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Positioning teachers in climate change education: Insights from a Hong Kong Global South perspective
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how prospective teachers in Hong Kong (N = 13) position themselves within climate change education through ‘Global Dialogue for Climate Change Education’, a cross‐institutional teacher education programme facilitating online global dialogues between Hong Kong and the UK.
Sally Wai‐Yan Wan +5 more
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“Goa is a Paradise”: florestas, colonialismo e modernidade na Índia Portuguesa (1851-1910)
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2018 In the early-20th century, Goa was a remote and economically fragile colony surrounded by the vast territory of the British Raj. Located on the periphery of an empire focused on its African colonies, Goa has therefore occupied a marginal place in the ...
José Miguel Moura Ferreira
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Spectre of jurisdiction: Supreme court of New South Wales and the British subject in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1823-41 [PDF]
, 2011 This paper focuses on the period prior to the Treaty of Waitangi when the Supreme Court of New South Wales had jurisdiction over British subjects living in the ‘Islands of New Zealand’. It is acknowledged that there were many factors driving the colonial
Rumbles, Wayne
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton +4 more
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“No Baker’s dozen was her taste”: Rhode Island, Ratification, and Rhetoric in American Constitutional History [PDF]
, 2014 In 1787, Rhode Island refused to send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, becoming the only state to do so. From its early colonial beginnings, Rhode Island\u27s unique status gave its residents the opportunity to develop ...
Morroni, Lucy
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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The impacts of biological invasions
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Kronos, 2010 This article examines Sam Sly's African Journal (1843-51), a literary and satirical newspaper published by William Layton Sammons in Cape Town. It contends that the newspaper utilised satire to forge British cultural affinity in the colony, as well as to
Christopher Holdridge
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The Command and Control of Canadian and American Maritime Air Power in the Northwest Atlantic, 1941-1943 [PDF]
, 2017 Operational, organizational, doctrinal, and cultural differences hampered effective command and control of Canadian and American maritime air power defending shipping against U-boats off the east coast during the Second World War.
Goette, Richard
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