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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
wiley   +1 more source

Bourdieu in Aotearoa New Zealand: A systematic review of theoretical applications in educational research, 2000–2025

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the first systematic review of scholarship applying Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework in New Zealand educational research, drawing on 30 peer‐reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2025. Following PRISMA guidelines, studies were coded for Bourdieusian concepts applied, depth of theoretical application ...
Liuning Yang
wiley   +1 more source

The Aromanian Farsheroti Dialect – Balkan Perspective

open access: yesColloquia Humanistica, 2015
The Aromanian Farsheroti Dialect – Balkan Perspective The focus of our interest is the analysis of the Aromanian Farsheroti speech from the Ohrid-Struga region, which has never been a subject of a separate linguistic analysis.
Marjan Markovik'
doaj   +1 more source

Language typology and statistics

open access: yes, 2021
Statistical methods are presented to a linguistics audience. Statistical methods are then applied to the large WALS dataset to show that automated methods can identify patterns among language features. These results are shown to be more extreme than one would expect based on chance variation.
openaire   +2 more sources

What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wortstellung der nicht-sententialen Adverbialbestimmungen im Deutschen und Chinesischen [PDF]

open access: yesBeiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft
The present study conducts a comparative analysis of the positioning of non-sentential adverbials in German and Chinese. Considering the specific head-position-parameter, German is regarded as a derived V/2 language with underlying SOV order, while ...
Duanzhuang Zheng
doaj   +1 more source

Do Eco‐Emotions and Climate Change Perceptions Influence Environmentally Conscious Decisions? Implications for Business Strategies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing research on explicating travelers' decision‐making processes regarding greener travel options, there remains potential for exploring nuances of different factors and mechanisms that may encourage higher green travel. Grounded in the propositions of the push–pull–mooring framework, our study attempts to explicate whether eco ...
Chuhong Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

La perspective fonctionnelle de la phrase et la typologie [PDF]

open access: yesEcho des Etudes Romanes, 2012
This paper discusses the contributions of professor Vladimír Skalička and his disciples, especially professor Petr Sgall, towards the understanding of the functional sentence perspective from the angle of Vladimír Skalička’s language typology.
Ivo Vasiljev
doaj  

On the relationship between typology and the description of Uralic languages

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018
Language typologists are dependent on data provided by descriptive linguists working on individual languages, who, in turn, benefit from typologists’ results, which give them new insights into the properties of their respective languages.
Matti Miestamo
doaj   +1 more source

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