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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
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Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2000 The reform of the education system which is currently underway comprises ten priority areas including equal opportunities, the curriculum, vocational training, higher education, adult education, early childhood and teacher training.
Rodolphe M.J. Toussaint
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Économie et politique éducative en Amérique latine
Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 1999 In Latin America, the economic dimension is beginning to be taken into account in elaborating and directing educational policies. This is shown by the changes which are appearing in a certain number of countries in this region and in particular in Chile,
Robert W. McMeekin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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De meilleurs professeurs pour le XXIe siècle
Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 1997 Les dernières réformes scolaires aux États-Unis n’ont pas permis de progrès notables car elles oubliaient un facteur important dans la réussite des élèves : la qualification des professeurs.
Josette Le Coq
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Fondements de la politique éducative en Algérie
Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2015 La politique éducative instaurée en Algérie se caractérise par la rupture avec la politique éducative colonialiste basée sur l’acculturation de la société algérienne et par la mise en place de nouveaux objectifs fondamentaux conformément aux principes
Rachida BENYAHIA née MECHICHE
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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