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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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Five ways to model active processes in elastic solids: Active forces, active stresses, active strains, active fibers, and active metrics [PDF]
Mechanics Research Communications, 2018 An important contribution of Gerard Maugin was his study of anelasticity. It is well appreciated that in biological systems, anelasticity manifests itself through growth and remodeling and Maugin and his collaborators have helped build a general theory suitable to model such fundamental processes.
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Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: Explaining local trajectories of anti-minority activism [PDF]
, 2019 Why do some towns become focal points for anti-minority activism at particular moments in time, when other towns with similar socio-economic conditions do not?
Busher, Joel +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas +3 more
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Online Activism in Pinoy Battle Rap: A Qualitative Analysis of FlipTop Emcee Verses
Philippine Social Science JournalOnline activism has grown significantly with technological advancements, using tools like petitions, micro-blogging, and social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.
Amor Jude Thadeus F. Soriano
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Water Concerns Unite Citizen Activists:A Community Rights Movement Transcends Party, Age, and Gender [PDF]
, 2016 In this brief, author Cliff Brown examines an instance of sustained local activism in which citizens in the communities of Nottingham, Barrington, and Barnstead, New Hampshire, mobilized to protect community groundwater against threats from commercial ...
Brown, Cliff
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Civil society, Islamism and democratisation: the case of Morocco [PDF]
, 2006 The positive role that an active civil society plays in processes of democratisation is often highlighted in the literature. However, when it comes to the Middle East and North Africa, such activism is considered to be detrimental to democratisation ...
Cavatorta, Francesco
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
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The Olympic “Revolt” of 1968 and its Lessons for Contemporary African American Athletic Activism
European Journal of American Studies, 2019 This overview of the 1968 African American Olympic protest movement provides historical context and a comparative touchstone for understanding the current wave of Black athletic activism in the United States.
Douglas Hartmann
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