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“Heroes Like Me”—Envisioning Possibilities for Enacting Culturally Inclusive Digital Multimodal Literacies

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In fostering asset‐based literacy and language teaching in classroom and digital spaces, this study draws on OmoBerry, an educational YouTube channel, to demonstrate how educators can enact culturally inclusive digital multimodal language and literacy instructions with African immigrant youth.
Akinkunmi Oseni, Vaughn W. M. Watson
wiley   +1 more source

The popular scientific book-based coastal gastropod’s diversity as local potential: Practicality and effectiveness on student’s critical thinking ability

open access: yesJPBI (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia)
Developing learning tools based on local potential is necessary because it directly relates to students' daily lives. One of them is a Popular Science Book (PSB), which highlights the potential of gastropods in coastal areas as a subject for observing biodiversity. The implementation of assessments and the value of students' critical thinking abilities
Hery Fajeriadi   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Can scientific discovery be a religious experience? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In a recent commentary on the “two cultures”, Mary Warnock and N. G. McCrum contrast the current debate with the course it took in C. P. Snow’s day. Forty years ago one commentator on the insularity of scientific culture had observed the reluctance of ...
Hedley Brooke, John
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 2: the scientific age and beyond

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fl reading strategies for metaphor and word game interpretation in a non-specialized magazine: a case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.O objetivo deste estudo é contribuir para a discussão sobre compreensão metafórica ...
Barreira, Valéria de Souza
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
wiley   +1 more source

Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The motto "Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution" was part of the logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held in 1921. However, by the 1930s, the disturbing legacy of this motto had started to reveal itself in the construction
Christina Cogdell (16072325)   +1 more
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Virginia Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, Portsmouth, VA., February 1845. [PDF]

open access: yes
Circular describing the general plan for the Virginia Literary, Scientific, & Military Academy at Portsmouth, Virginia in February 1845, signed by members of the board of trustees.
Virginia Literary, Scientific, & Military Academy (Portsmouth, Va.)
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An experiment with science for the nineteenth- century book trade: the International Scientific Series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This article was originally published in The British Journal for the History of Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087499003945). Copyright Cambridge University Press.The theory, method and disciplinary foundations of ‘book history’ are addressed in
Howsam, Leslie
core   +1 more source

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