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Climate shock response and resilience of smallholder farmers in the drylands of south-eastern Zimbabwe

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2023
Climatic shocks are exerting pressure on livelihoods of Zimbabwe's smallholder farmer—who irrigate only 2% of their farms. The smallholder farmers in drought-prone areas are more exposed to drought because of their limited ability to cope with shocks and
Ephraim Nkonya   +3 more
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN PAKISTAN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Online education is increasingly becoming common in higher education forsupporting traditional education as well as emerging as an opportunity fordelivering entire education online.
Mahboob, Ayesha, Ayesha Mahboob
core   +1 more source

The Moderating Effect of Gender Equality and Other Factors on PISA and Education Policy

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2021
Globalisation and policy transfer in education make it incumbent upon decision makers to prioritise among competing policy options, select policy initiatives that are appropriate for their national contexts, and understand how system-specific factors ...
Janine Anne Campbell
doaj   +1 more source

Body-size dependent foraging strategies in the Christmas Island flying-fox: implications for seed and pollen dispersal within a threatened island ecosystem

open access: yesMovement Ecology, 2022
Background Animals are important vectors for the dispersal of a wide variety of plant species, and thus play a key role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of natural ecosystems.
Christopher M. Todd   +6 more
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Snowy Owls in central North America have regular migration and high philopatry to wintering sites though not always to home ranges

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2023
Understanding the threats faced by a bird species requires a knowledge of their movements throughout the annual cycle and, for migratory species, the degree of connectivity between breeding and wintering sites.
Karen L Wiebe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning for MDGs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This on-line module is developed by the Centre for Environment Education in partnership with and support from the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of this website is to provide Education and Communication professionals with useful

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Successful learning or failing premise? A situated evaluation of a virtual learning environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
There is a growing premise among educational policy makers and funding bodies that the inclusion of e-learning strategies into a traditionally delivered course in a mainstream educational setting provides a solution to some of the barriers to learning ...
Iredale, Alison
core   +3 more sources

La questione della cittadinanza tra educazione e politica: riflessioni critiche e proposte costruttive per il dibattito pedagogico

open access: yesEncyclopaideia, 2020
Citizenship education is a core topic of all transformative pedagogies. In this article, we build on the phenomenological and critical schools of pedagogical thought in order to highlight some key theoretical issues that remain unaddressed in both the ...
Francesco Pigozzo, Daniela Martinelli
doaj   +1 more source

Considering multiple types of children’s communities ought to be a priority when designing schools

open access: yesIUL Research, 2022
In this paper, the author reflects on the affordances of various physical learning spaces. The author uses four different types of children’s communities as a lens to do so.
Mie Guldbæk Brøns
doaj   +1 more source

Children's experiences on social and emotional learning through various types of guided play

open access: yesFrontiers in Developmental Psychology
The SELMA project is a large randomized controlled trial aimed at promoting social and emotional learning (SEL), mastery, and wellbeing among 5-year-old children in Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers.
Ragnhild Lenes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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