This article explores sense of community with a group of older African women, who were forcibly relocated during apartheid. The situation of a marginalised group, with a history of disconnection from younger generations and from place, provides an opportunity to consider the relevance of community in later life. The research was conducted at a day centre for older people in the North West Provi...

objective: this research aimed at evaluating the moderator role of school connection on the impact of violent friends towards aggressive behaviors in adolescent students of tehran high schools. methods: a sample of 3529 participants from tehran high school students was selected using multistage sampling method. participants completed school connection questionnaire (scq), iranian adolescents ri...

This thesis seeks to make visible the presence and voices of minority ethnic households in rural communities by addressing the ‘place blindness’ in research on ethnicity / ‘race’, and the ethnicity / ‘race’ blindness in rural literature. The overall aim of this thesis is to develop an understanding of the lived experiences and perspectives of minority ethnic households and individuals in parts ...

this paper is a research conducted based on the basic question that why house belonging is removed from today houses. answer of this question will further demonstrate more importance and necessity of such studies compared with previous studies. this is because addressing such studies plays an important role in recognition of the principles of traditional architecture while modern designers and ...

students’ social life in all formal and informal spaces of the faculty can greatly influence their learning process. these interactions are more regarded through training design as a social art which is involved to others from the very beginning such as understanding the problem to final steps and implementation. an issue which is important before interactions through educational structure of a...

School is an environment which brings out students’ hidden talents. Paying attention to an appropriate context and environment has a huge impact on achieving this goal. The purpose of this study was to determine and evaluate semantic factors provided by experts influence students’ sense of belonging at high school students in terms of Iranian experts. To this end, firstly data were collected th...