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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Equines and education can come together for the mutual benefit of both. There are thousands of horses, mules, and donkeys in need of homes. There are many children who are not able to read on their grade level. Bringing educational programming together with the calming presence of equines can create a place for both to learn and grow together. In today's world, literacy rates are declining rapidly. Large percentages of children are reading below...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Joey and her fifteen-year-old brother, Mathias, live alone in rural New Hampshire. They were abandoned by their mother - a woman who grew increasingly dysfunctional in the aftermaths of six ruined marriages until the year she met a well to-do librarian with a sinister obsession, and deemed him her last chance. The librarian came with an ultimatum: she had to walk away from her older children. When Mathias robs a bank with a squirt...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Research shows that nature can restore attention and well-being, and research surrounding music in certain situations has had similar results. However, the combinatory effects of listening to music while in nature has not been studied. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of listening to music through headphones while hiking on attention restoration and positive and negative affect."--from leaf ii.
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Examined through the lens of my own resiliency and adverse childhood experiences, this autoethnography explores why some youth succeed after adverse childhood experiences in their personal lives. The autoethnographic method of research places value on the self-reflexive process of understanding and can be written in many, many forms. I use narrative accounts about personal adverse childhood experience, juvenile delinquency, and dysfunctional family...
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"In 2019 Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) staff provided interpretive services, including walks, talks, and programs, to over 400,000 visitors. National Park Service (NPS) interpretation supports the park service mission to help visitors care about park resources so that they might come to value preserving the park's resources. Interpretation helps participants uncover the meanings and significance associated with park resources. The purpose of this...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The research presented within this thesis is a preliminary test of the effectiveness of mapping ethnographic information in the form of a life history interview to the recovered historic assemblage at Twenty-Nine Palms Inn, California. The onset of COV-SARS-2 (COVID-19) greatly impacted portions of this study. I was limited in my access to locational data and to the historic assemblage, and special arrangements finally made the artifacts available....
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"This critical qualitative study examines the experiences of undergraduate education students using narrative inquiry and biographical narrative analysis to understand more about being and becoming a social justice educator. Research questions include: how do prospective educators form a social justice disposition and how do they experience cognitive and affective disequilibrium along the way? Attempting to answer these questions builds upon the sprawling...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Ecotherapy and nature-based approaches represent a recently growing field of interventions that focus on rekindling a reciprocal human relationship with nature, one that yields both deeper care, concern, and connection to the planet, as well as positive mental health benefits. As mental illness rises in the United States, ecotherapy has emerged as an intervention method that promises not only mental health benefits to those diagnosed, but also to...
1152) Integrating the tenets of living systems into a practice-based framework for leadership development
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This paper explores and assesses the impacts of a proposed nature-based leadership development model, with accompanying outdoor practices, on the personal growth and capacity-building of organizational leaders.... [An] original four-quadrant model was created that brings together living systems principles, leadership capacities, the four elements of nature, and specific nature-based practices into an integrated framework for personal development...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This study, guided by an ecofeminist perspective, explored whether participants in extreme outdoor activities has a different impact on women's perceived connection to nature than participation in less extreme outdoor activities."--from leaf ii.
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Social sustainability is an essential pillar of organizational success; lack of social sustainability is often an element of organizational failure. This study examined the interpersonal elements of social sustainability through two lenses and approaches. The first was a comparative case study on the interpersonal elements of social sustainability in six intentional communities, three located in Israel and three in Thailand. The comparative case...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This study explored the well-being of wildlife trackers in their intrapersonal, ecological, and social identities as influenced by their wildlife-tracking practices and their connection with the wildlife-tracking community. Through an ethnographic methodology, using the methods of interview, survey, and participant observation, I delved into the culture of wildlife trackers to learn how they interact in the world and the ways that tracking and tracking...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This qualitative case study explored the role of outdoor adventure programming in Jewish education to support identity development in youth and young adults. Through a key informant interview with Nadav Slovin, the Executive Director, and interviews with two program staff, a post-program survey, participant observation, and textual document analysis, the case study examined the motivations of the staff and how the curriculum was received by participants....
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Student and youth leadership programs are prevalent across the United States with programs based in schools, communities, and religious institutions. The researched benefits of such programs include an increased attachment to the community, a greater sense of belonging, and the development of prosocial behaviors. The vast majority of youth leadership programs are intended for High School and College students, with a smaller number of programs starting...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
"The world is full of conflicts and divisions between groups and subcultures. In America, bullying, domestic violence, exploitation, and attitudes of entitlement are on the rise. We are also experiencing a crisis of displaced people combined with increasing negative attitudes towards a subset of displaced people, refugees. Individuals and organizations desire to mitigate these negative attitudes and behaviors by activating empathy in people through...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH) is an intervention for addressing maladaptive behaviors in youth and adults. Therapeutic field instructors are responsible for facilitating the majority of this treatment process by supervising clients through wilderness activities in cooperation with a therapist. This study measured the professional quality of life of field instructors working for OBH programs in the United States in 2023. This study measured the...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"India is blessed with varied geographical terrain conducive for adventure activities such as caving, kayaking, mountaineering, paragliding, rafting, rock climbing, skiing, trekking, and more. Many books and reports, written by Indian authors and others, document adventure activities. In recent times, the field of outdoor education has developed significantly nationwide. However, little or none has been written about the history and growth of outdoor...