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A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

Creator:: Sugai, Taichi
Abstract:: This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: environment because in the development of environmental education in Japan, the perspectives of children and

An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

Creator:: Kawano, Mika
Abstract:: The Buraku people have been segregated, oppressed, and discriminated against throughout Japanese history. The Japanese can dismiss the Buraku issue because of assimilation theories, the belief in homogeneity, and passive attitudes by the Buraku people. The Buraku Liberation League (BLL), which has fought for equal rights on behalf of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and things that make up our physical environment differ in a multitude of ways, only some of these

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:: Visconti, Lauren A.
Abstract:: Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT IN THE THESIS OF Lauren A.Visconti for the

Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

Creator:: Nelson, Rachel C.
Abstract:: The decision to attend a university creates many important decisions for a young adult, with one of the most important being the choice of where to live while they make the transition into independent adults. Many choose to live on campus during this critical time. The differences that exist, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the students perceive in their residential environment; and the impacts of the role of the RA

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:: Takahashi, Tokiko
Abstract:: Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: catches as a result of deterioration of oceanic environments and depression in the industry. In addition

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Creator:: D'Alessandro, Erica
Abstract:: Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: environment presented a wealth of novel retail outlets that changed the way Russians interacted with

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Creator:: Stiles, Catherine M.
Abstract:: Emergency departments (ED) provide access to care for large numbers of patients who have nonemergent medical needs. More than half of the patients presenting to the ED at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon, were found to be seeking care for nonemergent medical needs. In an effort to provide an alternative...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: only a increase in outpatient visits (Padgett and Brodsky, 1992). In 1966, The Journal of the Ame,ican

Gods and knickknacks : the American adoption of Asian religious items

Creator:: Jameson, Tamsyn L.
Abstract:: This thesis contains the cultural biography of Buddhist and Hindu items in a small college town in the United States. It explores different factors that have led to the availability of these items here, what attracts Americans to them, and the meanings they give these items. Semi-structured interviews were conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presence of Asian religious objects in this environment. 7 Methods Within these pages is

Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

Creator:: Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.
Abstract:: Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: strives to equalize that relationship. Women, Environment and Development (WED) is a focus of certain

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

Creator:: Pearce, Laurie Kathleen
Abstract:: Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Laurie Kathleen Pearce for the degree

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A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Defining the gap : a case study of the on campus residential options at Oregon State University

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Gods and knickknacks : the American adoption of Asian religious items

Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

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