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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Originating in California in 2011, the Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) has become a rapidly diffused K–12 language education credential, now established in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Yet the research base offers only limited verification of the SoBL's real‐world results: the credential appears to have produced some pedagogical gains
Peyman Jahanbin +4 more
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Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract This article revisits the view that UK business schools emerged as late and imitative responses to American models. Drawing on archival evidence and a longitudinal dataset of 130 institutions, it shows that the field developed incrementally from diverse origins, including mechanics’ institutes, civic universities, colleges of commerce and ...
Charles Harvey +2 more
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Acousto-optic holography for pseudo-two-dimensional dynamic light patterning
APL PhotonicsOptical systems use acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) mostly for fast angular scanning and spectral filtering of laser beams. However, AODs may transform laser light in much broader ways.
Walther Akemann, Laurent Bourdieu
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Социология властиThis article focuses on Max Weber’s understanding of “ethos” in “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” and the benefits afforded by this concept.
Ivan V. Zabaev, Elizaveta A. Kostrova
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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Being and Becoming: Pracademia, Positionality and Praxis
International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational StudiesThe emergence of pracademia—and of the pracademic as a category of professional identity—is contested, poorly defined, and conceptually problematic.
Mat Round
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‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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