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‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
wiley   +1 more source

«God jul og mye flesk!»

open access: yesTidsskrift for Kulturforskning, 2023
Although Norwegian food in general could be scarce and monotonous, it was, if possible, an abundant feast during Christmas time. With industrialization, urbanization and mass communication in modern society, making individual food choices became ...
Unni Tandberg
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Dickens’s Haunted Christmas: The Ethics of the Spectral Text

open access: yesForum, 2008
The question of haunting itself has its own interest, but one might also wonder why Dicken's Christmas Carol - a Christmas story - should be at all haunted.
Brad Fruhauff
doaj   +1 more source

Christmas Greetings 1967 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1967
This Christmas letter from Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds and her husband Ray Edmunds, sent to friends and family in 1967, shares experiences from their frequent travels during that ...
Dirks-Edmunds, Jane Claire, Edmunds, Ray
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Fitting 3D Morphable Models using Local Features [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, we propose a novel fitting method that uses local image features to fit a 3D Morphable Model to 2D images. To overcome the obstacle of optimising a cost function that contains a non-differentiable feature extraction operator, we use a ...
Christmas, William   +4 more
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Turning Mental Models Around: Boundary Objects as Enablers of Sustainable Business Model Innovation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations increasingly innovate their business models (BMs) toward sustainability to maintain competitiveness and comply with regulations. Sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) requires decision‐makers to identify ecological and social opportunities while balancing economic goals.
Laura Hartung‐Geyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Discontinuity as a Barrier to Identity and Behaviour Change: Evidence From Smoking Cessation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extensive research has shown that resistance to behaviour change is often driven by the management of self‐related threats, traditionally conceptualized as threats to self‐esteem. The present research offers a novel perspective by examining behaviour change as a threat to self‐continuity (i.e., the perceived stability of one's self‐image over ...
Jérôme Blondé   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scotch Pine Deterioration in Michigan Caused by Pine Root Weevil Complex [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Pine root tip weevil, Hylobius rhizophagus, and pine root collar weevil, H. radicis, attack certain Scotch pine stands simultaneously causing more mortality than expected from either insect alone.
Mosher, Daniel G, Wilson, Louis F
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Reclaimed Homophobic Hate Speech Backfires: Desensitization and Mood Deterioration

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reclaimed hate speech is generally seen as a positive phenomenon by minority groups and, to some degree, by majority groups. However, previous research has not examined whether it might produce harmful effects similar to traditional hate speech.
Dominik Puchała   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An icon of time: the verbal image of a holiday in Russian culture

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2013
This article considers the temporal constants of the holiday of Christmas in I. S. Shmelev’s novel The Summer of the Lord. The key to understanding the verbal image of a holiday is the lines based on Christmas chants.
Konnova M.
doaj  

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