Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally +2 more
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Anorectal malformation in adulthood: a systematic review of biological, psychological, and sociological outcomes and experiences. [PDF]
Pediatr Surg IntRane E, Bloom J, Chan XWC, Harris P.
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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Life outcomes of being born with anorectal malformation: a systematic review of intersectional reporting, mental health co-morbidities, and psychosocial experiences in adulthood. [PDF]
Pediatr Surg IntRane E, Bloom J, Chan C, Harris P.
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New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This chapter examines recent disruptions in the U.S. evaluation market through the combined lens of the Evaluation Marketplace Framework and the Black Swan/Gray Rhino typology. We argue that the Trump Administration's abrupt reduction in federal evaluation commissioning constitutes a Black Swan shock, whereas the long‐anticipated technological
Steffen Bohni Nielsen, Sebastian Lemire
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Environmental and sociological factors shape sustainable entrepreneurial intentions among Pakistani university students. [PDF]
Sci RepYasir N +6 more
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New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International organizations' (IOs) evaluation policies face unprecedented threats from post‐truth dynamics—delegitimization of expertise, nationalist framing against multilateralism, authoritarian overconfidence, and anti‐scientific sentiment. Despite institutional convergence on independence safeguards, methodological standards, and normative
Mita Marra
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Factors associated with survival among patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis in Tanzania: a cohort study. [PDF]
BMC NephrolMzava SM +4 more
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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The fallacy of meritocracy in the real-life social order. [PDF]
Front SociolTeles da Silva L, Abramov DM.
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