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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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Christianity, boxing and mixed martial arts : reflections on morality, vocation, and well-being [PDF]
, 2015 This essay provides a theological analysis of two violent combat sports, boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA, also known as cage fighting). The titles of the biographies of a number of well-known professional Christian boxers, such as God in My Corner ...
Watson, Nick J +2 more
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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The fate of territorial engineering: mechanisms of territorial power and post-liberal forms of international governance [PDF]
, 2004 Does there exist a genuine threat to the continuation of a broadly liberal international (and domestic) order, driven by the re-emergence of religious and secular fundamentalisms?
Thompson, Grahame
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Mixed Martial Arts As A Way To God? [PDF]
, 2010 In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Jay Coakely, a prominent sport sociologist, has explored the links between religion and sport.
Dane, Emily
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Tyr : A historical and comparative study of configurations and formations connected to the Old Norse god Tyr [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis has two aims. One is a discussion of the history of the study of Old Norse religion and related aspects, centered on how general tendencies within the area of research have affected the interpretations of the god *Tīwaz/Tyr.
af Edholm, Klas
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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Analysis of differences among athletes of martial arts in anthropological characteristics [PDF]
, 2018 Glavni cilj ovog diplomskog rada bio je utvrditi postoje li razlike u antropometrijskim karakteristikama između 135 natjecatelja seniorskog uzrasta (17 do 34 god) iz šest borilačkih sportova (16 boksača dobi 24,72±3,44 god, težine 82,83±14,25 kg i visine
Čupić, Luka
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