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A Mixed Methods Study of Black Girls' Vulnerability to Out-of-school Suspensions
No full textFaculty advisor: Wendy HaightYoon, Young Ji; Gibson, Priscilla; Haight, Wendy; Cho, Minhae; Nashandi, Ndilimeke. (2020). A Mixed Methods Study of Black Girls' Vulnerability to Out-of-school Suspensions. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/212103
Omayeletumbulo [wisdom sayings] as a pathway to school engagement for young mothers in rural Namibia
No full textA Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social workSchool leaving is a significant social problem that undermines the short and long-term developmental goals of young mothers and their children. Informed by the ubuntu perspective, an Afrocentric philosophy, I employed a qualitative, postcolonial indigenous research paradigm to explore the experiences of young mothers who successfully reentered school, postpartum, in rural Namibia. My aim was to better understand their experiences of challenges and facilitators to school engagement to inform culturally relevant interventions. This study was conducted in two, rural, public high schools with a sample of 13 young mothers (17-23 years), of the Aawambo ethnic group, in 8th to 12th grade levels. A personal history questionnaire characterized participants and talking circle interview guide identified omayeletumbulo [wisdom sayings] for school engagement. The conversational individual interview guide elaborated, contextualized, and provided in-depth understanding of school engagement experiences. Using thematic analysis, adolescent and emerging adult young mothers revealed common and culturally distinct experiences. They described school engagement challenges across sociocultural contexts including vulnerabilities due to lack of caregiver support, loss of ohungi [evening-talk], sexual coercion, and othering through stereotypes. Young mothers’ descriptions included sources of resilience facilitated by extended family including fathers of the baby, educators, and peers. Subsequent analysis focused on wisdom sayings as a pathway to school engagement through four emerging themes: self-efficacy around school engagement, assertion of identity, successful parenting, and spirituality. I conclude with a discussion of implications for culturally relevant social work to promote high school completion of young mothers who reenter school following childbirt
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Japanese Perspectives on Supporting the Well-Being of Maltreated Children in State Care: The Concept of Ibasho
No full text371 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.The significance of this study is its explication of culturally grounded beliefs and practices related to child well-being, which give voice to maltreated children as well as frontline workers. By conducting research in Japan that examines Ibasho for maltreated children who lived in state care, I demonstrate that social work research conducted in a non-Western country can contribute to the expansion of the knowledge base of American social work. This study has implications for social work practice and policy in supporting the well-being of maltreated children both in the U.S. and Japan.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
Success Oriented Strategies Employed by Middle-Class African American Families: A Focus on Positive Racial Identity Development and Socialization
No full text"The purpose of this study was to identify the parenting practices and child-rearing strategies employed by African American families that facilitate the development and socialization of children in ways that promote achievement and success outcomes, with a primary focus on those strategies that foster positive racial identity development and socialization. Employing a qualitative ethnographic case study approach, including oral histories, this study draws on participant observations and transcribed and coded data collected through in-depth audio-taped individual semi-structured interviews with members of six middle-class African American families (twelve parents and sixteen children) including three extended kinship family members, five social work practitioners and one social work graduate student each of whom were able to provide auxiliary information pertaining to parent/child relationships and parenting strategies within the black community, and three elders of the Champaign-Urbana black community. These elders shared valuable information regarding their experiences growing up and subsequently raising their own children in the Champaign-Urbana black community and added an intergenerational perspective to the developmental and socialization processes involved in parenting successful African American children. The findings suggest consensus among and across all categories of informants. Achievement and success were measured in terms that reflect internal processes and intrinsic virtues (achieving personal goals, acquisition of new skills, putting forth one's best effort) as opposed to external circumstances or tangible elements (status, recognition, power, prestige, material wealth, or possessions). Further, the most salient child-rearing strategies that promote achievement and foster success outcomes were categorized as follows: the importance of education, ""selective exposure"", family and family activities, responsibility and respect for self and others, religion and spirituality, the protection of children, child discipline, and positive racial identity development and socialization. Contested racial authenticity (challenged as not black enough) emerged as a yet unresolved dilemma that illuminates the manner in which sociopolitical and cultural contexts influence variations in intra-cultural group responses to matters of race and racism both within and across generations. This study has implications for developing culturally relevant practice with racial/ethnic minority families and dismantling erroneous conclusions about African American family life based on research designs that employed archaic deficit models."Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:52:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Japanese Perspectives on Supporting the Well-Being of Maltreated Children in State Care: The Concept of Ibasho
No full textThe significance of this study is its explication of culturally grounded beliefs and practices related to child well-being, which give voice to maltreated children as well as frontline workers. By conducting research in Japan that examines Ibasho for maltreated children who lived in state care, I demonstrate that social work research conducted in a non-Western country can contribute to the expansion of the knowledge base of American social work. This study has implications for social work practice and policy in supporting the well-being of maltreated children both in the U.S. and Japan.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:52:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Weaving in public spaces: Peruvian indigenous women in social entrepreneurship ventures
Get PDFThe purpose of this multi-case study was to examine and describe the experiences of two groups of indigenous women weavers that participate in two craft-related social entrepreneurship projects in the Southern Peruvian highlands. In particular, the perceptions of the participants with regards to the impact the ventures have had in their lives were explored. Using a qualitative multi-case study methodology, the study explored three dimensions of the women's lives: their individual life, their family life and their community life. To add depth to the study and gain a better understanding of how women's possible shifts in their gendered roles may affect their community roles and the community at large, the perspectives of community leaders and other community members were sought out as well.
The findings suggest that differences in project implementation and entrepreneurial motivation have led to differences in the level of personal satisfaction the women derive from their respective weaving associations. Findings also suggest that social entrepreneurship projects have a potential to increase human capability and start disadvantaged populations on a path of personal empowerment. In addition, findings suggest that cultural context and social inequities present in that context need to be understood and addressed to achieve long-term sustainability.
The study has implications for social development projects. Understanding the importance of implementation processes, including program monitoring and evaluation, as well as a readiness to respond to unintended project consequences is emphasized.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-11-09 without embargo termsThe student, Mirta Leon Arizmendi, accepted the attached license on 2016-06-03 at 12:15.The student, Mirta Leon Arizmendi, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-06-03 at 12:24.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-06-06 at 11:06.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9644 on 2016-11-09 at 10:20:59Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T17:49:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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