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Abstract Nigeria is the UK's third largest market for higher education, but there is limited empirical research on Nigerian international students' employment experiences. Drawing on the concepts of neo‐racism and agency, this research explores how 25 Nigerian international students exercise their agency to pursue or refrain from seeking employment ...
Ming Cheng +2 more
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Abstract Widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE) remains a central concern within UK educational and social policy. It seeks to address the underrepresentation of specific social groups by tailoring university access to their distinct needs.
Sarah McLaughlin, Richard Waller
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Beyond the margins of silence: Pride Groups as opportunities for student voice
Abstract Student voice and participation are widely promoted within educational research and policy; however, the voices of LGBT+ students, and the systems through which they might meaningfully participate, remain under‐theorised. Drawing on scholarship that conceptualises voice as multimodal and symbolic, and on literature that understands silence as ...
Adam Brett, Jo Brassington
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Hide and seek: Pedagogic discourse and the hidden curriculum in the secondary music classroom
Abstract The selective recontextualisation of musical knowledge from societal practice into educational content—mediated by diverse political and pedagogical influences—is neither ideologically neutral nor epistemically determinate. Rather, the reframing of ‘horizontal’ musical intuition into ‘vertical’ musical conceptualisation within the secondary ...
Elizabeth H. MacGregor, Eliam Lau
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Abstract In England, schools receive additional annual funding in proportion to the number of disadvantaged students that they enrol. This Pupil Premium funding is allocated by schools to help overcome educational disadvantage. According to Department for Education regulations, schools must report the evidence underpinning their spending allocations ...
Wenqing Chen +2 more
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Deciphering Nazi Racial Sorting: The Challenges of Attempting a Big Data Approach
In 2019 I started analyzing a large set of “race cards” preserved in the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv). These cards document anthropometric measurements performed by SS experts during WWII in the territories occupied by the Nazi regime. Applying a big data approach, my goal was to use those cards to study the inner dynamics of the racial ...
Amir Teicher
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The Herbarium Ruperti, compiled by the Lutheran theologian Georg Andreas Ruperti and containing ca. 1300 plants, represents one of the earliest comprehensive collections documenting the flora of northern Germany before the emergence of systematic botanical surveys.
Thomas Biskup
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