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Introduction: Fictions of African Dictatorship [PDF]
, 2018 First paragraph: Since the rise to power of autocratic leaders across Africa in the early years of independence, artists, filmmakers, novelists, poets, photographers and song-writers have been preoccupied with the compelling figure of the dictator ...
Baker, Charlotte, Grayson, Hannah
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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Interlitteraria, 2017 . From Unity of the Artists to the Intervention of the P.I.D.E.: the 2nd General Exhibition of Plastic Arts. This essay aims at presenting a historical study about one of the most significant artistic event during the Portuguese dictatorship in the ...
Luísa Duarte Santos
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British 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
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, 2009 Biblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel.
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Interlitteraria, 2013 “But I Still Had This Question: How Does One Live Under a Dictatorship?” Christa Wolf – Hopes and Disappointments of an East German Writer. The article focuses on the tensions between writing and dictatorship and especially between real socialism and ...
Eve Pormeister
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Growth-friendly dictatorships [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015 This research argues that in highly unequal societies, a rent-seeking and self-maximizing dictator may be supported by a fraction of the population, despite the absence of special benefits to these societal groups. Importantly, it is the stakes of the dictator in the economy, in the form of capital ownership, that drive the support of individuals.
De Luca, Giacomo +2 more
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick +6 more
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The critical role of teacher educators in promoting socially just mathematics teaching
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper focuses on the enablers and constraints that shape mathematics teacher educators' agency in addressing social justice issues within their practice and how these can be harnessed or overcome. Given the potential impact of teacher educators on the student/practising teachers they work with, and consequently on the agency of classroom ...
Pete Wright +8 more
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Dictatorship memories: Working through trauma in Chilean post-dictatorship documentary
, 2010 This essay discusses the representation of traumatic memory in Chilean post-dictatorship documentary. It argues that Chilean political memory documentaries of the post-dictatorship period, beyond their necessary depiction of the traumas and suffering of ...
Traverso, Antonio
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