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1) From the mouth to the page and back to the mouth again: bringing the German folktale back to orality
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Germanic folktales have fallen out of orality and currently exist predominantly in literary texts. This thesis explores how traditional oral storytellers can meaningfully revive these stories through performance. The efficacy of hermeneutics as a methodology in bringing a written text back to orality will be examined and applied to the fairytale Rapunzel."--leaf 2.
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The need for equality has become one of the most deeply talked about subjects in the health care field. One challenge in this area is to reduce health care disparities and improve access to high-quality health care for diverse patients. There is a vast amount of literature on the implementation of cross-cultural competence in health care to reduce health care disparities. Cultural competence strategies include a racial and linguistic staff, culturally...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"I studied current educational efforts about urban wildlife in Tucson, Arizona using three main approaches: a) interviews with key informants, b) analysis of the dissemination of and reaction to informative booklets about urban wildlife, and c) a review of regionally-relevant news articles published online from 2013 to 2015. These triangulated research efforts provide a general snapshot of the relative effectiveness of urban wildlife education practices...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This research project explored the anatomy of satisfaction of undergraduate students' experiences in order to identify the themes common to students who were satisfied with their college careers. The study also examined the conditions that help students thrive on campus focusing on college seniors who self-reported as very satisfied with their college experience. Furthermore the study analyzed the motivation behind satisfied students' behavioral...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This research asks the question, How does yoga help women heal when coping with divorce? To answer this question, the researcher asked four women to tell their stories through interviews. Those interviews were then synthesized into narratives. The research was completed using the heuristic inquiry method as well as story-telling and photo elicitation. The heuristics method recognizes that the primary researcher has intimate knowledge of the subject....
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The purpose of this research was to identify the different elements of the summer camp environment that either encourage or create barriers to building community. Many studies have been conducted looking at the benefits for campers in a summer camp setting; however, few studies look at the sense of community among summer camp staff. Of those, most revolve around the benefits of a high sense of community rather than the factors that influence sense...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to highlight best practices in the management of wild eastern brook trout, an examination was performed of brook trout management plans and stocking habits for seven randomly selected states within the species native range. Additionally, surveys were distributed to these state's members of Trout Unlimited (TU) in an effort to understand angler motivations, awareness of and attitudes about their state's stocking practices and protection...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Coexistence with people is one of the greatest challenges to survival for the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana), listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Species Red List (Blanc 2008), in areas where human cultivation borders fragmented habitats (Hoare and Du Toit 1999; Osborn and Parker 2002), and crop-raiding occur. Electric fences are used more frequently. While they are effective at deterring the more risk-averse general population, they...
9) A clash of new and ancient gods: religion and allegory in central African postcolonial literature
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Religious conflict, missionary versus indigenous priest for the soul of society, occurs repeatedly in the postcolonial fiction of central Africa, as the chosen means to illustrate the colonial and postcolonial environment. Given the omnipresence of religion in the postcolonial fiction of central Africa, there is little analysis that comprehensively explores its function from the broad scope of multiple novels and perspectives in comparison with postcolonial...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Personal narrative and literature review was used to explore the historical and current contexts of embodied knowing, embodied inquiry, and embodied teaching. Methods of embodied inquiry from phenomenology, somatics, and transpersonal research are described and compared. Ten common elements of embodied inquiry practices are distilled, including a dialogue between witnessing and felt sense aspects of awareness, as a tool for facilitating embodied...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The world today needs citizens that value and behave in response to an ever-accelerating ecological crisis. Place-based environmental education delivered in an expeditionary framework can facilitate the development of students' conservation ethic and action. This thesis seeks to apply research on conservation psychology and environmental education in the design of a comprehensive, semester-long, field-based expeditionary curriculum focused on landscape...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this contextualizing essay, the author compares and contrasts women's rights of today with that of four hundred years ago. Her hypothesis credits the milestones in women's rights while stressing the extremely tenuous nature of those rights. Women are viewed through two lenses, the patriarchal and the matriarchal, demonstrating two very different approaches to gender. This essay brings to light urgent issues that affected women in the seventeenth...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"To prepare students to disentangle the complicated environmental, social, and economic challenges exacerbated by the previous generation and propose effective solutions, they need to be taught the necessary knowledge and skills. Education for Sustainability (EfS) is one such modality. Organizations such as the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, Shelburne Farms, and the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development have opened...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Mariana crow (Corvus kubaryi), locally and henceforth in this document called Aga, is a critically endangered species endemic to two Northern Mariana Islands. Aga are extirpated (locally extinct) on Guam but still persist on Rota. Multiple studies calculate a 93%-95% population decline over thirty years, with a recent estimate of 170 Aga on Rota. The primary reason for the decline on Rota is unknown, though predation by introduced mammals, habitat...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Little is known about the experiences of students on college outdoor orientation trips who experience lower levels of belonging within their group. During this study students who experienced lower belonging on one program were interviewed to identify common characteristics of these experiences. Due to a small number of research participants, the study was expanded through a national survey to include outdoor orientation participants at 23 schools....
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When children can understand their surrounding environments (whether it be the natural environment or their built environment) it is said that they can connect more deeply and have a heightened awareness of their surroundings (Kelly, 2013). This connection and heightened awareness can open their eyes to prevalent environmental issues, increasing their sense of social responsibility. The research on this type of learning generally occurs in formal...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"International education in the United States is explored from its historical context to the contemporary constructs of the industry. Recent statistical insight from the Institute of International Education (IIE) Annual Open Door Report illustrates a very clear inequity within the participant demographic profiles. Considering that personal development outcomes associated with international education are resoundingly positive in nature and include...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with two central questions, this study investigated 1) "What are female and racial/ethnic percentages among Appalachian Trail (A.T.) hikers?", and 2) "Why are female and racial/ethnic groups less represented than are others?" Demographic percentages of A.T. hikers reveal more than two-thirds are male, and greater than 90% are Caucasian. This prompted supplementary questions aimed at increasing A.T. hiker diversity. This qualitative study...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This thesis presents findings from a narrative and phenomenological case study that examined the inspirations and motivations that led to an adolescent student's engagement in a self-initiated experiential education project (SEEP) and the subsequent effects on the adolescent's sense of self. The student's SEEP was a month-long challenge to eat only wild foods. SEEPs and self-designed experiential learning projects are examples of self-directed learning,...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Women are underrepresented in public office throughout the United States. Candidate recruitment and training are understood to be crucial interventions for increasing women's representation in elected leadership (Rozzell, 2000; Carroll & Sanbonmatsu, 2009; Carroll & Sanbonmatsu, 2010). In response to this need, campaign programs for women have become increasingly prevalent across the country. However, the implications of what happens within campaign...