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Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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All Social Comparisons are Local? Inequality, Coethnicity and Subjective Economic Position
Abstract Recent studies have found that the self‐perceived, rather than the objective, economic position affects individual political behavior. But how do individuals self‐assess their own position? In this paper, we study how local conditions – local inequality and coethnicity – affect this self‐assessment.
Gerlinde Theunissen, Nils B. Weidmann
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La démocratie, base de la qualité de l’éducation préscolaire en Suède
In Sweden democracy is the foundation upon which all education rests. The social democratic vision of equality and solidarity that started in the early 20th century is firmly rooted in ECEC.
Maelis K. Lohmander
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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social ...
Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie
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Inégalité sociale et motivations scolaires.
This study tries to analyse the influence of parents attitudes on pupils motivations and school achievement. How does the representation of school achievement determinants and the importance given to this achievement for career success shape children ...
Pineau, C., Lévy-Leboyer, Claude
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Culture préscolaire et nouveaux défis au Japon
In Japan, pre-school education has traditionally been based on play and an environment which focuses on the overall development of children. In an increasingly difficult socio-economic environment, this approach is coming under scrutiny.
Miwako Hoshi Watanabe
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Accented Epidermal Thinking: How Vocal Accent Reinforces the Visibility of Race
ABSTRACT This conceptual article introduces the notion of accented epidermal thinking, which refers to the ways in which the perception, voicing, and discussion of vocal accent all reinforce or accent the idea of race being a visual construct. The article explores how accented epidermal thinking manifests itself in three areas.
Vijay A. Ramjattan
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L’école maternelle française, une entrée dans quelle culture ?
French discussions on nursery education appear to be removed from international discussions on this subject, as if it did not belong to the same pre-school sphere.
Gilles Brougère
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Politics of education: The case of social selectivity
Abstract In the 1960s, Swiss education experts identified three significant groups of young individuals facing disadvantages in accessing higher education: women, rural youth, and those with parents from lower social classes. Since then, federal and cantonal policies have successfully addressed equality for women and rural youth; however, young ...
Wolf Linder
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Une fête nationale en situation coloniale : l’exemple du 14 juillet 1936 à Alger.
Dans une perspective d’histoire politique, sociale et culturelle, cet article se propose d’analyser la cérémonie et les manifestations ayant eu lieu à Alger en 1936 à l’occasion de la commémoration de la fête nationale française du 14 juillet 1789, dans ...
EMBARECH Majid
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