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Leonard, Joe H. "Families and autism : an ethnographic approach /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1986. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10623358.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1986.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Herve Varenne. Dissertation Committee: Hope Jensen Leichter. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-192).
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Bibic, Sasa. "An Ethnographic Approach to Education: Learning Through Relationships." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/118.

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The purpose of the ethnographic narrative project was to understand ourselves and our students in a more in-depth manner. The ethnographic narrative project has allowed me to explore myself, my students, my classroom, the community I teach in, and the link each of these has to social justice. In order to best serve our students as educators, we must comprehend all of the funds of knowledge our students possess and utilize these facets to aid their learning. I have found that understanding my students cultural, social, academic assets is critical to fulfilling their needs both as students and individuals. I have also explored my own strengths and areas of growth as an educator and solidified my teaching identity. As educators we must not only teach our students academic skills teach social and emotional assets as well.
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Hunter, Linda M. "Traditional Aboriginal healing practices: An ethnographic approach." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26662.

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This thesis explores traditional Aboriginal healing practices as they relate to health issues by asking the research question "How do urban-based First Nations peoples use healing traditions to address their health issues?" The purpose of this thesis was to explore the healing traditions of urban-based First Nations peoples. The objectives were to describe the use of Aboriginal healing traditions, discuss how these traditions addressed health issues, and explore the link between such traditions and holism in nursing practice. Critical ethnography was the qualitative research method used for this thesis. Data collection consisted of eight individual interviews, participant observations over a period of four months, and field notes. The three major categories that emerged from the data analysis were (a) the following of a cultural path, (b) the gaining of balance, and (c) the circle of life. The theme of healing holistically emerged. Healing holistically includes following a cultural path by regaining culture through the use of healing traditions; gaining balance in the four realms of the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical self, and sharing culture between Aboriginal peoples and non-Aboriginal health professionals, as part of the circle of life. Implications for practice include incorporating the concepts of balance, a holistic outlook, and healing and culture into the health care of diverse First Nations groups. Healing holistically is an ongoing process that continues throughout the lifespan. This process can contribute to empowerment for Aboriginal peoples through an enhanced state of health reached by using traditional healing and understood through a critical ethnography approach.
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Chachamu, Netta. "Equality and Diversity training : an ethnographic approach." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/112890/.

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Equality and Diversity (E&D) training is currently a widely used practice which aims to improve E&D in workplaces, including universities. There has been considerable research on contemporary E&D training from the perspective of management studies, with an interest in evaluation of efficacy. However, E&D training has been a neglected topic in the sociology of education, and there have been few studies illuminating what happens in E&D training using ethnographic data. This thesis begins to fill that gap with an in-depth ethnographic exploration of present day E&D training for staff at universities. In this thesis, I ask how the prevalence of E&D training came about, and what exactly happens in E&D training? I place contemporary E&D training in its socio-historical context by tracing the historical roots of E&D as a practice. I show that those roots lie in the social psychology of the 1920s in the USA, which was beginning to operationalise the concepts of attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices. These psychological ideas are intertwined with the development of E&D training and continue to be significant components of training today. Tracing this history to the UK shows that training has grown as a response to police racism, and extended to become a technique for responding to other forms of oppression such as sexism and disablism. The ethnographic research was undertaken at universities in England and Wales. The findings show that E&D training in its current form usually attempts to cover several axes of oppression during one half-day session. The pedagogic techniques used are primarily didactic teaching and small group discussions, while the curriculum is dominated by two forms of knowledge – legal and psychological. Where the law forms the curriculum of the training, I argue that the complexity of the Equality Act 2010 makes it difficult to use the concepts and vocabulary of the Act to convey a consistent analysis of discrimination. Where psychological concepts inform the training, psychology is used to claim that everyone inevitably has prejudices and biases. I argue that as well as depoliticising the concept of discrimination, this can be understood as a way of navigating around trainees’ anxieties about being identified with the discursive figure of the ‘bigot’. I argue that neither approach effectively overcomes the pedagogic challenges of E&D training.
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Williams, Anna M. "Acute pain management in children : an ethnographic approach." Thesis, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589765.

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This ethnographic study explores how children's pain is managed in the context of a general paediatric ward. Fieldwork was conducted on one ward over a period of 11 months. Data were collected using observations and informal interviews. Children (n=5) aged 8-16 years, their mothers (n=4) and nurses (n=5) participated in in-depth interviews exploring understandings and experiences of pain and pain management. A symbolic interactionist stance was taken, using the key concepts of pain work and the ceremonial order of the ward. In the context of the ward, pain is a eo-constructed phenomenon, incorporating the perspectives, interpretations and interactions of those involved. Nurses drew on expected and unexpected trajectories and their interactions with children to construct pain as a working or 'clinical' entity. They conceptualised pain in three main ways; routine/normal pain, fear as pain and complex pain. Children's accounts of pain revealed how pain was interpreted using temporal and causal dimensions with their mothers being central to their experiences of pain management. Mothers also drew on causal and temporal dimensions to interpret pain, contextualising this in their knowledge of their child. Nurses carried out various forms of work which served to sustain the ceremonial order ofthe ward. This included pain work, identity work, and emotion work. Pain work was also negotiated by nurses within the wider social context of the ward, showing how the division of labour, spatio-ternporal features, and the social organisation of the ward shaped pain management practices. The key findings taken together reveal multiple conceptualisations of pain at work, and multiple dynamics of interaction, in which nurses play a pivotal role. This thesis therefore develops new understandings of children's pain and pain management in using an ethnographic approach, and by applying sociological concepts to develop an integrated and theorised analysis of acute pain management on a paediatric ward.
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Panović, Ivan. "Writing practices in contemporary Egypt : an ethnographic approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e293353f-46d6-42ae-8f1a-37514fe549d4.

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This thesis is an ethnographically grounded description and interpretation of a variety of writing practices observable in an Arabic speaking community, primarily on the Internet. Working with, or in reaction to, the concept of diglossia, of which Arabic sociolinguistic setting is often cited as a textbook example, the majority of scholars have focused their attention on speech as a major site of language variation and mixing. Writing has been largely neglected. This thesis is a contribution to what I hope will become a growing number of works aimed at filling that lacuna. I examine linguistic features of a number of, mostly non-literary, texts in contemporary Egypt where Modern Standard Arabic (Fuṣḥa) and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ˤAmmiyya) constitute the theoretical poles of the diglossic continuum. The Egyptian sociolinguistic setting, however, is here understood as being defined and reconfigured by the increasing socio‑economic importance of yet another linguistic variety – English. The analysis of linguistic details is conducted with reference to a broader socio‑cultural context and local language ideologies surrounding the production and reception of a rapidly growing number of texts that employ a variety of features and draw on different linguistic resources, thus often defying, in the outcome, the hegemonic ideological projection that writing is the domain of Fuṣḥa. In order to offer an account of a dynamic, changing and diversified character of writing practices in present‑day Egypt, illustrative examples are drawn from a number of different texts and domains of writing, including Wikipedia Masry, Twitter, Facebook, advertisements, online campaigns for political and social causes, as well as books. The inventory of linguistic resources variously employed by various writers in various circumstances is identified to contain re-combinations across three linguistic varieties, Fuṣḥa, ˤAmmiyya and English, and two scripts, Arabic and Latin.
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Gramén, Jakob, and Jens Widmark. "Navet : An Ethnographic Approach to an Open Drug Market." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-31965.

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Aims - This thesis describes an open drug market and its suspected drug users in a Swedish city. This drug market is located at the local bus hub called Navet, in the city of Sundsvall, which has a reputation of being a place to avoid because of the substance abuse and accompanied crime. The aim was to disclose what happens at Navet that is associated with drug related activities. Method - two observers visited Navet from November 2016 to March 2017 at different times of the day with an ethnographic approach to take notes of the daily life at Navet, using their own experiences as basis for the description and analysis. No interactions with the actors at Navet were initiated by the observers. Results - Navet is more than just adrug market, it also provides a meaningful social aspect for the actors by spending time at Navet granting a feeling of belonging to a group. Four different groups of people were identified, the traveling citizens using Navet for transportation, people using navet as their meeting place without taking part of the drug activities, the suspected drug users and the young suspected drug users. The most frequent and openly used substances was alcohol followed by unspecified pills, other types of illegal substances were suspected to be common at Navet but never witnessed to be consumed. Conclusion - As rumored, Navet is a place where drugs and suspected drug users are present during almost all hours of the day. However, the generally perceived feeling of hostility and danger is exaggerated, contributing to a worse reputation of Navet compared to what can be supported through this study.

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Shang, Aisi. "Villager Responses to Drought:An Ethnographic Study in Southwest China." Master's thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145704.

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This thesis explores the social underpinnings of disasters associated with natural hazards. In existing disaster studies, it is common to classify people into different vulnerable groups and examine the vulnerabilities that limit them. Rather than take this approach, which I argue reinforces stereotyped images of vulnerable people as weak and passive, this thesis examines people’s experiences of and responses to a drought in Yunnan Province, southwest China. Building on existing literature, my ethnographic fieldwork and a broad understanding of Chinese society, I have analysed and explained different forms of social institutions, power relations and sets of practices based on China’s rural-urban divide, intra-rural inequality, ethnicity, gender, and social age and life course, and have examined how these forms of inequality and difference shaped communities’, households’, and individuals’ experiences of and responses to drought. I argue that villagers exercise agency, and actively manage the challenges of drought in their daily life. However, their choices are made within the confines of institutional constraints. Different social institutions and relations interact with each other to shape variations in people’s experiences of and responses to drought. At the community level, the existence of village infrastructure and the help of external agencies are key. Obtaining funds for infrastructure construction and drought relief largely depends on personal connections between the village communities and external agencies. At the household level, patterns of social inequalities, in particular the inequalities between ordinary households and those of village cadres, combines with the life course of households to shape experiences of and responses to drought. Within the household, gender intersects with individuals’ life courses to shape people’s experiences of drought and their responses to it.
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Raghavendra, Ranjini Canchi. "Implementing Public Health Information Infrastructures in India: An Ethnographic Approach." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485161.

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Popowich, Amy J. "Peer relations of children with learning disabilities an ethnographic approach /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0018/MQ59197.pdf.

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Wise, Susan. "Child abuse procedures and social work practice : an ethnographic approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290370.

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Escalona, Victoria Jose Luis. "Contemporary politics in rural Chiapas: an ethnographic approach to power." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488109.

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The present work examines local receptions of wider political changes in contemporary rural Chiapas, Mexico. The southeastern-most area of Chiapas experienced radical social transformations in the last century. The long-established finca regime -a particular form of seigniorial organization based on large states and a serf debt work regime - was displaced by the formation of peasant settlements under the post-revolutionary land-tenure regime called ejido. In the second part of the twentieth century, the peasant population increased in numbers and occupied new areas for milpa cultivation, cattle-rising, and coffee production. At the same time, many religious and political institutions influenced local life and produced a new population who became involved in professional training and seasonal work, as well as members of peasant and teacher unions, Catholic and non-Catholic churches, and institutional or insurgent organizations, such as the Zapatista guerrilla. I conducted my fieldwork in a Maya Tojolabal rural settlement, located in this area, which experienced processes of social differentiation and political fragmentation. I analyzed the local interpretations related to the people's participation in modern politics, which are strongly influenced by local understandings of power, and people's strategies of livelihood, rather than the logics of wider ideological and political confrontations. Local interpretations of politics led to pre-established languages of power that entailed social categories of gender, kinship, age, and force, as well as particular understandings of personhood and sociality. I analyzed how these elements influence people's historical memories, their militancy in unions, political parties, and insurgent mobilizations, and their participation in land occupations, mobilizations against authorities, and electoral processes. Finally, I show how an ethnographic approach to power represents an opportunity to question political arguments as constructs steaming from symbolic work, by means of focusing on contradictory power relations and their dynamics. This kind of critique can make a relevant contribution to the construction of a language for enlightening and facing the ways in which power actually works.
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Fuquen, Gomez Clara. "Logboats of Coquí : an ethnographic approach to maritime material culture." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370021/.

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This thesis focuses on the traditional logboats of Coquí, an Afro-descendant community in the Pacific coast of Chocó, Colombia. It considers these boats as an entry point into the life of the community and explores the technological and functional aspects of the watercraft, their wider context, and related social practices. Based on a transdisciplinary approach, it draws on an ethnographic methodology to look at the question of whether and how the boats inform on the life of the community, their history, their identity and their maritime concerns. This thesis reflects upon the multiple ways in which people in Coquí relate to their boats and the many levels at which these boats operate. It demonstrates that the watercraft of the community of Coquí is significantly complex and holds a fundamental importance to their existence. The present study addresses the need of a comprehensive in-depth look at traditional boats in which the relationships between people and boats are as relevant as the pure technological and functional interests, dominant in the field of boat studies and maritime archaeology. It shows that ethnography is an effective methodology to unveil the richness of the materiality of social life, and the diversity of human engagements with the world.
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O'Kane, Michael Patrick. "Considering the Irish Greens : an ethnographic approach to identity and environmentalism." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5238.

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Bertrand, Raymond docteur en droit. "Meaning and the built environment : an ethnographic approach to architectural programming." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61260.

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The importance of programming the built environment is increasingly recognized, mostly because of the growing complexity of architecture. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the meaning of architecture for its users. This thesis reviews the research on meaning in architecture, and proposes new directions in the investigation of meaning within the process of architectural programming.
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De, Panbehchi Maria L. "Nostalgia and iPhone Camera Apps: An Ethnographic Visual Approach to iPhoneography." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4639.

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The iPhone is the most popular smartphone and camera on social media. iPhoneography, the photography taken or edited with the iPhone, has set the trend of nostalgic photography on social media during the 2010s; thus, the iPhone, a high-tech camera, produces low-tech-looking images. This dissertation attempts to find out why iPhone photographers (iPhoneographers) take, edit, and share images that mimic photographs taken with analog photographic equipment. I argue that nostalgia allows iPhoneographers to use the iPhone as a creative tool and to belong to a community. Based on the arguments of Vilém Flusser—who suggested that photographers are more interested in the camera and the process of taking pictures than in the photographs produced—this work focuses first on the iPhone camera and the camera apps. (This work also considers the writings of Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, and W. J. T. Mitchell, as they pertain to photography and iPhoneography.) It traces the beginning of the nostalgic photograph style to 2008, when the Apple App Store offered apps that behaved like toy cameras and rendered images similar to those produced by toy and Polaroid cameras. The Hipstamatic app set the trend in 2009, and Instagram made it mainstream. Nostalgia is more a source of inspiration and creativity than a source of melancholy and longing for the past. The iPhoneography community on Facebook tends to form small groups that share and curate specific topics, such as clouds, portraits, flowers, and images produced with Hipstamatic. A small survey of the iPhoneography community shows that the community considers iPhoneography an art.
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Torrence, Robert E. "Constructing a culturally appropriate approach to evangelism using the ethnographic interview." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Bang, GiHoon. "Human-Telepresence Robot Proxemics Interaction : An ethnographic approach to non-verbal communication." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Människa-datorinteraktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-347230.

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This research aims to find distinct and crucial factors needed in order to design a better robot through exploring the meaning of movement. The researcher conducted six-weeks of iterative work to collect data via an ethnographic method. The researcher examined the interactions between a telepresence robot and human beings in an authentic environment through the collected data and analyzed it based on proxemics theory. The research observed that the robot was given social space when it approached the participants with pauses in between movements. Furthermore, the research introduces proxemics pivot and its notion. Proxemics pivot refers to the part of the robot that people perceive as a standard point when they adjust the proximity between the robot and themselves. The proxemics pivot was considered “a face” and was attributed social properties; the other parts of the robot did not receive the same consideration.
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Bryant, Dana. "Technology Resolved: An Ethnographic Approach to Instructional Design within Urban Middle School Debate." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/72.

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Technology literacy is the latest achievement benchmark for 8th grade public school students under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Although necessary for contemporary academic and professional success (Selfe, 1999; Pearson & Young, 2002), this benchmark is at odds with the legacy and current state of social inequities within American public education, as all students have not been provided with equal opportunities for engaging and safe learning environments (Kozol, 1991; Darling-Hammond, 2006)—much less technology enabled ones. The purpose of this qualitative study was to design culturally informed technology activities for urban middle school students in the Computer Assisted Debate (CAD) after school program and then observe the consequences of these activities within the community. The guiding research questions are: (1) What occurs in a CAD program community when an ethnographic approach to instructional design is implemented? (2) What is the impact of the culturally informed technology activities on the students and faculty within the CAD program community? Taking an ethnographic approach to instructional design, the researcher observed and participated in CAD after-school sessions at one urban middle school for 7 months. Data sources for the study included field notes, student artifacts, student and faculty interviews, and surveys. Evidence regarding their existing technology literacy knowledge base revealed varying levels of skills among the debate students, and that students themselves may not be able to calibrate what they know versus what they do not. Findings also revealed that the introduction of the activities influenced student participants’ technology literacy by allowing them to demonstrate web-based research skills. Other emergent topics regarding impact of the activities included classroom management, faculty curriculum materials, and visual instruction. Among other recommendations, the researcher found that activities should be designed to elicit a high level of student engagement and motivation, which tend to be unique for distinct student groups. The research findings contribute to scholarly literature regarding (1) developing innovative educational technology strategies to help urban kids learn and (2) instructional strategies within urban debate. Future studies should more closely examine consistent technology supported instruction over time and within urban debate, and debate faculty experiences regarding teaching with technology.
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Lilja, Camilla, and Emma Fridell. "About Fijian teachers approach to implement pedagogical strategies in health education : A Minor Field Study with an ethnographic approach." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37900.

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Health differs among people and education about health is of value to maintain and develop health. In a developing country as Fiji may the definition of health be of different holistic character, compared to industrial countries. It is important to clarify that no view of health is more right or wrong, but has been adapted to the existing conditions and culture within the arena. Knowledge about how to teach about health in a developing country is needed, where health is not as prioritized as other factors, for example to have an income. The aim of this study is to identify health as a concept and identify what strategies that are being used by the teachers to implement health education in Fiji. The research questions were used as contribution to the study’s aim to help the researchers understand how the participants of the study define health as a concept and investigate how pedagogical strategies are being used and what challenges they experience with their teaching. The study has an ethnographic approach with interviews and observations, which are methods used in a qualitative research. The results show there is lots of knowledge about certain themes within health among the teachers, but limited knowledge about health from a holistic perspective. The main conclusion regarding the study’s aim is that there are limited knowledge on how to conduct health education at the two participating schools in Fiji. The definition of health among the interviewed teachers were equivalent and with limited understanding of the concept.
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Walker, Taylor M. "Participant Navigation: Using an Ethnographic Approach to Explore Roles and Communicative Dimensions Surrounding Patient Navigation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1505148743564128.

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Ask, Thomas Eric. "Boat design deriving from ethnographic study : a transdisciplinary approach to Malaysian fishing boat design." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2011. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/7732/.

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The goal of the project is to further the positivist discourse of design by ascertaining whether ethnographic analysis contributes to the design process. To this end, the project provides 1) a culturally appropriate conceptual fishing boat design and 2) an industrial design case study. This project identifies mechanistic and non-mechanistic design elements and presents the results of thematic analysis. This project develops a 40 GRT (gross register ton), Malaysian Class B fishing boat design based primarily upon ethnographic study of stakeholders, which includes fishermen, boat builders, designers and owners. The design concept is evaluated by fishermen regarding perceived performance as a fishing boat, aesthetics, safety, and comfort. The concept boat is compared with the visual stereotype of a traditional Malaysian fishing boat and a Western style, deck forward design. The conceptual design is evaluated with a creative product analysis matrix (CPAM) followed by a questionnaire based evaluation by fishermen. This project is intended for students and practitioners of industrial design interested in culturally appropriate design. It provides insights into design methodology and ethnographic methods for developing an understanding of indigenous design sensitivities of a client or end user. This study provides an example of product development that integrates the designer’s creativity with the stakeholders’ requirements and material culture. This project also demonstrates the technique of superimposing photographs via computer aided design (CAD) drawings to develop a visual stereotype. Moreover, this project demonstrates the benefit of employing visual models in charcoal and clay in ethnographic fieldwork.
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Lai, Su-Jen. "Using an ecological approach to pedagogy : taking an ethnographic stance towards EFL literacy learning." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419100.

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Angel, G. "In the skin : an ethnographic-historical approach to a museum collection of preserved tattoos." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1416295/.

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This thesis deals with a collection of 300 preserved tattooed human skin fragments held in storage at the Science Museum, London. Historically part of the Wellcome medical collections, these skins are of European origin and date from c.1850-1920. The collection was purchased in 1929 on behalf of Sir Henry Wellcome from a Parisian physician, and is exemplary with respect to its size and coherence. The thesis argues for the significance of such collections for the understanding of the material culture of medicine. As little archival material relating to this particular collection survives, it is contextualised both in relation to the contemporary museum setting, and within nineteenth-century medical and criminological discourses surrounding the tattoo. Through the adoption of a combined auto-ethnographic and historiographical approach, this thesis sets out to explore all aspects of the collection. The structure of the thesis demonstrates this method and reflects my working process: The project is first situated within the contemporary museum context, and framed within an ethical and political field in which human remains have been problematised. This context underpins a theoretical approach that redefines these remains as hybrid entities, and informs a multi-sensory, auto-ethnographic working method within the museum environment. A close visio-material analysis of the tattooed skins then explores both their substance and iconography in some detail. The collection of skins is then situated within the broader historical contexts of flaying; nineteenth-century collecting practices and medical and criminological discourses on the tattoo; an analysis of historical procedures and contexts of skin preservation and display; and a visual analysis of the iconography of the tattoos and critical discussion of their reading. Through this approach, I demonstrate that the tattoo was a highly ambiguous and frequently stigmatised sign in the late nineteenth century, whose polysemic and fugitive meaning eluded criminologists who sought to assimilate them into taxonomies of deviance. Similarly, as contemporary museum artefacts, they resist simple categorisation and interpretation, necessitating an interdisciplinary, ethnographical-historical approach, which enables a multi-faceted understanding of their substance, significance and origins.
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Lukins, Gabrielle M. "Untrammeled by Man? An Ethnographic Approach to Outdoor Recreation Management in Charon's Garden Wilderness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404531/.

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Charon's Garden Wilderness Area within the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma is a landscape that is granted federal protection through the Wilderness Act of 1964. The discourse of wilderness management is influenced by governmental policies and practice which organize knowledge surrounding the natural landscape, like with the formation and semantics of the Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act establishes characteristics that are designed to monitor and control the landscape and serve as a baseline and criterion for further wilderness preservation. These characteristics render the wilderness space as governable. Conservation management alternatives are identified which bypass the duality of nature from western society suggested by the discourse of environmental policy. These alternatives are understood under two notions of behaviors and perceptions. The project's goal is to uncover wilderness users' recreation behaviors and perceptions of wilderness as a designated space. Through understanding and assessing user's behaviors and perception of wilderness, alternative policies and practices that offer sustainable management practices and recreation opportunities can be developed.
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Stohry, Hannah. "An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding Filial Piety's Influence on Korean Families Living in Thailand." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1373322439.

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Lukins, Gabrielle M. "Untrammeled by Man? An Ethnographic Approach of Outdoor Recreation Management in Charon's Garden Wilderness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404531/.

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Charon's Garden Wilderness Area within the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma is a landscape that is granted federal protection through the Wilderness Act of 1964. The discourse of wilderness management is influenced by governmental policies and practice which organize knowledge surrounding the natural landscape, like with the formation and semantics of the Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act establishes characteristics that are designed to monitor and control the landscape and serve as a baseline and criterion for further wilderness preservation. These characteristics render the wilderness space as governable. Conservation management alternatives are identified which bypass the duality of nature from western society suggested by the discourse of environmental policy. These alternatives are understood under two notions of behaviors and perceptions. The project's goal is to uncover wilderness users' recreation behaviors and perceptions of wilderness as a designated space. Through understanding and assessing user's behaviors and perception of wilderness, alternative policies and practices that offer sustainable management practices and recreation opportunities can be developed.
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Whiteside, Adam. "The Implications of Heavy and Non-use of Social Media| An Auto-Ethnographic Approach." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10274331.

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This study uses an auto-ethnography and 10 in-depth interviews (five non-user of social media and five heavy users) to provide a detailed look into the various possible implication social media has on people lives. Through my experiences own experiences leaving and using social media (for one month each) I have found that social could benefit family and romantic relationships while also potentially inciting romantic jealousy. Social media could also negatively impact self-esteem as increased passive use could lead to social comparison. Uses and gratifications, the hyperpersonal model, self-discrepancy theory, and cultivation theory provided various explanations for the implications of false self-presentation strategies on social media, online social comparison, how satisfied both heavy users and non-users are with their usage, and the overall difference in attitudes and opinions that heavy and non-users have in regards to social media.

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Malgesini, Frank. "An Ethnographic Approach to Literature: Reading Wildfell Hall in the L1 and L2 Classroom." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193935.

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Though both literary critics and anthropologists have sometimes recognized converging aims and methods between ethnography and narrative fiction, few interpretive studies of fiction have been undertaken using the framework of ethnography of communication. Because ethnography of communication centers attention on language in situated communicative interaction, it could be a useful tool for exploring literary texts, especially texts within the genre of "realistic fiction," which sometimes also depend upon observation or creation of situated social interaction. This dissertation uses ethnography of communication to interpret a Victorian novel, Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Ethnography of communication may also serve as a general framework for teaching literature, combining close linguistic or stylistic analysis of the language, detailed examination of the cultural and social situation, and re-creation of the meaning of the event as it may have been experienced by the participants. This approach may be especially appropriate in the case of L2 learners taking literature courses in university programs. The overall framework of the analysis, ethnography of communication, will be supplemented by Goffman's model of interaction ritual and the concept of co-construction of reality. These frameworks will be employed in the analysis of brief communicative events within the novel. Insights about the characters and the speech communities deriving from ethnographic interpretation will be used to build more precise understanding of the events of the novel, thereby contributing to traditional areas of literary criticism, and offering options for literary study in L1 and L2 contexts.
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Malik, Saadia I. "Exploring aghani al-banat a postcolonial ethnographic approach to Sudanese women's songs, culture, and performance /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1053018989.

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Hart, Michael. "An ethnographic study of sharing circles as a culturally appropriate practice approach with aboriginal people." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23331.pdf.

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Widianti, Ezki. "The ulama in Aceh in time of conflict, tsunami and peace process an ethnographic approach /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1150410650.

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Malik, Saadia I. "Exploring Aghani Al-Banat: A Postcolonial Ethnographic Approach to Sudanese Women’s Songs, Culture, and Performance." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1053018989.

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Widianti, Ezki Tri Rezeki. "The Ulama in Aceh in Time of Conflict, Tsunami and Peace Process: An Ethnographic Approach." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1150410650.

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Berberich, Kristin [Verfasser], and Beatrix [Akademischer Betreuer] Busse. "Discursive construction of neighborhood across Brooklyn: A corpus ethnographic approach / Kristin Berberich ; Betreuer: Beatrix Busse." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1236695437/34.

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de, Oliveira Ubirata. "The Andacollo's Mining Community: Ethnographic Work-Based Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility Policies and Practices." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3489.

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This ethnographic study was designed to explore the phenomenon of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining industry. The research addressed the impacts of a problematic, systemic, and ethnocentric (top-down) CSR approach driven by a transnational mining company, and proposed a novel cultural relativist (bottom-up) CSR approach looking at the social needs of the community. Solving the problem stemming from the ethnocentric approach is important for both the mining company and the community affected by the CSR program, as it will alter dynamics between actors and mitigate social conflicts. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that improve the fractured relationship between the community and the mining company and put its social license to operate at risk. The mitigation of social conflicts is needed for the mining corporation to maintain its social license to operate in a harmonic and collaborative mining-community relationship. The research question was designed to gather the perceptions of corporate leaders and community members in Chile's Andacollo mining area regarding the imbalance between the ethnocentric and cultural relativism perspectives adopted in CSR policies and practices. A purposive sample of 30 subjects was interviewed to collect data regarding their perceptions that were then categorized, coded, and interpreted using an inductive approach and thematic networks. The research findings showed that improvements in CSR practice are likely to result from the mining company placing emphasis on the social dimension. A shift from a top-down to a bottom-up CSR approach will contribute to the reduction of social conflicts, build a socially sustainable setting, and foster positive social change with benefits for the society.
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Siegel, Elena Ohanian. "An ethnographic approach to understanding the nurse's role as supervisor of nursing assistants in nursing homes /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7203.

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Hitchings, Russell Stephen. "Plants and society : an ethnographic approach to the changing role of botanical life in London homes." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445582/.

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This research concerns the changing ways in which people and plants live together in London. Using a case study of the domestic garden and a multi-sited ethnography of the plants circulating between certain city spaces, this thesis examines the assemblies of agenda, practice and infrastructure that make particular plant relationships possible. In particular, this thesis analyses plant experience in two ways that, through the course of this research, emerged as particularly important. Firstly, it considers the phenomenon of plant 'liveness.' Here it seeks to elucidate whether or not people in London feel plants to be independently struggling things, the extent to which they want to fully control them, and the perceived benefit that comes from relinquishing some control. Secondly, it considers issues of 'temporality.' Here it seeks to elucidate how different paces of plant behaviour are accommodated by people and how plant temporalities are, more generally, experienced and understood. By taking these two elements and locating them within wider evolving activities, this thesis also reconsiders the changing character of city consumption. This is where its principle contribution lies as, by analysing certain contradictions evident within current approaches, it becomes possible to prompt productive reflection on the future form of the human-plant relationship in London domestic life.
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Baldwin, Debra Anne. "Growing up in and out of care : an ethnographic approach to young people's transitions to adulthood." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10810/.

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Tangkuampien, Jakkaphan. "A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10671.

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Our initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within educational goals, as well as the training and support of relevant personnel in order to use the new medium effectively. Training and support effort, however, are often seen as top-down or outside-in approach that many teachers and past integration efforts have identified as being one of the contributing factors to integration failure. By looking at past integration efforts, as well as through our own initial study and in the field, we recognise similar results and challenges in efforts to introduce information and communication technologies into developing communities. Work done by Heeks et al. (Heeks & Molla, 2009) (Walton & Heeks, 2011) identified the Process approach as a contributing factor towards successful Information and communication technologies for development projects. We developed a novel approach to medium integration in education by combining the Process approach with Ethnographical Action Research techniques as well as taking into account recommendations made by past medium integration in education. To evaluate our approach we implemented the Process approach at an Ethnographical Action Research site with the researcher as one of the teachers with the objective of integrating the mobile medium into the school.
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Borys, David University of Ballarat. "Exploring risk-awareness as a cultural approach to safety : an ethnographic study of a contract maintenance environment." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12752.

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Safety culture has risen to prominence over the past two decades as a means by which organisations may enhance their safety performance. Safety culture may be conceptualised as an interpretive device that mediates between organisational safety rhetoric and safety programs on the one hand, and local workplace cultures on the other. More recently, risk-awareness has emerged as a cultural approach to safety. Front line workers are encouraged to become risk-aware through programs designed to prompt them to undertake mental or informal risk assessments before commencing work. The problem is that risk-awareness programs have not been the subject of systematic research and the impact of these programs on the culture of safety and the resultant level of risk is unknown. Therefore, this ethnographic study of two sites within a large contract maintenance organisation in Australia explored what impact risk-awareness programs have upon the culture of safety and the resultant level of risk. The researcher spent two months in the field and data was collected through participant observation, semistructured interviews and through a review of organisational documents. This study found that managers focused upon collecting the paperwork associated with the program as proof that workers had a safer workplace, whereas workers preferred to rely upon their common sense rather than the paperwork to keep them safe. As a consequence, the riskawareness program resulted in a culture of paperwork and varying levels of risk reduction because the paperwork associated with the program created an illusion of safety for managers as much as common sense did for workers. The results of this study have implications for safety culture, risk-awareness programs and for organisational learning. They also have implications for organisations wishing to improve their safety culture by encouraging risk-awareness in front-line workers.
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Baldo, Mariella. "Discourse patterns in first language use at home and second language learning at school : an ethnographic approach." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006540/.

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Taylor, Jimmy D. "Gun Shows, Gun Collectors And The Story Of The Gun: An Ethnographic Approach To U.S. Gun Culture." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1219265093.

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Borys, David. "Exploring risk-awareness as a cultural approach to safety : An ethnographic study of a contract maintenance environment." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2007. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62095.

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Safety culture has risen to prominence over the past two decades as a means by which organisations may enhance their safety performance. Safety culture may be conceptualised as an interpretive device that mediates between organisational safety rhetoric and safety programs on the one hand, and local workplace cultures on the other. More recently, risk-awareness has emerged as a cultural approach to safety. Front line workers are encouraged to become risk-aware through programs designed to prompt them to undertake mental or informal risk assessments before commencing work. The problem is that risk-awareness programs have not been the subject of systematic research and the impact of these programs on the culture of safety and the resultant level of risk is unknown. Therefore, this ethnographic study of two sites within a large contract maintenance organisation in Australia explored what impact risk-awareness programs have upon the culture of safety and the resultant level of risk. The researcher spent two months in the field and data was collected through participant observation, semistructured interviews and through a review of organisational documents. This study found that managers focused upon collecting the paperwork associated with the program as proof that workers had a safer workplace, whereas workers preferred to rely upon their common sense rather than the paperwork to keep them safe. As a consequence, the riskawareness program resulted in a culture of paperwork and varying levels of risk reduction because the paperwork associated with the program created an illusion of safety for managers as much as common sense did for workers. The results of this study have implications for safety culture, risk-awareness programs and for organisational learning. They also have implications for organisations wishing to improve their safety culture by encouraging risk-awareness in front-line workers.
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Borys, David. "Exploring risk-awareness as a cultural approach to safety : an ethnographic study of a contract maintenance environment." University of Ballarat, 2007. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14591.

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Safety culture has risen to prominence over the past two decades as a means by which organisations may enhance their safety performance. Safety culture may be conceptualised as an interpretive device that mediates between organisational safety rhetoric and safety programs on the one hand, and local workplace cultures on the other. More recently, risk-awareness has emerged as a cultural approach to safety. Front line workers are encouraged to become risk-aware through programs designed to prompt them to undertake mental or informal risk assessments before commencing work. The problem is that risk-awareness programs have not been the subject of systematic research and the impact of these programs on the culture of safety and the resultant level of risk is unknown. Therefore, this ethnographic study of two sites within a large contract maintenance organisation in Australia explored what impact risk-awareness programs have upon the culture of safety and the resultant level of risk. The researcher spent two months in the field and data was collected through participant observation, semistructured interviews and through a review of organisational documents. This study found that managers focused upon collecting the paperwork associated with the program as proof that workers had a safer workplace, whereas workers preferred to rely upon their common sense rather than the paperwork to keep them safe. As a consequence, the riskawareness program resulted in a culture of paperwork and varying levels of risk reduction because the paperwork associated with the program created an illusion of safety for managers as much as common sense did for workers. The results of this study have implications for safety culture, risk-awareness programs and for organisational learning. They also have implications for organisations wishing to improve their safety culture by encouraging risk-awareness in front-line workers.
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Luff, Paulette A. "Ways of seeing and knowing children : a case study of early years practitioners' understandings and uses of child observation during their first year of employment." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2010. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/313586/.

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Observation of children, based upon careful watching and listening, is a key aspect of effective early childhood pedagogy, and yet research shows that early years practitioners struggle to observe children satisfactorily and find difficulty in planning provision based upon their observations. This finding is unexpected as there is a focus upon child observation in practitioners‘ initial training. This study set out to consider this anomaly through exploring new practitioners‘ understandings and uses of child observation during their first year of employment. The study took the form of a collective case study involving ten newly qualified early years practitioners. Taking an ethnographic approach, the project used participant observation in three early years settings, combined with semi-structured interviews with new practitioners and their mentors, to collect evidence of child observation in practice. Thematic content analysis of data, supported by the use of NVivo2 software, focused upon three aspects of the research question: firstly, new practitioners‘ understandings of the nature and purpose of child observation; secondly, why and how they use it; and, thirdly, observation as an aspect of their work within early years settings. Findings indicate that new early years practitioners demonstrate both informal practice, underpinned by an ethic of caring which guides observant, responsive work with young children; and formal practice, rooted in a developmental view of childhood leading to conscientious recording of predetermined, sequential, learning outcomes. The former is an intrinsic, connected response whilst the latter results from implementation of external policy requirements. Drawing inspiration from Dewey‘s pragmatist philosophy of education and from notions of wise practice, a new dynamic and relational approach to child observation is proposed, which may unite these dichotomous modes of thought and action and so enhance early years care and education.
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Kirby, Phillip Stuart. "An analysis of two teachers' approaches to storybook reading and its influence upon children's early literacy development by utilising a multidisciplinary ethnographic approach." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336967.

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Bonilla, Angela P. "Integration of Colombian refugees in Costa Rica : an ethnographic approach to the refugees' legal, economic, and social experiences." FIU Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1728.

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This qualitative study, based on interviews to 17 refugee families, attempts to identify the reasons behind the lack of integration of Colombian refugees in Costa Rica. The model of Immigrant Modes of Incorporation and the studies of Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner about the sources of social capital on migrant communities provided the theoretical framework used to identify the roots of the integration challenges. The findings suggest that Costa Rican policies towards the reception and integration of Colombian refugees are exclusionary. The host labor market is marked by sentiments of xenophobia towards the sample population while reported cases of persecution in the country also inhibit this population's economic integration. The lack of social capital sources contributes to inhibit this community's development, despite their participation in informal networks. There were signs of collective action. Yet, the refugee community fails to come together, while it also seems alienated from the community of Colombian entrepreneurs in Costa Rica.
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Gallant, Monica. "Five case studies of Emirati working women in Dubai - their personal experiences and insights." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2006. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001425/.

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This ethnographic case study explored the insights and experiences of a small selection of working graduates from Dubai Women's College. Based on a literature review and a preliminary study, the following themes were identified and employed as stimuli for discussion: the balance between work and family responsibilities, gender issues in the workplace, issues of power relationships for women, coping with restrictions in an Arabic Islamic environment, reasons for work, and sources of influence and satisfaction. The research utilized feminist post-structural theory to collect the data and then analyze and interpret the comments made by the women. Self-reflexivity and transparency of the positionality of the researcher were critical in this research that relied on an unstructured personal interview approach. The research resulted in a rich description of the thoughts and concerns of five diverse women. Through discourse analysis, the dominant socio-cultural discourses in the areas of gender, marriage, kinship, ethnicity, meritocracy, materialism and religion that women interact with in this cultural environment were identified. The extent to which the women take up, disrupt and challenge these discourses was also explored with a view to suggest ways to 'better' women's lives. Implications of this study include an agenda for increased emancipation of women by greater freedom of choice through self awareness and the development of potential strategies to support empowerment.
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Karlsson, Hanna, and Linn Lundebo. "Nursing care of patients with postoperative pain : an observation study at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania." Thesis, Röda Korsets Högskola, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-74.

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Some cultures regard pain as a natural part of life compared with the Western culture which believes that pain is something unnatural and that has to be eliminated. Transcultural nursing is a way to learn about and provide culturally fitting and meaningful care to people with different cultures. Tanzania suffers from a lack of qualified health workers due to an increased burden of disease and this affects the quality and supply of effective health services. It has been seen that it is common for patients to get inadequate pain treatment and this results in many different complications. The aim of the study was to describe the nursing care of patients with postoperative pain at a rural hospital in Tanzania. The study was implemented at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi. A qualitative participating observation study with an ethnographic approach was used to collect the data. The data was analyzed by content analysis and resulted in three themes: 1. The role of the nurse, 2. Pain management, and 3. Meeting the patient. The conclusion was that the nursing care around patients with postoperative pain showed an extended collaboration between the nurses and other health care professionals as well as with the patients’ parents. The study further showed that the atmosphere around the patients was positive and calm and that the nurses assessed pain by measuring vital signs and facial expressions.
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