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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"sojourner"”.
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The Sojourner
<p>To me, a sojourner is a person who leaves his or her homeland in search of something only to return after a temporary period of staying in a foreign land. The search for something better led me to the United Kingdom, and shortly after, the USA. Initially, the reason for my travel was to find …
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The Sojourner experience: An exploration of identity transformation through communication
… communication and identity transformation in the sojourner experience. It inquires the following: RQ1: How does communication affect the identity transformation process of sojourners? RQ2: How does identity transformation affect the way sojourners communicate? Ten participants from six countries …
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Sojourner adjustment: the experience of wives of mainland Chinese graduate students
… research on the adjustment experiences of these sojourner Mainland Chinese women who accompany their spouses to the united states. As a result, the higher education community is often taken by surprise when families or couples experience such situations as marital discord and domestic violence …
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Sojourner consumer behaviour : the influence of nostalgia, ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism and place attachment
… Transient consumers are formally known as sojourners. Despite the recognition that sojourners’ international mobility is contributing to the development of multicultural marketplaces worldwide, there is a paucity of empirical evidence on their consumer behaviour. As opposed to other border …
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Re-entry training and education for returning sojourner undergraduates of French grandes écoles
… French engineering grande ecole undergraduate sojourners.</p> <p>With particular attention to the historical and specific character of a grande ecole's interdependent relationship with industry and professional training as an integral part of the educational design, this program has been …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… and lived experiences of adolescent Japanese sojourner students and their mothers residing in the Midwest. The central goals of this research are to understand what adolescent Japanese sojourner students’ school experiences in the U.S. are like—particularly in areas with small Japanese …
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HOW MENTAL HEALTH, SOJOURNER ADJUSTMENT, AND DRINKING MOTIVES IMPACT ALCOHOL-RELATED CONSEQUENCES FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD
… Specifically, it investigated how mental health, sojourner adjustment, and drinking motives impacted alcohol-related consequences for college students studying abroad. It also explored how mental health changed for students while abroad and how pre-abroad mental health impacted sojourner …
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So-journeying: creating sacred space in education
… American youth. Drawing on the lifework of Sojourner Truth, a nineteenth century African American woman abolitionist and human rights activist, this work seeks to explore aspects of both African/African American-centered education and curriculum theory as a means of informing understandings …
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Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn
… greater-than-human) elements in the process of sojourner adaptation. I utilize journal and blog entries along with my own memories through performative autoethnography to explore a 26-month sojourn with the US Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, as well as the departure, travel, and return to the …
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Parent Engagement and Cultural Capital: Negotiating Culture in a Multilingual/Multiethnic School
… extent to which the school builds on immigrant /sojourner families' knowledge and culture to support their children's education. In this ethnographical study, the researcher used a variety of data collection procedures: a questionnaire for teachers and parents, document analysis, interviews, and …
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Conceptual Metaphor in the Health Care Culture
… care professionals. Patients were viewed as a sojourner group in the health care culture; nurses and their health care partners were seen as a host group. Data were collected during a six month period using participant observation and key informant interviews with groups of sojourners/patients …
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Becoming Japerican And Amerinese: An Ethnographic Study Of Employees At A Multicultural Workplace
… observation, and autoethnography. Because I am a sojourner from Japan who has lived in the U.S., who has also been experiencing cross-cultural adaptation, I tried to make my positionality visible in this study with the use of autoethnography. I believe that it is crucial, since my understanding …
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The Walled Fortress: An Autoethnography Of An International Student Who Became An Esl Educator
… intimate investigation into my experience as a sojourner college student in West Germany to see how my emotive response to that experience and its associated sense of self work to generate a deeper and more empathetic understanding of my role as an English as a second language (ESL) …
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William Grant Broughton and his early years in New South Wales
… quotable for a good joke, but an undoubted sojourner who longed for an invitation to return to the land of his fathers, to its green pastures and settled ways. The tragedy of his life was that the invitation never came; and that too, it has been implied, was a tragedy for colonial life. My …
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William Grant Broughton and his early years in New South Wales
… quotable for a good joke, but an undoubted sojourner who longed for an invitation to return to the land of his fathers, to its green pastures and settled ways. The tragedy of his life was that the invitation never came; and that too, it has been implied, was a tragedy for colonial life. My …
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Intercultural communication and adaptation: A longitudinal study of Taiwanese graduate students' sojourning experiences in a Midwestern American university
… approach was adopted which conceptualized sojourner adaptation as an intercultural experience involving different temporal stages and multiple adaptational domains. The temporal stages explored included the predeparture, process, and assessment phases. The adaptational domains investigated …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… Gerrit Smith, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Parsons, Sutton E. Griggs, Thomas Dixon, and Pauline Hopkins. A comparative approach to these texts reveals that, far from representing a stable or straightforward politics, black rebellion in print often …
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A Narrative Inquiry into International Students' Lived Journeys of Counselling in Canada
… a counselling journey in Canada? What are sojourners' constructed narratives of counselling in Canada? How do these narratives inform and/or resist larger societal discourses about international students and their mental health seeking? What can we learn from these narratives when creating …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
… mural Detroit Industry, photographs of the Sojourner Truth housing project riots, and the accounts of gay union workers comprise a framework for each of the central texts. Detroit aesthetic is gritty, realist, and shaped by and in the defiance of the organizational logic of the Ford Motor …
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Gendering the Pulpit: Religious Discourse and the African -American Female Experience
… (1823--1901), Maria Stewart (1803--1879), and Sojourner Truth (1797--1883). Their entrance took place first by self-proclaimed authority through God's ordination, then through written discourse (spiritual autobiography) that permitted them to engage in dialogue about the debate over gender and …
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