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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"socio-cultural contexts"”.
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Socio-cultural contexts in trauma recovery and post trauma growth in women who experienced intimate partner violence: A social constructivist lens
… the events in our lives however, are governed by socio-cultural contexts. Social constructivism emphasizes that the way in which individuals think, feel, and act are engrained in her being early on by the social and cultural networks that surround her. Therefore, even though an individual may …
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A Portrait of the Leadership of Women in Early Christianity: an Archaeological Study in Light of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Contexts
… Greco-Roman background and at the historical, socio-cultural contexts. This contextualization can be quite fruitful and should be informed by recent archaeological discoveries of the first centuries of Christianity. Thus, this dissertation first analyzes the archaeological remains that inform …
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About Time... (Some Patterns of Time -Reckoning)
… By contrast, temporal rhythms occur in different contexts and may have universal features that may allow for an anthropological discussion of time that is primarily a discussion of time as opposed to specific socio-cultural contexts.
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An exploration of the socio-cultural factors influencing condom use intentions and behaviours of migrant youth in South Africa
… The purpose of this study is to explore socio-cultural determinants influencing condom use intentions and behaviour of young migrant youth residing in Cape Town South Africa. This qualitative study employed purposive and snowballing sampling techniques to explore with migrant youth their …
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How a Museum Exhibit Functions as a Literacy Event for Viewers
… is New Literacy Studies (NLS). NLS considers the cultural issues surrounding literacy experiences. NLS assumes that language arts reflect cultural differences and literacy involves the process of constructing meaning (Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 2000; Gee, 2000; Street, 1995). This model of …
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Culture Shock and Dealing with the Impact of Cultural Differences in Our Classrooms
… classroom, but they are also confronted with socio-cultural differences. Informed educators can prevent or reduce anxiety from the stress of culture shock and allow for an environment where effective instruction and learning can take place. More can be done to empower educators to deal with …
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Black American intergenerational perspectives on education, Black identity and Whiteness: A socio-cultural and historical analysis
<p>The aims of this study are to explore the socio-cultural contexts and experiences of Black Americans and their perspectives on the quality and value of education in their lives and to better understand how the socio-historical idea that Blacks are inferior has influenced the perception and …
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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
… literacy carried out in Swaziland from a socio-cultural perspective. The study joins a growing body of New Literacy Studies research into the social practices that shape children's early literacy learning and a smaller body of such work from Africa. I used evidence from four children's …
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Distant voices : a study of distance education text strategies in relation to adult learning styles
… producers of texts, working in their specific socio-cultural contexts, select and sequence the concepts they teach and create voices in the text which work in place of actual teachers. These textual voices interact with readers in a variety of communicative and educative ways, opening to …
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A contextual analysis of compound nouns in Shona lexicography
… make use of their knowledge about Shona cultural contexts in the creation of compound nouns. Thus, this research foregrounds Shona socio-cultural contexts and meaning generation in terminology development. This study employs a quadruple conceptual framework. The four components of the …
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Writing formations in Shakespearean films
… influenced by the same historically contingent socio-cultural determinants. Academic claims about film’s effects can then be conceptualised as aggregates of thought which are analogous to the dramatic manipulations that filmmakers unconsciously work into their films, with both forms of cultural …
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Family and Leisure: a Comparative Sociological Study of Middle-Class Families and their Leisure Patterns in France and Great Britain
… similarities and differences between them in sociological approaches to the study of leisure, in actual leisure behaviour and in attitudes towards leisure within middleclass families; secondly to determine to what extent such similarities and differences can be explained in terms of the …
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Colour in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
… to the monochromatic trend of current cultural histories and early modern research, in this thesis I analyse all colours, situating these within their original socio-cultural contexts to substantiate the significance of colour in a literary text. My contextualised and polychromatic …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
… by writers and filmmakers in two very different socio-cultural contexts to depict and elucidate the experience of political violence, particularly torture, in the periods 1954-1962 and 1976-1983. I seek to apply the hypotheses of Anglo-American and French theorists with an interest in historical …
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… to demonstrate that they are enacted messages in socio-cultural context of Basotho. It used a form-meaning approach to interpret Sesotho names in socio-cultural contexts of use (cf. Halliday 1994, 2001, Eggins, 1996, 2004 and Martin & Rose 2007) as an alternative to the current formalist approach …
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The Racialization of Dine (Youth) in Education
… and the ways they negotiate their racial and cultural identities within the historical, economic, political, and socio-cultural contexts of past and current educational policies. Particularly, an emphasis on the ways that Indigenous youth are racialized and Indigenous languages and cultural …
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SHAKE YA ASS, BUT WATCH YOURSELF: AN INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING THE SEXUALIZATION OF FEMALE RECORDING ARTISTS AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
… lens, the study delves into the historical and socio-cultural contexts that shape the portrayal and perception of female recording artists in the United States.</p> <p>The research traces the roots of feminism and the commodification of racial stereotypes through music, exploring how female …
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Reimagining Learning Disabilities: Embracing Difference as an Empowering Resource Amidst Psycho-Emotional Disablism
… of understanding disability within broader socio-cultural contexts and recognizing the potential for growth, innovation, and success inherent in neurodiversity. It calls for a paradigm shift in education and support systems to promote inclusivity and equity. By highlighting the voices and …
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Coordinates of Control: Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges in Bioprospecting Rhetoric
… in particular, are taken out of their original socio-cultural contexts, utilized, appropriated, and valorized by bioprospectors who construct the rhetoric; (3) that the visibility of indigenous peoples and knowledges, which was heightened as a result of the increased interest taken in …
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EASYSPACE. Uno spazio pubblico emancipato (impoterante) dalla prospettiva Sorda
… whether in relation to physical spaces or socio-cultural contexts. However, in spaces designed for collective use, deaf individuals frequently encounter marginalisation and exclusion — dynamics that become even more acute in public spaces shaped by physical, technological, and architectural …
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