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  • Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

    Creator:
    Lackey, Ryan W.
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    One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
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    neither “comfort the disturbed [nor] disturb the comfortable,” terms Wallace uses in his interview with

  • More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

    Creator:
    Goicochea, Andrea R.
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    This thesis evaluates the contact zone of the remote composition classroom and offers mediations for leveling the authoritative powers by fronting disability studies in pedagogies. The purpose of this thesis is to create pedagogies from disability scholarship and real teaching experiences that can be implemented in the remote classroom to...
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    about contact zones in her work Borderlands: La Frontera, and in an interview with Andrea Lunsford

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

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    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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    and Sgueglia 2008). An interview with Ali Mussa, a member of the Association of Eritrean Workers

  • Cultural competency in associate degree nursing education : a skills approach

    Creator:
    Wade, Jennifer L.
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    The purpose of this study was to determine whether a course in cultural competency would impact associate degree nursing students' perceptions of their abilities to provide care to culturally diverse clients. Ethnographic interviews with nursing faculty, graduates and students were utilized in course development. The cultural competency course was evaluated...
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    anthropologist. The first moment occurred while watching an interview with Dr. Maya Angelou. Dr. Angelou was

  • California Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Work within a Postmodern Market Economy

    Creator:
    Oliveira, Kristine Yvonne
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    The diversity of attitudes held by California community college faculty about Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) was studied. In twelve semi-structured interviews, faculty informants explained how their work has changed as a result of increased standardization and accountability measures, how they value those changes, and how they expect the profession to...
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    . ................................................................. 53   Figure 11. Tenure-track faculty with more than 30 years’ experience are most represented

  • Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

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    Hastings, Kevin L.
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    This thesis examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This study helps fill in voids left by a lack of research on the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers. Studies that have explored restoration volunteer motivation relied largely on surveys that revealed altruistic...
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    examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature

  • "Legality" on Hold: An Exploratory Study on DACAmented Student’s Experiences of Uncertainty and Fear

    Creator:
    Kingsley, Rachel C.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore the uncertainty and fear that DACAmented college and university students experience with the potential termination of the United States Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. There is limited research on the experiences of DACAmented individuals during this time of uncertainty for...
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    listing exercise. I used a semi-structured interview model with probing questions to yield in-depth

  • "It's not about place it's about space" : place-of-birth decision-making in Cork, Ireland

    Creator:
    Houtman, Leah S.
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    Despite apparently supportive national policies, including nation-wide legalization of home birth and coverage by the national health care system of the costs associated with that option, these births account for less than 1% of all births in the Republic of Ireland. Using data collected during participant observation, both in person...
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     the  national  health  care  system  of  the   costs  associated  with  that

  • The experiences of Latino immigrant students in an Oregon high school : identity, language, and interethnic relationships

    Creator:
    Hayden, Alyssa
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    For much of history, U.S. schools have employed ideologies of assimilation and nationhood - involving an exchange of immigrants' ways of life for a homogenous American identity - as frameworks for their curriculum and language education programs. However, a new ideology of multiculturalism has gained popularity in recent decades. Multicultural...
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    their classrooms and would allow me to observe their classrooms and conduct an interview with them

  • Women's experiences of breastfeeding in an out-of-hospital birthing community

    Creator:
    Marshall, Lindsay J.
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    In this thesis, I examine the experiences of breastfeeding mothers who chose to give birth with Certified Professional Midwives at a free-standing birth center, and the factors that influence their known high rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration. Using grounded theory and data collected from participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and...
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    Life‟s clients with interview narratives from the birth center‟s staff. This study will nuance