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Overnight Summer Music Camp And The Impact On Its Youth: A Case Study, Ari Nemser
Overnight Summer Music Camp And The Impact On Its Youth: A Case Study, Ari Nemser
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This qualitative case study explores an overnight music camp, Camp Encore Coda. The purpose is to gain an understanding of the environment, uncovering the unique ways it impacts the social and musical developments of its participating youth while contrasting it to that of the traditional classroom. Framed by the concept of multidimensional growth, data were collected using surveys, interviews, focus group, and observations. The study uncovered exorbitant levels of social and musical growth among the youth; all directly linked to isolation from technology, communal living, and musical immersion in a community of practice. There lacks a significant amount of music …
Hospitality Review Volume 22 Issue 1 2004, Fiu Hospitality Review
Hospitality Review Volume 22 Issue 1 2004, Fiu Hospitality Review
Hospitality Review
No abstract provided.
Hospitality Review Volume 21 Issue 1 2003, Fiu Hospitality Review
Hospitality Review Volume 21 Issue 1 2003, Fiu Hospitality Review
Hospitality Review
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Crossing Boundaries To Education: Haitian Transnational Families And The Quest To Raise The Family Up, Tekla Nicholas
Crossing Boundaries To Education: Haitian Transnational Families And The Quest To Raise The Family Up, Tekla Nicholas
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Nearly 175, 000 Haitian immigrants have settled in South Florida since the 1970s. Their lives are often lived transnationally with persistent connections and obligations to family members in Haiti. Yet, traditional theories of immigrant assimilation focus on the integration of immigrants into host countries, giving little consideration to relationships and activities that extend into migrants' countries of origin. Conversely, studies of transnational families do not explicitly address incorporation into the receiving country. This dissertation, through the experiences of Haitian immigrants in South Florida, reveals a transnational quest “to raise the family up” through migration, remittances, and the pursuit of higher …