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Considering adoption: Towards a consumption-oriented approach to innovation [PDF]

open access: yes
What are the forces that shape the adoption of innovations? This question has been sidelined in a largely production-centric literature on the economic geography of innovation. Inspired by Weber’s dual concern with procurement and distribution activities
Rekers, Josephine V.
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‘Fish in simulated water’? A Bourdieusian analysis of Chinese doctoral students' learning experiences in Southeast Asian developing countries

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Mit den Augen der Statistiker. Deutsche Kategorisierungspraktiken von Migration im historischen Wandel

open access: yesZeithistorische Forschungen, 2018
Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie Migration durch Statistik sozial relevant wird. Welche Kategorien kommen dabei zum Einsatz? Zuerst wird die historische und wissenssoziologische Perspektive erläutert. Im zweiten und dritten Teil werden historische
Léa Renard
doaj   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Religião, ciência e transdisciplinaridade: o conhecimento afro-religioso como objeto de estudo

open access: yesCiências Sociais Unisinos, 2009
The objective of this work is to foster a debate about the relation between scientific and religious knowledge, having this refl ection led by the African-originated religions and the knowledge produced by them. More specifi cally, it intends to approach
Rodrigo Leistner
doaj  

Methodological Interactionism: Theory and Application to the Firm and to the Building of Trust [PDF]

open access: yes
Recent insights from the ‘embodied cognition’ perspective in cognitive science, supported by neural research, provide a basis for a ‘methodological interactionism’ that transcends both the methodological individualism of economics and the methodological ...
Nooteboom, B.
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Farmer's Eye and Breeder's Eye - Fields of Knowledge Exchange as a Condition of a Participatory Breeding Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
With the change to organic agriculture, the diversity of local conditions becomes more important. Local adapted varieties are necessary. But breeding for this demand is not profitable for a conventional breeding strategy.
Timmermann, Martin
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Summary of the course : sociology as a science and its place in the humanities and social science. The main functions of sociology. Background of sociology. The place and role of social research in the knowledge of social phenomena. Methods of collecting
Karpchuk, Nataliia P.   +3 more
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What works in internal alternative provision? A salutogenic analysis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Schools across England are setting up ‘internal alternative provision’ to meet the social, emotional and mental health needs of increasing numbers of pupils at risk of suspension, exclusion and absence. However, there is little guidance about what good practice looks like.
Emma Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

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