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Incorporating Community Cultural Wealth In A Community-Based Organization, Henriette S. Ako-Asare
Incorporating Community Cultural Wealth In A Community-Based Organization, Henriette S. Ako-Asare
Master's Projects and Capstones
This project examined how Hack the Hood, a Bay Area non-profit organization, successfully works with low-income youth of color in an outside of school context using technological skills to empower them. Critical Race Theory, community cultural wealth, and the many studies on academic success provided a model through which to examine the efficacy and cultural relevance of Hack the Hood programming using interviews and data already gathered on the organization. Based on the analysis of Hack the Hood and the promising findings related to how their work advance several of the tenets of the community cultural wealth model, this project …
Digital Storytelling In Bhutan: A Qualitative Examination Of New Media Tools Used To Bridge The Digital Divide In A Rural Community School, Khendum Gyabak, Heriberto Godina Phd
Digital Storytelling In Bhutan: A Qualitative Examination Of New Media Tools Used To Bridge The Digital Divide In A Rural Community School, Khendum Gyabak, Heriberto Godina Phd
Heriberto Godina PhD
This qualitative study examines the use of digital storytelling as an instructional intervention for bridging the digital divide among public school students in rural Bhutan. Primary participants for the study included elementary school children who had never been previously exposed to computer technology and were recipients of a donated classroom set of laptops. Results demonstrated how technology instruction and infrastructure inherently positions ethical and cultural differences between researchers, education personnel, school children and their families. The use of English became an inadvertent gatekeeper for who was chosen to participate in the classroom laptop program. Another major finding examines how Bhutan’s …