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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy, Gianni De Fraja, Mike Adkins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’île sur le fleuve dans Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2013) et Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960) : Requiem contre le progrès ?

Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2022
The island – a metaphorical space that exemplifies such dual notions as space and depth, space from within/without – is a desert one on the Mississippi River that is magnified in Nichols’ Mud, while the inhabitants of the Garth Island on the Hiwassee ...
Sandra Gorgievski
doaj   +1 more source

A Framework to Assess Returns on Investments in the Dryland Systems of Northern Kenya [PDF]

, 2015
Governments need quantitative assessments of the outcomes of proposed investments so they can weigh the merits of each option. Without these, there is a risk that some proposed changes could in fact reduce rather than increase benefits to the economy and
Caroline King-Okumu
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Disingenuous ‘box‐ticking’: Undergraduate students' attitudes towards university mental health awareness efforts

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Mental health problems are common among UK undergraduate students. In response, many universities have put considerable effort into raising awareness about student mental health problems and avenues of support (e.g., via workshops, posters, email newsletters and social media posts).
Sorcha Finan, Lucy Foulkes
wiley   +1 more source

A systematic review of facilitators and barriers to school staff development projects using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a systematic literature review (SLR) of research published between 2009 and 2022 that aims to identify facilitators and barriers to implementing staff development projects (SDPs) in schools in England. Twelve research papers fulfilled all inclusion criteria and were each evaluated as being at least medium‐quality research.
David Preston, Pamela Qualter, Kevin Woods   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Who Will Turn Me Away from the Sheep?”: Present State and Development Trends of Transhumant Pastoralism in Eastern Herzegovina in the 21st Century

Etnoantropološki Problemi
The paper presents the results of a field study of transhumant pastoralism which was carried out in June and July 2022 on the Zelengora, Volujak and Lebršnik mountains, on the Morine plateau, i.e. in the areas of the municipalities of Ljubinje, Nevesinje,
Slobodan Naumović, Bogdan Dražeta
doaj   +1 more source

Book review of Pastoralism – Making Variability Work by Saverio Krätli and Ilse Koehler-Rollefson and a discussion of the inherent challenges of writing about pastoralists at the global scale

Pastoralism, 2022
Book details Krätli, S and Koehler-Rollefson, I Pastoralism – Making Variability Work Rome: FAO; 2021.
Kramer Gillin, Matthew D. Turner
doaj   +1 more source

Experimenting with the design of policies on sustainable resource management : A proposal for Cirad's involvement in a transversal socio-economics component of DMP in West Africa [PDF]

, 2004
In our proposal, public policy is approached as a social mediation process, where actors and sectors confront their representations, objectives, and constraints.
Leclerc, Grégoire
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Households without Houses : Mobility and Moorings on the Eurasian Steppe [PDF]

, 2016
The research that provided the basis for this paper was carried out in collaboration with the Institutes of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and would not have been possible without my colleagues Chunag Amartuvshin, William ...
Wright, Joshua
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Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian ...
Amy Bywater, Helen Keane
wiley   +1 more source