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Bibliothecae.itThis article examines the role of books and libraries during the Age of Enlightenment through the lens of Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s work, a prominent figure of French Enlightenment thought.
Rossana Morriello
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Enlightenment and Education in the Life of Orthodox Brotherhoods [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThe article is the first to examine the history of Orthodox brotherhoods in the 19th — early 20th centuries in Russia in terms of the presence of educational and enlightenment projects in their activities.
Priest Georgy S. Kochetkov +1 more
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Citizenship education and gender equality: A critique of action plans in Greek secondary schools
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In the sociology of education, gender education follows current policies developed and promoted through citizenship education. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations addressing global social inequalities include gender equality (SDG 5).
Aikaterini Peleki +1 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the production of coherence between Uruguay's agricultural, environmental and water policies amidst growing tensions, which are particularly manifested in conflicts between an expanding agricultural sector and water insecurity for the broader public.
Simon Ryfisch +7 more
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The Western Representation of Modern China: Orientalism, Culturalism and Historiographical Criticism [PDF]
Digithum, 2008 The West's perception of China as a historical entity has evolved over the centuries. China has gone from a country of miracles and marvels in the medieval world and a refined and erudite culture in early modern Europe, to become a nation without history
David Martínez-Robles
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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The Enlightenment Museum as a Result of the Development of Education: The Case of the Musaeum Polonicum [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne DedičstvoThe article presents the concept of the Musaeum Polonicum, developed in 1775 and published in the magazine Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne. Its author, Michał Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech (1748–1806), was an intellectual educated in the spirit of the European ...
Paulina Paul
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An Institutional Analysis of Cost Accounting Practices in the Spanish Eighteenth Century [PDF]
A growing body of literature (Johnson, 1972; Tyson, 1990; Fleischman and Parker, 1990 and 1991; Edwards and Newell, 1991 and Fleischman et al., 1996) has evidenced that sophisticated costing techniques were used in the early stages of the Industrial ...
Carlos Larrinaga-González +2 more
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Wonder as a Gateway to Science Meaning‐Making: Primary Pupils’ Narrative Journeys
Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how wonder fosters transformative learning in science education for pupils (11–12 years old), creating meaning about cycles in nature. As an emotional and epistemic trigger, wonder may bridge everyday experiences with abstract scientific concepts by stimulating curiosity and creativity. Through a narrative writing task, the
Pauline Book, Siri‐Christine Seehuus
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Orthodoxy and scepticism in the early Dutch Enlightenment
, 1993 This chapter discusses the way in which Cartesianism was received among Dutch Calvinist divines in the early Enlightenment by focusing upon one particular issue which came to occupy a prominent place in Dutch religious polemics in the course of the seventeenth century: the question of universal doubt, or, more specifically, doubt about God's existence.
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