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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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Idealism as an educational philosophy of mathematics teachers in Al Ain City Schools of the United Arab Emirates. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Khasawneh OM +3 more
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Principals' Leadership Content Knowledge in STEM contexts
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we consider the nature of school principals' leadership content knowledge (LCK) for STEM subjects and for integrated STEM. We present a conceptualisation of STEM LCK based on aspects of principals' STEM capability and consideration of the differences between LCK and pedagogical content knowledge.
Kim Beswick, Vince Geiger, Sharon Fraser
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Gun Carrying Among Adolescents [PDF]
, 1996 Outdoor education is a promising educational field that can support indoor education and provide benefits beyond the evidentknowledge. Outdoor and indoor education together can formulate the ground for an integrated learning.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
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Some Varieties of Superparadox. The implications of dynamic contradiction, the characteristic form of breakdown of breakdown of sense to which self-reference is prone [PDF]
, 1993 The Problem of the Paradoxes came to the fore in philosophy and mathematics with the discovery of Russell's Paradox in 1901. It is the "forgotten" intellectual-scientific problem of the Twentieth Century, because for more than sixty years a pretence was ...
Ormell, Christopher
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Friedrich Waismann’s Philosophy of Mathematics [PDF]
, 2019 In their paper Severin Schroeder and Harry Tomany parallel Waismann’s writings on existence in mathematics, the meaning of mathematical concepts, equations and tautologies as well as infinity in minute detail with Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics.
Schroeder, Severin, Tomany, Harry
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
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The philosophy of language and the Ontology of Knowledge [PDF]
, 2019 Objective The relations between thought and reality are studied in many fields of philosophy and science. Examples include ontology and metaphysics in general, linguistics, neuroscience and even mathematics. Each one has its postulates, its language, its
Boucon, Jean-Louis
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