Browsing by Subject "Participation"

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    Adolescent Patterns of Participation in Sherburne and Wright County 4-H
    (2010) Rosendahl, Harlan; Rauschenfels, Diane; Hyman, Randy
    Adolescent Patterns of Participation in Sherburne and Wright County 4-H was a replication study of the Tufts University study in 2005-2007 that measured the “5Cs” of positive youth development in young adolescents in grades 5, 6, and 7. This replication study was done with older adolescents in grades 10, 11, 12, and 13 in the Sherburne and Wright County 4-H program. The “5Cs” of positive youth development were connection, competence, character, caring, and confidence. The subjects rated questions about the “5Cs” in the survey. Roth (2004) suggested that positive youth development programs needed to increase the levels of the “5Cs" in the youth participating in the program. A product of a positive youth development program like 4-H, would be to instill the characteristics of the “5Cs” in youth. As youth develop these characteristics, they grow to become good citizens. This would be one way the 4-H program could provide public value. The results of this survey allowed comparisons to be made between the Tufts study and this study.
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    Developing a critical eye (I), chasing a critical we: intersections of participatory action research, crisis, and the education of black youth
    (2014-05) Lozenski, Brian David
    As the field of critical participatory action research (CPAR) with youth (YPAR) (Morrell, 2004; Torre, Fine, Stoudt, & Fox, 2011) becomes firmly established in the milieu of critical pedagogy, it is incumbent upon educational researchers to continue to investigate and uncover nuance in CPAR as a social practice. This study resists the temptation to become a CPAR "victory narrative," and instead foregrounds the contradictions, contestations, and emergent crises that are inherent in positioning marginalized youth as critical researchers. This critical ethnographic (Madison, 2005) study is situated in the context of a community-school-university partnership where high school youth of African descent participated in a college course taught at an African-centered (Mazama, 2003) community-based organization in St. Paul, Minnesota, called Network for the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD). The study explores the development of CPAR as a pedagogical and methodological practice while being informed by the cultural and educational environment of NdCAD.This dissertation uses mediated discourse analysis (Norris & Jones, 2005a; Scollon, 2001) as an analytical tool to theorize various perspectives regarding participation. Specifically, it addresses whether or not CPAR is inherently participatory and how pedagogy can both encourage and limit participation within CPAR. The study theorizes the concept of "participatory subjectivity," or a way of being that recognizes benefit in the coalescence of individuality and collectivity as a vital, yet elusive, destination for youth engaged in collective research. Participatory subjectivity remained elusive for the youth in this study as they transitioned their research away from collective action on a community issue to more introspective inquiry that addressed the development of their personal worldviews. This shift in perspective complicates the ways in which CPAR is traditionally imagined, thus challenging researchers to gain clarity about what constitutes CPAR. Finally, this dissertation situates CPAR conducted with youth of African descent in the United States as a liberatory project that combats the historical trajectory of black education as a tool for the perpetual subservience of communities of African descent to the whim of structural white supremacy.
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    A Factorial Mixed-Methods Inquiry to Engage Latino Participants in Parenting Programs
    (2016-09) Garcia-Huidobro Munita, Diego
    Parents are important for healthy child development. Parenting programs help mothers and fathers improve their parenting practices; however, reduced participation diminishes the impact of these interventions. Using mixed methods and a factorial approach, this study examined the needs and preferences for an ideal parenting program for Latino families. Participants included Latino fathers and mothers with low and high attendance to a prior parenting program, and those without previous experience in parenting education. Evaluated domains included intervention characteristics, promotion, recruitment, and retention strategies, and places for program delivery. Mothers and fathers with adolescents aged 10-14 years (n=36) completed a semi-structured individual interview and a survey in Spanish. Data were collected until reaching qualitative data saturation. Qualitative data were analyzed in the original language following the procedures of Content Analysis. Quantitative data were summarized using descriptive statistics. Qualitative and quantitative data were merged using side-by-side comparisons. Subgroup analyses compared responses based on parent role (mother or father) and program enrollment/attendance status (low attendance, high attendance, and no contact with the program). Results showed that participants wanted an engaging program that covers a variety of topics. Ideally, the intervention would include individual and group components, target the whole family, and be facilitated by involved Latino leaders. Subgroup analyses revealed different needs and preferences among participants. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
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    Mode use in long-distance travel
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2015) Reichert, Alexander; Holz-Rau, Christian
    This paper focuses on mode use in long-distance travel. Long-distance travel is responsible for more than 50 percent of climate impact. Nevertheless, it is usually excluded from analyses that examine travel behavior. Whereas studies on daily travel prove that the rural population covers longer distances in daily travel, recent studies (e.g., Holz-Rau, Scheiner, and Sicks 2014; Brand and Preston 2010) show a different picture in long-distance travel. Here, the urban population undertakes more long-distance trips, especially by air. The aim of this paper is to analyze the mode use in long-distance travel in different spatial settings by using multivariate regression models. The (underlying) data derive from a nationwide survey with a sample size of 60,713 respondents, Mobility in Germany 2008 (MiD). A broad range of sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics are thereby included as control variables. The results show that even when household income, car accessibility, and education level are considered, the urban population undertakes more long-distance trips, in particular by train and by air. These differences are found in business as well as in private travel.
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    Rearrangements: Participation and Politics at the Dia Art Foundation, 1988-89
    (2013-05) Rounthwaite, Vanessa
    This dissertation deals with audience experience in contemporary participatory art. It approaches this topic both in terms of the changing conditions that produce certain forms of audience experience, and in terms of how artists, critics, and institutions historically have represented audience experience within narratives about art's social import. These questions inform my historical case study of two projects: artists' collaborative Group Material's "Democracy" and artist Martha Rosler's "If You Lived Here...", both held at the Dia Art Foundation in New York City in 1988-89. In these participatory projects, the artists combined art exhibitions with public "town-hall" meetings to address pressing social issues, including AIDS, homelessness, and problems with New York's public education system. On the basis of extensive archival documentation of "Democracy" and "If You Lived Here...", I analyze how the idea of art's social engagement through audience participation configured relationships between institutional employees, the artists, and their audiences. I argue that Group Material and Rosler's projects are emblematic of a shift in which the rise of audience participation in contemporary American art rendered relationships between leftist artists and major art institutions less confrontational and more collaborative over the course of the late `80s and early `90s then they had been in the late `60s and `70s. These newly collaborative relationships revolved in particular around an equation of art's political impact with its pedagogical role for the audience, a correlation in which both activist artists and major art institutions could invest. I argue that since the 1980s this model of politics-as-pedagogy has become fundamental to the funding, exhibition, and reception of contemporary art, because of the ways in which it has helped artists and art institutions navigate an increasingly austere and politically inhospitable cultural environment.
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    Sustainable Slum Rehabilitation in India - Dwarka Nagar, Madhya Pradesh
    (2022-11) Varghese, Alvin
    The thesis examines the slum rehabilitation and upgradation schemes in India to 1. Explore a better method – Slum Redevelopment or Rehabilitation 2. Explore the role sustainability plays in the process of Rehabilitation 3. Understand the socio-economic factors that influence and affect the im-plementation of the sustainable slum upgradation schemes The approach of a government towards urbanization is an essential factor. The government often fails to recognize the rights of the poor and incorporate this into their policies; because of this, a significant portion of the population in India's slums fails to get suitable housing and essential services. Existing government schemes spend funds on multistoried buildings and large-scale resettlement communities on the city's outskirts without considering housing and community satisfaction. Slum: A slum, according to UN-Habitat, is one that does not have any of the fol-lowing indicators: a durable house structure, easy access to improved sanitation, adequate dwelling space, and tenure security. The last is the hardest to quantify and is not presently utilized in slum assessment; the previous four rely on tradi-tional criteria (UN-Habitat, 2003). Slum Dwellers: According to UN-Habitat, a person living in a home without ac-cess to better water sources, proper sanitation, sufficient living space, sturdy shelter, and security of tenure is referred to as a slum dweller(UN-Habitat, 2003). The focus of this research is to determine if slums in Dwarka Nagar, Bhopal, can be rehabilitated to encourage sustainable urban growth and understand how the slum dwellers perceive the constraints on the slum upgradation. It will also focus on their early involvement in community participation in different stages of the project, like the restoration of Bawdi (Stepwell), creating of different activity zones and recreational areas near the Patra River which will help in continuous monitoring and evaluation. The researcher worked with architects, engineers, and community members to improve current shelter conditions by using proper construction materials and locally available materials like brick, concrete, etc. The views and experiences of slum dwellers in Dwarka Nagar as well as resi-dents around the slums were used. This research is an attempt to create sustainability as a lifestyle framework that will help people to be efficient in creating a better environment for living, by using local resources, skills, and knowledge relevant to the local community.