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‘Literal torture’: Vulnerability, resilience and young people's experiences of pressure in physical education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper combines vulnerability and resilience theory to explore the pressure young people experience in Physical Education (PE) and sport at secondary school. The theoretical framework was used to understand both how young people experience PE in school and how vulnerability and resilience function interdependently in social contexts like ...
David Littlefair, Michael Jopling
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Peace Theory

open access: yes, 2012
Democratic peace is the proposition that democracies are more peaceful in their foreign relations. This idea dates back centuries, at least to Immanuel Kant and other 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers. In recent decades it has constituted a major research agenda, competing with and arguably supplanting other research agendas such as neo-realism.
openaire   +2 more sources

Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Democratic War”: Democratic Peace Theory and the War in Former Yugoslavia

open access: yesMeđunarodne Studije, 2013
This article analyses the democratic peace theory which holds that democra-cies do not fight each other. It tries to investigate whether the war in former Yugoslavia supports or rebukes this theory. The investigation of Mansfield and Snyder best explains
Miljenko Antić, Jadranka Vlahovec
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What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence.
Ignacio Wyman, Paul Wilfred Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source

Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Jurisprudential Turn in Legal Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
When legal ethics developed as an academic discipline in the mid-1970s, its theoretical roots were in moral philosophy. The early theorists in legal ethics were moral philosophers by training, and they explored legal ethics as a branch of moral ...
Kruse, Katherine R.
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Strategies teachers use to support students' self‐regulation skill development in mainstream primary schools: A scoping review

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This scoping review has explored the interventions and approaches used by teachers in mainstream (general education) primary schools (students aged 4–11) to support self‐regulation skill development in the classroom. The review followed the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA‐ScR) guidelines for reporting and was guided by the Joanna ...
Kim Griffin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalising global education in teacher education and training: A model for contextualising terminology

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Ciência Política Brasileira Diante do Novo Regime Fiscal: Para uma Agenda de Pesquisas sobre Democracia e Austeridade

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
RESUMO Este artigo pretende identificar alguns problemas e temas de pesquisa que se descortinam para a Ciência Política brasileira sob o cenário social, político e econômico aberto com a promulgação do Novo Regime Fiscal no país. A partir de uma pesquisa
Francisco Tavares, Gustavo Silva
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