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How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg, Girma Berhanu, Lena Fridlund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary Pastoral Praxis: Addressing Structural Injustice in Nomzamo Park Informal Settlement, Soweto [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
This article examines contemporary pastoral praxis in addressing structural injustice within the Nomzamo Park informal settlement in Soweto, South Africa, contributing to the contextualization of practical theology and pastoral care in the African ...
Solomon Sipho Mahlangu, PhD
doaj   +1 more source

Clergy work-related satisfactions in parochial ministry: the influence of personality and churchmanship [PDF]

, 2008
The aim of this study was to test several hypotheses that clergy work-related satisfaction could be better explained by a multidimensional rather than a unidimensional model.
Barna G, Campbell A, Christopher J. F. Rutledge, Clark A, Coate MA, Cooper C, Davey J, Fletcher B, Francis LJ, Goetz D, Headey BW, Kay WK, King H, Kirk M, Leslie J. Francis, Peter Hills, Randall K, Robbins M, Rose M, Rutledge CJF, Sanford JA, Strümpfer DJW, Warner J   +22 more
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Pastorale sorg aan beswaardes en ongeduldiges met die oog op die opbou van die gemeente

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1991
Pastoral care for the objectors and the impatient: a church growth perspective The aim of this article is to develop a pastoral theological perspective to a recent pastoral problem. This problem is the growing polarization within churches (with the focus
P. J. Rossouw
doaj   +1 more source

Practice Insight: Adapting Peacebuilding Dialogue Methodologies to City‐Resident Relations and Inclusive Policymaking in Calgary, Canada

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study presents a project in which peacebuilding dialogue methodologies were adapted for use in municipal‐level dialogue sessions that took place in Calgary, Canada in late 2022 and early 2023. The authors found that using this approach built trust among cross‐sectoral participants and facilitators, resulted in greater diversity ...
Aleem Bharwani, Josh Nadeau
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their ...
Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Helin Ünal, Zsolt P. Szabó, Hu Young Jeong, J. Christopher Cohrs, Danielle Black   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns of help‐seeking for mental health problems in 1001 self‐identified neurodivergent adolescents who self‐harm

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Adolescents who self‐harm are also more likely to seek support from informal than formal sources and least likely to seek support online. But neurodivergent adolescents who self‐harm are more likely to seek any and especially formal (pastoral school staff or mental health services) support than their peers.
Simona Skripkauskaite, Galit Geulayov, the OxWell Study Team, Mina Fazel, Rohan Borschmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing conservation with national development: a socio-economic case study of the alternatives to the Serengeti Road [PDF]

, 2015
Developing countries often have rich natural resources but poor infrastructure to capitalize on them, which leads to significant challenges in terms of balancing poverty alleviation with conservation.
Bigurube, Gerald, Borner, Markus, Hopcraft, J. Grant C., Lembeli, James Daudi, Nugent, Rachel A.   +4 more
core   +7 more sources

Healing and coping with life within challenges of spiritual insecurity: Juxtaposed consideration of Christ’s sinlessness and African ancestors in pastoral guidance

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
Spiritual insecurity among African Christians is a huge challenge. The insecurity among other things arises from African people’s former traditional African ancestral world view of ancestral veneration. The ancestors promote or hinder African Christians’
Vhumani Magezi, Christopher Magezi
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Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities as stewards of biodiversity has brought to the fore the issues of knowledge and value pluralism in conservation policy and practice. Given their basis in practical and multi‐generational experience, Indigenous and local knowledges are highly relevant to managing human ...
Hanna Pettersson, Lou Lécuyer, Juliette Young, Lindsay Stringer, Simon Calla, Erika Juhász, Zsolt Molnár   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source