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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes +2 more
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Reflections on Method in Interwar American Sociology [PDF]
, 2010 The article provides a historical contextualization of the debates on theory and method within interwar American sociology. This period is often portrayed as the “golden” age of empirical inquiry resulting in proliferation of methodological orientations.
Balon, Jan
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton +4 more
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RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2008 In the 1620s Patriarch Philaret demanded to change rules how to adopt people of other believes in the Orthodoxy. In the context of social, loyal, political and cultural practices of the 1620-1630s two documents on this subject, joint in «Sobornoye ...
P P Osiushkin
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
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The Pragmatic Court: Reinterpreting the Supreme People’s Court of China [PDF]
, 2012 This Article examines the institutional motivations that underlie several major developments in the Supreme People\u27s Court of China\u27s recent policy-making.
Zhang, Taisu
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
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Review of Quixote’s Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy [PDF]
, 2007 Book review of David Stoesz, Quixote\u27s Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Pimpare, Stephen
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