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The ecology of hope: Building rainbows in education systems
Abstract Hope is frequently invoked in education, yet rarely theorised. Where it has been theorised, it has been understood in two largely separate ways: as an individual psychological capacity, in the positive‐psychology tradition and as a critical‐emancipatory stance, in the pedagogy of hope.
Jennifer Achari
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Abstract Children's learning increasingly extends into everyday informal settings, but what counts as learning in these contexts remains insufficiently understood. Focusing on family travel as a mobile and socioculturally situated informal learning context, this study adopts a sociocultural perspective and uses liquid learning as a sensitising concept ...
Zhuxian (Zoey) Li +3 more
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From individual to collective: Post‐return agency among internationally educated Mongolian graduates
Abstract This study investigates how internationally educated Mongolian graduates pursue professional projects after returning to Mongolian higher education and how some of these projects develop from individual academic agency into collective action. It draws on semi‐structured interviews with 30 graduates trained in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan,
Ariunaa Enkhtur
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Abstract Extensive research has shown that students from higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds generally outperform their lower SES peers. Nevertheless, some low SES students succeed, albeit it ‘against the odds.’ Coleman's (1988) theory of social capital in the family suggests that financial capital, human capital and social capital all affect
Fang Xu, Steve Strand
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Pistols and pride flags: How gender matters for boys in Welsh relationships and sexuality education
Abstract School‐based relationships and sexuality education (RSE) is a site of intense discursive circulation around the concept of gender. In the 2020s, international RSE curricula are responding to increasing visibility and cognisance of gendered and sexual diversity among young people and attempting to address gender‐based inequities and violence ...
Max R. Ashton
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Publishing the History of Radical Science in a Time of Digital Capitalism
This paper investigates publishing as a practice in the history of science. It firstly provides an experiential account of building a DIY‐inspired publishing venue for collective, source‐based narration. The venue used the possibilities of digital publishing to apply, rather than simply refer to, a very striking aspect of radical science in the 1970s ...
Niki Rhyner
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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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Abstract In the classroom, metabolism is often approached and received as a mundane exercise in memorization. Teaching metabolism also faces the challenge of negative perceptions that can impede learning. We sought to improve the learning experience in an undergraduate lecture course on microbial metabolism by implementing an illustrated story that ...
James B. McKinlay, Katherine Kearns
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ABSTRACT The transition to university presents a significant challenge for undergraduate students in Biomedical Sciences, many of whom lack prior laboratory experience. This inexperience can create a discrepancy between students' perceived and actual competencies, leading to a self‐efficacy gap when compared to peers with previous laboratory exposure ...
Phillip Lawton +9 more
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