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"We Don't Want to Talk about That": Overcoming Barriers to Rural Aging Research and Interventions on Sensitive Topics
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Zanjani, Faika; Rowles, Graham D. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Geographical, economic, social and cultural barriers to accessing services in rural areas are widely reported. Less widely discussed are dilemmas posed by individual and community reluctance to address sensitive health issues. This article, focusing on the highly sensitive area of mental health, and employing a participatory action approach,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intervention, Mental Health, Rural Areas
Documentary Photography: Cognitive Dimensionality of Selected Photographs and Community Perceptions in a Coorientation Model.
Brown, James W.; Foushee, Richard E. – 1979
This paper discusses a proposed term project for a course in documentary photography that centered on photographically documenting a rural community and measuring its symbolic sociodramas. The paper describes the focus of the project, which was to determine how various community groups interpreted a given set of photographs designed to express a…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Documentaries, Journalism
Documentary Photography: Cognitive Dimensionality of Selected Photographs and Community Perceptions in a Coorientation Model.
Brown, James W.; Foushee, Richard E. – 1979
A term project for a journalism course in documentary photography (the proposal for which is cited in ED 177 560) centered on photographically documenting a rural community and measuring its symbolic sociodramas. The focus of the project was to determine how various community groups interpreted a given set of photographs selected to represent a…
Descriptors: Church Role, Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Documentaries
Politics, Programs, and Local Governments: The Case of Community Colleges.
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Bers, Trudy Haffron – Journal of Politics, 1980
Focuses on two aspects of governance and policy: the electoral process by which community college trustees are selected and the responsiveness of colleges to their communities as manifested by their programs. Available from Journal of Politics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Board Candidates, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Community Influence
Black Newspapers: Overlooked Barometers. NCRIEEO Tipsheet, Number 1.
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Columbia Univ., New York, NY. National Center for Research and Information on Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1970
Black newspapers should not go unnoticed by school administrators, as they too often are. Black people have a long and proud history of intraracial communication. More than 200 "black" periodicals work hard at forming, leading, and interpreting for black communities. No black community is totally dependent upon the standard white-owned and…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Institutions
Implementing the U.S. Legalization Program: The Influence of Immigrant Communities and Local Agencies on Immigration Policy Reform.
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Hagan, Jacqueline Maria; Baker, Susan Gonzalez – International Migration Review, 1993
Results of two longitudinal studies in a southwestern city suggest that local interpretations of the legalization program of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act affected program outcomes by expanding the scope of the program beyond the participation rate projected by national policymakers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Change, Community Influence, Family Influence
Newspapers and Adult Understanding of Public Affairs: Two Longitudinal Community Studies.
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Tichenor, P. J.; And Others – 1977
Two longitudinal field studies of the process of information dissemination through newspapers were conducted on two different public affairs topics (regional planning and routing of a high voltage power line) in four communities to examine the role of newspapers in increasing levels of conflict and in creating greater levels of awareness and…
Descriptors: Adults, Citizen Participation, Community Characteristics, Community Influence
Parenting in Context: Impact of Neighborhood Poverty, Residential Stability, Public Services, Social Networks, and Danger on Parental Behaviors.
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Pinderhughes, Ellen E.; Nix, Robert; Foster, E. Michael; Jones, Damon – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
This prospective longitudinal study examined the unique and combined effects of neighborhood characteristics on parental behaviors in the context of more distal and more proximal influences. Although generally culture and context did not moderate other relations found between neighborhood characteristics, family context, and child behaviors, the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Rearing, Community Characteristics, Community Influence