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Filtering by: Creator Lim, Daniel Degree Name Master of Arts (M.A.) Non-Academic Affiliation Oregon State University. Graduate School

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Creator:

Opas, Matthew E.

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Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT)use, specifically that of telephones and the Internet, impacts the lives of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy. Informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation were carried out in a 'center of second reception.' Results show that information obtained through the...

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Masters Thesis
International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:

Visconti, Lauren A.

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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...

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Masters Thesis

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Korea (Lim & Jang 2006) and Saudi Arabia (Guazzone & Pioppi 2009), two of the top five sending
Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:

Bustamante, Stephanie

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East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...

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Masters Thesis