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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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Implantação de faixas exclusivas para ônibus: efeito da troca modal no tráfego [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Automação e Sistemas, Florianópolis, 2015.O incentivo à troca modal do automóvel pelo transporte coletivo e por modos não ...
Paradeda, Diego Benites
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Integrated Framework for Bus Timetabling and Scheduling in Multi-Line Operation Mode
Bus service is of great significance to urban residents. With the convergence of bus lines and the formation of bus hubs, a multi-line operation mode which can realize the centralized management of vehicles is applied to the daily bus service planning ...
Zhaocheng He +2 more
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Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
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Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Heuristics and Biases in Travel Mode Choice [PDF]
This study applies experimental methods to analyze travel mode choice. Two different scenarios are considered. In the first scenario, subjects have to decide whether to commute by car or by metro.
Patrizia Latturolo +2 more
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The impact of kombi-taxis on public transport
Includes bibliography.This thesis attempts to quantify the impact of kombi-taxis on the conventional modes of public transport, in particular the bus, in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area.
Bassier, A M
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Abstract This study addresses the gap in rigorous evaluation of inclusive Citizenship Education methods in reducing gender and socioeconomic inequalities in political self‐efficacy. This article tests the effectiveness of two pedagogical approaches: counter‐narratives and think‐pair‐share.
Bryony Hoskins +2 more
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Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette +5 more
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