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Food banks in schools in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A sociologia pública em tempos de Barack Obama

open access: yesCaderno CRH
O presente artigo, baseado em discurso dirigido à Sociedade Japonesa de Sociologia, na Universidade de Tohoku, recoloca as formulações centrais da sociologia pública, identificando os quatro estilos do fazer sociológico.
Michael Burawoy
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming dislocated: On Bauman's subjective culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Three of Zygmunt Bauman’s recent books are assessed to present insights into the recent development of his thought and the challenges it poses to the social sciences, humanities and the wider public.
Till, C
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Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forty Four Years of Debate: The Impact of Race, Community and Conflict [PDF]

open access: yes
Race, Community and Conflict by John Rex and Robert Moore was published in 1967 and had a considerable public impact through press and TV. Forty four years later it is still widely cited in research on British urban society and 'race relations'.
Robert Moore
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The Relationship between Social and Economic Marginalization and Alcohol Abuse within the African Racial Group [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This project won third place in the 2018 Signature Course Information Literacy Award. The award recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the learning outcomes of the Signature Course information literacy requirement, that students will be able to ...
Ingle, Tanvi
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Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

The Calling of Sociology: Beyond Value-detached Professionalism and Partisan Activism

open access: yesRevija za Sociologiju, 2017
Michael Burawoy’s project of public sociology provoked major debate within the sociological community about the tasks and nature of the discipline. While most participants in the debate are sympathetic to his call for a more publicly engaged sociology ...
Davorka Matić
doaj   +1 more source

Placing Research: 'City Publics' and the 'Public Sociologist' [PDF]

open access: yes
This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined ...
Michelle Addison, Yvette Taylor
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