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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates emerging soil carbon markets and seeks to identify the groups of actors and power relations that constitute their structure and function. Voluntary soil carbon markets (VSCMs) are emerging globally as a key mechanism for generating carbon removals as part of climate mitigation efforts.
Philippa Simmonds +2 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European Union (EU) strategies for food supply address challenges of increasing, or at least maintaining, today's level of agricultural food production. At the same time, European farmland biodiversity continues to deteriorate despite considerable investments in measures to promote environmentally friendly farming practices.
Johanna Tangnäs +1 more
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Honesty in Difficult Conversations: Insights From Healthcare Professionals
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When being honest is expected to cause emotional distress to those it concerns, it can be difficult to practice. This study examines how honesty is understood and accounted for in situations of emotional, moral and relational complexity. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with 16 Danish healthcare professionals (8 doctors and 8 nurses), we ...
Anna Louise Z. Malfilâtre +4 more
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Reflections on the Pedagogical Value of Constructivism
Ideas y Valores, 2014 The article explores the fundamental values of constructivism for the educational process and draws conclusions in that respect. It analyzes the key ideas of J. Dewey, L. Vigotsky, and H. Maturana regarding education and closes with a positive evaluation
Pablo Durán Palacios
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Transition From Child to Adult Eating Disorder Services: A Qualitative Meta‐Aggregation
European Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Some young people with eating disorders (EDs) require transfer from paediatric to adult services, which can be difficult and distressing. While most research on this topic is qualitative, no qualitative focused synthesis yet exists.
Amelia Austin +14 more
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Effects Of Cross-Age Tutoring on Undergraduate Students’paragraph Writing Skills
Akofena: This study investigates the effects of cross-age tutoring on students’ paragraph writing performance from the Department of Anglophone Studies (DAS) at Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo.
R. Bernadine OUATTARA/ZOUNGRANA & F. Emilie Georgette SANON/OUATTARA
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Learning From and Through Evaluation: An Examination of Practice
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we provide an analysis across the foregoing practice‐based case exemplars to understand antecedent conditions and influences, learning‐oriented evaluation strategies, estimates of strategy success or potential success, and factors that either enable or hinder the extent to which learning from and through evaluation occurs. The
J. Bradley Cousins, Jill Chouinard
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Learning as Compost: Reorienting Evaluation in an Era of Authoritarian Drift
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We synthesize insights from seven cases to interrogate a central assumption of the learning function of evaluation: Learning can be strengthened through better design, integration, or alignment with accountability systems. Taking the issue's conceptual framework seriously, the essay reflects what the cases reveal about the nature of learning ...
Tiffany L. S. Tovey, Jill Anne Chouinard
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Social constructivism and international ethics
, 2018 Social constructivist research in international relations (IR) has a complicated relationship with international ethics. Constructivism was an explicitly idealist approach to IR. This idealism enabled constructivism to differentiate itself from the two dominant materialist approaches in 1980s IR theory—neorealism and historical materialism ...
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