Results 91 to 100 of about 210,649 (239)

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Thea Astley: Selected Poems

open access: yes, 2017
This exciting collection by Australian literary legend Thea Astley brings together for the first time many poems that have never been seen or published.
Taylor, Cheryl
core   +2 more sources

Five poems from Lapwing

open access: yes
five poems from the book-length sequence 'Lapwing', published in Blackbox Manifold ...
Copley, H.
core   +4 more sources

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

A Hundred Years of the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The centenary of the UK‐based Agricultural Economics Society (AES) is an obvious opportunity to provide an updated summary institutional history of its development and achievements. Knowledge of equivalent associations in the US influenced the foundation of the AES in 1926.
David R. Stead
wiley   +1 more source

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Individual needs

open access: yesResearch and Humanities in Medical Education, 2020
This poem is about Plastic Surgery, using two sample patients, one who has a very large bosom, making daily living impossible, and the other who has virtually no breast tissue, making her husband unhappy.
Sheela Jaywant
doaj  

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Trajectories of leisure reading for children with literacy difficulties and the role of literacy support: Findings from the UK millennium cohort study

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Evidence suggests leisure reading may be especially important for children with reading difficulties. However, little is known about how their leisure reading evolves over time or how school‐based practices, including targeted literacy support, impact this.
Miriam McBreen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy