Dissertations / Theses: 'Community'

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Fan, Mei Bella, and 范美. "Community bridge: bridging the community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31986419.

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Fan, Mei Bella. "Community bridge : bridging the community /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2595491x.

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Roudebush, Deborah May. "An ethnography of community leadership through community-based community education." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/425454.

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The purposes of the study were: 1) To describe important characteristics of an ongoing, viable "community-based" community education project, 2) to determine whether the critical-principles postulated at the beginning of the study would be illustrated by considering a community-based community education project in one community, and 3) to describe the leadership behaviors utilized in a successful community-based community education project, and 4) to generate hypotheses for future research studies in community education.The data were collected and analyzed using a modified version of Spradley's Developmental Research Sequence Writing methodology, including interviewing participant observation, supplemented with document analysis and surveys.Eight of nine postulated critical principles were present in the organization studied. A partial listing of proposed hypotheses follows:1. The general principles, values, and leadership actions outlined in the agency summary can be successfully transplanted to another community.2. The director of a successful community-based community education agency must be good at controlling the flow of information, adept at negotiating, and politically persuasive.3. A tax levy is a sound, stable means for providing primary local financial support.4. The non-profit corporation is an effective structure capable of building on the resources of the major political bodies (the city council, the public school board, and the township trustees) while maintaining integrity in decision making and service provision.5. The political bodies, the people of the community, and the businesses and community organizations must all be represented in the governing body of a commuity-based community education organization.6. Detailed procedures and policies play a critical role in bridging the transition period when a new director is hired.

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Beavitt, Richard. "The demands of liminality: Community, communitas, and reflexivity." Thesis, Beavitt, Richard (2012) The demands of liminality: Community, communitas, and reflexivity. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/16695/.

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An enduring aspect of any notion of community is a sense of being connected to others. It is the experience of communitas - in that sense of the word employed by Buber and later developed by Victor Turner - that brings a particular emphasis and persistence to this aspect of ‘belonging’ associated with community. The disparity between the hopeful ideas placed around community and the often much more chaotic and conflict ridden experience of actually being with others, suggests that communitas needs our consideration. This is particularly so if our involvement with community is to be driven not by a sense of nostalgia or utopian desire, but instead by intention to develop some agency amidst the gradients of power that surround and run through it. Communitas presents us with a particularly unfettered form of relationship, but one that occurs primarily in liminal environments. Commonly, liminal space is considered to be a moment in time between one state and another, a condition of ‘betwixt and between’. However, this observation avoids acknowledging that the function of liminal space is to provide participants with a reflexive environment, one removed from the normal parameters of social structures. Such a reflexive space, consciously entered and exited, can provide both community members and the community itself with the opportunity to more creatively engage with the world and its own contradictions and conflicts. Being able to move across the threshold into, and out of, liminal space, places considerable demands on those involved. My argument in this thesis, that liminality and communitas are integral to the functioning of community, leads to the proposal that negotiating the transition in and out of liminal environments requires community members to exercise a degree of individual reflective practice. Schőn’s concept of reflection-iniv action is proposed as a suitable meta-skill for operating in this way. Reflection-in-action bears an affinity with the sense of flow engendered by communitas; it also implies a readiness both to reframe questions and respond in an improvisational manner. These two gestures are required in order to meet the demands of liminality.

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Leonard, J. Rebecca. "Growing community through community gardens : guidelines for using community gardens as a tool for building community." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1041805.

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This creative project has determined that community gardening is a vehicle for building community. The benefits for community gardens are observed by the individuals that garden, the neighborhoods that support community gardening, as well as, the cities in which these gardens flourish. This research aided the Blaine Southeast Neighborhood Association in developing and evaluating a new community gardening program designed for the Blaine Southeast Neighborhood and Muncie, Indiana. The literature review discusses the history and the benefits of community gardening which builds a strong case for groups interested in beginning a community gardening program. The guidelines developed for this research provide the framework for developing a successful community gardening program. The programs then use the criteria set forth in this research to evaluate the success the program is experiencing at reaching the goals of the program. Community Gardening is an appropriate activity for most urban communities that are experiencing a decline in the quality of their neighborhoods. This research supports this statement and demonstrates how to form a community garden successfully.
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Dannecker, Achim, Martin Radzuweit, Carolin Stupp, Birgit Wenke, and Ulrike Lechner. "Community INVADE - Eine Community als Intervention." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-143352.

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Sheehy, Margaret. "Community and celebration in community plays." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369683.

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Davies, J. E. "Community pharmacy businesses and community pharmacists." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1384825/.

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The change in community pharmacists’ practice from compounding and effectively unregulated medicines supply through to the highly regulated and largely automated high-volume dispensing process of today has been challenging. The economic and social standing of community pharmacy was transformed creating a need for further adaptation. This thesis explores ‘how business and professional practice models for community pharmacy in England in ten to twenty years are likely to be structured?’. It has six sections, plus an overarching discussion. A work sampling study of ten community pharmacies found that pharmacists continue to spend two-thirds of their time on dispensing related activities, compared to one tenth on counselling. The accompanying analysis links this to an increase in prescription volumes and payments that have incentivised pharmacy contractors to focus on medicines supply. A significant decrease in the average prescription duration for eight chronic disease medications over the past decade is revealed, and its desirability questioned. Using the Kingdon model of the policy process as an evaluative framework, 16 interviews with ‘policy leaders’ provided insight into how seven factors (identified from a structured thematic review of the implementation of Medicines Use Reviews) have influenced the implementation of the New Medicines Service. In addition, role theory-based thematic analysis involving 17 stakeholders in pharmacy policy highlighted the tensions between community pharmacists’ roles as shopkeepers, clinicians and businessmen, and the effects that new technologies will have on them. The analysis identifies a need for pharmacy to embrace a new strategic direction that enhances pharmacy’s contributions to health outcomes. In conclusion, community pharmacy in England should offer timelier and economically efficient ways of solving contemporary health problems. The evidence presented here suggests that without stronger internal leadership and robust external stakeholder support medicines supply will split from the provision of clinical pharmacy in the community setting, leaving community pharmacies as ‘commodity cost’, low return medicines suppliers.

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Dannecker, Achim, Martin Radzuweit, Carolin Stupp, Birgit Wenke, and Ulrike Lechner. "Community INVADE - Eine Community als Intervention." Technische Universität Dresden, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28060.

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Braunholtz-Speight, Timothy Herford. "Power and community in Scottish community land initiatives." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2015. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/power-and-community-in-scottish-community-land-initiatives(7670cf12-6c48-41ef-8bdd-a5aac301873b).html.

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This thesis examines Scottish community land ownership through the lenses of power and community. It asks what impact Community Land Initiatives (CLIs) have on power relations, particularly at local level; and, if and how their conception as “community” initiatives affects that. These questions are addressed through in-depth qualitative case studies of two emerging CLIs on the Isle of Skye, in the context of the wider community land movement. The thesis finds that one of the CLIs studied have contributed some measure of additive empowerment to local residents. These are increasing in significance and social reach as the scale of asset ownership and associated development projects expands. The other is at an earlier stage in terms of land ownership, but has some collective power through a focus on the cultural and convivial aspects of community that has considerable local resonance. It is also clear that, where CLIs acquire land and assets, they shift visible power from landowners to community groups. They also are beginning to shift cultural perceptions of who and what land is for. However, despite some efforts by activists to address them, power relations at local level shape participation in CLI decision-making spaces. These are closely connected to experiences and ideas of community at local level. More broadly, the thesis shows how CLIs owe their power both to organising at local level, and to a network of relationships with actors elsewhere, including funding and support agencies. Maintaining and balancing all these relationships can be challenging. As an in-depth but narrowly focussed case study, this thesis aims at exploring these issues, rather than producing definitive judgements about the entire community land movement. The final chapter therefore situates the thesis in the context of other studies of this movement, and within the wider literature on power and development. It concludes with suggestions for further research and testing of the ideas it has developed.

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Buck, Alison R. "Learning Community Participation and Sense of Community." NCSU, 2006. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07062006-115946/.

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To perform well and persist at universities, students need to feel socially and academically integrated. Many universities have instituted learning communities to promote both types of involvement. I explore whether participants in learning communities develop a greater sense of community in the classroom and the university than non-participants. My sample consists of 273 first year students in 31 small seminar classes in a variety of disciplines. My comparison group is 73 first-year students taking introductory sociology courses. I also control for the effects of race, gender, family income, residence type and course subject. This study represents one of the many ways that sociology can contribute to the understanding of college student behavior

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Feng, Jing, and 冯婧. "Fringe community: community for migrants in Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50703249.

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Koch, Michael, and Karlheinz Toni. "Community-Mirrors zur Unterstützung von Community-Treffen." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-204310.

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Erfolgreiche Community-Unterstützung erfordert die Bereitstellung von Möglichkeiten zur Interaktion mit den Community-Plattformen abseits von Desktop-PCs. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir eine Anwendung zur Vermittlung von Community-Awareness auf Community-Treffen vor, die sich auf große interaktive Wandbildschirme stützt. Die Arbeiten stellen erstens einen Ausgangspunkt für weitere Arbeiten an einer integrierten Unterstützung von Community-Treffen dar, und bieten zweitens ein Beispiel für andere Anwendungen zur Unterstützung von Communtiy-Awareness mit Community-Mirrors.

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Koch, Michael, and Karlheinz Toni. "Community-Mirrors zur Unterstützung von Community-Treffen." Technische Universität Dresden, 2004. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A29573.

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Erfolgreiche Community-Unterstützung erfordert die Bereitstellung von Möglichkeiten zur Interaktion mit den Community-Plattformen abseits von Desktop-PCs. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir eine Anwendung zur Vermittlung von Community-Awareness auf Community-Treffen vor, die sich auf große interaktive Wandbildschirme stützt. Die Arbeiten stellen erstens einen Ausgangspunkt für weitere Arbeiten an einer integrierten Unterstützung von Community-Treffen dar, und bieten zweitens ein Beispiel für andere Anwendungen zur Unterstützung von Communtiy-Awareness mit Community-Mirrors.

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Muchna, Amy E. "Linkin! Community Cancer Connections: Community Needs Assessment." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144848.

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Hazell, Peter, and n/a. "Community title or community chaos : environmental management, community development and governance in rural residential developments established under community title." University of Canberra. Resource, Environment and Heritage Science, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050415.124034.

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This thesis contends that; in mainstream rural residential development around the Australian Capital Territory, use of community title guidelines for sub-division should consider social processes and environmental considerations along-side economic imperatives and interactions. Community title is a form of land tenure that allows for private freehold ownership of land as well as community owned land within the one sub-division. In New South Wales, community title was introduced in 1990 under the Community Land Development Act 1989 (NSW) and the Community Land Management Act 1989 (NSW). Since the introduction of community title, upwards of one hundred and fifty developments, ranging from just a few blocks to the size of small suburbs, have been approved throughout the state. The original aim of community title was to provide a legal framework that underpinned theme-based broad-acre development. Themebased development could include a Permaculture© village, a rural retreat for likeminded equine enthusiasts, or even a medieval village. Community title is also seen as an expedient form of land tenure for both developers and shire councils. Under community title, a developer only has to submit a single development application for a multi-stage development. This can significantly reduce a developer's exposure to risk. From a shire council's perspective, common land and resources within a development, which would otherwise revert to council responsibility for management, becomes the collective responsibility of all the land owners within the development, effectively obviating council from any responsibility for management of that land. Community title is also being touted in planning and policy as a way of achieving 'sustainable' environmental management in new subdivisions. The apparent expediency of community title has meant that development under these guidelines has very quickly moved beyond theme-based development into mainstream rural residential development. Community title effectively provides a framework for participatory governance of these developments. The rules governing a community title development are set out in the management statement, which is submitted to the local council and the state government with the development application. A community association, which includes all lot owners, manages the development. Unless written into the original development application, the council has no role in the management of the common land and resources. This thesis looks at the peri-urban zone around one of Australia's fastest growing cities - Canberra, whose population growth and relative affluence is impacting on rural residential activity in the shires surrounding the Australian Capital Territory. Yarrowlumla Shire, immediately adjacent to the ACT, has experienced a 362 percent increase in population since 1971. Much of this growth has been in the form of rural residential or hobby farm development. Since 1990, about fifteen percent of the development in Yarrowlumla Shire has been community title. The Yass Shire, to the north of the ACT, has shown a forty five percent population increase since 1971. Community title in that shire has accounted for over fifty percent of development since 1990. The thesis case study is set in Yass Shire. The major research question addressed in the thesis is; does community title, within the context of rural residential development around the Australian Capital Territory, facilitate community-based environmental management and education? Subsidiary questions are; what are the issues in and around rural residential developments within the context of the study, who are the stakeholders and what role do they play and; what skills and support are required to facilitate community-based environmental management and education within the context of the study area? To answer the research questions I undertook an interpretive case study, using ethnographic methods, of rural residential development near the village of Murrumbateman in the Yass Shire, thirty kilometres north of Canberra. At the time of the study, which was undertaken in 1996, the developments involved had been established for about four years. The case study revealed that, as a result of stakeholders and residents not being prepared for the management implications of community title, un-necessary conflict was created between residents and between residents and stakeholders. Community-based environmental management issues were not considered until these issues of conflict were addressed and residents had spent enough time in the estates to familiarise themselves with their environment and with each other. Once residents realised that decisions made by the community association could affect them, there developed a desire to participate in the process of management. Eventually, earlier obstacles were overcome and a sense of community began to develop through involvement in the community association. As residents became more involved, the benefits of having ownership of the community association began to emerge. However, this research found that management of a broad acre rural residential development under community title was far more complicated than any of the stakeholders, or any but the most legally minded residents, were prepared for.

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Jewkes, Rachel Katherine. "Meanings of 'community' in community participation in health promotion." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1994. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/meanings-of-community-in-community-participation-in-health-promotion(b6de367c-b093-4d06-a81b-42bb9746d344).html.

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Lam, Siu-ling Shirley, and 林少玲. "The role of government in community building: management of community centres and community halls." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31964515.

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Ellis, Hugh. "Conceptualisations of 'the community' and 'community knowledge' among community radio volunteers in Katutura, Namibia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002882.

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Community radio typically relies on volunteers to produce and present stations’ programming. Volunteers are generally drawn from stations’ target communities and are seen as “representatives” of those communities. It is with such volunteers and their role as representatives of stations’ target communities that this study is concerned. It poses the question: “what are the central concepts that typically inform volunteers’ knowledge of their target community, and how do these concepts impact on their perception of how they have gained this knowledge, and how they justify their role as representatives of this community?” The dissertation teases out the implications of these conceptualisations for a volunteer team’s ability to contribute to the establishment of a media environment that operates as a Habermasian ‘critical public sphere’. It argues that this can only be achieved if volunteers have detailed and in-depth knowledge of their target community. In order to acquire this knowledge, volunteers should make use of systematic ways of learning about the community, rather than relying solely on knowledge obtained by living there. In a case study of Katutura Community Radio (KCR), one of the bestknown community radio stations in Namibia, the study identifies key differences in the way in which different groups of volunteers conceptualise “the community”. The study focuses, in particular, on such difference as it applies to those who are volunteers in their personal capacity and those who represent non-governmental and community-based organisations at the station. It is argued that two strategies would lead to significant improvement in such a station’s ability to serve as a public sphere. Firstly, the station would benefit from an approach in which different sections of the volunteer team share knowledge of the target community with each other. Secondly, volunteers should undertake further systematic research into their target community. It is also argued that in order to facilitate such processes, radio stations such as KCR should recognise the inevitability of differences between different versions of “community knowledge”.

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Rosa, S. Robert. "Enhancing community life at Ashland Theological Seminary moving from pseudo community to authentic community /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Lam, Siu-ling Shirley. "The role of government in community building : management of community centres and community halls /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1363687X.

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Holm, Heather Louise. "Unintentional community, alternative community in the Annapolis Valley." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ27582.pdf.

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Loughhead, Susan. "Community and power : community forestry policy in Nepal." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320317.

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Dwyer, Paul. "Community radio : community access, professionalism & technical change." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/47417.

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Fairchilds, Angela R. "Community stakeholder influence in community college decision-making." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280653.

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This is a qualitative study of three urban community colleges and their respective communities which examines how local stakeholders influence strategic decisions made by college leaders. The subject colleges are located in the same governing district and thus have commonalities in mission as well as bureaucratic procedures that provide a normative structure. Beyond this shared legal and bureaucratic framework, the colleges operate with a high degree of autonomy. It is this operational freedom coupled with community dissimilarities that are analyzed in this investigation, through answering the following questions: In what ways do community stakeholders influence strategic decisions at their local community college? How do college leaders define their respective service communities? Which community stakeholder groups are identified as influential and how are these influences defined? What boundary-spanning relationships exist as avenues for community influence? How is community input/feedback utilized? A common assumption in the literature about community colleges is that these institutions operationalize a comprehensive mission within the context of their local constituencies. The implication is that colleges are connected to their service communities and thus are subject to community influences. However, it is not clear in what ways these connections and local influences are manifested in college behavior; how do we know that such connections exist? if they do exist, what kind of connections are they? and in what ways do they influence college operations? Most of the literature on community colleges describes or explains the institutional role in a wide context or in generalities. While these perspectives provide valuable insight into community colleges on a broad level, there is much to be learned from examining the community college in a local context. This research fills a void in the literature about community colleges by focusing on local influences and presents a clearer understanding of the dynamic between a community college and its service community. The research centers around a conception of a community college as an open system, interdependently related to its external environment. It draws from key works by authors who propound views that organizational behaviors are controlled, constrained, or otherwise shaped by external influences. Findings are interpreted using the theoretical lenses of resource dependency, power and power-dependence relationships, and the concept of stakeholder influence in strategic management. The analysis provides a descriptive explanation and conception of the relationships between the subject community colleges and their respective communities, as well as comparing findings with the commonly held assumption that programming and services are driven by community needs.

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Drake, Carrie Lane. "Community Outreach English: Marketing a Community ESL Program." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2749.

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The focus of this MA TESOL project was to develop promotional products for BYU's Community Outreach English (CORE) program. The purpose of these products is to create greater community awareness of the program and the resources it provides to learners. It is also hoped that the promotional products will aid in the process of recruiting students for the program from one year to the next. While the essential elements of the marketing mix (product, place, promotion, and price) were reviewed, an emphasis for this project was placed on promotion, which translated into developing materials for this purpose. Promotional materials that were created included a video of student testimonials, a new program name and logo, program flyers, and a Facebook page. The promotional video was viewed and evaluated by a group of past and future CORE instructors. From the teachers' feedback, the video was shortened, the text script was altered to make it more readable, and some video segments were edited and rearranged. After editing the video, a group of 36 CORE students were shown the video and data was collected with a follow- up survey. Feedback showed that 100% of the students felt the video provided an accurate description of the student experience in the CORE classes. Demographic information also obtained from the survey indicated that the CORE students generally do have access to the internet outside of class, that the majority have newly arrive in the U.S. within the past three years, and that the majority do not work. Further elaboration on the data is provided in the discussion of the findings.

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Becker, Emily Jane. "Beyond Fruit: Examining Community in a Community Orchard." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2628.

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The Fruits of Diversity Community Orchard, located in Portland, Oregon in an affordable housing neighborhood, is a site of alternative food provisioning in which a group of people, organized by two nonprofits, work together to manage fruit and nut producing plants. Through conversations with volunteers who participate regularly and participant observation, this study explores the questions: What does community mean in the context of a community orchard? In what ways does partnering with a nonprofit from outside the neighborhood influence community and the way the project is operationalized? This thesis situates community orchards within the literature on alternative food networks (AFN) and highlights three key findings drawing on literature about community development and race in AFNs. First, neighbors and non-neighbors who participate in the project propose different definitions of community. Second, neighbor involvement is limited by a number of factors, including neighborhood divisions and organizational challenges. Notably, orchard participants do not reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of the neighborhood, putting this project at risk of creating a white space in a majority people of color neighborhood and reproducing inequality rather than fighting against it. Finally, this research complicates the notion of community in alternative food networks and demonstrates how collaborating with an organization from outside the neighborhood impacted the community through increasing non-neighbor participation and through their communications, aesthetics, decision making, and inattention to racial dynamics in the neighborhood and orchard.

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Ammann, Tobias. "Community Management." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01648203003/$FILE/01648203003.pdf.

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Sanchez, Benjamin. "Community defrag." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Schablon, Kai-Uwe. "Community care /." Marburg : Lebenshilfe-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992279488/04.

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Chursinova, Valentina. "Gulen Community." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613321/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the activity of the Gulen community in the Central Asian republics through different perspectives with a focus on the activities in the educational realm. My main concern in this thesis is to find out what role Islam and Turkishness plays in the educational activities of the Gulen community in the region. Throughout the thesis first I focus on Fethullah Gulen as the leader of the community followed by an analysis of the community in general &ndash
its origin, framework, goals and educational activity in various parts of the world. Then I examine the educational activity of the community in each of the Central Asian republics. And finally I explore various approaches regarding the community&rsquo
s goals in Central Asia with a focus on the role that Islam and Turkishness play in such activities.

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Coppersmith, Adam. "Evolving community." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Emilsson, Markus. "Crafting Community." Thesis, Konstfack, Keramik & Glas, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5240.

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WHY DO I DO THE THINGS I DO? ABSTRACT The bottom line in this project is that we are all different. We know, see, feel different things, we have varied skills, talents and possibilities. I believe in our differences as a great resource not only for developing and challenging ourselves as individuals and professional crafters, but also as a method to push the field of practice forward. I think that an extended and generous attitude for collaboration is crucial. I also see interdisciplinary practices as a dialogical source that can widen the language of craft and create a greater community that embrace a diverse variety of people, materials and doings. I like glassblowing, and I like people and the differences we own and I want to explore that together. That is the driving energy in my practice and in my identity as a Craftist. Crafting Community has been a test platform to explore norm creative participatory practices and dialogues in the field of glass and craft.
VARFÖR GÖR JAG DET JAG GÖR? I februari 2015 visade Dansens Hus i Stockholm Vortex Temporum, ett scenkonstverk av det internationellt hyllade danskompaniet Rosas i samarbete med musiker i gruppen Ictus. Danskompaniets koreograf och grundare, Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, är och har varit väldigt betydelsefull för den samtida dansen med sina experimentella och utmanande verk, och kompaniet är mångfaldigt prisbelönt. 4 Efter föreställningen hölls ett publikt konstnärssamtal där bland annat frågan om ”varför du gör det du gör” kom upp. Hennes svar gjorde starkt intryck på mig för det var så självklart och enkelt. I like dance, I like music and I like to share that with others. Det var både naivt och allmängiltigt men också högst mänskligt och väldigt tydligt. Att höra en internationellt hyllad världskoreograf förklara ingången till sitt avantgardistiska, experimentella och utmanande arbete med sådan enkelhet gjorde föreställningen mer tillgänglig och begriplig för mig. Jag tycker om glasblåsning, jag tycker om möten och jag vill dela det med andra. Det är grunden i Crafting Community och det är grunden i min craftist--‐‑xistens och identitet5. I mitt Mastersarbete har jag utforskat och utmanat min praktik, mig själv men också delar av mitt kollegium och den publik jag/vi mött. Jag upplever ett utvidgat kollektivt utforskande och generöst delande av kunskap som en utmanande attityd och praktik för det professionaliserade konsthantverksfältet. Jag ser att det har potential att utveckla, fördjupa och bredda ämnesfältet. Jag tror även att den craftist--‐‑aserade kommunikationen ger möjlighet till andra möten och relationer med besökare, åskådare och följare, vilket ger förutsättningar att på sikt skapa en utvidgad community6 och samtalspart. Jag tycker om glasblåsning, jag tycker om möten och jag vill dela och utforska det tillsammans med andra. Det kommer ställa krav på oss! Vi kommer behöva vara generösa, nyfikna och bjuda på oss själva. Det är det Crafting Community handlar om.

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Kennedy, Marie Esther. "Visualizing Community." Thesis, Hawaii Pacific University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556338.

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Photography is increasingly used as conversation in social media. Photography has been used as evidence of activity, for influence and identity, and for persuasive rhetoric. Current demand for understanding social photography is due to its modern inclusion as a standard communication process for creating and affirming community. Mobile technology and increased data rates through available bandwidth have resulted in the answer and response interaction cycle now happening with photographs. Facebook users share over 300 million photographs a day (Facebook, 2013) which indicates a mass of communication occurring between individuals, small groups, communities, and the public that does not have the same level of communication understanding as written and spoken language. A second level of inquiry concerns the lower levels of understanding concerning small groups and communities. The majority of communication studies concern individuals, the public mass, and Western hierarchical organizations. This research leverages tools from iconic photojournalism in order to analyze ease of use and applicability for future social photography studies. Hariman and Lucaites (2007) five primary tools of aesthetic familiarity, civic performance, semiotic transcripts, emotional scenarios, and contradictions and crises are evaluated through the data sample photography shared by the Burning Man community. The data set concerns photographs and their associated responses shared through Twitter as a social media tool intended for open, public access. The intent of this study concerns the ability to leverage the process for past, present, and future sharing of photography in order to analyze and apply ways to build community. This analysis reveals the minimal use of sharing a photograph as an emotive invitation to join with the community's performance enables a high success of visualizing community. This study investigates analysis and application tools for visualizing community through social photography.

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Li, Fulu 1970. "Community computation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63016.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2009.
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In this thesis we lay the foundations for a distributed, community-based computing environment to tap the resources of a community to better perform some tasks, either computationally hard or economically prohibitive, or physically inconvenient, that one individual is unable to accomplish efficiently. We introduce community coding, where information systems meet social networks, to tackle some of the challenges in this new paradigm of community computation. We design algorithms, protocols and build system prototypes to demonstrate the power of community computation to better deal with reliability, scalability and security issues, which are the main challenges in many emerging community-computing environments, in several application scenarios such as community storage, community sensing and community security. For example, we develop a community storage system that is based upon a distributed P2P (peer-to-peer) storage paradigm, where we take an array of small, periodically accessible, individual computers/peer nodes and create a secure, reliable and large distributed storage system. The goal is for each one of them to act as if they have immediate access to a pool of information that is larger than they could hold themselves, and into which they can contribute new stuff in a both open and secure manner. Such a contributory and self-scaling community storage system is particularly useful where reliable infrastructure is not readily available in that such a system facilitates easy ad-hoc construction and easy portability. In another application scenario, we develop a novel framework of community sensing with a group of image sensors. The goal is to present a set of novel tools in which software, rather than humans, examines the collection of images sensed by a group of image sensors to determine what is happening in the field of view. We also present several design principles in the aspects of community security. In one application example, we present community-based email spain detection approach to deal with email spams more efficiently.
by Fulu Li.
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Batuayour, Abdullah. "Community Mosque." The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555214.

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Operating within a dense urban context, a public building recognizes the activities that are contained within its boundaries... further tying the place to a larger urban spatial sequence.
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Silva, Luis Ernesto. "Community School." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33765.

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"School began with a man under a tree, who did not know he was a teacher, discussing his realization with a few, who did not know they were students. The students aspired that their sons also listen to such a man. Spaces were erected and the first school became. It can also be said that the existence-will of school was there even before the circumstances of the man under the tree" Louis Kahn
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Li, Chong. "Cliffside Community." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88069.

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What will you think of when talking about Cliffside? A dangerous place for valiant to challenge? Or an impressive view for tourists to visit? You probably will not think of a comfortable place for people to live in, not to mention a large community for a lot of people to spend their life together, right? And that is my thesis project, a community hanging aside of a Cliffside. It seems like people are unlike to live aside from a Cliffside, it could be dangerous, people may feel horrible, and there could be a lot of difficulties of moving up and down, but that�s what makes it very interesting to overcome all these �impossible�, to let people feel safe, feel comfortable and be willing to live in such an environment.
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Sanderson, Patrick M. "Unintentional Community." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2491.

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The contents of this thesis will detail the entire process I took in making the first episode of Unintentional Community. I have broken up my process into six parts. Part One will discuss the inspirations for the show as well as how it came about. Part Two will cover all of the pre-production work that my team and I went through. Part Three discusses the entire process of my shooting experience as a director and actor. Part Four details the long post-production process. Part Five talks about the show’s bible. Finally, Part Six lays out our entire plan for how we intend to shop Unintentional Community.

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Ryder, Rebekah. "A part of community or apart from community? : young people's geographies in mixed community developments." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2015. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8880/.

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Bennett, Kellie. "Outcomes of community engagement in neighbourhood renewal: community confidence, participation and asset based community development." Thesis, Bennett, Kellie (2017) Outcomes of community engagement in neighbourhood renewal: community confidence, participation and asset based community development. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2017. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41318/.

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Downey, Tamara. "Learning in community and life in community" : the concept of a community as a classroom." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2002. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/42032.

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This thesis presents the Leigh community’s view of the impact of Hayden College on Leigh. The study establishes ‘community’ as the key aspect of this atypical school-community partnership in the context of research which shows that effective school-community partnerships are socially and economically beneficial for rural communities. The research question addresses the relationship between a particular college and a specific community. Hayden College was attracted to life in Leigh as a source of learning for its students and to community life in Leigh in particular. The research demonstrates that the school’s vision for its Leigh campus was one based on use of the town environs and interaction with the local people, and that the overarching concept of a community as a classroom entailed Hayden College becoming part of the Leigh community. The nature and quality of the relationship is explored by contrasting the school’s vision with the community’s view of Hayden’s membership of the Leigh community. Inquiry into the idea of a community as a classroom was approached by studying ‘community’ as an ideal concept. The thesis argues that the Hayden in Leigh development is a coincidence of educational and social ideals, clarifying what it means to be part of a community using conceptual analysis of qualitative data collected from the field. The theoretical stance and empirical material in this research show the way in which the power of the concept of community resides at the ideal level. The research finds that the nature of this school-community partnership is characterized by learning exchange and small town renewal but that a threat to the quality of the relationship between college and community is contained in disparate understandings of what constitutes community life. The implications of these findings for the post-Hayden Leigh community and rural schools and communities more generally are that the association of curriculum objectives with community development objectives depends on a healthy reciprocal relationship.
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Quarnberg, Tisah M. "Community Satisfaction, Community Attachment, Community Experience, Internet Use and Internet Access in Rural Utah Communities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2790.

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This study examines the impact of the Internet on rural community satisfaction, attachment and overall experience. With the geographic dispersion of social networks, the majority of the population has a greater need for long-distance social networking. The Internet has the potential to mitigate distance and connect social networks much faster than letter writing or face-to-face visits. While the Internet is available, to at least some extent, in rural communities in Utah, does it positively affect overall perceptions of community life? This study finds that this is not the case. There is a negative relationship between Internet use and community satisfaction and overall community experience. However, this study also finds that the type of Internet access available within the home has a positive effect on community attachment and overall community experience. The Internet is thus an important element of rural community life and should not be overlooked.

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張鼎國 and Ting-kwok Kenneth Cheung. "Community-School in Shamshuipo: transactionalrelationship between School & Community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985683.

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Brossoie, Nancy. "Community Connections and Sense of Community among Older Adults." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34220.

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Many older adults are electing to age in place within their communities. Even though they may be frequent consumers of community programs and services, their role as contributors to community well-being should not be overlooked. Sense of community is a core dimension of well-being because the connections associated with sense of community are important for everyday life. The model in this study was developed to explore the effects of community connections (community capacity, ease of making connections, active participation in the community, and informal supports) and demographic variables on sense of community. A probability sample of 1,499 adults 65 years and older that resided in rural areas responded to questions concerning their sense of community and community connections. Using multiple regression analysis, results indicate that community capacity, ease of connecting with others in the community, and having an informal support network are significant in predicting sense of community. Nonsignificant associations were found with regard to participation in community activities, age, sex, health status, and length of time living in the county. These findings suggest that key dimensions of aging (age, sex, health status) are less relevant when addressing sense of community when compared to associations and connections. Factors that predict sense of community may be amenable to community-level interventions, thus allowing for the development of sense of community among community members, which could ultimately lead to their participation as community resources.
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Shaw, Bryan C. "Community-based health assessment Mannan tribal community in Kozhimala /." online resource, 2008. http://digitalcommons.hsc.unt.edu/theses/7/.

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Ulrich, Nicolette. "Community Cultivators: Community Gardens and Refugees in Portland, Oregon." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23728.

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This thesis explores the relationship between community gardens in Portland, Oregon, and the refugee integration process. Using interviews and observations of a community garden in southeast Portland, the research explores the actors and organizations working with refugees in community gardens all over the city. The most prominent actors in the community garden networks are referred to as Community Cultivators. These individuals are refugees and also strongly tied to organizations and institutions in Portland. It is through these social networks that Community Cultivators are able to build bridges between their refugee communities and Portland-based organizations, fostering integration. This research also explores how integration happens in the community gardens in Portland and why community gardens are able to foster these relationships. The foundational framework used in this research is Alison Ager and Alistar Strang’s (2008) Indicators of Integration, which is adapted for the unique process of refugee integration through community gardens engagement.

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Sharon, Tamar. "Reconciliation and community development through community art: an investigation into the methodologies employed by community artists." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/111096.

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la hipótesis inicial de la investigación fue que el éxito de un proyecto de arte comunitario y su capacidad para reconciliar est´fundado únicamente en la metodología artiística y su aplicación adecuada. no obstante, ésta investigación, realizada durante los últimos diez años, investigando las teorias presentadas por autores e investigdores líderes en el campo, combinado una profunda investigación de diez casos, me llevaron a descubrir que existen otros parámetros de éxito de proyectos de Arte comunitario los cuales llamo:" parámetros socio-organizacionales". Es de la combinación exitosa de dos conjuntos de parámetros en un proyecto de arte comunitario de lo que dependen los buenos resultados.

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Phillips, Richard. "Community capacity building, community development and health : a case study of 'health issues in the community'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1515.

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This research project aimed to further knowledge regarding the relationship between community capacity building (CCB), community development and health within the context of the Health Issues in the Community (HIIC) programme. CCB refers to the development of capabilities to identify and address community issues and was conceptualised using four dimensions: participation, resource mobilisation, links with others and role of outside agents. HIIC is a learning resource supported by NHS Health Scotland, the national health promotion agency. The main objective of HIIC is to help students explore the processes involved in tackling health-related concerns in the community. The main concepts in this study were explored by referring to a range of academic literatures and five research questions were formulated. ‘How did HIIC tutors and students understand the concept of community and was this understanding influenced by completing HIIC?’, ‘How did stakeholders and tutors understand the notion of CCB?’, ‘Was CCB evident in the experiences of the students after their involvement with the course?’, ‘Did participating in the HIIC course contribute towards furthering students’ understanding about health?’ and ‘Did participating in HIIC have any other impact on participants?’ Face-to-face, semi-structured interviews were conducted across Scotland with three participant groups: stakeholders, tutors and students. This involved a total of thirtyfive interviews with students and tutors from eleven different courses. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Four key themes emerged: community, CCB, health, and impact of learning. Tutors and students suggested that people could be members of multiple communities. Community was understood as a geographical location, a common interest and as a sense of belonging. Tutors also considered the community as a site of professional practice. Some participants had an expectation that community members should act collectively to help one another. Completing HIIC appeared to influence students’ understanding about their own circumstances, issues within their community and how it functions, rather than informing how they defined the concept of community. CCB was seen by tutors as a process that develops competencies to address community issues. Stakeholders and tutors differed in their views about whether CCB was an individual level or a collective process. Participants likened CCB to community development, but stakeholders questioned if it shared the same value base or if it was an outcome of community development. Tutors expressed a range of opinions about their understanding of CCB. It was viewed as a potentially helpful idea in terms of understanding the work of community / health-based practitioners. However, others were unable to give a definition of CCB and some tutors considered CCB a concept with little meaning or an indicator to fulfil in the context of a funding application. The manifestation of individual aspects of CCB were identified in the accounts of some participants, but the data did not support the contention that HIIC promoted CCB, within the timescale of this study, although, it could be argued that latent CCB was developed. The data did indicate that participants’ understanding about the concept of health was reaffirmed, broadened or changed and that participating in HIIC could increase an individual’s awareness of social and health issues, develop interpersonal skills and widen social networks. This study indicated that by exploring the concepts of CCB, community and health, a contribution was made towards understanding the processes by which participating in a HIIC course influenced students to address health-related concerns.

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