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Foreign languages in the comprehensive school curriculum [PDF]

, 1987
This thesis is an analysis of foreign language teaching and learning in schools during the course of two decades or so of radical change in the education system of this country.
Nightingale, Peter John
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant
Rauna Kuokkanen
wiley   +1 more source

Object shift in the Scandinavian languages : syntax, information structure, and intonation

, 2013
The thesis discusses Object Shift, weak pronoun shift in the Scandinavian languages, from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from all the Scandinavian languages.
Hosono, M.
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“Back to the Future”: Testing the “Individual Problems and Strengths” Scale With a Stepwise Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach

Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Routine Outcome Monitoring systems have been developed to monitor how clients' lives change over the course of therapy. However, for such systems to be effective, they must possess sufficient construct validity and scale‐reliability to warrant their use. In this study, using a sample of 841 Norwegian clients, we performed the first independent
Rune Zahl‐Olsen, Nicolay Gausel, Åshild Tellefsen Håland, Terje Tilden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children's psychological traits and educational performance: How schools and residential areas moderate how individual traits translate into academic outcomes

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The extent to which children's psychological traits influence their educational performance is thought to depend on the fit between the individual and their developmental context. However, this assumption has yet to be empirically tested on a population scale.
Qi Qin, Rosa Cheesman, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Eivind Ystrom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Varieties of Democracy Aid Approaches: The Role of Donors' Domestic Ideology

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the end of the Cold War, DAC donors increased their efforts of democracy promotion in developing countries. Among other instruments, DAC donors increasingly use democracy aid to improve democracy abroad. However, DAC donors differ in their allocation and delivery strategy of democracy aid.
Jean‐Baptiste Puginier
wiley   +1 more source

Preposed object pronouns in mainland Scandinavian

, 2014
We report on a study of preposed object pronouns using the Scandinavian Dialect Corpus. In other Germanic languages, e.g. Dutch and German, preposing of unstressed object pronouns is restricted, compared with subject pronouns.
Engdahl, Elisabet,, Lindahl, Filippa,
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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional adequacy and diet diversity following a tube weaning program

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Limited research has examined nutritional changes following tube weaning. The main objective of this study was to investigate the adequacy and quality of nutrition, growth, and gastrointestinal symptoms in children undergoing a 3‐week outpatient tube weaning program based on hunger provocation.
Maisa Keski‐Kuha, Josefine Limnell, Mari Ahlroos, Päivi Peldan, Laura Merras‐Salmio, Jetta Tuokkola   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source