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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"political awareness"”.
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
Political Science literature shows that the two major political parties have continued to polarize over time in the United States. Parties and elites continue to shape, frame and even manipulate public opinion, especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political …
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA ROLE IN FORMING POLITICAL AWARENESS AMONG IRAQI YOUTH
… the relationship between social media use and political knowledge and participation among Iraqi youth during the October revolution in 2019. This study investigates the role of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter) in forming political awareness and the relationship between social media …
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A historical survey of the development of political awareness among the Zulus
This study deals with the political development of the largest African population group in South Africa, the 'Zulus. The political development of the Zulus is assessed by the performances of individual Zulu leaders. The study thus focuses on the achievements/failures of some Zulu leaders, namely …
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The Visual Construction of an Educated Woman in Illustrations of Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long Legs
… drawings as a tool for character development and political awareness, and how artists tasked with creating other illustrations for the story misrepresent the progressive nature of Webster’s work by emphasizing her protagonist’s romantic interests. </p>
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Exogenous Influences and Paths To Activism
… found that when the intervening variables, political interest, political awareness, exposure to media, altruism, and self-interest were introduced to both the recruited and spontaneous models, the direct effects of the variables were enhanced.
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From Self To Other In Oliver Stone's Vietnam Trilogy: Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July, and Heaven And Earth
… JFK (1991), and Nixon (1995) examine the broader political and cultural dimension of the war and the era. Throughout his Vietnam films, Stone struggles to find the new America's identity by studying the historical meaning of its past events and characters, because he knows that the correct …
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The Politics of Getting the Joke: The Effects of Political Humor on Information Seeking Behavior
Political humor plays a positive role in American democracy. It increases the political awareness and interest of the audience. There is a growing body of literature, both empirical and theoretical, that looks at role of political humor in American politics. In line with some of this literature, …
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(Re)configuring socially just pedagogies with posthumanism and decoloniality: Experimenting with processual learning in the Architectural Technology extended curriculum programme in the Western Cape, South Africa
… students’ social, historical, environmental and political awareness in architectural studies. By exploring the spatial planning of Cape Town with its inherent power relations in South African society, the research seeks to alert students to social and spatial inequalities and encourage students …
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Cultural Factors That Predict Civic Engagement in African American Young Adults
… religious involvement, future civic behavior, political awareness, social justice attitudes, and diversity attitudes. Emerging from qualitative data were motivators and sustainers of engagement, the influence of key relationships and religion, and factors that contribute to disengagement. …
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Wesham During the Great War
… the national increase in working class political awareness bypassed Wesham.
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How do Minnesota School Board members learn to do their jobs?
… of interpersonal interaction, negotiation, or political awareness were learned predominantly through informal (and to a lesser extent external professional transfer) means, while skills in key duties were largely learned through formal means. Demographic characteristics gathered yielded …
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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences
… with research that found the effects of political messages often vary in counterintuitive ways due to variance in the strength of the message and political awareness (Zaller 1992). Replicating this research across various time periods permits the investigation of the decay rate of impacts …
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The Awakening: Empowered by water what are the personal and political implications for female activists in the Irish Anti-Water charges movement?
… seeks to identify what are the personal and political implications for female activist in the Irish anti-water charges movement? While this movement is not a women-only organisation, nor is it concerned with gender-specific issues, the key findings in this research will demonstrate an astute …
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Power, legitimation, and drawing distinctions: Rendering of 'public' and 'private' in United States domestic violence policymaKing
… progress toward increasing public and political awareness of domestic violence. In the United States, many of these efforts culminated with the 1994 passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the first comprehensive federal legislation to address the issue. Events since then, …
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Education and Extremism: Examining Political Socialization in Pakistani Madrassas
… cognitive abilities, and fostering social and political awareness. Within the educational context of South Asia, a controversial educational system exists: the madrassa. Since the 9/11 attacks, madrassas have become associated with extremism and terrorism, leading to intense scholarly and media …
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Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party and foreign affairs 1955-63
… his authority, Suez and Europe display his acute political awareness of the requirements needed to balance national interests, electoral prospects and maintain party unity.
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Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador (Andes, Urbanism, Marginality, Ethnicity, Symbolism)
This dissertation is a historical and political anthropological study of social action and the social organization of meaning in Cotocollao, a sector of Quito, Ecuador. The thesis forwarded in this work is that social actors simultaneously shape and are shaped by forms of hegemonic ideological …
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Curriculum of Imagination Beyond the Walls of Standardization
… life experience and helps develop personal and political awareness in students to look beyond what they take for granted, to question the normal, and to develop various ways of knowing, seeing, feeling, and acting upon positive social and educational change in an era of accountability. This is …
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General education competences as outcomes of two-year occupational programs: a comparison of corporate and academic views
… knowledge of health and fitness, and political awareness. They would emphasize least a knowledge of art and literature, a global perspective, and a knowledge of history. Employers representing manufacturing, retail sales and non-profit enterprises are in essential agreement on these …
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Jazz, education, and alternative culture in South Africa: Pedagogy and music in transgressive action
… for People’s Power, an education movement with political roots countering inferior education for Black 1students, prioritising community engagement and creative methods of teaching. I identify a learning quality in jazz, especially when played within a political awareness, which aligns with …
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