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A Folk Tale of the Trickster Uncle Ston pa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This folk tale relates the exploits of the Tibetan trickster Uncle Ston paThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad ...
Bkra shis bzang po
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Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle‐class older adults in Nepal

open access: yesEthos, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2025.
Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a Culturally Relevant Executive Function Observation Scale Based on Interviews With Nigerian Preschool Teachers

open access: yesInfant and Child Development, Volume 34, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Executive function (EF) measures used with African children heavily depend on task‐based assessments normed in minority world settings. This reliance poses a challenge as it limits the understanding of how children display their EF behaviours within their own culture.
Chika Ezeugwu, Sara Baker
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Tale of a Hunter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Bstan 'dzin tells a folk tale about a hunter who kills three deerThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad Village ...
Bkra shis bzang po
core  

Portrayals of Roma Emancipation and Resistance in Hungary: A Harmonious and Non‐Violent Representation

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 231-239, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Dominant habitual narratives in Bódvalenke, a Hungarian Roma village, articulate what western societies habitually have done, thought, felt, and experienced relative to the Roma and their ways of life. In this narrative environment, the Roma consistently struggle, as they recreate their marginal position. However, the local history of the Roma
Maria Subert
wiley   +1 more source

A Folk Tale of a Clever Boy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
O rgyan dban phyugs tells a folk tale in which a clever boy kills his foolish brotherThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from ...
Bkra shis bzang po
core  

Culturally Informed Parenting Assessment: The Adaptation of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire With Input From Ugandan Experts and Parents

open access: yesFamily Process, Volume 64, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT While parenting practices significantly influence children's developmental outcomes on a global scale, there has been limited comprehensive assessment of the cultural appropriateness of global parenting questionnaires in diverse cultural contexts by researchers. This study examined the cultural relevance of the widely used measure of parenting,
Ronald Asiimwe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing like you teach: The challenge of constructing local, ecologically valid tests [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In an educational context, local, ecologically valid tests can reflect the use of literacy and thinking tools. These tests present a challenge to central, content focused, high-stakes testing, and to transmission approaches to teaching.
Whitehead, David
core   +1 more source

Snow White in 1930s Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This is the definitive version of the article as published by Edinburgh University Press in Journal of British Cinema and Television. Volume 7, Page 183-199 DOI 10.3366/jbctv.2010.0001 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jbctv.2010 ...
KUHN, AF
core   +1 more source

Adaptive Collective Memory: Bartlett, Enactivism and Group Identity

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT It has been recently proposed that memory studies should move beyond focusing on explicit, identity‐creating and backward‐looking forms of collective memory, such as commemorative remembering, and pay more attention to implicit memory processes within social groups.
Daniel Gyollai
wiley   +1 more source

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