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Mother tongue based multilingual education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Working paper education sector analytical and capacity development partnership have information about mother tongue based multilingual education with sub-setions as mother tongue based multilingual education, improved academic achievment, increased ...
ACDP, Indonesia
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Estranging the Mother Tongue

open access: yes, 2016
International audienceIn this paper I offer to examine, in a comparative perspective, the status of the powerful image of the “mother tongue” in contemporary artistic creation, especially in literary texts, and how the artists manage to generate an ...
François, Anne Isabelle
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MOTHER TONGUE-BASED INSTRUCTION: EFFECTS ON LEARNERS’ PERFORMANCE [PDF]

open access: yes
This study investigated the effects of using the mother tongue as an instructional tool on the English performance of elementary students using a quasi-experimental design.
Bularon, Edward D.
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Revisiting the issue of language in educational policy and mother tongue medium of instruction in Nigeria

open access: yes, 2009
In modern societies languages are used to further the cause of political, economic, educational, social, and psychological objectives. Thus language planning is viewed as that, which is done through the co-operative efforts of political, economic, and ...
Ihemere, K.
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When psychedelic discourse meets local narrative: Selective uptake of psychedelic meanings surrounding mad honey in Nepal

open access: yesAddiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims ‘Mad honey’ is produced when bees collect nectar from Rhododendron species containing grayanotoxins, naturally occurring diterpenoid toxins that can produce dose‐dependent intoxication. It has long been embedded in Nepalese medicinal and ritual practices but has recently become part of global psychedelic discourse. This study examined how
Sharon R. Sznitman, Surendra Tiwari
wiley   +1 more source

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