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  • Justifications for K-12 education standards, goals, and curriculum

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    Creighton, Sean
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    In the contemporary U.S., the state, through the Legislative Assembly, the State Board of Education, and the Department of Education, sets policies for K-12 education. These include goals and standards that affect the kinds of influences local officials, parents, and students can have on various education programs, required and elective...
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    presented on January 7, 2013 Title: Justifications for K-12 Education Standards, Goals, and Curriculum

  • Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

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    Mago, Bhisma
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    In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a...
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    works of thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi, she seeks to proffer a global history of thought as it relates

  • Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

    Creator:
    Henschke, Stefan
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    In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive...
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    246). The prolific nonviolent activist and Hindu religious leader Mahatma Gandhi, expressed a

  • Imagining Kenya in Ngugi's fiction

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    Prasansak, Ram
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    The relationship between literature and nation-building has been one of the most crucial issues in postcolonial studies. The novel in particular is regarded as a means by which writers forge national consciousness among the colonized during the time of colonization. Many African writers themselves, for example, conceive of their work...
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    is Homi K. Bhabha who advances the concept of hybridity in colonial relationships: Hybridity is the

  • The Indian diaspora : situating family building patterns in a migrant community

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    Satra, Rupal
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    The purpose of this study is to ethnographically examine traditionally prescribed notions of sons and daughters in an Indian diasporic community located on Devon Avenue in Chicago. Informed by the association between "ideal" and "actual" family building patterns, this study situates reproductive behaviors and demographic outcomes in its local context...
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    and Western Avenue—also recognized as the Honorary Mahatma Gandhi Way. Situated on the north

  • Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

    Creator:
    Henderson, Laura A.
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    Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
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  • The Politics of Population : A Transnational Feminist Analysis of India’s National Population Policy of 2000

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    Rowe, Ashley
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    The purpose of this study is to critically analyze whether India’s National Population Policy of 2000 represents a paradigm shift in terms of how the nation-state conceptualizes and address population growth through formal population policy. Analyzed through transnational feminist theory, this study employed political discourse analysis as the research method....
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  • Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

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    Oney, Celia E.
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    People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
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    sign and ratify the NPT.60 Margarete K. Luddemann has argued that Mexico resented any perceived

  • Yoga Philosophy as a Framework for Ethical Yoga Tourism: Avoiding Harm and Traveling Responsibly in the Era of the Anthropocene

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    Mylan, Jessica A.
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    Contemporary spiritual tourism impacts many stakeholders including environmental ecosystems, tourists, tourist operators, and community members. Increasingly, in the era of the Anthropocene, there is a need for ethical guidance to inform spiritual tourism so as to mitigate social injustice and environmental degradation. This research project investigates the potential for the...
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  • Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

    Creator:
    Gregory, Ronald L.
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    Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
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