Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Player ethics'

This dissertation is a narrative ethnobiography based on anthropological fieldwork I conducted with my mother, Mae, who was both collaborator and subject. Between 1995 and 1998, I researched Mae's life history and cultural worlds by traveling with her to visit the places and people of her past in Ireland and New York. As such, this project contributes to the literature on life stories by employing conversations within a community rather than the single uncontested voice of an interview. This work provides the first-hand accounts of a group neglected in research, that of 20th-century Irish female immigrants, and examines the impact of patriarchal economic and domestic constraints on this group. The theoretical concerns of this work include discussions about the nature of place, memory, and constructions of individual and cultural self. I argue beyond academic and popular functionalist "sense of place" discourses, a constructive phenomenon I call "the Brigadoon Syndrome," to illuminate the "senses of displace" felt within Irish and Irish American cultures. The sense of Ireland as a transatlantic place in a liminal state between traditionalism and global modernity is also emergent in the narratives. Although centered in dialogical anthropology, my methodological and theoretical approach shifts in focus from an anthropology of culture to an "anthropology of place." This shift occurs along the lines of recent phenomenological philosophy concerned with place, anthropological innovations concerned with the multiplicity, interconnectedness, cultural meaning of place, and cultural studies in transnational and global modernity. In order to understand Irish and Irish American culture, the analysis herein is attentive to social dialogical constructions of place, memory, gender, migration, local and nationalistic identities, religion, death, and family.

Grit and achievement motivation have been predictors of behavior in academia and military settings (Duckworth, Matthews, Peterson, & Kelly, 2007), but to date, research on their effects on sport performance has been limited. Given grit's predictive role in other performance domains, grit may be influential in athletes' long-term goal attainment, interacting with their achievement motives and leading to better performances. Athletes' trait levels of grit may influence how they understand and respond to messages received within motivational climates from key personnel such as from coaches and teammates. We examined potential moderating effects of grit on the relationship between motivational feedback and high school soccer players (N = 71, Mage = 15.81) performance on a soccer task, their desire to persist in the task, and their choices of task difficulty. We used hierarchical multiple regression to test the main effects of feedback and grit and to determine if grit moderated the effects of feedback on performance. Grit was a significant moderator of the feedback-shooting performance relationship, accounting for 3.9% of variance. Simple slopes analysis revealed a significant effect for low (B = 13.32, SEb = 4.44, p = .004, t = 2.99), but not high, (B = 2.11, SEb = 4.31, p = .63, t = .49), grit on task success. Grit was not a significant moderator of task difficulty selection or task persistence. These results suggest that for those high in grit, feedback about natural ability or hard work is not particularly influential on performance. However, for low grit athletes, type of feedback matters.

This study introduces a multi-disciplinary ecocritical approach to fictional evocations of place in colonial modernity between 1890 and 1940. Drawing together both modernist and contemporary theories of cognition, spatio-temporality, cinema, and the literary and human geographical assimilation of unfamiliar places, it analyzes the literary and visual poetics by which modernist depictions of landscape produce analogues for the crisis of the individual in the face of the other. Quarrelling with the sometimes recursive formulations of the spatial turn in culture studies, it reconceives the spatio-temporal arena through which literary representations of consciousness are staged through setting depictions. In order to track the dislocating of the subject in “exotic” environments an analytic frame is introduced, aesthetic duration, describing the narrative poetics by which epiphanic human experiences come to be mounted through tropes of aporia or ‘blockage’ – the temporal process by which the ambient aspects of concrete topographies are transformed into ideational or affective atmospheres. While the initial chapters introduce a model of theatricalized temporal ambience in fiction through Joseph Conrad’s An Outcast of the Islands, the study goes on to include close readings of Conrad’s Lord Jim as well as exoticist works by the problematic ‘modernists’, Lawrence, Forster, and Woolf. More fully, the scenographic dynamics of topographical depiction in these fictions of the imperial periphery are used to reveal how texts utilize durational forms and their primary vehicle, atmospheric appearing, in order to evoke interiority. Additionally, the present-time experience of cognitive crisis, where grounded in representations of landscape, is shown to constitute a performative forum for consciousness and narration. To this end the spatio-temporal frames of William James, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin are explored for their insights into the dynamics whereby the moment of signification is held open in order to enable thematic, affective, and cognitive transfers. The study thus begins by theorizing the ecologically nuanced strategies by which colonial places offer themselves as stand-ins for the decentred subjects of European modernism, and concludes by establishing a theatricalized model for the synaesthetic processes by which the places in colonial modernist fiction communicate significance via their performative poetics.

This study identifies, describes, and analyzes female Navajo participation in high school basketball and that participation's impact on the students' post-secondary academic experience. Two major hypotheses were formulated: (1) female Navajo participation in high school basketball does contribute to future post-secondary academic success (2) the basketball players' support group played a significant role in the students' future academic or athletic success. The total sample of 18 included former basketball players, former non-athletes, family members, and high school teachers and staff. My findings were: (1) the support group contributed significantly to the students' future academic and athletic success (2) the importance of Navajo cultural values and philosophy significantly impacted the students' post-secondary academic success (3) participation in basketball began as fun, but transformed into a positive learning experience that reinforced and provided structure for previously learned values from Navajo culture, family, and/or significant mentors and role models.

The impact of ethnic residential concentration on the process of integration of ethnic minorities into the mainstream society has been increasingly debated among both scholars and policy makers across Europe. This thesis seeks to contribute to this debate by addressing the effect of ethnic residential concentration on the political participation of Black Africans in Britain. The study pursues three main objectives: investigating the marginalising or mobilising impact of co-ethnic residential concentration on political participation; disentangling the processes underpinning this relationship by focusing on the effect of ethnic-based social networks, represented here by voluntary organisations, religious institutions and informal social networks; exploring the influence of the immigration-related heterogeneity that characterises the Black African community on the relationship between residential concentration, ethnic social networks and political participation. A mixed-method approach is adopted. The quantitative enquiry focuses on the Black African community as a whole and relies on secondary data drawn from the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Electoral Survey. The qualitative enquiry is based on primary data collected through face-to-face interviews and participant observation among Ghanaians and Somalis in London. The quantitative analysis shows that, among Black Africans, residential concentration has a mobilising effect on voter turnout but a marginalising effect on non-electoral participation. Ethnic social networks do not seem to mediate this relationship. Residential concentration is significantly, and positively, correlated to individual participation in ethnic places of worship and embeddedness in ethnic informal networks but not to involvement in ethnic organisations. In turn, the latter positively influences non-electoral engagement whereas ethnic places of worship and informal networks are not related to political engagement. The qualitative findings suggest that residential concentration is more relevant for the creation of and participation in ethnic organisations among Somalis than among Ghanaians. However, this relationship is likely to be influenced by other contextual factors such as institutional support, ethnic diversity and tribal homogeneity. Somali organisations also seem to play a more active political role than Ghanaian groups with regard to both electoral and non-electoral engagement. The two communities appear to be more similar when considering the relationship between ethnic religious institutions and informal connections with co-ethnics. These networks are not necessarily dependent on ethnic residential clustering and their effect on political engagement is primarily linked to informal political discussion. Overall, the results suggest that the relationship between residential concentration, ethnic social networks and political participation of Black Africans varies considerably between the two national groups researched, primarily due to their immigration-related characteristics, as well as across modes of political engagement (i.e. electoral, non-electoral) and local contexts.

As internal migration started to increase in the late 1970s in China, ethnic minorities have also participated in this demographic event to improve their livelihood. However, minority migration has been much neglected in the current literature. To fill the gap in the literature, the dissertation aims to: (1) examine migration selectivity and destination selection process of ethnic minorities in China; (2) investigate whether migration can lead to upward socioeconomic mobility for ethnic minorities; (3) assess the extent of socioeconomic integration of minority migrants at destination places; (4) reveal and explain differences in patterns of migration and destination adaption across ethnic groups; and (5) uncover temporal patterns of minority migration, migration outcomes, minority integration at destinations. To achieve these goals, this dissertation makes use of the micro-data of the 1990 China population census, the 1995 mini-census, the 2000 census and the 2005 mini-census.

Regarding minority migration process, model results suggest that education selectivity of minority migrants is mostly positive, but it is only consistently observed for the Zhuang. While migrant networks and co-ethnic networks does not matter much for the out-migration decision for minorities, they do weigh more on minority migrants’ decision as to where to go. Minority migrants tend to go to places with larger migrant networks. In general, they also go to places with more co-ethnics, but the effect of co-ethnic networks reveals important group-specific differences.

Minorities can mostly benefit from engaging in migration. However, what is interesting is the finding that the Uyghurs stand out as the only minority group that shows a trend of deteriorating migration outcomes. Moreover, evidence also reveals that for the Uyghurs and the Zhuang, long-distance migration is not more beneficial than short-distance migration.

Finally, very different patterns of incorporation at destination communities emerge from the analyses. The relative position of the Uyghur migrants to the Han is declining over time and in the most recent time period, they are doing significantly worse than their Han counterparts. The Hui and the Koreans are doing more successfully. Surprisingly, the Zhuang migrants are disadvantaged to the Han and this disadvantage is consistent across time.

Progressive religious leaders are playing an increasingly important role in the effort to combat climate change. Through a combination of unstructured in-depth interviews and primary source analysis, this thesis highlights nine U.S. religious leaders from various denominations of Christianity, Judaism and Islam who are actively involved in working on climate issues. Drawing on literature in social movement theory, I explore how clergy are uniquely influential in climate issues because of the organizational advantage and moral authority they hold through their positions as religious leaders, granting them the ability to highlight social justice implications of climate change with distinctive legitimacy. Clergy engage in climate issues through a number of tactics and myriad activities spanning three domains: their congregations, the climate movement, and policy circles. While religious leaders are imbued with moral authority that allows them to speak powerfully on the social justice implications of climate change, they are also limited in a number of ways precisely because they are working within a religious context.

碩士
國立體育大學
體育推廣學系
103
This research was aimed for degree of difference of sport team players' sport ethics disengagement. To reach this purpose, questionnaire survey is used with the questionnaire of sport ethics disengagement as a study tool. Out of 777 survey questionnaires distributed to the 2015 school year high school P.E. classes from New Taipei City, Taipei City and Taoyuan City and the top college sport teams. 698 valid questionnaires were returned with the effective response rate of 90%. The data analysis results show that (1) among different sex sport teams, degree of sport ethics disengagement of male is higher than female, (2) among different sports, degree of physical contact sports is higher than non-physical contact ones and group sports are higher than individual ones, (3) among different categories, national teams are higher (4) seniority makes no difference. Finally, about the study results, explanations and analysis discussions as well as suggestions related to the further study will be brought out.

Yoga has been an organizing feature of community for thousands of years, shaping and being shaped by the bodies, minds, spiritual worlds and social relationships of its practitioners. Over the course of the last century, it has become a global celebrity-endorsed exemplification of how to live a “good” life and been transformed from the “exotic,” grotesque menageries of ascetic “sinister yogis” and itinerant sages, to define the fit, graceful, radiant, blissful personages of American supermodels and pop-stars. Yoga has moved from the ashrams of India to gyms, church basements and specialized studios of Europe, North America and Australia, and from these centers of economic and political power, to “exotic” peripheries through the global and bodily movements of world-travelers seeking self-discovery, health, spiritual transformation, and connection with the natural world in “less developed” locales. This dissertation explores and documents the movement of yoga-motivated travelers to tourism locales with no historical connection to yoga, asking questions about 1) how yoga travelers’ activities fit in larger contexts of ethical tourism and cross-cultural consumption as yoga travels across borders, 2) the role yoga plays in practitioners’ lives, shaping health, gender, sexuality, and lifestyle, 3) outcomes of sustained contemporary yoga practice on the bodies of practitioners, including affective transformation through bodily manipulation, the expansion of sensual awareness through breath, auditory techniques, meditation and mind-body synthesis, 4) how these bodily transformations are interpreted and applied to contemporary life through syncretic adaptations of yoga ethics from classical yoga texts with contemporary ethical discourses of environmentalism and consumer choice, and 5) how yoga tourists and the owners of yoga tourism locales view, interact with, and mobilize “foreign” locals and locales through sustainable development narratives and ideas of global community and universal spirituality. I apply contemporary anthropological agendas to yoga as a means to explore different ways of being alive, paying particular attention to how sensual potentials are brought to conscious experience by relational engagement with nature and culture, thus shaping our affective worlds. This dissertation charts intimate bodily and cross-cultural human relationships played out through yoga. It considers the spiritual, economic, political and cultural impacts of globalized yoga and yoga tourism. Close attention is paid to the experiential aspects of yoga and how yoga enlivens and relates to larger social narratives of nature sanctity under contemporary stresses of neoliberalism, including how yoga practitioners engage with the ethics of yoga and consumption to make lifestyle choices that align with political and economic concerns for viable ecological, social and cultural futures.
Graduate

Thesis (M.Com. (Marketing Management and Information Systems))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Economic and Business Sciences, 2015
The objectives of the study were to explore the extent to which three management characteristics related to organisational entrepreneurship in not-for-profit organisations (NPOs) in Gauteng, as well as the relation between organisational entrepreneurship and the organisational performance. The research was based on a quantitative approach which involved a random sample of 257 NPO managers who responded via a self-administered questionnaire. The research instrument measured management’s commitment to their occupation, management’s continuous education and management ethics, as well as organisational entrepreneurship and organisational performance. Data analysis techniques comprised of structural equation modelling which focused on confirmatory factory analysis to confirm conceptual relations and path model analysis to determine the causal relations between each management characteristics with organisational entrepreneurship, and organisational entrepreneurship with organisational performance. Path analysis results returned significant at the 99% confidence level that management’s continuous education and management’s ethics had strong positive causal relations to organisational entrepreneurship, as well as the positive relation of organisational entrepreneurship with organisational performance. The research noted implications for NPO management teams, including the renovation of business model structures to incorporate continuous learning and constructive risk-taking in order to take advantage of the performance benefits derived from organisational entrepreneurship. The study also recommends further research into potential citizenship bodies for NPO management team to foster commitment to their occupation in the non-profit sector.

碩士
大仁科技大學
休閒健康管理研究所
101
The main purpose of this study was to discuss the differences of cognition between sport ethics and sport deviant behaviors on different background variables of college basketball players. Furthermore analyzing the correlation of sports ethics and sports deviant behaviors by “Pearson product-moment correlation”. Sampling maternal were collected by mails and received 208 valid questionnaires. The effective response rate was 83.2%. Data were analyzed with SPSS statistical software, otherwise the analysis methods including descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA. Research results were as follows: 1.In the background distribution, most subjects were Tajen University basketball players, grade 1 to grade 2, 20 to 24 years old, one- year of participation in sports team, 3-5 years sports experience of basketball and had a good cognition of sports ethics. 2.There’s no significant effect with cognition of sports ethics in different age, grade and sports experience. School background shows the significant effect in “moral justification” and “euphemistic labeling”. Time for participation of sports team shows significant effect in “euphemistic labeling”. 3.There’s no significant effect in sport deviant behaviors among the age, school, grade, time for participation and sports experience. 4.The major influence factors with cognition of sports ethics and sports deviant behaviors of college basketball players probably were sports atmosphere in school, sports population, age, sports experience and immature concepts of sports ethics. This study provided some suggestions for arrangement of sports curriculums. To reconsider the difference of ages, grades of students and make the adaptable curriculums for promotion with cognition of sports ethics and sport deviant behaviors.

博士
國立成功大學
台灣文學系
103
Since the late 20th century, the process of globalization, particularly in terms of capitalism, has led to the creation of many international networks of migrants. In Taiwan, the new wave of immigration over the past two decades has rapidly changed the landscape of Taiwanese society, creating a more multicultural picture. Framing ethnic community-building in terms of place-making, the dissertation studies the formation of Vietnamese immigrant community in Tainan, Taiwan. The dissertation demonstrates that space/place is a central and persistent component of Vietnamese community-building. This study clearly indicates, under the impact of political, economic, cultural, social factors of Taiwan, that the Vietnamese have used unique spatial strategies to protect their community and form Vietnamese community inside Taiwanese society. This study contributes to our understanding of the experience of transnational migration and multicultural integration in a society of immigrants. The stories of transnational migration in the present study illustrate immigrant women’s agency in adapting to Taiwanese society. The immigrant women’s transition to a new socio-cultural environment has important implications for their identities. One important insight in the study of marriage migrants is about how people with different historical experiences and cultural behaviors can develop from different communities to a community of differences. Depending on each condition, circumstance, and setback, many immigrant women have suitable adjustment strategies to host society. However, it is not means that, they simply abandon their homeland identity. In contrast, Vietnamese spouses use a wide range of strategies to reaffirm elements of their cultural identities to maintain links to their roots while negotiating the values and norms of their host societies in rewriting their identities. This dissertation contributes to our understanding of Vietnamese community-building in Tainan, Taiwan. The first, the dissertation explores the relationship between the public space and formation of Vietnamese community in Taiwan’s urban landscape through investigating how Vietnamese immigrants’ social maps are structured and negotiated in relation to public space. By linking spatial experience to ethnic community, the dissertation is able to offer alternative maps of people and places that revise and invigorate the common views of the diasporic experience and the formation of ethnoscape in urban landscape. The secondly, dissertation analyzed the relationship between ethnic business places and a sense of community. The development of ethnic places also provides area also provides a connecting point for a community – a place of places where information can be obtained or disseminated in both formal and informal ways. Certain types of business, such as coffee shops, restaurants, pubs, karaoke shop which distributed all also serve as places for people to get together, warming ethnic characteristics. These ethnic places also help to organize ethnic networks into a structure of social relations. Through cultural activities, ethnic business activities, ethnic business places, the Vietnamese have not only consolidated and built a community network, but also formed cultural regions and commercial areas that have unique Vietnamese characteristics. The ethnic places that have been created by Vietnamese serve as cultural zones and business landscape, generating and stringing identity among Vietnamese immigrants in Tainan, Taiwan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New School for Social Research, 2003.
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Much of the literature on ethical consumption focuses on the potential of individual actions, such as buying fair trade products, to produce large-scale change. This thesis instead examines collective actions by exploring the discourses and interactions of alternative food movements in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Drawing on interviews with members of these networks, it argues that ethical consumption initiatives encourage the circulation of particular social and ethical values through the community. Community identity and place are made and marketed through networks of value that foster responsibility in and for the food system. Collective identity alters daily routines of consumption in order to channel benefits back into the local economy. A sense of place that includes responsibility for the food system sometimes leads to collective political action, but it also creates tension among and between different organizations and individuals who make claims to “the local” as a moral, social and geographical space.

How authors and scholars have approached leadership studies – in terms of their thinking, defining and studying – has changed remarkably over time. According to literature, this is predominantly due to greater optimism about the field and greater methodological diversity being employed to better understand complex, embedded phenomena. As a result, there has been a significant rise in the use of qualitative research approaches to the study of leadership. Numerous definitions, classifications, explanations and theories about leadership, exist in the contemporary literature. However, despite the vast array of literature, the challenge of failing leadership persists. Challenges, such as the speed of technological advancements, social, and economic change are ever-present, while the impact of COVID-19 is, as yet, uncertain. Despite these challenges, can companies compete successfully in the marketplaces they operate in while also remaining ethical and engaged with the challenges of the broader business and social environment? To answer this question, this study has undertaken qualitative research on the bouquet of trait, situational and value-based leadership theory, in order to re-assess both established and developing theories. The predominant aim is to describe, explain and analyse available literature in an attempt to ascertain academic guidance on how it might be possible to enable leaders and society to mitigate leadership challenges by proposing a conceptual framework that could support leadership theory and, in so doing, take an academic stance in providing better answers or guidance to the failures currently being experienced. Several authors have noted that leadership makes a difference with resulting impacts on many which implies that to make the world a better place, leadership has two contradictory elements; good and bad. These elements are reflected in today’s connected world where the media, either showers praise on leaders or writes articles deriding their incompetence and abuse of their roles at all levels The proposed conceptual framework of this study endeavours to enable society and leaders, practically and at an individual level, to evaluate leadership issues and link leadership frameworks to their everyday lives and, in so doing, aid in mitigating the challenges being faced.
Business Management
D.B.L.

The goal of this study was to examine the Brazilian immigrant's memories of a childhood place (i.e., place lived between 6 to 15 years of age) and the influence of these memories on immigrant's sense of well-being in the USA, self-esteem, and the longing to return to homeland. The subjects were 100 Brazilian immigrants (50 men and 50 women) who were at least age of eighteen years or older when they immigrated to USA and who have lived and are living in this country for least two years but not more than fifteen years. Results showed no correlations between positive/negative feelings about childhood place and the immigrant's sense of well-being in the USA, nor was the immigrant's current self-esteem explained by memory about attachment to childhood place or current well-being. Participants who had positive/pleasant feelings about childhood place had a higher association with the longing to return to the homeland than those who had a negative memory of childhood place. Men had more positive/pleasant memories of childhood place and a greater desire to return to homeland than women. Immigrants' narrative describing experience with childhood place supported the hypothesis that men and women experience place differently, i.e., their feelings about childhood place depend on their opportunity for self-actualization and type of experiences they had in that place. The main topics remembered and described about childhood place focused on the "locus" of childhood place; childhood place was remembered as the arena for interpersonal relationships; childhood place was seen as the container for cultural values and the source for self-identity development; and memories of childhood place were described as a part of the self (i.e., ontological landscape) which had a great influence on immigrant's desire to return to homeland.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4334. Adviser: Kimberly Shinew. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-198) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Since their creation in Europe in the seventeenth century, pension funds have grown to become one of the main sources of capital in the world. A number of role players ultimately manage the pension money of members on their behalf. Accordingly, the focus of this study is on the role players involved in the actual investment of pension fund money. For the purposes of the study, the key role players in the pension fund investment chain are identified as pension fund trustees, asset managers and asset consultants. These role players have a specific responsibility in terms of the service that they ought to provide. One of the key aspects of this dissertation is therefore determining whether their responsibility is a fiduciary responsibility. The main purpose of the study is, however, to answer one overarching research question: Does fiduciary responsibility create barriers to the implementation of responsible investment in the South African pension fund investment chain? Clearly, there are two key terms in this research question, fiduciary responsibility and responsible investment. It is suggested that responsible investment takes at least two forms: a “business case” form1 in which environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are considered only in so far as they are financially material; and a social form in which ESG issues are considered over maximising risk adjusted financial returns. Three key questions were asked in order to find qualitative descriptions and interpretations of fiduciary responsibility: Question 1: Are the key role players in the pension fund investment chain fiduciaries? Question 2: If so, to whom do the key role players owe their fiduciary duty? Question 3: What are the fiduciary duties of the key role players in the pension fund investment chain? It is also suggested that the duty to act in the best interests of beneficiaries could be described as the all-encompassing fiduciary duty. Two main interpretations of the
Private Law
(LL.M.(Private Law))

O presente trabalho corresponde a uma dissertação realizada no âmbito do Curso de Mestrado em Ciências da Educação, especialização em Pedagogia Social, na Faculdade de Educação e Psicologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Porto, sob o título “Sustentabilidade do Planeta e Pedagogia Ambiental – Exigências de Formação Académica – Estudo de Caso”. Reconhecendo-se a importância da Educação Ambiental (EA) no contexto das sociedades contemporâneas, pretendeu-se compreender em que medida esta preocupação se encontra inscrita na formação académica dos educadores em particular dos pedagogos sociais. Neste sentido, para efeitos de fundamentação do quadro teórico recorreu-se à bibliografia científica sobre a problemática da Sustentabilidade do Planeta num quadro de Pedagogia Social, bem como a legislação considerada relevante. Em termos empíricos, optou-se por um estudo de caso, centrado num curso de formação inicial de educadores sociais oferecido por uma instituição de ensino superior. Os dados recolhidos e analisados neste estudo permitiram-nos reafirmar a nossa convicção de que a Educação Ambiental desempenha um papel fundamental na Formação Académica dos pedagogos sociais, sugerindo a necessidade do seu reforço e inclusão nos respetivos planos formativos.
This work is part of the Master's Degree in Educational Sciences, specialization in Social Pedagogy, at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Catholic University of Portugal – Oporto. The theoretical study is part of the contribution of Social Pedagogy to the issue of the Sustainability of the Planet and Academic Training Requirements. With a view of this intended to understand to what extent this concern is inscribed in the academic training of educators, particularly social pedagogues. In this sense, for the purpose of grounding the theoretical framework, we resorted to the scientific literature on the issue of the Sustainability of the Planet in a framework of Social Pedagogy, as well as the legislation considered relevant. The empirical study is part of a case study that is based on a documental analysis and on the direct questioning is centered on an initial training course for social educators offered by a higher education institution. The data collected and analyzed in this study allowed us to reaffirm our conviction that Environmental Education plays a fundamental role in Academic Training, suggesting the need for its inclusion in their training plans.

Based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Dariganga and Khalkh ethnic groups of Mongolia, the thesis attempts to demonstrate their perception of landscape. Dariganga are the least studied among all ethnic groups of Mongolia, thus giving me a chance to present these issues for the first time in academic literature. I compare my data with this coming from the Khalkh Mongols to get a fuller picture of the perception of landscape in my country. Some scholars studying Monglian culture seem to presuppose that Mongolia is a never ending great steppe, an empty place or an infinite space. My work shows that their conclusions do not take into account the real Mongol – local, emic – environment perception. Mongolian landscape, as presented in local traditions, consists of many precisely defined spaces, characterised by invisible agents of land (spirits, masters, tengers etc). Within the shepherds’ understanding of their environment, I have identified fundamental types such as beneficial, fortunate and dangerous. I analyse these essential elements of the perception of landscape based on my ethnographic and autoethnographic research, including intensive participant observation. In the first chapter, I present how herders of two abovementioned areas change seasonally their territories by taking into account natural conditions and requirements of their livestock. This movement is crucial for feeding the herds properly, at the same time preserving pastures from degradation. Given that so much in the nomadic lifestyle has changed recently, a question arises, should the contemporary, modernized Mongolian pastoralism be still called “nomadism” or, rather, using more recent terms, should it be labeled a “mobile” or “migratory” pastoralism. After presenting the current discussion, I opt for last term. In the next chapter, I present four types of places considered dangerous: the wild, the haunted, the touristic and the harmful (mining places in particular). All of them are excluded from pastoral economy, the herders consider them “lost areas”. In the third chapter, I describe some historical sites venerated by local population, such as inherited campground, archaeological monument, and a dwelling place of old Dariganga heroes/brigands. The first, bor shoroo, is for herders a core element of their homeland; the second site is a place where Dariganga create their historical homeland based on archaeological relics. As for the third one, the Mongols all over the country venerate the Shiliin Bogd mountain, the abode of a group of brigands, sain er, as a national energetic centre. Those respectful areas are of decisive importance for creating homeland identity, both on a local as well as on a national level. In the last chapter, I present the local cult of Altan Ovoo, one of the ten state sacred mountains, believed to provide health and growth to humans and animals in the region. The ceremony of state worship is strengthening local identity and national unity. Thus, the mountain is regarded as the centre of Dariganga nature and culture. To sum up, Mongolian herders consider their land as a primary source of their livelihood; therefore, they strive for a correct harmony with it.
Dysertacja ta, oparta na osiemnastomiesięcznych badaniach etnograficznych, przeprowadzonych wśród mongolskich Chałchasów i Darigangów poświęcona jest prezentacji ich postrzegania krajobrazu. Darigangowie stanowią najmniej zbadaną grupę etniczną w Mongolii, w związku z czym mam możliwość prezentacji zagadnień na ich temat po raz pierwszy w literaturze akademickiej. W swojej pracy porównuję zebrane przeze mnie materiały z tymi, dotyczącymi Mongołów Chałchasów w celu pełniejszego przedstawienia wyobrażeń na temat krajobrazu w moim kraju. Część badaczy zajmujących się kulturą Mongolii, kojarzy Mongolię z niekończącym się stepem, miejscem pustym lub bezkresną przestrzenią. Moja praca pokazuje, że w podobnych twierdzeniach nie są brane pod uwagę prawdziwie mongolskie, a więc lokalne, emiczne znaczenia warunkujące zrozumienie otoczenia przez Mongołów. Mongolski krajobraz, zgodnie z tradycją lokalną zawiera liczne, precyzyjnie zdefiniowane przestrzenie, związane z niewidzialnymi reprezentantami terenów (duchami, gospodarzami, tengerami). Na podstawie wyobrażeń pasterzy na temat ich otoczenia zidentyfikowałem trzy podstawowe typy [przestrzeni], takie jak użyteczne, pomyślne i niebezpieczne. Analizuję owe trzy elementy postrzegania krajobrazu na podstawie badań etnograficznych, autoetnograficznych, zawierających intensywne obserwacje uczestniczące. W pierwszym rozdziale prezentuję, w jaki sposób pasterze z wyżej wspomnianych miejscowości zmieniają sezonowo ich pastwiska w zależności od warunków naturalnych oraz potrzeb ich zwierząt hodowlanych. Owe przemieszczenia są konieczne nie tylko ze względu na potrzebę dostarczania odpowiedniego pożywienia dla zwierząt, ale są też potrzebne do ochrony pastwiska przed degradacją. Biorąc pod uwagę przemiany, które w ostatnim czasie zachodzą w koczownictwie powstaje pytanie, czy współczesną, zmodernizowaną formę mongolskiego pasterstwa wciąż można nazwać „nomadyzmem” [koczownictwem] czy też właściwsze są nowsze terminologie, takie jak pasterstwo „mobilne” lub „migrujące”. W kontekście przedstawianej przeze mnie aktualnej dyskusji na ten temat, jestem skłonny optować za drugim terminem. W kolejnym rozdziale prezentuję cztery typy przestrzeni uważane za niebezpieczne: dzikie, nawiedzone, turystyczne i szkodliwe (w szczególności miejsca wydobycia). Wszystkie te przestrzenie są wyłączone z gospodarki pasterskiej, określane przez pasterzy jako „ziemie stracone”. W trzecim rozdziale opisuję miejsca historyczne czczone przez lokalną ludność, takie jak pastwiska dziedziczone, obiekty archeologiczne, miejsca zamieszkania bohaterów/zbójów Darigangów. Pierwsze, bor szoroo – jest kluczowym komponentem postrzegania [koncepcji] ojczyzny dla pasterzy, drugie – to miejsce związane z reliktami archeologicznymi, które stały się podstawą do wykreowania przez Darigangów historycznej ojczyzny. Trzecie – czczona przez wszystkich Mongołów góra Szilijn Bogd, siedziba bohaterów-zbójów sain er, uważana przez Mongołów jako centrum energii państwowej. Owe miejsca czczone odgrywają decydującą rolę w kreowaniu tożsamości zarówno lokalnej, jak i na poziomie państwowym. W ostatnim rozdziale prezentuję lokalny kult Altan Owoo, jednej z dziesięciu świętych państwowych gór, który to zapewnia zdrowie i wzrost dla ludności i zwierząt w danej okolicy. Państwowa uroczystość oddawania czci górze wzmacnia tożsamość lokalną i jedność narodową. Stąd ta góra jest uważana za centrum natury i kultury Darigangów. Podsumowując, pasterze mongolscy postrzegają ich ziemie jako podstawowe źródło ich życia, stąd dążą do właściwej harmonii z nim.

Магистерская диссертация посвящена исследованию вопросов формирования этнических анклавов мигрантского типа на принимающей территории. Актуальность данной темы исследования обуславливается тем, что потоки трудовых мигрантов и членов их семей в современную Россию увеличиваются, стимулируя процессы анклавизации. Это является крайне нежелательным явлением для принимающего общества и самих мигрантов, препятствуя их интеграции в российское общество. В работе выявлены и проанализированы негативные последствия процессов анклаватизации на территориях мегаполисов. Научная новизна исследования заключается в разработке методики оценки миграционно привлекательных территорий мегаполиса, которая включает в себя выбор показателей и критериев оценивания, разработку больной системы и ранжирование микрорайонов. Основой для выделения критериев оценки миграционно привлекательных микрорайонов служит анализ научных источников и экспертный опрос специалистов, занимающихся вопросами миграции. Уровень степени согласованности мнений экспертов оценен посредством расчета коэффициента вариации и коэффициента конкордации (коэффициент Кендалла). Также в магистерской диссертации разработан и апробирован подход к оценке процессов аклаватизации через изучение численности детей-мигрантов в школах города. Для сбора эмпирических данных в работе активно применяются ГИС-технологии. Предложенная методика апробирована на данных г. Екатеринбурга. Магистерская диссертация представляет интерес для лиц, занимающихся вопросами международной миграции, и может быть полезно для формирования инструментов проведения миграционной политики и развития городской среды.
This Master's dissertation is dedicated to a research of forming of migration type ethnical enclaves in a host region. Relevance of this topic is determined by the fact of increased flow of migrant workers and their families in modern Russia stimulates the process of enclavisation. This is highly undesirable fact for locals in the host region and for migrants themselves, because of their difficulties with integration in Russian society. There were been discovered and analysed negative consequences of enclavisation process in the territories of metropolises. Scientific novation of this research is a development of methods which can be used to assess migratory attractive areas of metropolis. These methods include a selection of indicators and criteria of assessment, development of bigger system and ranging of microdistricts. To emphasize criteria of assessment of migratory attractive areas there is a basis - an analysis of scientific origins and an expert survey of specialists, who are involved into research of migration issues. Measure of coherent experts' views is assessed by calculation of variations and concordance multipliers (Candall multiplier). Also in this Master's dissertation there is a method of aclavatization processes assessment through a research of migrants' children in city schools was developed and tested. GIS-technologies are actively used to gather empirical data. Offered methods were tested at Yekaterinburg city data. Specialists who are involved into a work on international migration may be interested in this Master's disseration, which may be useful also for migratory policy and development of city environment.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
In 1964, Muncie Central High School got the “death penalty” at the hands of the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s (IHSAA) new commissioner, Phil N. Eskew, after post-game brawling at a boys basketball game led to a broader investigation of the entire program. In the closing moments of the game, a Muncie Central opponent was bloodied by an inbound pass to the face and fans erupted in violence, swarming the floor. The ensuing investigation revealed racial tensions, issues of sexual mores, political discord, and deep problems in the web of interrelationships that make up the phenomenon of Hoosier Hysteria. After a closed-door hearing and two days of deliberations, Eskew and the IHSAA Board of Control announced their decision, and the punishment prescribed made front page headlines across the state and beyond.