Browsing by Subject "Community"
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Academic service learning pedagogy in social work : exploration of student and community lived experiences using an interdisciplinary course model of community-university engagement
(2013-05)Academic service learning has grown in popularity at colleges and universities as a way to address social issues using study, reciprocity, and reflection. While the merits of service learning are well documented, gaps in ... -
Cicero the dialogician : the construction of community at the end of the Republic
(2009-08)In the opening lines of the preface to De Divinatione 2, Cicero describes his motivation in composing of the complures libros of his post-exilic years. Most of all, he says, he wished to prevent any interruption in his ... -
Community-based agriculture and the implications for Central Texas
(2012-05)Due to health and climate change concerns, there is growing interest in a shift away from large-scale agricultural production towards a more localized, organic methodology. These practices help to preserve local ecosystems ... -
Culture shock : tales from the 21st century intentional community movement
(2012-05)In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, the ‘new normal’ left many Americans deflated after losing their financial savings and general confidence in the political system. There is a growing movement saying the traditional ... -
The curiosities of participation : a community's practice of participatory governance
(2013-05)This study employs the heuristic of practice to understand a community's experience of participatory governance in India. The purpose of the study was three-fold: 1) understand what the organizing principle of participation ... -
Design and development : social empowerment and two community art programs in Brazil
(2011-05)This study examines how two community art programs in Brazil have empowered participants through art practice. The programs are contextualized historically and theoretically to address how program participants from varying ... -
Discourse, social cohesion and the politics of historical memory in the Ixhil Maya region of Guatemala
(2012-05)This dissertation will examine the speech practices of collectives of Ixhil Mayas in post-war Guatemala. Specifically I analyze the way that historical memory of the recent period of violence, which culminated in genocide ... -
Educating the next generation for public service : integrating service-learning into the art classroom
(2012-05)This thesis establishes an understanding of how public school art teachers are incorporating service-learning into their art classroom curriculum. Through conversations with three public school art teachers and one ... -
The effects of physical constraint and community social capital on mental distress in older adults : a latent interaction model
(2015-08)Physical constraints such as functional disability and chronic disease are prevalent in older adults. These conditions are known to decrease ones quality of life and may lead to mental health problems for the older population. ... -
Egypt: A Land of Firsts (Elementary Lessons on Egypt)
(2005-10)Curriculum unit of five lessons about Egypt for grades K-5. (1: Egypt: Where is it and What is is Like? 2: How long have the communities of Egypt and the United States existed? 3: Using Artifacts to uncover culture. 4: ... -
Eye contact
(2013-05)Eye contact is a research and installation projects about the westernization process of bridal costume from 1900 to 2012 in both China and the Chinese immigrant community in America. The project focuses on the bride’s ... -
Feedback for language learning exercises on Livemocha.com
(2011-12)This report investigates the amount and types of feedback that are produced on the social language learning site Livemocha.com in response to learners’ written and oral productions. The data are 200 speaking and writing ... -
How varying levels of community participation affect brownfield redevelopments : case study comparisons in Pittsburgh, PA, Portland, OR, Dallas, TX, and Fort Worth, TX
(2012-05)Brownfield developments offer cities and developers an opportunity to engage with the public in ways unavailable to greenfield developments as brownfield redevelopments are generally found in established neighborhoods where ... -
Independence and integrity : a case study of KUT News 2002-2012
(2016-04-29)This study employed in-depth interviews and autoethnography with reporters, supporters of and managers at KUT Radio, the NPR affiliate in Austin, as well as leaders in the public journalism movement and media watchers to ... -
Intent versus outcome of international mural exchange
(2011-08)In an attempt to rectify the issues and concerns on the impact of an international mural exchange created by the organization Let Art Talk in 2008, I traveled to Uganda to pursue a similar community based, environmentally ... -
Jay-walking in the city : violence against women, urban space, and pedestrian acts of resistance
(2007-12)From its distinction during the 1920s as the hub of black culture and commerce in America to its later reputation as the unmitigated manifestation of inner city decay, Harlem evokes an urban palimpsest, a lived geographic ... -
Keeping in touch : corporate blogs for building organizational public relationships and consumer brand relations
(2011-05)With the continual expansion of social media, organization-public relationships (OPR) have become all the more important to keep up with consumers. While historically companies have maintained a public relations office, a ... -
Online community building by autistic adults
(2013-05)One diagnostic criterion to identify individuals as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is that their communication patterns, social reciprocity, and interactional competence show qualitative impairment (American ... -
Physical place matters in digital activism : investigating the roles of local and global social capital, community, and social networking sites in the occupy movement
(2015-05)This case study of the Occupy movement examines how different geographic forms of individual-level resources—local and global social capital—and communitylevel resources varying by place of residence play a key role in ... -
Revelating Hicksites and prophesying Seventh-day Adventists : individual religious experiences and community ethics in antebellum America
(2013-05)Historians of antebellum America have focused on shifting social patterns caused by trends such as democratization and proto-industrialization to explain the rise of new religious communities. These studies, however, have ...
