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Over Both Edges: Coyotaje, Militarization And Liminality In Everyday Life On Ranchos Along The South Texas-Mexican Border, Lupe Flores Feb 2013

Over Both Edges: Coyotaje, Militarization And Liminality In Everyday Life On Ranchos Along The South Texas-Mexican Border, Lupe Flores

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions Of Mental Distress, Iran Barrera, John Gonzalez Feb 2013

Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions Of Mental Distress, Iran Barrera, John Gonzalez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Women’S Grassroots Revitalization Of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’S Challenge To Gentrification And Urban Neglect, Joel Zapata Feb 2013

Women’S Grassroots Revitalization Of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’S Challenge To Gentrification And Urban Neglect, Joel Zapata

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Tiffany Lopez Feb 2013

Introduction, Tiffany Lopez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci Mcmahon Feb 2013

Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci Mcmahon

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

This special issue of Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands highlights a series of essays and creative work presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco conference at the University of Texas, Pan American in the Río Grande Valley in South Texas in February 2013. We are excited by the quality of the essays in this special issue, and we encourage scholars and activists in the Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community to engage with the scholarship and creative work in this volume. A print copy will be available sometime this August. The Mexican American …


Recursive Frame Analysis Workshop, Ronald J. Chenail Jan 2013

Recursive Frame Analysis Workshop, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report Conference

Since its creation by Brad Keeney in the 1980's as a conversational tracking system, Recursive Frame Analysis (RFA) has evolved into a qualitative research method for mapping changeoriented discourse. The basic RFA steps and latest visualization techniques will be shared so workshop attendees can begin their first RFA's.


Mobile Qualitative Research: Exploring Clouds And Apps Workshop, Ronald J. Chenail Jan 2013

Mobile Qualitative Research: Exploring Clouds And Apps Workshop, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report Conference

Ron Chenail is Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, Professor of Family Therapy, and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Program at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). Since 1990, Dr. Chenail has served as the editor of The Qualitative Report and from 2005-2011, he also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. In addition he is an editorial board member of Qualitative Research in Psychology and Qualitative Social Work; and Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health. Dr. Chenail is a Member Scholar with the University of Alberta's International Institute for Qualitative Methodology and an Associate …


How Has Caqdas Technology Affected Qualitative Research?, Megan Woods Jan 2013

How Has Caqdas Technology Affected Qualitative Research?, Megan Woods

The Qualitative Report Conference

By analysing 30 years of academic literature this research identifies and conceptually models how the evolution of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) technology has affected research practices for collecting, analysing and reporting qualitative data. The paper models various approaches to CAQDAS-supported research to illustrate the implications of this evolutionary process for contemporary qualitative research practice and methodological debates.


Emerging Technology Tools For Qualitative Data Collection, Julie Kimbler, Manon Maitland Schladen, Diana Moore, Bruce Sowers, Martha Snyder Jan 2013

Emerging Technology Tools For Qualitative Data Collection, Julie Kimbler, Manon Maitland Schladen, Diana Moore, Bruce Sowers, Martha Snyder

The Qualitative Report Conference

Emerging technology tools enable qualitative researchers to collect text, audio, and visual data any time and any place. However, given many of these tools are cloud-based, they also present questions regarding security and confidential data collection. The uses, advantages, and drawbacks of emerging technology tools used for note-taking, collecting, managing, and sharing various forms of data will be presented within the context of qualitative data collection in instructional technology.


Ethnography Supports Changes To Student-Centered Instruction, Mary Ann Sprague, Maryann Fuhrmann Jan 2013

Ethnography Supports Changes To Student-Centered Instruction, Mary Ann Sprague, Maryann Fuhrmann

The Qualitative Report Conference

Researchers developing automated education aids requested a work practice study of traditional and enhanced ways to track student achievement. The pilot included several elementary schools, where pre- and post-pilot processes were analyzed. Despite privacy challenges, audio recordings, interactions during user interviews, co-design sessions, and discussions of graphical representations provided rich data.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Jan 2013

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the January 2013 meeting.


A Research On Family-Owned Newspaper, Mengmeng Li, Xiaofei Song, Alix Carole Bilip Jan 2013

A Research On Family-Owned Newspaper, Mengmeng Li, Xiaofei Song, Alix Carole Bilip

Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information

This paper conducts a research on the family-owned newspapers by interviewing the managers from the industry and doing a solid content analysis. It answers three research questions: What is the role of organizational ecology in the development or innovation of family-owned newspapers? How can organizational ecology be applied to newspapers? What elements on the newspapers’ websites are possibly profitable for the newspaper?


04. Foreign And Modern Languages, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

04. Foreign And Modern Languages, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


05. Geography, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

05. Geography, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


07. History, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

07. History, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


08. Political Science, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

08. Political Science, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


03. Ethnic Studies, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

03. Ethnic Studies, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


02. English, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

02. English, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


01. Communication, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

01. Communication, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


09. Sociology, University Of Central Oklahoma Jan 2013

09. Sociology, University Of Central Oklahoma

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.


Natural Disaster-Risk Assessment Hinesville Georgia, Assana Magagi-Alio Jan 2013

Natural Disaster-Risk Assessment Hinesville Georgia, Assana Magagi-Alio

Georgia Municipal Association Practicum

No abstract provided.


City Of Metter Georgia: 2013 Citizen Survey, Jackeisha Hughes, Judith A. Oglesby Jan 2013

City Of Metter Georgia: 2013 Citizen Survey, Jackeisha Hughes, Judith A. Oglesby

Georgia Municipal Association Practicum

No abstract provided.


Economic Development For Bloomingdale, Brad Carr Jan 2013

Economic Development For Bloomingdale, Brad Carr

Georgia Municipal Association Practicum

No abstract provided.


An Overview Of Sales Tax Options For The City Of Statesboro, Georgia, William Bell, Beau Gunn Jan 2013

An Overview Of Sales Tax Options For The City Of Statesboro, Georgia, William Bell, Beau Gunn

Georgia Municipal Association Practicum

No abstract provided.


Evaluating The Status Of Cave Wilderness, Patricia Seiser Jan 2013

Evaluating The Status Of Cave Wilderness, Patricia Seiser

National Cave and Karst Management Symposium 2013

In 1964 the United States government passed landmark legislation creating a National Wilderness Preservation System to preserve and protect natural landscapes for primitive use. Despite four attempts to create a Cave Wilderness designation, two by the Cave Research Foundation, one by the National Speleological Society and one by a unit within the National Park Service system, no Wilderness designation has been made to protect and preserve a specific cave, region within a cave or a karst region. The question remains: if and when will the US declare a cave or portion of a cave/cave system as Wilderness? Two federal acts …


Conference Program [2013], Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy Jan 2013

Conference Program [2013], Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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