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Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative study exploring the experiences of Muslim women in the South African workplace

open access: yesSA Journal of Human Resource Management
Orientation: More Muslim women are entering the labour market, and this requires an understanding of the cultural and social contexts as there may be challenges inhibiting their growth and advancement.
Nuraan Agherdien
doaj   +1 more source

MUSLIM YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS IN BRITAIN

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1997
Muslim youth organizations reflect some of the most dynamic and important issues currently facing the British Muslim community. The question of young Muslims and the organizations in which they are involved must be a matter high on the agenda of all with
Sophie Gilliat
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

JIHAD FOR WHOM? The Radicalization of Religion as a Response to Political Oppression: From Turkish to Indonesian Islam

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2008
The confrontation with Western colonialism has become part of the Islamic history since the nineteenth century.  This paper is an attempt to investigate the radicalization of religion in several parts of the Islamic world.
Olaf Schumann
doaj   +1 more source

Issues of gender, reflexivity and positionality in the field of disability : researching visual impairment in an Arab society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article examines how the social and cultural context influence the way in which field research methods are utilized. Research methods need to be modified to meet the sensibilities and sensitivities of particular social groups and settings. Through a
Ahmed, Dunya Ahmed Abdullah   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Technology Valley of Death of Circular Economy Solutions: A System Dynamics Simulation of Business Strategies for the Second‐Use Battery Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries can be repurposed to stationary storage batteries. While this circularity solution has attracted attention from entrepreneurs, falling battery prices, along with the longer lifetime of new batteries, high consumer expectations and limited governmental support challenge the approach.
Juliane Seika, Merla Kubli
wiley   +1 more source

Water governance and sustainability: an Islamic moral economy perspective on circular resource use

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
Water circularity is increasingly recognised as a critical determinant of long-term economic resilience and sustainability. This paper empirically investigates the decoupling of economic growth from water consumption across 179 countries over the period ...
Lina Abu Ghunmi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Imagination and Social Capital: 'Transnational agency and practices among Pakistani Muslims in the UK'

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012
In this article, we argue that “imagination” is an important tool in the formation of social capital for young Pakistani Muslim men and women in the city of Bradford, UK.
Gurchathen S. Sanghera   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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