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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating writing: a case study of the transition of English second-language Social Science graduates to postgraduate professional disciplines

open access: yes, 2012
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This longitudinal, qualitative case study provides thick description of six English second-language (ESL) students' transition from Social Science disciplines to postgraduate study in the professional
Bangeni, Abongwe
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing racialised awarding gap in higher education: Insights from personal tutors

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situated within a wider cross‐institutional research project, this article provides an in‐depth case study of one higher education (HE) institution, focusing on how personal tutors make sense of racialised degree awarding disparities for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, how they perceive their responsibilities, the challenges and ...
Benjamin Ajibade   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representation of Insult in Instagram Comment Column @gibran_rakabuming Post-Nomination as Vice Presidential Candidate: A Forensic Linguistic Study

open access: yesJurnal Sastra Indonesia
Indonesia is holding the 2024 presidential and vice presidential elections, a 5-year agenda to elect the leaders of the Indonesian State. However, political events occur in the 2024 election series; one is the Constitutional Court's decision Number 90 ...
Akhmad Mukhibun   +2 more
doaj  

Identifying idiolect in forensic authorship attribution: an n-gram textbite approach

open access: yes, 2014
Forensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying authors of disputed or anonymous documents, which are potentially evidential in legal cases, through the analysis of linguistic clues left behind by writers.
Wright, D, Johnson, A, Johnson, AJ
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Effective methods for increasing levels of political self‐efficacy for girls and disadvantaged students in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study addresses the gap in rigorous evaluation of inclusive Citizenship Education methods in reducing gender and socioeconomic inequalities in political self‐efficacy. This article tests the effectiveness of two pedagogical approaches: counter‐narratives and think‐pair‐share.
Bryony Hoskins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

No other choice: The fracturing of reflexivity in families' pathways into (non‐)elective home education in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Law and Language

open access: yes, 2005
Comparative law is law’s cybernetics, or “theory of messiness.” It attempts to steer through the messiness of the foreign by reordering it into the language of the familiar without betraying the original.
Grosswald Curran, Vivian
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Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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