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Multimedia campaign aimed at increasing support among the Dutch population for measures to protect children from the temptations of tobacco

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation As part of a comprehensive strategy (2015-2018), aimed at protecting children from the temptations of tobacco, cross-media communication is an important instrument for the Dutch Cancer Society to increase ...
Marloes Carlier, Laura Houtenbos
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Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

The Reading Hunger in the American Revolutions and the Complex Work of the Creole Men of Letters

open access: yesEstudios de Teoría Literaria, 2018
The present article aims to establish a thoughtful dialogue between different reading scenes that took place in American colonies during the revolutionary processes.
Mariana Inés Rosetti
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A Blend of Absurdism and Humanism: Defending Kurt Vonnegut’s Place in the Secondary Setting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay argues that Kurt Vonnegut blends a unique humanist stance into his absurdist plots and characters, ultimately urging readers to confront the absurd with a kindness and human decency his protagonists often find rare.
Johnson, Krisandra R
core   +1 more source

We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

open access: yes
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
wiley   +1 more source

‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Die keusche Penelope und der zornige Odysseus : Kursieren einer tragikomischen Opernhandlung zwischen Wien und Norditalien

open access: yesMusicologica Brunensia, 2018
In the 1710s and 1720s, librettist Pietro Pariati and composer Francesco Bartolomeo Conti cultivated the highly specific genre of tragicommedia per musica at the Habsburg court in Vienna. Of particular interest is their tragicomedy Penelope (1724), which
Livio Marcaletti
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ACHIEVING RIGHTS OF CHILDREN WITH DIVORCED PARENTS TO AN ADEQUATE STANDARD OF LIVING [PDF]

open access: yesEconomy and Sociology, 2016
The article presents the results of the study "Providing children with alimony with divorced parents". This research revealed that more than a third of debtors do not pay alimony, saying that they are unable to pay, created new families and have the ...
Inga CHISTRUGA-SINCHEVICI
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Slippery bows and slow circuits

open access: yesMusicologica Brunensia, 2017
This article is based on a keynote lecture given at the 51st International Musicological Colloquium, Masaryk University, Brno, that was part lecture, part performance.
John Richards
doaj   +1 more source

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