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Your institution can't afford to ignore the needs of adult learners

Recruiting & Retaining Adult Learners, 2019
ATLANTA — With more than a quarter of current American undergraduates classified as adult students (27 percent of undergraduates are 25 years old or older), it is more important than ever to consider how the needs of adult learners are — and aren't — being met by our current higher education landscape. That was the message from a session on the urgency
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Instituting the Intolerable: Shame, Ignorance and Schema of Monohumanist Man

Deleuze and Guattari Studies
For Deleuze and Guattari, shame is what induces belief in a world, enabling a seeing of the intolerable as an exit from schemas of ignorance that institute sensorial and cognitive complicity with oppressive conditions. Distinct from guilt that can be localised upon a specific agent for something, shame compels accountability before the intolerable.
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State Making, Knowledge, and Ignorance: Translation and Concealment in Mexican Forestry Institutions

American Anthropologist, 2008
ABSTRACT  Officials in the Mexican environmental protection agency, the Secretaria de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales y de Pesca (SEMARNAP), deploy representations of agropastoral fires set by rural people to find urban allies, whereas officials and rural people in Oaxaca avoid mentioning fire and firewood cutting.
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Strategic ignorance and social Institutions

2017
This doctoral thesis in Economics consists of three self-contained chapters in strategic behavior and social institutions.Do People Avoid Morally Relevant Information? Evidence from the Refugee Crisis examines whether people avoid information in an attempt to reduce the moral pressure to engage in prosocial behavior.Saving and Bequest in China: An ...
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Racist Agnotology: How Myth-Making about Institutions and Knowledge Production Contributes to Racialized Ignorance

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Recently, scholars have revitalized the study of race by exploring how ignorance epistemologically fortifies racial domination. To articulate terms of analysis, much of this literature invokes two recurrent modes of racialized ignorance—racist essentialism and racialized nonknowing. We introduce a third mode—racist agnotology.
Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, Aaron Panofsky   +2 more
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Organizational Ignorance in the Educational Institutions: Reasons and Treatments

The Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences, 2021
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Pluralistic ignorance, risk perception, and the governance of the dark side in peer-to-peer transactions: Evidence from the Indian banking industry

Journal of Business Research, 2021
Shubhabrata Basu, Preet S Aulakh, Surender Munjal   +2 more
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How Institutional Investors Form and Ignore Their Own Expectations

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Howard Jones, Jose Vicente Martinez
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"Something has to be heard to be ignored” : Reporting and reception of institutional repository metrics

How an institutional repository communicates its value to key stakeholders should align with the interests and goals of their appropriate audience. But what does that look like in practice? And what if the audience isn’t really interested? Drawing on the experience of cIRcle, the institutional repository at the University of British Columbia, this ...
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American Ignorance and the Discourse of Manageability Concerning the Care and Presentation of Black Hair

Journal of Medical Humanities, 2020
Amir R A Jáima
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