Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Towards a Puviani’s Fiscal Illusion Index [PDF]
This paper presents an index of Fiscal Illusion for 68 democratic countries from 1960 to 2006. The theory of Fiscal Illusion studied relates to a wrong perception of government budget aggregates from the voters’ and taxpayers’ perspectives.
Paulo Reis Mourao
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Orientation-sensitivity to facial features explains the Thatcher illusion [PDF]
The Thatcher illusion provides a compelling example of the perceptual cost of face inversion. The Thatcher illusion is often thought to result from a disruption to the processing of spatial relations between face features.
Andrews J., Timothy +3 more
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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Dream and Sensory Illusions in Seventeenth-century France
What does the apparently simple phrase “sensorial illusion” mean in the case of dreams? What forms did the century of Calderón, Shakespeare and Descartes give to this illusion ?
Florence Dumora (Université Paris-Diderot +1 more
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Towards a Fiscal Illusion Index [PDF]
This paper presents an index of Fiscal Illusion for 68 democratic countries from 1960 to 2006. The studied Fiscal Illusion is the one related to a wrong perception of the budget aggregates according to the voters and taxpayers’ perspectives.
Mourão, Paulo
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Jule Elena Westerheide, Die Illusion der Leistungsgerechtigkeit: Arbeit und Entgelt von Sekretärinnen. Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2021, 413 S., br., 39,95 € [PDF]
Maurice Laßhof
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ABSTRACT This article examines the role of restorative justice coordinators in supporting teachers and schools in adopting a whole‐school approach to restorative justice in education. Coordinators are often tasked with implementing a train‐and‐hope model, in which they receive initial training in restorative justice but are largely left unsupported ...
Crystena Parker‐Shandal +3 more
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Gender and Use of AI Generated Photographs: Illusion, Delusion and Make-Belief in The Digital Space
This study examines the influence of gender on use of AI generated photographs, and how they create illusion, delusion and make-belief in the mind of the people. The idea behind this study is because of the proliferation of AI-generated images that have
Ifeanyi M. Nwokeocha +1 more
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The Dynamics of the Policy Mix and Sectoral Gaps in South Korea's Decarbonization Transition
ABSTRACT While a coherent policy mix is a fundamental prerequisite for successful energy transitions, existing frameworks predominantly rely on static evaluations. This horizontal approach fails to capture the deep temporal dynamics and physical inertia inherent in socio‐technical regime shifts.
Yong Hwan Kim, Kyung Nam Kim
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