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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

The current status of oral reading in professional literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 1953
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Fortier, Gerard L., Stanley, Dorothy B.
core   +1 more source

The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Institutional repositories (IRs) established at universities and academic libraries over a decade ago, large and small, have encountered challenges along the way in keeping faith with their original objective: to collect, preserve, and disseminate the ...
Wu, Mary J
core   +3 more sources

Student Demographics with Changing Admission Criteria: Is Nursing Diversity at Risk? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Schools of nursing are challenged with choosing from an increasing number of applicants and the need to prepare as many successful nurses as possible to meet the nursing shortage.
Keith, Kimlin McDaniel, Yoon, Jung
core   +1 more source

The coelurosaur theropods of the Romualdo formation, early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil: Santanaraptor placidus meets Mirischia asymmetrica

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The upper carbonate concretion levels of the Romualdo Formation (Aptian, Brazil) have yielded several theropod dinosaur remains, including spinosaurids and the coelurosaurs Santanaraptor placidus and Mirischia asymmetrica, the phylogenetic affinities of which are controversial.
Rafael Delcourt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying Master’s and PhD Theses Whose Titles Contain Concept of “Critical Thinking” by Different Variables

open access: yesInternational Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2017
Independent and original thinking are the concepts which define critical thinking. A critical thinker doesn’t passively accept other people’s views and thoughts, on the contrary he constitutes his own thoughts by analyzing them.
Süleyman ARSLANTAŞ, Ahmet KURNAZ
doaj   +1 more source

An Algorithm for Data Reorganization in a Multi-dimensional Index [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In spatial databases, data are associated with spatial coordinates and are retrieved based on spatial proximity. A spatial database uses spatial indexes to optimize spatial queries.
Nair, Urvashi Samaresh
core   +1 more source

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