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‘Most musicall, most melancholy’: Avian aesthetics of lament in Greek and Roman elegy

open access: yesDictynna, 2019
In this paper, I explore how Greek and Roman poets alluded to the lamentatory background of elegy through the figures of the swan and the nightingale.
Thomas J. Nelson
doaj  

Sacred Psychotherapy in the “Age of Authenticity”: Healing and Cultural Revivalism in Contemporary Finland

open access: yesReligions, 2011
Like other European countries, contemporary Finland has witnessed an explosion of healing modalities designatable as “New Age” (though not without profound controversy, [1]).
James M. Wilce
doaj   +1 more source

Lessons of Lament: Reflections on the correspondence between the Lament Psalms and early Australian Pentecostal Prayer

open access: yes, 2011
This paper reflects on research which discovered a correspondence between the form of the biblical lament psalms and the early Australian Pentecostal (1908 – 1937) practice of prayer.
Narelle Jane Melton
core   +1 more source

Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source

More‐than‐gender? Moving beyond gendered expectations of divergent learners in early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we explore how neurodivergent ways of being in early education are often gendered. The intersectionalities of gender and neurodivergence often lead to fixed expectations that perpetuate binary interpretations, pathologisations, missed diagnoses and a lack of curated support.
Ruth Churchill Dower, Hannah Hogarth
wiley   +1 more source

Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, a university education has been seen primarily as a route for the middle classes to achieve professional qualifications while structural barriers have served to restrict entry to individuals from particular demographics. First‐generation students (FGS), often with low socio‐economic backgrounds, face multiple barriers to Higher ...
Helen Williams, Ellen‐Alyssa Gambles
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Constellation, Functionality, and Semantics of Biblical Hebrew Finite Conjugations in the Psalms of Lament [PDF]

open access: yesConspectus
Most approaches to the study of the biblical Hebrew verbal system focus on the semantic values of verbal forms. However, the outcomes are not pleasing when applied to the text because of varied inconsistencies exposed in Hebrew Bible translations.
Maxwell Chiwoko Banda
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring interactions of the dimensions of agency through the experiences of aspiring school leaders in Scotland, UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Agency has increasingly become a central concept in educational leadership research, yet its application to those preparing to enter school leadership roles remains underexplored. Drawing on the conceptual framework of the ecological approach to teacher agency, we explored how and in what ways aspiring school leaders in Scotland (n = 21 ...
Romina Madrid Miranda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic impacts of climate change and tourism development in high-risk European countries

open access: yesJournal of Modern Science
Objectives Climate is a fundamental tourism resource that shapes the environmental conditions where tourism services are provided. It is therefore an important determinant of its development and is the subject of cyclical assessments.
Vanda Maráková   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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