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Going Native: Long-Running Television Serials in the UK
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2018 This article examines in detail the development of the long-running serial in the UK, from its beginnings on radio in the 1940s, through the move to television in the mid 1950s and then up to the present day.
Douglas Chalmers, Hugh O'Donell
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Review of Gaelic medium early education and childcare [PDF]
, 2010 The National Plan for Gaelic 2007-2012 contains ambitious targets for the expansion of Gaelic medium (GM) primary school education, aiming for 4000 children enrolled in P1 by 2021. GM early years education and childcare plays a crucial role in attracting
McPake, Joanna +4 more
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Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe: Gaelic and Sorbian Perspectives
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2008 In her study of two minority languages in danger of extinction, Gaelic of Scotland and Sorbian of Lusatia, Glaser examines the ways in which perception of identity is linked to language in her book Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe. The
Ingrid Schwab
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Il Tolomeo, 2020 Irish English, albeit a variant of the language of the colonizer, can be considered an important identitarian element in twentieth century Irish literature.
Luppi, Fabio
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sports betting has become a routine part of watching sport. Online and mobile platforms let consumers bet continuously, receive instant feedback, and respond to new odds throughout a match. Frequent betting is known to raise the risk of gambling‐related harm, but far less is known about the psychological mechanisms through which that harm ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira +5 more
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Cothroman air Foghlam Fad-beatha do dh’oileanaich 'abaich
Education in the North, 2016 Thagh mi an dà artaigil Dè na buannachdan a tha ann an dà-chànanas? agus Cothroman air Foghlam Fad-beatha do dh’oileanaich 'abaich' oir tha na cuspairean a th’ air an deasbad annta a’ buntainn ri foghlam an latha ’n-diugh mar a bha iad aig an àm aig an ...
Christina Walker
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Ó Dhaoirse go Saoirse?: Staidéar Téacsúil Aiteach ar dhrámaí Mhichíl Uí Chonghaile
Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023 Phillip O’Leary, in his 2017 An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights in the Irish Language `1930-80, makes a stark summation of the current state of Irish language theatre, a genre that he warns may ‘sink into the oblivion’ (ibid.: 303).
Seán Mac Risteaird
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People are good at stewardship
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Environmental sciences and policy have long been framed on the premise that environmental harm is an expression of human nature rather than a product of specific historical and political arrangements. This framing has shaped a generation of interventions designed to constrain human behaviour rather than enable human capacity.
Philip A. Loring, Miguel Sioui
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PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigated the impact of a short intensive language course on attentional functions. We examined 33 participants of a one-week Scottish Gaelic course and compared them to 34 controls: 16 active controls who participated in courses of comparable ...
Thomas H Bak +3 more
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