Results 81 to 90 of about 182,460 (265)

Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]

, 2011
The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V., Dullo, Wolf-Christian, Ganyushkin, Dmitry A., Moskalenko, Igor G.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The distribution systems for organic farming produce in Poland and Spain – similarities and differences

DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2014
At the turn of the 21st century, European countries experienced a dynamic growth of interest in organic farming and the development of distribution systems for organic farming produce.
Kacprzak, Ewa, Maćkiewicz, Barbara
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Maine’s lobster commons: rescaling political subjects [PDF]

, 2012
Calls for cross-scalar theoretical and methodological approaches are not new to commons scholarship. Such efforts might be hastened by channelling poststructuralist and critical theory perspectives through the geographic subfield of political ecology ...
Brewer, Jennifer F
core   +1 more source

Estimating Small Area Income Deprivation: An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach [PDF]

, 2011
Small area estimation and in particular the estimation of small area income deprivation has potential value in the development of new or alternative components of multiple deprivation indices.
A Bates, A Druckman, A Harding, B Anderson, B Anderson, C Marsh, D Ballas, D Ballas, D Ballas, D Ballas, D Gordon, D Smith, D Wong, DM Smith, DWP, J Mohana, JK Rao, K Morrissey, KL Edwards, L Simpson, M Birkin, M Birkin, M Birkin, M Gosh, M Noble, M Noble, M Noble, P Heady, P Williamson, P Williamson, P Williamson, P Williamson, R Tanton, R Tanton, R Tanton, R Webber, Y Vidyattama   +36 more
core   +1 more source

How do secondary schools in England talk about modern languages? A corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of school websites

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of the Quality of Life in the Communes of the Poznań Agglomeration: A Quantitative Approach

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2014
Since the 1990s, large urban agglomerations in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have shown highly dynamic functional and spatial changes resulting from the transformation of their political systems.
Mizgajski Andrzej, Walaszek Marzena, Kaczmarek Tomasz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source