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Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 833-851, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Gender stereotypes in the natural sciences may discourage girls from pursuing STEM fields, thus contributing to the differential STEM pathways of males and females. This paper exploits quasi‐experimental data from a vignette study to investigate teachers’ gender bias in STEM at the transition to upper secondary school in Denmark—a key stage in
Ida Gran Andersen
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Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms
The Geographical Journal, Volume 189, Issue 1, Page 143-160, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming.
Ben Anderson +12 more
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 102-123, February 2023., 2023 Histories of settler colonial art galleries have tended to present these institutions as distant attempts to replicate British models. This essay argues that settler/Indigenous interactions, and the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples, were fundamental to the formation of settler colonial art galleries, through a case study of the 1880s ...
Kate Nichols
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History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 371-390, September 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Modernity held sacred the aspirational formula of the open future: a promise of human determination that doubles as an injunction to control. Today, the banner of this plannable future is borne by technology. Allegedly impersonal, neutral, and exempt from disillusionment with ideology, belief in technological change saturates the present ...
Sun‐ha Hong
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Windows of Cognition : Contemporary French Comics and the Cultural Middlebrow
Belphégor, 2017 This chapter deliberates the merits of whether French-language comics may be construed as a salient example of a new cultural middlebrow. It argues that the comics artist introduces new ways of seeing shared worlds, stressing the referential aspects ...
David Platten
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Literary Lessons. Knowledge and Genre in Dutch Middlebrow Fiction of the Interwar Years
Belphégor, 2017 The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form, that aims to combine entertainment with education and instruction.
Bram Lambrecht +2 more
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Belphégor, 2022 L’article prolonge les réflexions sur l’américanisation de la presse magazine au Québec durant l’entre-deux-guerres, en analysant dans les périodiques eux-mêmes les rapports entre la rhétorique antiaméricaine, l’axiome national et la moyennisation des ...
Adrien Rannaud
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IdeAs, 2018 This article focuses on the discussion of expatriation and on the representations of modernism in a middlebrow novel, The French They are a Funny Race, by Lyon Mearson (1931), arguing that those two aspects are linked by a common critical perspective on ...
Céline Mansanti
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Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit*
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 71, Issue 5, Page 830-851, November 2020., 2020 Abstract We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the economically left‐behinds. The second narrative attributes Brexit to the resurgence of an English nationalism.
Tak Wing Chan +3 more
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La literatura de “en medio”: el middlebrow como concepto para entender la literatura francesa desde la Belle Époque hasta nuestros días / The “in the middle” Literature: “Middlebrow” as a Concept for Understanding the French Literature from the Belle Époque through the Present Day [PDF]
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2019 Acerca del libro de Diana Holmes, Middlebrow Matters. Women’s reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2018, 244 p. ISBN978-1-786-94156-5).
Isabelle Marc
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