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Young children learning in Gaelic: Investigating children's learning experiences in Gaelic-medium pre-school. Research Briefing 6E. Stirling [PDF]
, 2011 Gaelic-medium (GM) education is an important part of current efforts to re-vitalise the language in Scotland. Beginning Gaelic-medium education in preschool is seen as a crucial entry point, enhancing the numbers entering GM primary education and ...
McLeod, Wilson +2 more
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Countering FIMI by Digital Authoritarianisms: Audience Architecture and Reverse Language Engineering
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) campaigns on social media are currently both more accessible and more impactful than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) or European Union's (EU), offering their opponents superiority and efficiency on those platforms.
Michelangelo Conoscenti
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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The Concept of “tchelovek” in Dostoevsky’s Linguistic Worldview
Stephanos Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journalThe paper, based on the material of Dostoevsky’s Idioglossary, argues that the core of the author’s thesaurus is the concept of ‘tchelovek’. The semantic structure of the word “tchelovek” is determined considering definitions in explanatory dictionaries, the peculiarities of its use in works of fiction, in literary essays and in writer’s letters.
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Indigenous‐Led Adaptation to Complex Climate Risks in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pacific Island peoples have long histories of adapting to environmental changes, but recent climate change is now driving complex risks that unfold within rapidly shifting societal and environmental contexts. This study investigates how remote Indigenous communities in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, experience and want to respond to complex ...
Eric Lede +3 more
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British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined the relationships between generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling – a community‐based free‐item sharing pro‐environmental behaviour. It also explored the role of societal factors in relation to participation in freecycling, as well as how they are associated with these relationships.
Algae K. Y. Au +2 more
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On the Proper Treatment of Dynamics in Cognitive Science
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the relevance of dynamical ideas for cognitive science. On its own, the mere mathematical idea of a dynamical system is too weak to serve as a scientific theory of anything, and dynamical approaches within cognitive science are too rich and varied to be subsumed under a single “dynamical hypothesis.” Instead, after first ...
Randall D. Beer
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child welfare services in Norway and Sweden proclaim the importance of considering continuity in the child's upbringing and ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background when placed in foster care. Drawing on seven vignette‐based focus group discussions with social workers in Norway (12 participants) and Sweden (14 participants), this ...
Elin Hultman +2 more
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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley +3 more
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