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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick, Jayne Finlay, Ross Little, Helen Nichols   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impaired Water Hazard Zones: Mapping Intersecting Environmental Health Vulnerabilities and Polluter Disproportionality

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
This study advanced a rigorous spatial analysis of surface water-related environmental health vulnerabilities in the California Bay-Delta region, USA, from 2000 to 2006.
Raoul S. Liévanos
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing Du Bois's Legacy Through Emancipatory Environmental Sociology. [PDF]

Environ Sociol, 2023
Carrera JS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental expertise

Environmental expertise is a central concept in environmental sociology. The importance of expertise is often stressed but how it should be understood has not been substantially elaborated, leaving several questions unanswered, such as what constitutes ...
Lidskog, Rolf, Sundqvist, Göran,
core   +2 more sources

Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Living Without Water: Drought, Inequality, and Climate Silence in a Romanian Village

Sociologie Românească
This article analyzes the experience of the water crisis in a Romanian village affected by drought, placing its approach in the context of the Centenary of the Bucharest School of Sociology.
Costel Cocîiu, Cosima Rughiniș
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Place of Animals and Human–Animal Relationships in Hydraulic Fracturing Discourse

Social Sciences, 2019
Throughout human history, energy security has been a prominent concern. Historically, animals were used as energy providers and as companions and sentinels in mining operations.
Cameron T. Whitley
doaj   +1 more source

Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Écologisation de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation en France et au Brésil : renouvellement et perspectives pour la sociologie de l’environnement

VertigO
This special issue is composed of contributions from a seminar on the greening of agriculture and food and offers a collective assessment of the construction of this subject by environmental sociology.
Marie Jacqué, Claire Lamine
doaj   +1 more source