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Community building through play: Development and design of a board game for review in an undergraduate anatomy course

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Engaging students and fostering interactions can be a challenge in large enrollment, foundational‐level, undergraduate anatomy classes. Despite the active learning environment of the anatomy laboratory, students often struggle to find study partners or even speak to fellow learners in a large classroom.
Kristin Stover, Vanessa Kruk, Jenna Kuczek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Problem of Perspective: Religions in Africa or African Traditional Religion

Şırnak Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
This study critiques study of African religions as a singular phenomenon under the umbrella term "African Traditional Religion" and rejects this reductionist approach, suggesting that a more detailed approach that recognises the ...
Osman Şahin
doaj   +1 more source

Ethno-Spirituality: A Postcolonial Problematic? [PDF]

, 2009
This article explores the nature of spirituality in African traditions, for which we use the term ethno-spirituality. We examine the assumptions and effects of western missionaries, and how African spirituality negotiated with these new ideas and merged ...
Bigger, Stephen
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The rise of informed consent and retreat from dependence upon unclaimed bodies in anatomy: An overview and assessment

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
wiley   +1 more source

After All, Africa is Largely a Nonliterate Continent : The Reception of Vatican II in Africa [PDF]

, 2013
The article examines critical factors that determined the impact, reception, and implementation of Vatican II in Africa. Drawing on historical accounts, the author identifies and analyzes personalities, contexts, and issues that conditioned and shaped ...
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.
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How multilingual is scholarly communication? Mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific contexts; few, however, have provided a global analysis of multilingualism in science. Using two major bibliometric databases (OpenAlex and Dimensions),
Carolina Pradier, Lucía Céspedes, Vincent Larivière   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the possibility for African traditional religion to be included in a reimagined scriptural reasoning model

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
In and among the many models developed for engaging in inter-religious dialogue was a model that became known as scriptural reasoning (SR). SR basically serves the purpose of being hospitable towards the Abrahamic religions.
Maniraj Sukdaven
doaj   +1 more source

RELIGIÃO TRADICIONAL AFRICANA/TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION

Brazilian Journal of Development, 2021
A palavra “religiao” e tardia para o discurso academico sobre o assunto, e ainda e notavel na maioria das descricoes populares da cultura africana. Como o poeta e estudioso queniano Okot p´Bitek (1970) enfatizou: “os conceitos de fetichismo ou animismo ... nao eram religioes africanas.....”.
openaire   +2 more sources

Politics, religion and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda [PDF]

, 2010
This paper outlines the current situation in Northern Uganda and examines whether conventional approaches to conflict analysis produce a convincing diagnosis of the causes of the protracted conflict between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s ...
Jackson, Paul
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source