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Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers.
(2001)
This dissertation uses the model of Native American "Morning Prayers" to establish four geographic and cultural regions within the United States as the means to discuss the relationship between health and contemporary ...
Ceremony in miniature: Kiowa oral storytelling and narrative event.
(2001)
Everytime Kiowas tell stories they invoke a cultural and tribal framework their audience(s) can relate to in a meaningful way. Like any cultural group, Kiowas recontextualize ideas and themes from earlier contexts that ...
A comparison of one-star, two-star, and accredited child care programs in Oklahoma.
(2001)
When centers varied by region, rural centers scored lower, however rural centers were not necessarily worse than urban centers. When centers varied by auspice, non-profits scored lower, however non-profit centers were not ...
Communication ecologies and contemporary African American families: A study of Black family death rituals.
(2001)
African American families are shown to include an extended group as family during the death ritual process, with a primary relationship among the family, church and funeral directors.
An identification of a sacred repertoire for wind band and rationale for its performance in worship contexts by wind bands in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
(2001)
Recommendations for further study included an exploration of the philosophical bases for the incorporation of non-sacred wind band literature into the worship context, a study examining the role of multi-media in correlation ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, January 22, 2001
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2001-01-22)
An analysis of the work and family structure incentives generated by Oklahoma's tax and transfer system.
(2001)
This study also calculates the family structure incentives present in welfare policy. Contrary to previous work, the author assumes that a couple has three potential family structures: marriage, cohabitation reported to ...
Women mentoring minority women in universities: Retention strategies for female minority students.
(2001)
These purposely selected women (informally) mentored minority women in two different universities in one state. The broad research question was: (1) How do university female faculty perceive the mentoring process (if ...
The art that will not die: The story-telling of Greg Sarris and Thomas King.
(2001)
This study addresses the importance of the continuance of storytelling through the written medium in the understanding of one's individuality in relationship to place the community. More importantly, it investigates the ...
The relationship between developmentally appropriate practice and social behaviors of third-grade students.
(2001)
This study examined the relationship between the social behaviors of third grade students (N = 47) enrolled in 4 classrooms, and the developmentally appropriate practices demonstrated by their classroom teachers. Teachers ...