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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"This research sought to discover if digital storytelling can help rural and indigenous students in the High Amazon region of Peru to affirm their identities and preserve their culture, traditions, and practices. Using an organic research framework, I describe the personal story that serves as the background for this research, connecting my own experience with the larger social context. I explore the use of digital storytelling as an education and...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Stories are a form of identification and connection for human beings--connection to each other, nature, animals, landscapes (both internal and external), and the spiritual world. Whether through oral storytelling, song, the use of art, or the formal writing of literature, stories create a third space, that in-between space, where voice, identity, and place can be discovered. Stories create that third space where women, nature, and those affected...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"There are over 650 million acres of federal public lands in the United States that allow access to nature. Public lands are utilized for a variety of different activities, ranging from preservation to resource extraction. Regardless of proximity, public lands belong to everyone in the United Sates. From January to August 2016, I opportunistically and purposively collected sixteen interviews in Arizona, a state with 38.5% federal public lands, and...
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Ecotourism, a subset of tourism aiming to benefit both livelihoods and the environment, is a growing sector of the travel market, generating significant revenue and affecting socio-ecological systems at a global scale. Ecotourism is often touted as a 'non-consumptive' use of biodiversity, even in light of existing literature that shows detrimental impacts of tourism on wild populations. Few studies have synthesized existing data and made recommendations...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For the First Nations of North America, foot trails long provided the main source of transportation behind rivers and the ocean, with individual trails stretching far beyond each tribe's ancestral homeland. In the upper Illinois River Valley and greater Siskiyou Mountains, trails supported complex groups of 'hunter-gatherer-fishers' long before the arrival of gold seeking 'whites'. Modern tribes operating today include the Karuk Tribe, individual...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Little is known about the experiences of students on college outdoor orientation trips who experience lower levels of belonging within their group. During this study students who experienced lower belonging on one program were interviewed to identify common characteristics of these experiences. Due to a small number of research participants, the study was expanded through a national survey to include outdoor orientation participants at 23 schools....
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Appoximately 18 million individuals between the ages of 18-25 have experienced substance abuse (SAMSHA, 2013). Of these 18 million individuals, those who may have the expectation of attending institutions of higher education face many challenges. Not only are the challenges these students face associated with the consequences of substance abuse, but the reasons that may have led them to substance use are equally as challenging to overcome as a student...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Involving a diversity of stakeholders in conservation issues is an important and growing trend in wildlife management. My thesis provides a case study of a collaborative conservation effort in which representatives from sportsmen's and environmental groups came together to advise the Arizona Game and Fish Department in a project to restore bighorn sheep to the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona. These stakeholders formed the Catalina Bighorn...
1129) A clash of new and ancient gods: religion and allegory in central African postcolonial literature
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Religious conflict, missionary versus indigenous priest for the soul of society, occurs repeatedly in the postcolonial fiction of central Africa, as the chosen means to illustrate the colonial and postcolonial environment. Given the omnipresence of religion in the postcolonial fiction of central Africa, there is little analysis that comprehensively explores its function from the broad scope of multiple novels and perspectives in comparison with postcolonial...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Colonial architecture has long been a highlight for those visiting the Caribbean isles. Many of the tens millions of international visitors that arrive every year in the Caribbean seek out the historical highlights of the islands that display the unique and varied history of the tumultuous colonial past. Large scale historic locations, such as El Morro in Puerto Rico, down to small scale privately run great houses, such as Saint Nicholas Abbey in...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to highlight best practices in the management of wild eastern brook trout, an examination was performed of brook trout management plans and stocking habits for seven randomly selected states within the species native range. Additionally, surveys were distributed to these state's members of Trout Unlimited (TU) in an effort to understand angler motivations, awareness of and attitudes about their state's stocking practices and protection...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"The novella Drop Serene follows the narrative of those portions of Paradise Lost in which the character Satan plays an active role, specifically focusing upon Books I, II, III, IV, IX, and X. This creative thesis explores the concept of Satan as a classical hero. It seeks, while following the narrative arc of Paradise Lost, to reconcile the idea of Satan as a tragic hero. Milton's Satan, by inverting and distorting the motifs of the hero, stands...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Personal narrative and literature review was used to explore the historical and current contexts of embodied knowing, embodied inquiry, and embodied teaching. Methods of embodied inquiry from phenomenology, somatics, and transpersonal research are described and compared. Ten common elements of embodied inquiry practices are distilled, including a dialogue between witnessing and felt sense aspects of awareness, as a tool for facilitating embodied...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"I studied current educational efforts about urban wildlife in Tucson, Arizona using three main approaches: a) interviews with key informants, b) analysis of the dissemination of and reaction to informative booklets about urban wildlife, and c) a review of regionally-relevant news articles published online from 2013 to 2015. These triangulated research efforts provide a general snapshot of the relative effectiveness of urban wildlife education practices...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This thesis explores the value and effectiveness of an Express Arts in Partnership with Nature program that combines education, environmental service work, and expressive ecopsychology practices to engage human beings in meaningful relationship with the natural environment in order to foster self-awareness, environmental awareness, and environmental stewardship. This thesis encompasses the development and facilitation of such a program, with the...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"This research project was developed to shed light on the intersectionality between indices of power and identity beliefs in relation to the questions (1) What is the relationship between economic power, personal power, and political power? (2) What role does identity politics play in both of these areas (with emphasis on respectability politics)? The research was focused on the link between identity/respectability politics and self proclaimed economic,...
1137) Indoor nature-based art activities: the themes students discuss while creating nature-based art
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When children can understand their surrounding environments (whether it be the natural environment or their built environment) it is said that they can connect more deeply and have a heightened awareness of their surroundings (Kelly, 2013). This connection and heightened awareness can open their eyes to prevalent environmental issues, increasing their sense of social responsibility. The research on this type of learning generally occurs in formal...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This qualitative case study explores the intersection of social justice pedagogy and Outdor Experiential Education (OEE) sense of place and belonging curriculum. The purpose of this study was to gain a comprehensive understanding of, and engage in critical analysis of how students systematically marginalized by race, ethnicity, and/or class experienced sense of place and belonging in OEE. Data was collected through in-depth interviews of OEE Students...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of six whitewater kayakers on the Potomac River on the east coast of the United States. Research participants, three women and three men, ranged in age from 21 to 72. The study reviews as context the history of kayaking and the theories of ecofeminism, participant motivation, transformational experience and environmental responsibility, and narrative identity. Further theories of flow, group...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A phenomenological approach is used to explore the experiences of thirteen lifestyle surfers from San Diego. Participant experiences are interpreted in phases determined to be categorically unique. Increases in short-term wellness are consistently reported following surf sessions. These benefits are thematically connected to restorative aspects of ocean environments. Flow experiences are reported, and appear to provide sustaining motivation to surf...