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, 2018 The creation of national personifications is a political act that informs us about ideological and cognitive strategies underpinning nation-building.
Engström, Robin,
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Curriculum decolonisation has become a prominent feature of equity agendas in UK higher education, yet there remains limited empirical and theoretical work on how such initiatives are evaluated, particularly within business schools. This paper presents one of the first multi‐institutional empirical studies examining how UK business schools ...
Sally Everett +2 more
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The Rhetorical Trend in Studying Political Metaphor
, 2006 This article deals with the specificity of the theory and practice of the rhetorical trend in studying political metaphor. Most modern scholars carry out research into political metaphor, citing George Lakoff\u27s seminal works on the conceptual metaphor
Budaev, Edward V., Chudinov, Anatoly P.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan +2 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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The Call of Metaphor: Richard Rorty’s Politics of Language
Logos, 2007 This article deals with Donald Davidson’s concept of metaphor and Richard Rorty’s use of it for his version of political liberalism. Rorty assumes that metaphor is a linguistic element that is impossible to understand. Metaphor is an unintelligible “call”
Sonia Arribas
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick +6 more
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Walls Block Waves: Using an Inundation Metaphor of Immigration Predicts Support for a Border Wall
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2021 From early 20th century headlines to presidential tweets, immigration is described frequently in terms of waves, floods, and tides.
Tyler Jimenez +2 more
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Hobbes, metaphor and political thought. [PDF]
, 1991 The thesis examines the role of metaphor in political thought and, in particular, in the work of the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes. It is argued that, contrary to what many critics have suggested, Hobbes's use of images, metaphorical and otherwise ...
Willson-Quayle, James
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