Mark J Schafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 173886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark J Schafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schafer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Family Economy, Rural School Choice, and Flexischooling Children with Disabilities
Most homeschooled students would be more accurately described as 'flexischooled,' partly homeschooled and partly enrolled in school. The popularity of these two alternatives to public or private school enrollment has increased over the past several decades to the extent that, by 2012 over 2 million students, 4 percent of the population, were either flexischooled or homeschooled in the United States. To understand why parents have pursued these op…
Creole: A Contested, Polysemous Term
In this paper, we critically examine the polysemous term, creole, used at different times and various geographical areas to describe diverse identities, languages, peoples, ethnicities, racial heritages, and cultural artefacts. Our objective is twofold: (1) to describe the historically contested nature of the term and its connection to broader trends in defining race in the United States and (2) to suggest that a deeper understanding of racially …
Access to ICT and Research Output of Agriculture Researchers in Kenya
Agricultural researchers work at universities and research institutes. This paper examines how institutional context has affected Kenyan agricultural scientists’ professional lives along several dimensions: Access and use of emerging ICT technologies, professional activities, and scholarly output. It draws upon a unique longitudinal data set in which scientists were interviewed in 2001, 2005, and 2010. The data allow us to follow changes in techn…
Resilience in Louisiana Fema Parks: A Person-Centered, Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Despite living in difficult and socially disorganized conditions, some individuals displaced by disasters and living in FEMA parks can be remarkably resilient to depression. We conceptualize resilience as emerging from a combination of situational advantages that accrue for some residents but not for others. We assess whether situational advantages lead to resilience, either in isolation or in combination with one another, in two parts. First, we…
Social costs of displacement in Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Displacement Dynamics in Southern Louisiana After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Household Change and Rural School Enrollment in Malawi and Kenya
This study examines school enrollment in two sub-Saharan African nations, Malawi and Kenya. The article advances a refined family economy theoretical framework for understanding variations in school enrollment. It recasts family economy frameworks to consider not only how the household institution mediates a broad social change, but also how the family institution itself may be influenced by a macroinstitutional change. The findings suggest that …
Family Contributions to Self Help Schooling in Malawi and Kenya
In the 1980s and 1990s African societies responded to reduced state educational capacity by expanding the reach of civil society-non-state societal organizations that sought to organize individuals and mobilize local resources for education and development. In this paper, I argue that rural African families were differentially prepared to respond to these changes in state-society relations. I develop a model of family contributions to self help s…
Urbanization and Development: The Emergence of International Nongovernmental Organizations amid Declining States
Half of the world's population will live in cities by the early twenty-first century, and, of the ten most populated cities, nine will be in the developing world. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when national governments are increasingly unable to provide basic public services to growing populations. International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) have dramatically increased their efforts in urban areas and in economic and social d…
International Nongovernmental Organizations and Third World Education in 1990: A Cross-National Study
International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are at the core of an evolving and increasingly coherent world culture that promotes universally recognized norms of development and education in the Third World. INGOs work directly with local communities to build new schools, provide educational materials, encourage enrollments. INGOs also propagate world educational standards and goals. This article presents the first quantitative, cross-nati…
International Nongovernmental Organizations and Third World Education in 1990: A Cross-National Study
International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are at the core of an evolving and increasingly coherent world culture that promotes universally recognized norms of development and education in the Third World. INGOs work directly with local communities to build new schools, provide educational materials, encourage enrollments. INGOs also propagate world educational standards and goals. This article presents the first quantitative, cross-nati…
Urbanization and Development: The Emergence of International Nongovernmental Organizations amid Declining States
Half of the world's population will live in cities by the early twenty-first century, and, of the ten most populated cities, nine will be in the developing world. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when national governments are increasingly unable to provide basic public services to growing populations. International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) have dramatically increased their efforts in urban areas and in economic and social d…
Social costs of displacement in Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Displacement Dynamics in Southern Louisiana After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Household Change and Rural School Enrollment in Malawi and Kenya
This study examines school enrollment in two sub-Saharan African nations, Malawi and Kenya. The article advances a refined family economy theoretical framework for understanding variations in school enrollment. It recasts family economy frameworks to consider not only how the household institution mediates a broad social change, but also how the family institution itself may be influenced by a macroinstitutional change. The findings suggest that …
Family Economy, Rural School Choice, and Flexischooling Children with Disabilities
Most homeschooled students would be more accurately described as 'flexischooled,' partly homeschooled and partly enrolled in school. The popularity of these two alternatives to public or private school enrollment has increased over the past several decades to the extent that, by 2012 over 2 million students, 4 percent of the population, were either flexischooled or homeschooled in the United States. To understand why parents have pursued these op…
Resilience in Louisiana Fema Parks: A Person-Centered, Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Despite living in difficult and socially disorganized conditions, some individuals displaced by disasters and living in FEMA parks can be remarkably resilient to depression. We conceptualize resilience as emerging from a combination of situational advantages that accrue for some residents but not for others. We assess whether situational advantages lead to resilience, either in isolation or in combination with one another, in two parts. First, we…
Family Contributions to Self Help Schooling in Malawi and Kenya
In the 1980s and 1990s African societies responded to reduced state educational capacity by expanding the reach of civil society-non-state societal organizations that sought to organize individuals and mobilize local resources for education and development. In this paper, I argue that rural African families were differentially prepared to respond to these changes in state-society relations. I develop a model of family contributions to self help s…
International Nongovernmental Organizations and Third World Education in 1990: A Cross-National Study
International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are at the core of an evolving and increasingly coherent world culture that promotes universally recognized norms of development and education in the Third World. INGOs work directly with local communities to build new schools, provide educational materials, encourage enrollments. INGOs also propagate world educational standards and goals. This article presents the first quantitative, cross-nati…
Urbanization and Development: The Emergence of International Nongovernmental Organizations amid Declining States
Half of the world's population will live in cities by the early twenty-first century, and, of the ten most populated cities, nine will be in the developing world. Unfortunately, this is occurring at a time when national governments are increasingly unable to provide basic public services to growing populations. International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) have dramatically increased their efforts in urban areas and in economic and social d…
Family Contributions to Self Help Schooling in Malawi and Kenya
In the 1980s and 1990s African societies responded to reduced state educational capacity by expanding the reach of civil society-non-state societal organizations that sought to organize individuals and mobilize local resources for education and development. In this paper, I argue that rural African families were differentially prepared to respond to these changes in state-society relations. I develop a model of family contributions to self help s…
Household Change and Rural School Enrollment in Malawi and Kenya
This study examines school enrollment in two sub-Saharan African nations, Malawi and Kenya. The article advances a refined family economy theoretical framework for understanding variations in school enrollment. It recasts family economy frameworks to consider not only how the household institution mediates a broad social change, but also how the family institution itself may be influenced by a macroinstitutional change. The findings suggest that …
Displacement Dynamics in Southern Louisiana After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Social costs of displacement in Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Resilience in Louisiana Fema Parks: A Person-Centered, Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Despite living in difficult and socially disorganized conditions, some individuals displaced by disasters and living in FEMA parks can be remarkably resilient to depression. We conceptualize resilience as emerging from a combination of situational advantages that accrue for some residents but not for others. We assess whether situational advantages lead to resilience, either in isolation or in combination with one another, in two parts. First, we…
Access to ICT and Research Output of Agriculture Researchers in Kenya
Agricultural researchers work at universities and research institutes. This paper examines how institutional context has affected Kenyan agricultural scientists’ professional lives along several dimensions: Access and use of emerging ICT technologies, professional activities, and scholarly output. It draws upon a unique longitudinal data set in which scientists were interviewed in 2001, 2005, and 2010. The data allow us to follow changes in techn…
Family Economy, Rural School Choice, and Flexischooling Children with Disabilities
Most homeschooled students would be more accurately described as 'flexischooled,' partly homeschooled and partly enrolled in school. The popularity of these two alternatives to public or private school enrollment has increased over the past several decades to the extent that, by 2012 over 2 million students, 4 percent of the population, were either flexischooled or homeschooled in the United States. To understand why parents have pursued these op…
Creole: A Contested, Polysemous Term
In this paper, we critically examine the polysemous term, creole, used at different times and various geographical areas to describe diverse identities, languages, peoples, ethnicities, racial heritages, and cultural artefacts. Our objective is twofold: (1) to describe the historically contested nature of the term and its connection to broader trends in defining race in the United States and (2) to suggest that a deeper understanding of racially …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)