Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2006. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 99-106. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-115).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2006. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 99-106. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-115).

Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Hyung Jin Kim / Accessing healthy food can be a challenge for people living in both rural and urban environments. A broad range of factors influences one’s food security, including the accessibility and affordability of food retailers, travel time to shopping, availability of healthy foods, and food prices. The connections between planning and food systems have begun to emerge and be examined but planners face many barriers when tackling food system issues that range from turf problems, a lack of knowledge that any problem exists, to a lack of funds. The study purposes were to 1) identify areas with low access to healthy food sources; 2) discover barriers and perceptions of healthy food accessibility among community members; and 3) explore current planning policies and practices for increasing healthy food accessibility. The study area of this case is Riley County, Kansas, which has lower food accessibility especially to health foods in low income areas located in urban neighborhoods, even though rural areas are further away from a healthy food store. The research has the potential to inform the local food system framework and provide guidance for local policy makers and stakeholder groups. Surveys were collected from 150 households in order to identify challenges and barriers respondents face when obtaining healthy food. Food prices and low income were the largest barriers survey respondents faced when obtaining healthy food. Interviews conducted among 6 individuals from planning offices, market, and community stakeholder groups and both urban and rural issues were discussed. Currently, there is understanding of the importance of healthy food but little action that follows. There are opportunities for planners and policy makers to get involved with planning for the local food system. Partnerships must be established to share resources and technical skills among stakeholders in order to plan for healthy community food systems.

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Urban Design

Based on four separate studies, this thesis deals with Swedish academia and its dwellers, with an eye toward accounting for matters of languages and linguistic exchanges. The perspectives and thinking-tools of Pierre Bourdieu form the basis of the main leitmotif, albeit extended with insights from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. Methods employed include historical analysis as well as ethnographic approaches. Study 1 analyzes the historical events and language ideological labor through which English has come to be seen as a sociolinguistic problem in Swedish language planning and policy (LPP). At the focus is the notion of ‘domain loss,’ which is interpreted as a resource in the struggle to safeguard the Swedish language. Study 2 deals with the increasing importance of English in academic publishing in two disciplinary fields of Swedish academia: history and psychology. In history, in particular, English and the transnational publishing markets it bargains currently seem to offer new ways of advancing in the competition of the field, which is encouraged by the will and ensuing managerial techniques of contemporary research policy. Study 3, however, shows that this fact does not entail that Swedish is not being used as a scientific language. In the research practices preceding finalized texts in English, Swedish-speaking researchers in physics and computer science use technical and discipline-specific Swedish both orally and in writing. The principle that upholds the logic of ‘Swedish among Swedish-speakers’ is crucial also with respect to the ability of Swedish researchers to write up scientific texts in Swedish. Exploring the writing practices of a computer scientist and his successful first-time performance of two scientific texts in Swedish, study 4 shows that texts in Swedish can be produced by assembling experiences from previous discursive encounters throughout a researcher’s biographically specific discursive history. In summary, the thesis argues that while English increasingly prevails in publishing, much knowledge previously produced and reproduced on these matters within the field of LPP has tended to overstate the dominance of English, and with that, the sociolinguistic implications of the current state of affairs. The thesis proposes that Bourdieu’s work offers some purchase in attempts to engender in-depth knowledge on the position of English vis-à-vis Swedish in the globalizing markets of Swedish academia, and that epistemic reflexivity, in particular, is a pivotal driver in such an agenda. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript.</p>

陳淑雯. / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 1998. / 參考文獻: leaves 199-215. / 中英文摘要. / Chen Shuwen. / Chapter 第一章 --- 導言 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 前言 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- 研究背´景´ؤؤ政治與課程 --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- 研究立足´點´ؤؤ課程社會學的觀點 --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- 研究意義 --- p.7 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究理論 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- 政治與課程 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- 共產政權的認受性與課程 --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3 --- 殖民政權的認受性與課程 --- p.31 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究設計 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1 --- 研究問題 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2 --- 研究對象 --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3 --- 研究方´法´ؤؤ定性研究法 --- p.48 / Chapter 3.4 --- 分析主題 --- p.51 / Chapter 3.5 --- 研究限制 --- p.53 / Chapter 第四章 --- 中、港課程的意識型´態´ؤؤ歷史觀 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.1 --- 歷史的進´程´ؤؤ線性與循環史觀 --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2 --- 推動歷史發展的原動力 --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3 --- 歷史論述的價値基準 --- p.68 / Chapter 4.4 --- 中、港課程的歷史觀與政權管治的意識型態 --- p.73 / Chapter 第五章 --- 中、港課程的意識型´態´ؤؤ民族與國家感情 --- p.76 / Chapter 5.1 --- 民族感情 --- p.76 / Chapter 5.2 --- 國家感情 --- p.90 / Chapter 5.3 --- 中、港課程的民族、國家感情與政權管治的意識型態 --- p.97 / Chapter 第六章 --- 中、港課程的意識型´態´ؤؤ「優良」的品德 --- p.103 / Chapter 6.1 --- 品德敎育的形式 --- p.103 / Chapter 6.2 --- 品德敎育的内容 --- p.107 / Chapter 6.3 --- 中、港課程的品德敎育與政權管治的意識型態 --- p.117 / Chapter 第七章 --- 中、港課程意識型態控制的機制 --- p.122 / Chapter 7.1 --- 制度層´面´ؤؤ由《課程綱要》編訂到敎科書審定 --- p.123 / Chapter 7.2 --- 人的層面 --- p.135 / Chapter 7.3 --- 小結 --- p.140 / Chapter 第八章 --- 中、港課程的政治社會化特色 --- p.142 / Chapter 8.1 --- 政治與課´程´ؤؤ不同政權的政治社會化的特色 --- p.142 / Chapter 8.2 --- 未完的討論 --- p.148 / Chapter 8.3 --- 對歷史課程改革的啓示 --- p.150 / 附表 --- p.153 / 附錄中文參考書目 --- p.199 / 英文參考書目 --- p.209

The United States is home to a large percentage of incarcerated individuals, a majority of whom re-offend upon release. Reentry efforts focus on lowering recidivism through policy and programming to help returning citizens successfully reintegrate into society and become productive, law abiding citizens. Although research on reentry has increased, the primary focus has been on urban reentry programming. Thus, the unique challenges that plague rural reentry, such as rural employment, housing, treatment and healthcare, transportation, and cultural qualities have been largely neglected. The current policy analysis used the rational model of policy analysis in which information on existing policy and programming was gathered via an extensive literature and policy review, then thoroughly described; problems within these current practices related to rural reentry were identified; and alternative strategies to amend policy to aid rural reentry were reported or recommended. Per the current analysis, most policies and programs are designed for, and examined in, urban communities. While there were several domains in which existing policy was, in fact, beneficial to rural returning citizens, all domains demonstrated need for improvement. A major limitation for the current analysis was the lack of research in rural communities. Future directions include examining reentry policy through the lens of specific offense-types for rural offenders, studying the effect of privatized prisons on U.S. rural reentry, and exploring reentry efforts in other countries as a model for change in the U.S. correctional system.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2008. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, page: . Adviser: Luisa Franzini.