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From Theatre to Transformation: Learning, Action, and Diffusion for SDG2 in Cambodia
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The arts are envisioned as able to help address the longstanding ‘implementation gap’ between research and realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For SDG2 (Zero Hunger), Forum Theatre offers a participatory alternative to top‐down interventions, yet its impacts have not been evaluated using rigorous, mixed‐methods that are ...
Brian R. Cook +6 more
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Norwegian Missionary Linguistic Mishap
, 2017 [Interviewer introduces the topic of a family legend about the informant’s religious, LDS mission to Norway, and some of the linguistic troubles some of the American missionaries had while learning Norwegian.] Well the fun part about learning a new language is that you get to learn that they have, different words for, to mean different things.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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Education for Problems of Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cynefin framework for decision‐making categorizes problem environments into simple (known knowns), complicated (known unknowns), complex (unknown unknowns), and chaotic (unknowables). Simple and complicated problem environments enable best and good solutions, but complex and chaotic problem environments require emergent and novel solutions.
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Considering applied linguistics as a problem‐centered discipline, we address an enduring challenge in the field: the need to ensure that research provides findings that can contribute to solving everyday challenges faced by language practitioners.
Hyun‐Bin Hwang, Matthew D. Coss
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Does language make people more prosocial? The influence of Mandarin proficiency on donation behavior. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Wang Q, Yu L, Zhang R.
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Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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