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Exploring the cultural construction of children's play in Thailand: an action research study with the Foundation for Child Development
DownloadFall 2011
Children’s play has emerged as a global discourse (Fleer, 2009). Studies from diverse theoretical traditions have examined the role of play in child development; however, the dominant discourse of play has largely privileged Western European-heritage cultural practices, and as a result childhood...
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Information hippies, Google-fu masters, and other volunteer tourists in Thailand: information behaviour in the liminoid
DownloadSpring 2010
Using social positioning theory and the concept of the liminoid, the objectives of this qualitative research project were three-fold: 1) investigate how social positioning affects the information behaviour of volunteer tourists; 2) determine what effects cultural confusion (aka “culture shock”),...