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Music to our ears: the effect of background music in higher education learning environments

open access: yes, 2013
Learning and teaching practice is higher education has embraced various forms of technology over recent years directed at enhancing the learning experience.
Hill, Adam J.
core  

Practicing Strategic Financial Sustainability in Small Cultural Non‐Profits: Evidence From London Museums

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small cultural museums play an important role in sustaining local heritage, community identity and inclusive cultural participation, yet they face persistent financial and organisational constraints. This study examines how financial sustainability is achieved and maintained in three small cultural museums through a qualitative‐led mixed ...
Joseph Gerald Bourke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Certifications as Strategic Tools: Environmental Accountability, Institutional Robustness and Global Convergence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability certifications are increasingly used as strategic tools to advance accountability for environmental sustainability. This study addresses the challenge of fragmented national certification standards by proposing and applying a replicable method to assess the structural robustness and convergence of industry‐specific ...
Teresa Turzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heritage as curriculum: Intangible cultural heritage examined through a comparative study of visual art education across Japan, Australia and Finland

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract UNESCO mandates have spurred global interest in Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) as a response to global tensions and as a tool for peacebuilding, identity, reconciliation and resilience. The question arises as to how these living traditions might survive the transition into formal education curricula, especially Visual Art Education (VAE ...
Xian Zhao, Kathryn Grushka
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Background Speech and Music in Interrupted Reading: An Eye-Tracking Study

open access: yes, 2011
The current study examined the influence of interruption, background speech and music on reading, using an eye movement paradigm. Participants either read paragraphs while being exposed to background speech or music or read the texts in silence.
Cauchard, F.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcomes.
Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo
wiley   +1 more source

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creativity and its link to epilepsy

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Creative thinking represents one of our highest‐order cognitive processes, involving multiple cortical structures and an intricate interplay between several cortical and subcortical networks. It results in novel ideas that translate to useful products or concepts. The evolutionary purpose of creativity is therefore apparent, as it advances our
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Phillip L. Pearl
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Be Kind to Me: A Compassion‐Focused Group for Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa

open access: yesEuropean Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) is often characterised by high levels of shame and self‐criticism. Compassion‐Focused Therapy (CFT) is a transdiagnostic intervention targeting these emotional vulnerabilities, yet its application in adolescent eating disorder services remains underexplored.
Talia Drew   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visitor‐I and dual worldmaking: Queer museology between Tuntenhaus and the Schwules Museum

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the visitor‐I as an embodied protocol for analyzing how queer archival exhibitions choreograph perception, affect, and learning, and it uses dual worldmaking as a bounded heuristic to name the relation between lived worldmaking in the Tuntenhaus squat and curatorial worldmaking in the museum, and I argue that the visitor ...
Melike Atmanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

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