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Land Tenure Induced Deforestation and Environmental Degradation in Ethiopia: The Case of Arbagugu State Forest Development and Protection Project (A Historical Survey ca 1975-1991)

Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2013
Conventionally, different factors like lack of technology, population explosion, a search for arable land, the need for construction materials, the expansion of commercial farms, and others are considered to be causes of deforestation in Ethiopia.
Mohammed Hassen
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
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Reframing Cultural Diplomacy: The Instrumentalization of Culture under the Soft Power Theory

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2016
Although cultural diplomacy has grown in importance in recent years, there is no consensus on its definition. Cultural diplomacy is commonly framed in terms of soft power: the capacity of persuasion and attraction that allows the state to construct ...
Mariano Martín Zamorano
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

From the Ethio-Sudan border to Central Ethiopia: assimilation of the Gumuz into the Waliso Oromo

Cogent Social Sciences
This Article explores the history of the Gumuz community, a Nilo-Saharan linguistic family who had settled in the Goro district of the Oromia regional state, central Ethiopia.
Hailu Gelana Erko, Tesema Ta’a Wayessa, Tsegaye Zeleke Tuffa   +2 more
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Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, Ha Ngan Ngo, Chloe Le   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

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
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Racial gaps without racism: How English universities frame inequality in access and participation plans

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
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Transformative Service Ecosystems for People, Plants, Place, Planet, and Prosperity: A Sustainable Operations Management Perspective

Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
The Transformative Service Ecosystem for Sustainable Operations Management (TSESOM) model reframes operations management as a co‐creative ecosystem shaped by philosophical foundations and macro–meso–micro contexts. Integrating governance, resilience, learning, systems thinking, and interdisciplinary collaboration, TSESOM advances regenerative SDG‐ and ...
Nicholas Catahan
wiley   +1 more source