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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Corps étrangers dans le Journal de voyage de Montaigne
Viatica, 2014 The Journal de voyage written by Montaigne in the 16th century is presented as a simple report of alternating experiences following certain events and the physical condition of the traveller, which contrasts strikingly with the writing of the Essais ...
Anne Duprat
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From Anecdote to Evidence: Assessing the Status and Condition of Arts Education at the State Level [PDF]
, 2006 Without solid evidence about the status and condition of arts education in the nation's public schools, it is difficult to make a convincing case for the arts.
Andrew L. Nelson, Sandra S. Ruppert
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Artistic Peculiarities of Mikhail Volkov’s Collection “Tales of Antrop from Fox Hills”
Научный диалогThis article analyzes the Mikhail Volkov’s collection “Tales of Antrop from Fox Hills”, which was repeatedly republished in the late 1920s. It notes the characteristic trend of cyclicality in the first decade after the October Revolution: uniting ...
O. Yu. Osmukhina
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Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2018 L’article étudie l’incidence de la notion de hasard appliquée à la construction du recueil d’anecdotes à l’époque de la Renaissance. L’analyse du corpus, les Histoires prodigieuses (1559) de Pierre Boaistuau et l’Académie françoise (1577) de Pierre de La
Concetta Cavallini
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The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and International Labor Rights: A Failed Connection [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] This essay starts with an anecdote to suggest that foreign direct investment can serve workers\u27 interests when their rights are respected. The rewards of investment should not be limited to U.S. workers, either.
Compa, Lance A
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Paradigm clashes and progress: a personal reflection on a 50-year association with ABCT [PDF]
, 2016 Why is ABCT a successful, vibrant, and growing association when most other professional associations are withering on the vine? Since the first annual meeting of the organization, which I was privileged to attend, I have witnessed repeated changes in ...
Barlow, David H.
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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StrenaeThis article investigates the increasing prominence of humor in Norwegian children’s biographies, situating this tendency within the genre’s broader historical development.
Inger-Kristin Larsen Vie
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