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Using Sequential Mixed Social Science Methods to Define and Measure Heritage Conservation Performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
There is no agreed-upon definition for heritage conservation performance, but it is possible to borrow ideas from the natural resource conservation field to inform this concept. Dimensions of performance can include economic, technical, and sociocultural
Wells, Jeremy C.
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Toward Cultural Oncology: The Evolutionary Information Dynamics of Cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
'Racial' disparities among cancers, particularly of the breast and prostate, are something of a mystery. For the US, in the face of slavery and its sequelae, centuries of interbreeding have greatly leavened genetic differences between 'Blacks' and ...
Wallace, Deborah   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

HIGHER SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN SOCIOCULTURAL ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS [PDF]

open access: yesPedagogy. Theory & Practice, 2019
For the first time, the article theoretically justifies the system of sociocultural adaptation of foreign students in higher school educational environment. The author describes forms of work with foreign students implemented by the teachers of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language, ambassadors of the Russian language and volunteers in ...
openaire   +1 more source

Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian ...
Amy Bywater, Helen Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Justice‐centred climate change education and territory

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In a globalised world, education faces challenges that go far beyond professional training, where social responsibility and the inclusion of heterogeneous communities and territories in all levels of education have become a greater focus of the university and of scientific research, setting the stage for more inclusive public policies. Greater
Lennin Florez‐Leiva   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culture Shock Descriptions by Chinese Students Studying in Russia: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

open access: yesИнтеграция образования
Introduction. The growing number of students seeking education overseas influences economies, and the exploration of sociocultural adaptation among international students, with culture shock as an inherent element, is gaining prominence due to nations ...
Liubov I. Ryumshina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

HUMAN NATURE OR HUMANITY: BETWEEN GENES AND VALUES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We are within nature and culture, conditioned simultaneously by genes and meanings. This form of our self-understanding is the result of fundamental modifications that happened in modern philosophical anthropology and of the impact of the natural Science.
Tuchańska, Barbara
core  

Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Sociocultural changes and adaptation: from mechanism to intervention

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Yan Mu   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
wiley   +1 more source

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