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Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

Creator:: Saleh, Natalie K.
Abstract:: Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to enhance learning. For example, Lucía Durá et al. conducted a study about the La Escuelita After

Latinos, loggers and old hippies : rural revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Kubein, Adele
Abstract:: This ethnography looks at the processes a rural Oregon community is undergoing as some members attempt to re-animate the community by creating a community center after the loss of its school and market, two vital services that provided venues for social interaction and engagement. The methodology for this research includes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ....................................................................................................... 63 5.3.1.2 Lucia

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Creator:: Fisher, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: What does comida rica mean? In this thesis, I explore the meanings of comida rica, sana, and de nuestra tierra through the discourses, practices, and kitchen geographies in six urban, highland households in the Ecuadorean Andes. This research, as part of a larger investigation carried out by a team of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Climbing the mountain within : understanding development impacts and overcoming change in rural southwest China

Creator:: Clark, Marco
Abstract:: Development in China over the last thirty years has emphasized infrastructural and economic advancement. Despite enormous gains in living standards in the industrialized eastern provinces, much of China's interior and western provinces remain relatively underdeveloped. Populated mostly by ethnic minorities, the southwest province of Yunnan (meaning south of the clouds)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The relationship between sibling status and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children

Creator:: Easton, Linda
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the variables of sex, age, sibling status, age relationship of sibling, age spacing between siblings and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children. Seventy-one children, 32 boys and 39 girls, ranging in ages from two-years-eleven-months to five-years-seven-months, served as subjects....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: have been used to assess sex-role identification (De Lucia, 1963), and sex-role discrimination tests

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Creator:: Sprague, Allen
Abstract:: The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Source material for holiday programs in high school : an annotated bibliography

Creator:: Castle, Leola Blanche
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: editing of the manuscript I am indebted to Miss Lucy M. Lewis, Lijes Lucia Haley, ad Miss Bertha Herse

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

Creator:: Guerron-Montero, Carla Maria
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: LIST OF FEMALE INFORMANTS No. NAME ABREV AGE INTERVIEW CIVIL STATUS SOCIO-EC. CON COMMUN.PAR 1 Lucia

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

Latinos, loggers and old hippies : rural revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

¿Que es rico? In Support of the ¡Que Rico Es! 250mil Familias Campaña : Practice, Ideology, Rica, Sana, y De Nuestra Tierra

Climbing the mountain within : understanding development impacts and overcoming change in rural southwest China

The relationship between sibling status and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Source material for holiday programs in high school : an annotated bibliography

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

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