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Code-switching practices in a Malaysian multilingual primary classroom from teacher’s and students’ perspectives

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
This study investigates a teacher’s and three students’ perspectives on shared instances of code-switching practices in a Malaysian multilingual primary classroom.
Malini Devi Paramesvaran, Jia Wei Lim
doaj   +1 more source

Oregon environmental literacy plan: toward a sustainable future

open access: yes, 2010
"[T]he goals of the Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan (the Plan) are to: Prepare students to understand and to address the major environmental challenges facing this state and country, including the relationship of the environment to national security ...

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Effectiveness of Contextual Phenomena-Based Learning to Improve Science Literacy

open access: yes, 2023
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of contextual phenomena-based learning to increase scientific literacy in three Basic Physics materials..
Sunarti, Titin   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving literacy of the visually impaired in Singapore: Pre-, post- and in-between literacy considerations

open access: yes, 2009
This paper underscores the importance of a multi-prong approach to literacy when considering literacy needs of the visually impaired in Singapore. While acquisition of literacy is often considered as a single prong approach, there is a need to satisfy ...
Wong, Meng Ee
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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Climate Literacy Is Health Literacy

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics
Health problems of global warming are daunting in severity and magnitude and will only get worse. Yet literacy about these problems is poor and plans to alleviate them are too early in development to be responsive to current levels of global threat and individual need.
Larry R, Churchill   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Pedagogy of and for the Public: Imagining the Intersection of Public Humanities and Community Literacy

open access: yes, 2020
As a graduate student in the humanities, I am often fearful that my labor is performed for the sake of performing labor. Exacerbated by academia’s increasingly precarious landscape, this fear requires a hopeful antidote: a new pedagogy of and for the ...
Burg, Jacob
core   +1 more source

Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

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