Sport officials occupy essential roles in sport and are necessary for sport to function properly. However, compared to athletes and coaches there has been scant research conducted on the development of sport officials. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to explore the dev…
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Purpose. This study examined the outcomes and effects that trauma-informed care (TIC) training had on the attitudes and knowledge of frontline parks and recreation staff who worked in urban after-school programs with children who may have histories of trauma.
Wish You Were Here: Legends of the Great Plains is an image-based project examining the reality of how the Great Plains romanticizes its history through legends, histories, and roadside attractions. This region, often referred to as flyover country, is low in population but is h…
The aim of this thesis is to identify and thread cultural strands (beliefs and customs, narratives and histories, and rituals and traditions) from Gypsy and Traveller culture into a coherent theology. The researcher’s hypothesis is that the most effective method in which one can…
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century women’s writing provides vital perspectives on early modern cultures of travel. Though recent scholarship has begun attending to both the historical cases of women who traveled abroad in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an…
Prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic, ecotourism represented the tourism industry’s fastest growing segment with projections estimating that ecotourism would become the world’s largest tourism type by 2030. While the tourism industry will need several years to rebound, if histo…
This dissertation examines place-based national origins stories told in the context of the City of St. Augustine and Florida tourism. Using data from two commemorations and a national monument, I examine how discourses of race and settler colonialism structure the narratives at …
This dissertation examines how heritagization indicates modernity, which provides a city with a new social and cultural experience and aspiration from exploring the past. This modernity—heritage modernity, suggests an improved society and promised future while this modernity doe…
The Great Depression of the 1930s created some of the most difficult economic times in the history of the United States, with the agricultural sector of the economy taking an especially severe hit. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs aimed to help the rural poor,…
This dissertation considers the ways in which tourism associated with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 have represented the intersections of gender, race, and class since the nineteenth century. Representations of classed masculinity, femininity, whiteness, Blackness, and indigene…
This study compared eating disorder (ED) characteristics and treatment seeking behaviors between athletes and non-athletes in a large, community-based sample. During the 2018 National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, 24,043 respondents, 14.6% of whom identified as an athlete, co…
This thesis examines how individuals use sonic practices to shape the social space of the Camino de Santiago, specifically analyzing how pilgrims’ and locals’ musical encounters create the contemporary Camino. The pilgrims’ practices and spaces simultaneously intertwined with, r…
This thesis explores the manner in which globalisation processes are exerting transformative influences on local cultural contexts. Specifically, it utilises a case study of basketball to address the issues surrounding the juncture between local cultural identities, sport and gl…
Much has been written in recent years about governance in the areas of political science, public policy, local government, and international relations. However, social scientific usage of the governance concept has been eclectic, diverse and at times contradictory (Jessop, 1998:…
This research addresses the construction of gender identities within the context of Initial Teacher Training in Physical Education within England. The life story narratives of ten female student teachers of physical education arc documented and analysed, drawing upon a feminist …
[From the introduction]:The purpose of this dissertation is to study the development of tourism in the town of Bakau, in The Gambia, to place its development within the general context of socio-cultural changes in the town, and to study and assess interaction between tourists an…
This programme of research was concerned with an examination of the exercisekhatejadidbehaviour change of a sample of Malay students living in five different cities inkhatejadidNorthern England (Bradford, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield).khatejadidThe resear…
During these uncertain times, families around the country are slowing down, reconnecting, and getting back to basics. One of the best ways to share experiences and meaningful time together is through the art of crafting, sewing, and recycling. Here are projects to help you build…
