Interpreting children's rights education: three perspectives and three roles for teachers [PDF]
, 2016 In this article I argue that the world-view adopted by Children’s Rights Education (CRE) advocates influences the form of education they present. In the first part of the article I discuss three perspectives: (1) the legalistic perspective, which sees ...
Jerome, Lee
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History Making: The Historian as Consultant [PDF]
, 2013 History is not just a genre of knowledge but also a basic feature of human life. Accounting for the past, or creating histories, to quote David Thelen, is ‘as natural a part of life as eating or breathing’.
Kalela, Jorma
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Implementing the citizen focus agenda:a case study in police leadership [PDF]
, 2014 Although the private sector has long understood that a customer-focused service is synonymous with success, the concept is less embedded in public agencies such as the Police.
Fisher, Andrew, Kirby, Stuart
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Reanimating Lost Landscapes: Bringing Visualisation to Aboriginal History [PDF]
, 2010 In Public History Review volume 11, Peter Osborne called for the methodologies of environmental history to be brought more securely and more imaginatively into public history.
Read, Peter
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Justify or die? - using contingent valuation of service provision in a UK public library [PDF]
, 2006 The public library service in the UK is currently under pressure to justify its existence. An Audit Commission report suggested that if current borrowing rates for libraries continue into the future, libraries would be effectively issuing no books by ...
McGettigan, L. +2 more
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Forecasting intermittent demand [PDF]
, 2006 Methods for forecasting intermittent demand are compared using a large data-set from the UK Royal Air Force (RAF). Several important results are found.
Duncan, L, Teunter, R H
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Strike, occupy, transform! Students, subjectivity and struggle [PDF]
, 2016 This article uses student activism to explore the way in which activists are challenging the student as consumer model through a series of experiments that blend pedagogy and protest. Specifically, I suggest that Higher Education is increasingly becoming
André Pusey +59 more
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Wireless Sensor Networks:A case study for Energy Efficient Environmental Monitoring
, 2008 Energy efficiency is a key issue for wireless sensor networks, since sensors nodes can often be powered by non-renewable batteries. In this paper, we examine four MAC protocols in terms of energy consumption, throughput and energy efficiency.
Harris, Nick R. +3 more
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Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) using Meta model Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms [PDF]
, 2007 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) is recognised to be the next revolution in aviation as information technology matures in the aerospace sector. UAS systems are multidiscipline systems as they integrate several disciplines, e.g.
Gonzalez, L F. +3 more
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Leading Communities: Community-led Development in England’s Small Towns: the Market Towns Initiative [PDF]
, 2012 The Market Towns Initiative (MTI), a UK community-led development programme, operated throughout rural England from 2000 until 2005/6. It was designed to help local people, with professional support, identify – and then capitalize on – the economic ...
Morris, Gordon
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