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The Crisis of Expertise in Schooling: An Ethnography of Parents as Educators in Israeli Alternative Schools

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Expertise in schooling is shaped by the global crisis of expertise, the contested nature of teaching as a profession, and contemporary middle‐class parenting norms. The paper examines these influences by presenting cases of parents who became educators in alternative schools in Israel.
Amit Rottman, Deborah Golden
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming a martial arts researcher: a comparative critical autoethnography of the experiences of two early career researchers [PDF]

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[EN] Becoming a martial arts researcher can take many forms. Studies of martial arts occur in a variety of disciplines and academic fields. The positionality of martial arts researchers is singular in that while engaging in rigorous scholarship on ...
Contreras Islas, David Sebastian   +1 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Study on scientific production in martial arts in Spain from 1990 to present

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This study presents a panoramic overview of the scientific production related to martial arts published in Spain from the last decade of 20th Century to the present.
Gutiérrez García, Carlos   +1 more
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Report on the first International Martial Arts and Combat Sports Scientific Society (IMACSSS) Conference - “Game, Drama, Ritual in Martial Arts and Combat Sports”

open access: yesRevista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012
The present report provides a brief account of the first conference of the International Martial Arts and Combat Sports Scientific Society (IMACSSS), held in Genova (Italy) on June 8th-10th, 2012.
Jikkemien Vertonghen
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A Biomechanical Analysis of Technique Training and Freefight in Historical European Martial Arts

open access: yes, 2019
In this empirical thesis Longsword techniques from the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) were examined in training and freefight. The aim of this thesis is to examine the difference of a technique in training and freefight. German Longsword sources from Liechtenauer et al. (1504-1519) and Juden et al. (around 1400) were examined.
openaire   +2 more sources

Artificial Intelligence in Patient Education: ChatGPT for Penile Prosthesis Surgery Counseling, a Likert Scale Analysis

open access: yesAndrology, Volume 14, Issue 6, Page 1684-1700, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Erectile dysfunction (ED) significantly impacts quality of life. For patients unresponsive to conservative treatments, penile prosthesis implantation represents an effective solution with high satisfaction rates. However, the complexity and sensitive nature of the procedure often generate multiple patient concerns.
Gabriele Tulone   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Introduction to Sun Family Taiji Boxing: Theory and Applications

open access: yesRevista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2012
Though well known in China, Sun Family Taiji is one of the least known of Chinese martial arts here in the West. Created by one of China’s top martial artists, Sun Lutang, in what many consider the “Golden Years” of Chinese pugilism (turn of the 20th ...
Jake Burroughs
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Effects of postural intervention using a risshin chair on physical posture, class time perception, and subjective well‐being in junior high school students

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, Volume 96, Issue 3, Page 1341-1361, September 2026.
Abstract Background Research based on embodied cognition has demonstrated that physical posture, particularly an upright seated posture, can influence emotions and cognition. However, although students spend most of the day sitting in classrooms, intervention research on upright seated postures suitable for learning environments is limited.
Yusuke Murakami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The legacy of pankration : mixed martial arts and the posthuman revival of a fighting culture

open access: yes, 2013
Based on participant observation in a mixed martial arts club, this article analyzes the concept of cultural performativity in mixed martial arts (MMA) in relation to the ancient sport of pankration, which is considered to be the origin of MMA.
Stenius, Magnus,
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