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Educating agents of change: Investigating curricula to foster sustainability competencies in university

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study critically evaluates the implementation of sustainability competencies in the university‐wide curriculum reform at a Nordic research‐intensive multidisciplinary university. The focus is on assessing how sustainability competencies—especially the newly introduced systems thinking, strategic thinking and futures thinking—are ...
I. Södervik   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Language engineering for the Semantic Web: a digital library for endangered languages. Endangered languages, Ontology, Digital library, Multimedia, EMELD, Intelligent querying and retrieval, ImageSpace

open access: yesInformation Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2004
In this paper, we describe the effort undertaken at Wayne State University to preserve endangered languages using the state-of-the-art information technologies. In particular, we discuss the issues involved in such an effort, and present the architecture
Lu Shiyong, Liu Dapeng
doaj  

The (low) phylogenetic relatedness of Conative Animal Calls: The case of Oroko and Mokpe (Bantu Zone A)

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee
The present article is dedicated to the documentation of conative animal calls (CACs) in Mokpe and Oroko (Bantu Zone A) and the analysis of the cognancy / phylogenetic relatedness of these constructions.
Pius W. Akumbu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source

Civil Society Advocacy and Climate Change in Kenya: The Question of “Local Voices” and Their “Amplification”

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
wiley   +1 more source

The burden of the postictal state in epilepsy: A prospective, single‐center observational cohort study

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The postictal state is a major yet underrecognized component of the epilepsy burden. We aimed to develop a structured patient‐reported instrument to quantify postictal recovery, characterize its multidimensional burden, and identify demographic, clinical, psychiatric, and treatment‐related factors associated with postictal severity ...
Ionuț‐Flavius Bratu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endangered Languages: what should we do now?

open access: yesLanguage Documentation and Description, 2003
We seem to be at a turning point in the history of our encounter with endangered languages, and this workshop is timely. Future historians of linguistics will surely see the 1990s as a revolutionary decade, in the way it brought the language crisis into ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Quiet activism as feminist practice

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Formative and Reflective Measurement Models in Workplace Learning Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantitative empirical research in workplace learning regularly makes use of measurement instruments that operationalize theoretical constructs. However, in domains related to workplace learning, high levels of measurement model misspecifications—up to 62% of all cases—have been identified.
Josef Guggemos, Michael Goller
wiley   +1 more source

Multimedia and documentation of endangered languages

open access: yesLanguage Documentation and Description, 2003
Today, both language-speaking communities and the linguistics community face the sad fact that the transmission of competence and expertise in human languages has stalled.
doaj   +2 more sources

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