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Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source

Dirva company

open access: yesKnygotyra
„Dirva" company, which operated during 1918-1940 in Kaunas and Marijampolė, is one of the most renowned publishing houses of the Republic of Lithuania. Adomas Dundzila and Bronius Širutis were the founders and owners of the company.
Vladas Žukas
doaj   +1 more source

Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means? [PDF]

open access: yes
Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers historians of science an opportunity to reach a potentially broad audience.
Nye, Mary Jo
core   +1 more source

Cure without communication: Self -help books and popular notions of self and communication, 1860–2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This study traces the development of a basic premise, that what we think manifests in reality, underlying much of psycho-religious self-help literature in the United States.
Woodstock, M. Louise   +1 more
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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Books of history of medicine in Turkish (1928-2018) : A draft of bibliography and the problem of being popular. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
TEZ11679Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, 2019.Kaynakça (s. 90-95) var.viii, 96 s. ; 29 cm.Çağdaş dünyada bilim, güvenilir ve saygın bilginin ana kaynağıdır. Her bilimsel disiplinin kendine özgü bir terminolojisi ve dili vardır.
Keskin, Utku
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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

Negotiating the real: Culture and fantastical fiction 1843-1973 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This dissertation examines the growth and practice of two distinct reading techniques, with reference to fantastical fiction from і 843 to 1973. While acknowledging that specific reading practices are not exclusive to particular groups or individuals, it
McAdam, Paul
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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

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