What Jeronimo Maradiaga Learned: After Immersing Himself In The Arduous And Unsettling World Of Poverty, Watson Fellow Questions The West's Notions Of Success, 2013 Colby College
What Jeronimo Maradiaga Learned: After Immersing Himself In The Arduous And Unsettling World Of Poverty, Watson Fellow Questions The West's Notions Of Success, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Watson Fellow Jeronimo Maradiaga ’09 set out to explore the world of the disadvantaged. It was a life-changing experience, but not for the reasons one might think.
Uncorking The Mommy Market: Phenomenal Facebook Following Has Marilé Borden Contemplating The Future Of Moms Who Need Wine, 2013 Colby College
Uncorking The Mommy Market: Phenomenal Facebook Following Has Marilé Borden Contemplating The Future Of Moms Who Need Wine, Ruth Jacobs
Colby Magazine
Marilé Borden ’94 has hundreds of thousands of people watching her Facebook page Moms Who Need Wine. Now what to do with them?
Martha Mcmillan Journal, 2013 Cedarville University
Martha Mcmillan Journal, Carol Lee, Rebecca M. Baker
Presentations
No abstract provided.
Population 7 – Lyman Street Art Intervention, 2013 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Population 7 – Lyman Street Art Intervention, Carli Foster, Elizabeth Ann Englebreston, Eric Wojtowicz, Yiwei Huang
Yiwei Huang
POPULATION 7 started as an experiment in the fall of 2011 as an Urban Art Laboratory “Art – Place – Tour” with the vision to make a tangible impact to the culture of public art in Springfield. At first sight art seems to be not existent in the public realm. We are searching for an organic, sustainable concept with the potential to grow from inside to outside. Our goal is to invite to a discussion about public art and art in general that is introduced through minimal but diverse, economical eventually temporary, site-responsive interventions. We see our art as personal …
The Importance Of Connected Communities To Flood Resilience, 2013 Molino Stewart Pty Ltd
The Importance Of Connected Communities To Flood Resilience, Neil Dufty
Neil Dufty
No abstract provided.
Reviewing Total Flood Warning Systems, 2013 Molino Stewart Pty Ltd
Reviewing Total Flood Warning Systems, Neil Dufty, Steven Molino
Neil Dufty
No abstract provided.
Making A Difference Beyond The Workplace, 2013 Bucknell University
Making A Difference Beyond The Workplace, Carrie M. Pirmann, Kathleen Mcquiston
Kathleen M. McQuiston
Library and IT staff volunteer their time outside of work to many charitable organizations.
Education By Any Means Necessary: Peoples Of African Descent And Community-Based Pedagogical Spaces, 2013 University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Education By Any Means Necessary: Peoples Of African Descent And Community-Based Pedagogical Spaces, Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas Ph.D., Craig Peck Ph.D.
Ty-Ron M. O. Douglas, Ph.D.
This study examines how and why peoples of African descent access and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces that exist outside schools. Employing a theoretical framework that fuses historical methodology and border-crossing theory, the researchers review existing scholarship and primary documents to present an historical examination of how peoples of African descent have fought for and redefined education in nonschool educative venues. These findings inform the authors' analysis of results from an oral history project they conducted into how Black Bermudian men utilized learning spaces outside schools, such as the family, Black church, and athletics clubs, to augment their personal and scholastic …
Using Risk And Participatory Communication To Support Community-Based Decisions: The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Future Vision Project, 2013 University of Kentucky
Using Risk And Participatory Communication To Support Community-Based Decisions: The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Future Vision Project, Anna G. Hoover
Anna G. Hoover
No abstract provided.
From Toxic Tours To Growing The Grassroots: Tensions In Critical Pedagogy And Community Development, 2013 City University of New York
From Toxic Tours To Growing The Grassroots: Tensions In Critical Pedagogy And Community Development, Celina Su, Isabelle Jagninski
Publications and Research
Structural inequalities in American public education are inextricably tied to deep-seated patterns of racial and economic segregation. Children in poor neighborhoods are less likely to have the household resources, neighborhood institutions, or school amenities necessary for a good, challenging education. In response, a growing number of organizations have launched initiatives to simultaneously revitalize neighborhoods and improve public education, emphasizing youth participation as an essential component in their efforts. We draw upon ethnographic data from two such organizations to examine their practice of place-based critical pedagogy in community development. We focus on how they engage marginalized, “hard-to-reach” youth via (1) experiential …
From Indicators To Action: Evaluating The Usefulness Of Indicators To Move From Regional Climate Change Assessment To Local Adaptation Implementation, 2013 University of Massachusetts Amherst
From Indicators To Action: Evaluating The Usefulness Of Indicators To Move From Regional Climate Change Assessment To Local Adaptation Implementation, Sally Miller
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
As the effects of climate change become increasingly damaging and costly, a public and political consensus is building for planning that will protect private property and public infrastructure. Climate-related planning has primarily focused on mitigation, assessing vulnerability, and building adaptive capacity. Adaptation has not gained substantial ground in the area of implementation. The uncertainty associated with climate change projection and variability has emerged as a dominant barrier to adaptation. However, as knowledge accrues, the global and national science communities have been developing more detailed, fine-scale climate projections. Regional climate assessments are available for the sub-national climate regions in the U.S., …
State Of The University Address, 2013 University of Nebraska at Omaha
State Of The University Address, Uno Office Of The Chancellor
Chancellor’s Speeches
Good morning and welcome to the 2012-2013 University of Nebraska Omaha State of the University Address. It is always a pleasure to meet with students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of our community to share information about our campus.
We have several special groups in attendance today, and as I introduce each group, would members please stand and be recognized? (Deans and Directors, Student Government, Faculty Senate, Staff Advisory Council, Chancellor’s Council, University of Nebraska Foundation, and UNO Alumni Association). Thank you and thanks to all for attending today.
Being Prepared And Staying Connected: Scouting’S Influence On Social Capital And Community Involvement, 2013 Messiah College
Being Prepared And Staying Connected: Scouting’S Influence On Social Capital And Community Involvement, Edward C. Polson, Young-Il Kim, Sung Joon Jang, Byron R. Johnson, Buster Smith
Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies
Objectives
In recent years, scholars have become concerned about the effects that declining levels of social capital are having on community life in the United States. Data suggest that Americans are less likely to interact with neighbors and less likely to participate in community groups than they were in the past. Nevertheless, researchers have found that participation in some types of organizations has a positive impact on social capital and civic involvement. Each year, millions of American youth participate in programs designed to promote positive youth development. Here, we examine the effect that participation in one of the largest youth …
Bonding Alone: Familism, Religion, And Secular Civic Participation, 2013 George Fox University
Bonding Alone: Familism, Religion, And Secular Civic Participation, Young-Il Kim, W. Bradford Wilcox
Faculty Publications - Department of World Languages, Sociology & Cultural Studies
This study examines the influence of familism, religion, and their interaction on participation in secular voluntary associations. We develop an insularity theory to explain how familism and religion encourage Americans to avoid secular civic participation. Using data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households, this study finds that familism reduces participation in secular organizations. Moreover, religion moderates the effect of familism: specifically, religious involvement tends to increase the negative effect of familism on secular civic participation. Although religious involvement in and of itself fosters secular civic participation, strong familism tends to dampen positive impacts of …
The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries And Everyday Politics In Progressive Religious Communities, 2013 Loyola University Chicago
The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries And Everyday Politics In Progressive Religious Communities, Todd Nicholas Fuist
Dissertations
How religion shapes political and civic engagement has been a consistently fruitful question for American social theorists. Religion has often been understood as providing the moral underpinnings of civil society, traditionally in ways that promote cohesion or preserve the status quo. Despite this, there has been a long tradition of progressive religious engagement in American civic and political life, including the abolitionist movement, civil rights movement, and anti-nuclear movement. Through an ethnographic examination of six politically progressive religious communities, including two communes and four congregations, I examine how religion is put towards progressive ends. Through this, I develop the concept …
Service Learning Students’ Perceptions Of Citizenship, 2013 Merrimack College
Service Learning Students’ Perceptions Of Citizenship, Audrey Falk
Education Faculty Publications
This study examines the conceptions of citizenship held by students engaged in a service learning course. Open-ended responses to instructor-developed surveys were analyzed. Results indicated that students primarily viewed good citizenship in terms of community service; however, their ideas about service were limited to passive kinds of service such as helping others and volunteering, rather than active kinds of service such as community organizing. Results were compared with conceptions of citizenship held by students engaged in another course with a smaller volunteering component. Opportunities for broadening service learning students’ understanding of citizenship are discussed.
Emotion, Community Development, And The Physical Environment: An Experimental Investigation Of Measurements, 2013 University of Kentucky
Emotion, Community Development, And The Physical Environment: An Experimental Investigation Of Measurements, George E. Boone
Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development
A wide range of research fields have studied how emotions and behavior are affected by the physical environment. This gestalt theorist approach of experimental research as well seeks to measure emotion (using the valence-arousal scale) and micro-scale community development interactions when weighted physical environment factors are adjusted. Community development (CD) interactions at the micro-scale have received but slight attention from scholars in the CD research field and this study aims partially to investigate developing objective measures from social observations. CD interactions from recordings along with self-reported emotion through surveys in four quasi-experimental groups (where the environments were constructed based on …
Untangling Neoliberalism’S Gordian Knot: Cancer Prevention And Control Services For Rural Appalachian Populations, 2013 University of Kentucky
Untangling Neoliberalism’S Gordian Knot: Cancer Prevention And Control Services For Rural Appalachian Populations, George F. Bills
Theses and Dissertations--Sociology
In eastern Kentucky, as in much of central Appalachia, current local storylines narrate the frictions and contradictions involved in the structural transition from a post-WWII Fordist industrial economy and a Keynesian welfare state to a Post-Fordist service economy and Neoliberal hollow state, starving for energy to sustain consumer indulgence (Jessop, 1993; Harvey, 2003; 2005). Neoliberalism is the ideological force redefining the “societal infrastructure of language” that legitimates this transition, in part by redefining the key terms of democracy and citizenship, as well as valorizing the market, the individual, and technocratic innovation (Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999; Harvey, 2005). This project develops …
Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, 2013 Coastal Carolina University
Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, Horry County Historical Society
The Independent Republic Quarterly
A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.
Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, 2013 Coastal Carolina University
Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, Horry County Historical Society
The Independent Republic Quarterly
A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.