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Exploring notions of genre in 'academic literacies' and 'writing across the curriculum': approaches across countries and contexts [PDF]
The SIGET IV panel on genre in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and “academic literacies” (ACLITS) has set rolling a discussion of the similarities and differences in the two traditions, the former originating in the US in the early 1970s, the latter ...
Donahue, Tiane +5 more
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The development of human social learning across seven societies
Social learning is a crucial human ability. Here, the authors examined children in 7 cultures and show that children’s reliance on social information and their preference to follow the majority vary across societies.
Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen +6 more
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The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry? [PDF]
This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, and is in two halves, the first half discursive and propositional, and the second half exemplifying the rhetorical, epistemological and metaphysical affordances of poetry in critically ...
Abbs P. +26 more
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The calculative reproduction of social structures : The field of gem mining in Sri Lanka [PDF]
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Alawattage, Chandana Gnanapriya
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A Laboratory of Spring. Introduction [PDF]
Introduction to a special issue published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of 'The Rite of Spring' by Igor Stravinsky. The articles cover the field of musicology as well as history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, ethnography
Witold Wachowski
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Proceeding from accepted shared definitions of applied linguistics that stress its practical, real-world orientation and instrumentality, this article seeks to move the focus from the interdisciplinarity that has been identified as the nexus of ...
Gary Massey
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Studying forms of oral knowledge in the ‟ethnographic environment of the day”, researches in ethnoscience unfortunately narrow them down to closed ethnic heritage and therefore they do not take into account the historical pathways of the forms.
Yaovi Akakpo
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Chemobrain experienced by breast cancer survivors: a meta-ethnography study investigating research and care implications. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Cognitive impairment, colloquially termed "chemobrain", occurs in 10-40% of all cancer patients, and is an emerging target of cancer survivorship research. AIM: This study reviews published qualitative studies to explore cognitive impairments
Maryam Hafsah Selamat +3 more
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The Role of Imagination in Social Scientific Discovery: Why Machine Discoverers Will Need Imagination Algorithms [PDF]
When philosophers discuss the possibility of machines making scientific discoveries, they typically focus on discoveries in physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics.
Stuart, Michael
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Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic
Childhood and adolescence are two stages of development that are unique to the human life course. While childhood in the Pleistocene has received considerable attention in recent years, adolescence during the same period remains an understudied area of ...
April Nowell, Jennifer C. French
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