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Exploring Young Students' Functional Thinking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Early Years Generalising Project (EYGP) involves Australian Years 1-4 (age 5-9) students and investigates how they grasp and express generalisations.
Cooper, Thomas J.   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
wiley   +1 more source

Science by Conceptual Analysis: The Genius of the Late Scholastics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The late scholastics, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, contributed to many fields of knowledge other than philosophy. They developed a method of conceptual analysis that was very productive in those disciplines in which theory is ...
Franklin, James
core   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Le texte et le tableau. Zola, L’Œuvre. Cézanne, l’œuvre

open access: yesSignata, 2014
In the general framework of the relations between semiotics and literature and, more widely, between literary semiotics and plastic language, our aim is to argue, through a concrete case, the contribution of semiotics in the clarification of a literary ...
Denis Bertrand
doaj   +1 more source

Some Comments on the Changes, Contradictions and Connections of Literary Theories in Lithuania

open access: yesInterlitteraria, 2020
The paper presents a brief history of literary theories that have been used in Lithuania for the last century (1918–2018). Certain general patterns of development are visible in Lithuanian literary studies: movements from positivist (M. Biržiška) to anti-
Aušra Jurgutienė
doaj   +1 more source

Is the semiosphere post-modernist? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper provides arguments for and against M.Lotman’s (2002) contention that Y.Lotman’s seminal concept of semiosphere is of post-modernist (post-structuralist; Posner 2011) orientation.
Rossolatos, George
core  

Critical Multilingual Language Awareness, Antiracism, and Raciolinguicized Subjectivities in Teacher Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Race and language collaborate in structuring educational inequities, creating urgency for teacher education to equip all teachers to equitably serve racialized multilinguals as antiracist language educators. Emphasizing the inseparability of racial and linguistic justice, this article examines teacher candidates' (TCs') learning journeys ...
Monica Shank Lauwo
wiley   +1 more source

Screen-based musical instruments as semiotic machines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The ixi software project started in 2000 with the intention to explore new interactive patterns and virtual interfaces in computer music software. The aim of this paper is not to describe these programs, as they have been described elsewhere, but rather ...
Magnusson, Thor
core   +1 more source

Becoming a TESOL Practitioner: Disciplinary Languaging and the Socialization of International Students in UK Higher Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article proposes the concept of disciplinary languaging to account for the regulated forms of communication that are characteristic of TESOL master's preparatory programs in the UK. It does so with a view to the effects on the socialization of international students who are attracted by the global promotion of such programs and the ...
Yunpeng Du, Miguel Pérez‐Milans
wiley   +1 more source

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