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Building Community in Refugee Youth Mentoring Programs at Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees
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Building community in youth programs is a necessary and effective way to support the human developmental needs of refugee and immigrant youth by way of facilitating cultural integration. The intentional processes of building community in the after school mentoring programs for refugee and immigrant high school students at Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees (PAIR) in Houston, Texas are essential to the program’s overall success and mission fulfillment. Specific methodologies of building community include activities such as icebreakers, name games, teambuilders, and unstructured relationship building time. Crucial factors that a facilitator should be cognizant of when implementing community building strategies in PAIR programs, are: What to expect in the stages of group development and minimizing the potential disruptiveness of integrating new students, the barriers to cultural integration refugee youth face, patriarchal values inherent in many refugees’ cultures due to war time exacerbation that starkly contrasts community building theory and practices, and the logistical challenges and derailment of community building efforts of PAIR staff due to lack of organizational support. Additionally, to serve as also a practical guide for similar program structures serving similar populations, the methods of addressing these factors are discussed, including previous successful implementation of community building tactics in PAIR programming
Student Engagement Curriculum for the Philadelphia Gay Men\u27s Chorus
Get PDFThis paper is a guide for a student engagement curriculum for the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus(PGMC). Included are the theoretical frameworks for youth empowerment and development, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer/Questioning, and more (LGBTQ+) empowerment, and intercultural training design and facilitation that are at the center and the considerations an intercultural trainer and youth programmer and facilitator should constantly regard. The main purpose of this is to put forth a document that PGMC, as well as any group or organization, can use to empower LGBTQ+ young people, as well as their straight allies, and to develop leaders in their schools and communities. The Philadelphia Community has an issue with bullying in middle and high schools. Much of the bullying is targeted at students who are, or are perceived to be LGBTQ+. The Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus (PGMC) is a musical organization in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area that utilizes choral music and performance to celebrate difference, foster acceptance, and inspire positive social change in the community. This curriculum was developed to support the empowerment of LGBTQ+ young people through music, intercultural learning, community development, and leadership development
Integrating Student Development Theory into Education Abroad Advising
Get PDFIn higher education there is an emphasis on promoting the development of students. As research has found, this is equally important to employers. Theorists like Linda Riessler and Arthur Chickering have designated tasks that students must complete to develop into competent human beings. This has been recognized and valued by higher educational institutions and employers. There is an emphasis on the importance for students to have a global perspective and to be fully developed adults upon completion of their degree. As a means to meet this objective, students and administrators are looking to study abroad.
This research aims to support education abroad offices with resources to assist students to develop. These resources provide a theoretical foundation to identify competencies and strategic approaches to advising. Prior research has shown that students develop in some sense while abroad. However, students are more likely to have higher rates of development when advisors foster development in pre-departure advising.
Prior to conducting this research, it was hypothesized that education abroad advisors are challenged to centralize the student’s experience. Through collecting data in interviews and surveys, this limited sample suggests that this is the case. To support advisors, the analysis of the theory, literature, and data provides possible solutions for problems related to time, tasks, organization, and advising approaches
Medicina tradicional y la transmisión de conocimiento ancestral en la comunidad afroboliviana de Tocaña / Traditional medicine and the transmission of ancestral knowledge in the Afro-Bolivian community of Tocaña
No full textLa población afroboliviana se ha vuelto recientemente visible y políticamente influyente en la sociedad boliviana. El gobierno de Evo Morales ha reconocido al pueblo afroboliviano como un pueblo originario, implementando una ley contra la discriminación y designando la saya como propiedad cultural afroboliviana. Además, los afrodescendientes están saliendo de Los Yungas y migrando a las ciudades en busca de oportunidades; sin embargo, el área todavía tiene un significado ancestral. El documental intentará captar y preservar el conocimiento que tienen de las plantas y explorar cómo han cambiado las relaciones de transmisión de conocimiento. Con el movimiento y la evolución de la población afroboliviana, la investigación explorará el impacto de la pérdida de los awichos y la migración de jóvenes hacia la ciudad. Más allá de la medicina, el documental explorará los temas de educación e identidad.
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The Afro-Bolivian population has recently become visible and politically influential in Bolivian society. The government of Evo Morales has recognized the Afro-Bolivian people as an indigenous people, implementing a law against discrimination and designating the saya as Afro-Bolivian cultural property. In addition, people of African descent are leaving Los Yungas and migrating to the cities in search of opportunities; however, the area still has an ancestral meaning. The documentary will try to capture and preserve the knowledge they have of the plants and explore how the relations of transmission of knowledge have changed. With the movement and evolution of the Afro-Bolivian population, the research will explore the impact of the loss of the Awichos and the migration of young people to the city. Beyond medicine, the documentary will explore the issues of education and identity
Uso de la medicina tradicional y de la biomedicina por migrantes Q’ero en el distrito de San Sebastian, Cusco / Use of traditional medicine and biomedicine by Q\u27ero migrants in the district of San Sebastian, Cusco
Get PDFAn estimated 49% of the indigenous population of Latin America has migrated to cities in the past 50 years. In Peru, over 600,000 native Quechua speakers migrated to cities due solely to the terrorist conflicts of the 1980s. Many of these immigrants came from small towns with little to no infrastructure in terms of roads, schools, and hospitals or access to western biomedicine. In this study, semi-formal qualitative interviews were used to investigate whether migration from a small rural community to a city, specifically among the Queros people of Southern Peru, affected the use of traditional medicine and biomedicine. A combination of men and women who had migrated from small Queros communities to the city of Cusco and had been living in the city for varying lengths of time were interviewed, as well as a Queros shaman/healer and a doctor at the medical post of Santa Rosa, to which the interviewees were assigned through their public health insurance. The prevailing trend among the immigrants was that they would first try to cure themselves with traditionals medicinal plants and offerings to the earth, which was their only medical recourse in the rural communities, but in the city would then usually go directly to a pharmacy to buy pills rather than visiting a doctor.
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Durante los últimos cincuenta años, un estimado 49% de la poblacion indigena en Latinoamérica ha migrado a las ciudades. En Perú, más que 600,000 personas Quechua-hablantes se mudaron a las ciudades solo por causa de los conflictos terroristas de los años 1980. Muchos de estos inmigrantes vienen de pueblos pequeños con muy poca infraestructura en términos de carreteras, escuelas, y acceso a la biomedicina occidental. En este estudio, entrevistas semi-formales cualitativas fueron conducidas para investigar si migración desde una comunidad rural pequeña a una ciudad, específicamente en la gente Queros del sur del Perú, afecta al uso de la medicina tradicional y la biomedicina. Una combinación de hombres y mujeres quienes habían migrado desde comunidades Queros pequeños a la ciudad de Cusco y habían estado varios periodos de tiempo en la ciudad fueron entrevistados, en conjunto con un chaman/curandero Queros y un doctor de la posta medica de Santa Rosa, a la cual pertenecían los entrevistados por su seguro médico público. La tendencia predominante entre los inmigrantes era que primero intentarían curarse con plantas medicinales tradicionales, lo cual era su único recurso en las comunidades rurales, pero en la ciudad irían después directo a una farmacia para comprar pastillas en vez de ir a un doctor
Avian diversity and abundance in three different vegetative landscapes around a shade-grown coffee plantation on Mount Totumas, Chiriquí Highlands, Panamá
Get PDFAgricultura sostenible, como la agroforestería de café, tiene el potencial de conservar la biodiversidad local de muchos taxones. A pesar de los servicios beneficiosos como el control de plagas y la polinización que las aves pueden proporcionar, el grado en que el café sombrado promueva la biodiversidad de aves aún no se ha analizado completamente. El propósito de esta investigación fue para determinar si la biodiversidad y la abundancia de aves varían en áreas con diferente cobertura de vegetación y sombra alrededor de un cafetal de sombra. Se realizaron análisis vegetativos y se registraron las abundancias de las especies durante los conteos de puntos fijos en 3 sitios (no sombreado, sombreado, y bosque) alrededor del cafetal Mount Totumas de 3-hectares. Aunque la mayoría de las características vegetativas fueron significativamente diferentes entre cada sitio, los índices de diversidad de Simpson no lo fueron. Las especies observadas durante todo el período de estudio demuestran la capacidad de los sistemas agroforestales de café para apoyar especies migratorias, endémicas y algunas especies amenazadas o vulnerables. Este estudio indica el potencial de pequeños sistemas de agroforesterías sombreadas para conservar las especies de aves del hábitat boscoso. Esta investigación contribuye a otras encuestas de diversidad de aves en las tierras altas de Chiriquí y a encuestas de diversidad en otros sistemas agroforestales de pequeños agricultores en los trópicos.
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Sustainable agriculture practices, such as coffee agroforestry, have the potential to conserve local biodiversity of numerous taxa. Considering the beneficial services of pest control and pollination which birds can provide, the extent to which shade-grown coffee directly promotes avian biodiversity has yet to be holistically analyzed. The purpose of this study was to determine if avian biodiversity and abundance are different in areas with different vegetation and shade cover around a shade-grown coffee plantation. Vegetative analyses were conducted, and species abundances were recorded during fixed point-counts at 3 sites (non-shaded, shaded, and forest) around the 3-hectare Mount Totumas coffee farm. Although most vegetative characteristics were significantly different between each site, Simpson’s diversity indices were not. Bird species observed over the entire study period demonstrate the ability of coffee agroforestry systems to support migratory, endemic, and some near-threatened or vulnerable species. This study indicates the potential for small shade-agroforestry systems to support the conservation of avian species from surrounding forest habitat and contributes to other avian diversity surveys in the Chiriquí Highlands and on smallholder farms
Are We There Yet, Impact Investing?
Get PDFImpact investing has been an evolving field for the past ten years. More and more institutional investors are looking to change their investment approaches to impact investing. Academics, institutions, and international organizations are creating reports and publishing research on the impact investing field, tracking its growing progress. Without any incidents thus far, impact investing is an industry that is about to burst. A retrospective and internal analysis of the field is needed in order to grow at a better and faster pace. This paper is attempting to fill a hole in the information about impact investing. It provides a comprehensive overview over what impact investing is and its historical background. Additionally, this project considers the future of impact investing and the challenges it faces while trying to provide solutions
EL IMPACTO DE LOS CENTROS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN LA COMUNIDAD / THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH CENTERS IN THE COMMUNITY
No full textThis paper serves to investigate how centers of investigation function to alleviate issues of inequality in a community. In this particular case, opportunities, or lack there of, of quality and accessible education will be analyzed as the issue of inequality. In Chile and in the broader context of the world, many students are excluded from quality education simply because of their socio-economic status, race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. These issues of exclusion and discrimination in education are imbedded into a system that has become more about serving the wealthy instead of treating education as the right that it is. Because the makeup of the educational system has become a source of the inequality, there is no one, simple solution that can alleviate the problems over night. It is a complex issue that requires the participation of different types of actors. In order to see real change in the education system, it is not enough to only require the participation of the national government and their policies. Without other actors, like centers of investigation, it would be impossible for one government to cover all of the bases and make sure every student in every region is accounted for. Given this, it can be argued that centers of investigation play an extremely important role in alleviating issues of inequality because of their unique ability to localize their attention and resources into a select group of schools that otherwise may be overlooked by the national government
Religion and Identity in a Globalized Morocco
Get PDFThe focus of my independent research project is on the variety of religious identities among Moroccan youth, with youth being defined as people under 30 years of age. Prior to my interactions with human subjects, I consulted numerous literary resources to establish the context of my study. I investigated religious identity, globalization, individuation, the phenomenon of the Arab “youth bulge,” and youth culture. After this literature analysis, I constructed an interview guideline of about 20 questions for my youth subjects with the help of my advisor. I used all of the questions on this guideline in my four in-person interviews and my four online surveys. Although there are many similarities among the education levels and socioeconomic classes of my respondents, I have been presented with a large variety of responses to my questions, which were designed to understand how the respondent came about forming his or her individual religious identity. I also inferred about my respondents’ opinions on the religiosity of Moroccan youth in general. Furthermore, I asked two older people about their opinions of the degree of religious commitment in Moroccan youth. Although I am interested in how the older generation of Moroccans perceives youth culture, time constraints and other limitations pushed me to focus on my younger subject population.
My varied findings supported my hypothesis of individualized Islam being at the forefront of religious identity in the young people of Morocco. I found differing opinions concerning the difference in religiosity between generations--some respondents see a clear generational divide in the religion of Moroccans, while others profess that Islam is not confined to a specific age group and that there is unity among all Moroccans in their beliefs. The study also found concrete support for the notion that globalization plays a role in informing individual ideas about religion, identity, and culture. Many of my respondents acknowledged the role of globalization in reshaping society, but most of them did not see how their own connections to the world have influenced them personally. From their responses, I can speculate (but not conclude) how globalization and the spread of mass media and technology may have been an underlying factor in the development of their individualized religious identities, and how the lack of such exposure among the older generation affects their general perceptions of religion in young Moroccans
“Karm Hi Pooja Hai (Work is Worship)” The Determinants that Influence the Subjective Health and Well-Being of Cycle Rickshaw Wallahs in Varanasi, India
Get PDFA total of 11 interviews were conducted over a 4-week period to study the subjective health and well-being of cycle rickshaw drivers in Varanasi, India. Varanasi was chosen as the location of the study because cycle rickshaws remain an integral and common mode of transportation within the city. Using ethnographic and qualitative research methods, participants were asked semi-structured interview questions to determine their personal definitions of a good and healthy life. Participant observation was also a critical method of data collection, as it gave insight into the daily routine and schedule of a rickshaw puller.
Three overarching themes were identified throughout the study. The work-life, religion, and family dynamic, as well as the multiple factors that influence these three categories, were the most important determinants for subjective well-being. Common themes arose among responses, yet certain factors, such as living conditions, physical ability and presence of children, created a clear divide in the responses among participants. Although agency and personality impacted a respondent’s interpretation of their life satisfaction, key factors such as the role of the government can be underlying influences on the subjective well-being of cycle rickshaw wallahs