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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims +2 more
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Niklas Luhmann’s system theory: A critical analysis
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2019 This article considers the nature of the theoretical legacy - the system theory - of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author focuses on three topics: first, he briefly describes Luhmann’s ideas in the context of the contemporary sociological ...
J Šubrt
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
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The Importance of Protestantism in Max Weber's Theory of Secularisation [PDF]
In this article, I review my recent book Protestant Modernity. Weber, Secularisation and Protestantism, which reconstructs Weber's theory of secularisation and argues that this is formulated within a liberal Protestant framework. I argue that this theory
Carroll, Anthony
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Animus of the Underling: Theorizing City Diplomacy in a World Society [PDF]
, 2018 This article explores the nature of city diplomacy using newly available archives chronicling the ‘municipal foreign policy movement’ of the 1980s, in which US city governments intervened directly in late Cold War foreign affairs issues.
Leffel, Benjamin
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract International student mobility (ISM) has historically followed a pattern of movement from developing regions to developed countries. However, in recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Chinese students pursuing doctoral studies in Southeast Asian developing countries, an area that has received relatively little ...
Yueyang Zheng +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
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Combining Luhmann and Actor-Network Theory to see Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems [PDF]
, 2003 From a rural, sociological point of view no social theories have so far been able to grasp the ontological complexity and special character of a farm enterprise as an entity in a really satisfying way.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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