evidence of a range of social structures linked to place …
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Paths with heart : transformative journeys in the imaginal realm
… of development. Experiences of transformative journeys are synthesised into a rite-of-passage process network that illustrates the interpersonal and intrapersonal processes of transformative learning in affective and imaginal modes of presence.
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Water, waterworks and water journeys in South Florida's Everglades
This thesis is an exploration of how architectural form could make the movement of water through a particular landscape evident. The project is a design of a journey through a portion of South Florida's Everglades traversed by waterworks structures which protect the region's developed land from …
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