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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Plants mediate the supply of energy and matter for all animals, including human beings yet we are faced with “plant blindness” whereby we pay limited attention to and accord little value to plants. Plant blindness is evident in school curricula whereby students have limited opportunities to learn about plants.
Maurice M. W. Cheng, Bronwen Cowie
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Creating Change: Art Activism and Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 61-65, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT This article advocates the inclusion of the arts, and specifically, art activism, as a beneficial pedagogical approach to leadership development. Focus is given to using examples of art activism to introduce the student leader activist identity continuum (SLAIC), the exploration of leadership identity, and situating activism as transformative ...
Jessica A. Cruz +2 more
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing enthusiasm to reconsider the normative foundations of the stakeholder theory is spreading in related literature. Current research mainly focuses on religious, spiritual, and philosophical underpinnings to reexamine these foundations.
Roberta Sferrazzo +2 more
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Transformative Learning and Participatory Approaches With Youth: A Discussion on Distinctions
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, participatory approaches have been regarded as effective and ethical in research and policy work involving children and youth. Recently, the term ‘transformation’ has gained traction in Childhood Studies. This article explores Transformative Learning (TL) methodology, which was introduced in the 1970s for adult education but ...
Irene Bisasso Hoem, Marit Ursin
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Romano Guardini and Cornelio Fabro on Kierkegaard's Christian Humanism
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Søren Kierkegaard's theological anthropology furnished resources for reconstructing Christian humanism among mid‐twentieth‐century Catholic thinkers. Focusing on Romano Guardini (1885‐1968) in Germany and Cornelio Fabro (1911‐1995) in Italy, I demonstrate how each thinker creatively appropriated Kierkegaard's ...
Joshua Furnal
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Working at Boimondau: A Community Experience
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 66-74, March 2025.Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, France witnessed the emergence of labor communities whose ambition was to escape capitalism and abolish wage labor. This article focuses on Boimondau, the best‐known community at the time. In terms of work, the central activity in the life of the community, two main tensions lastingly structured the collective and ...
Michel Lallement
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Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social‐Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This study advances the understanding of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in non‐Western contexts by theorizing how social‐symbolic work facilitates empowerment despite entrenched institutional and cultural constraints. Drawing on a qualitative study into the establishment of Kuwait’s first women’s business incubator, we explore how female ...
Mohsen Abumuamar, Juliane Reinecke
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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