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Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The author presents an autoethnographic and narrative account of her experiences working intimately with Maasai women in Kenya. The author also describes her efforts and success with starting a new nonprofit called Naretoi to encompass the three projects she collaboratively started along with Maasai community members. The three projects included in the nonprofit organization are a women's empowerment, cross-cultural mountaineering expedition, a girl's...
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
If you were asked to tell someone on the other side of the world about yourself, where would you start? In this fascinating and fun collection, 84 children from incredibly diverse backgrounds share their stories and photos of what's unique about their lives.
1065) 2 million minutes
Publisher
Broken Pencil Productions
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Examines the daily lives, pressures, and ambitions of six high school students in the US, China, and India, and their future prospects in the global economy.
Author
Publisher
Avery, A member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity. Melody Moezzi was born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland. When at eighteen, she began battling a severe physical illness, her community stepped up, filling her hospital rooms with roses, lilies,...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Remediations and Reciprocal Relations with Mushroom, Plant, and Human Healers is a two-node dissertation that employs narrative and multispecies inquiry and a community action research project. Node 1 explores interspecies communication as a form of reciprocity in both the Mazatec tradition with the sacred mushrooms in the Sierra Mazateca and in an Asháninka tradition with master plants at Mayantuyacu, a plant medicine center outside of Pucallpa,...
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Social sustainability is an essential pillar of organizational success; lack of social sustainability is often an element of organizational failure. This study examined the interpersonal elements of social sustainability through two lenses and approaches. The first was a comparative case study on the interpersonal elements of social sustainability in six intentional communities, three located in Israel and three in Thailand. The comparative case...
1073) Preparing adolescents for the twenty-first century: challenges facing Europe and the United States
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This book examines the cultural universal of education from a multicultural perspective and a time dimension. The text is written for juveniles, and includes many color photographs. Chapters include: (1) "What is Education?"; (2) "The Americas"; (3) "Africa"; (4) "Europe and the Middle East"; (5) "Asia"; and (6) "Australia and the South Pacific." The volume concludes with a glossary and a 10-item list of further reading suggestions. (EH)
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The purpose of this research was to explore the question: How does peace education enter early childhood? The aim was to bridge theory and practice and embrace new perspectives that could make early childhood education, first and foremost, a place for ethical practices. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight early childhood professionals from the Czech Republic and the United States. The analysis supported the use of six criteria for...
