Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Community Research and Action"
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(2012-12-12)Department: Community Research and ActionThis work reflects an exploratory ecological study of a charter school (CDS) serving refugee, immigrant, and native-born American students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Bronfrenbrenner's (1977; 1986) ecology of human ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: Community Research and ActionThis thesis uses Foucault’s conceptualization of power to examine power dynamics in two health and human service organizations. Foucault suggests that power should be observed by assessing relationships, cultures, and ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: Community Research and ActionFamily involvement in mental health treatment has been shown to positively influence child outcomes, but families often are difficult to involve in treatment. We investigated the influence of child, caregiver, service ...
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(2012-07-30)Department: Community Research and ActionSince the mid-1980’s families have been the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. Homeless programs were not designed for families, but rather as rehabilitative institutions for individuals. ...
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(2009-04-22)Department: Community Research and ActionEvery week in America thousands of children who are at risk of suffering abuse and/or neglect are removed from the homes of their caregivers and placed into their state’s foster care system. The individuals responsible ...
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(2009-06-24)Department: Community Research and ActionProstitution, drug addiction, and their surrounding issues have long been topics of political, theoretical, and practical import. Furthermore, they offer a particularly insightful lens through which to interrogate concepts ...
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(2005-10-03)Department: Community Research and ActionThis organizational case study is concerned with the potential of human service organizations to go beyond ameliorative service provision to help change harmful social conditions. In this dissertation, I lay out a conceptual ...
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(2014-06-25)Department: Community Research and ActionWhile an uncontested symbol of the “American dream” is homeownership, only members of the higher echelons of society can achieve this dream with ease. Lower-income populations take the greatest risk and suffer the most ...
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(2013-12-19)Department: Community Research and ActionTo what extent does a Soviet legacy shape the experiences of former Soviet (FS) immigrants living in the U.S.? This historically grounded question is relevant in a post-Soviet reality as the number of immigrants from FS ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: Community Research and ActionThis thesis uses thirteen interviews with low-income housing advocates to place current housing advocacy practice in its historical context of the last 150 years. Historically, housing policy has become more progressive ...
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(2011-12-02)Department: Community Research and ActionThis thesis ethnographically documents the politics of hidden waterways in the city of Nashville, Tennessee using multiple methods, including ethnographic observation, photography, mapping, and the collection of documents ...
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(2014-12-03)Department: Community Research and ActionThis paper explores the intersection of religious and sexual identity formation amongst Muslim-American youth, employing psychological theories of identity, sociological theories of performance, and theological perspectives ...
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(2019-04-11)Department: Community Research and ActionA school-based enterprise (SBE) is an entrepreneurial operation managed and operated by students in a school setting. School-based enterprises reinforce classroom instruction through practice-based learning and can enhance ...
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(2011-02-04)Department: Community Research and ActionThe flow of ideas that emerges from educational programs, particularly those that explicitly encourage interactions with community members, holds under-appreciated potential for knowledge flow to contribute to development ...
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(2013-04-09)Department: Community Research and ActionLesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth are historically an under-studied subpopulation of youth. Over the past decade however, the subpopulation has garnered increased attention from scholars of education and ...
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(2012-04-16)Department: Community Research and ActionRecent studies have highlighted the religious prejudices that plague communities across the United States and act as social, political, and economic barriers for many religious minority groups. These studies have noted the ...
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(2014-07-23)Department: Community Research and ActionAttracting affluent households and skilled labor has long been a component of local development across U.S. cities. Place attractiveness has, however, taken on a new significance over the past forty years as the diffusion ...
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(2009-07-28)Department: Community Research and ActionSocial ecological theory, adapted from natural ecology, aims to understand the connections between people, groups, cultures, and the natural environments that they inhabit. Following psychologists’ ecological adaptations ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: Community Research and ActionOUT OF MANY, ONE: PARTICIPATION AND COLLABORATION IN CONGREGATION-BASED COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Eric A. Tesdahl Dissertation under the direction of Paul W. Speer The practice of congregation-based community organizing ...
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(2008-08-04)Department: Community Research and ActionCitizen participation in neighborhood planning has become commonplace, but the process and resulting use of the input varies widely across projects. Literature on participatory planning suggests theoretical approaches to ...