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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Situación actual y perspectivas de la guerra interna

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2012
Colombia faces a civil war since the sixties. In the late twentieth century war escalated and degraded and its nature and dynamics were affected by the expansion and consolidation of the economy and international drug criminal organizations ...
Jaime Zuluaga Nieto
doaj   +1 more source

‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

De la politique sociale à la lutte contre la pauvreté au Honduras : rétrécissement des concepts de « développement » et de « démocratie » dans un contexte de globalisation

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2009
Based on a case study in Honduras, this article focuses on the changing nature of state’s social intervention, from the implementation of structural adjustment policies to the current poverty reduction strategies.
Karen Bähr Caballero
doaj   +1 more source

Democracy's Saviors and Spoilers: A Study of the Causal Conditions and Mechanisms behind "Civil Society Coups" after the Third Wave of Democratization

open access: yes, 2016
Civil society, according to mainstream democratization literature, has a positive impact on democratic survival and durability. As a critical promoter of democracy, it has proven to limit state power, foster political participation, and enrich ...
Arugay, Aries
core   +1 more source

Single‐subject designs in character education: Methods for rigorous, contextual, and practitioner‐led research

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic representation and democratic sanctions [PDF]

open access: yesRepresentation, 2018
In this paper, I argue that citizens have an entitlement to sanction representatives, but representatives have tools to anticipate this sanction and reconstruct their views in order to anticipate t...
openaire   +2 more sources

INEQUALITY AND SEQUENCE OF ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION [PDF]

open access: yes
Some recent empirical studies found positive effects of economic liberalization on democratization. Based on these findings, this paper explains why the sequence of economic liberalization and democratization is related to the effects of the two reforms ...
Nobuhiro Mizuno
core  

Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Theoretical Framework

open access: yesApplied Sciences
The democratization of artificial intelligence (AI) involves extending access to AI technologies beyond specialized technical experts to a broader spectrum of users and organizations.
Carlos J. Costa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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