Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
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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From knowledge as domination to knowledge as governmentality: a theoretical rearticulation of power in late-modern knowledge regimes. [PDF]
Parada-Ulloa M +3 more
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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The sociological stakes of attitudes toward the families and care of older adults with dementia. [PDF]
Patterson SE, Caywood K, Stinson F.
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Abstract Patient partnership in health education promotes collaborative and humanistic care. In pharmacy education, however, this approach remains uncommon. We aimed to co‐construct and assess a teaching session on pain management and dispensing refusal, involving patients as full partners. A participatory approach was used.
Marc‐Antoine Luc +2 more
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'The evils are uncontrolled': Marx's Capital as a form of witnessing for child public health. [PDF]
Balfe M.
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Power, (De)Politicisation and Polycentric Governance: Evidence From UK Local Climate Policy
ABSTRACT This article extends (de)politicisation theory to elucidate power dynamics in polycentric governance. It develops an original analytical framework to empirically investigate how governmental, societal and discursive (de)politicisation processes emerge within and across decision‐making centres. The framework focuses on dimensions of technocracy,
Timea Nochta +2 more
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Entrepreneurship in Latin America from a sociological perspective: a systematic literature review (2020-2025). [PDF]
Monroy-Barrero CJ.
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ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is now a cornerstone of global environmental policy. However, current debates often frame CE as a future‐oriented strategy to be adopted or scaled, implicitly assuming that emerging economies and the Global South are starting from strictly linear conditions. Drawing on practice‐oriented and institutional perspectives,
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Cali Nuur
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Interpretive ethnographic studies and in-depth qualitative research should be treated as high-quality evidence in the science of team science. [PDF]
Molldrem S, Wooten K.
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