This thesis is an exploratory study of moves and movements of the design discipline towards social and activist critical practices. It departs from a growing concern for design as a socially committed activity that has been around since the 1960s. The social turn, as we describe…
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This dissertation explores how technologies and infrastructures for promoting control and cohesion have interfaced with the social and political history of Lesotho over the longue durée . This approach allows for tracing lines of historical continuity and change during a period …
In education contexts, agent-based simulations have been used at all levels, from the individual to the classroom to the state, to explore individual-level interactions and often to provide conclusions and explanations that could support decision-making. The aim of this research…
In recent years there continues to be a concern over the lack of discipline in American schools. One of the most challenging and often one of the most baffling problems teachers have to face is of channeling the ceaseless activities of children in organized patterns of self-cont…
This qualitative case study adopts a phenomenological approach to describe the socialization and learning experiences of three Turkish graduate students of International Relations. It employs ethnographic tools of inquiry such as interviews, observations, and document analysis. …
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes and behavior of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jewish parents in regards to physical punishment of children Specifically, it assessed attitudinal and behavioral differences among these three groups of parents. A 35 i…
The discipline of International Relations is frequently depicted as an American dominated discipline. This disciplinary self-image has become so entrenched that it is rarely questioned and operates as a ‘quasi-fact’ within the field. However, the manner in which this widespread …
Chapter 1 introduces the project and outlines its goals. This chapter also gives rationale for the project and reveals essential information on the background and demographics of Shadowbrook Church. Chapter 1 shows the need to create a spiritual formation model that will help in…
This project’s purpose was to equip the parents of Washington Heights Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio, to be the primary disciplers of their children. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Washington Heights and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exege…
All those involved in the ecclesiastical tribunals are called "ministers of justice." Each minister of justice holds an ecclesiastical office that is properly defined in the Code of Canon Law. As a minister of justice, he or she is entrusted with the great responsibility of bein…
The team identified a problem of practice in education concerning student discipline. The problem was school leaders are following the local Board of Education adopted discipline policy which does not align with currently recommended discipline methods or research-based best pra…
This dissertation in the field of curriculum history and theory examines two curricula that promote Jewish peoplehood.
The purpose of this study was to determine how childhood attachment can affect and present itself in individuals’ adulthood relationships in the Armenian culture. Data were collected from a sample of 10 participants of Armenian descent in semistructured interviews with questions…
Based on an exegetical study of the interconnectedness of love for God and love for fellow believers in 1 John, this project is built on a small-group format that utilizes love for fellow believers as an avenue for spiritual growth. Through an eight-lesson study conducted on a w…
The project director set out to design a strategy for membership accountability at Water’s Edge Church in Virginia Beach, VA. The project reflects the process of research and development that went into the strategy, along with the steps taken to prepare various groups within the…
The following examines the development of comparative psychology and the evidence, arguments, and epistemological challenges that have characterized its approach to the question of animal rationality. I distinguish between four modes of research that come to prominence at differ…
Discipline and Development is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with families and in primary schools in a Moroccan village near Fez. I examine the everyday lives of children and youth, situated in the context of uneven state development of this region. In carefully an…
This dissertation recovers the history of Zanzibar during three decades of nationalism, revolution, and nation building. Although scholars have explained conflicts in Zanzibar largely through race and class identities, this study focuses instead on generation. Revisiting the per…