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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Mental health courts divert individuals with serious mental illness away from imprisonment into community‐based treatment and supervision. Early research indicates that such treatment contracts can reduce recidivism and provide various other benefits. Aspects of eligibility for this diversion option are still under‐researched.
Steven Keener, Audrey Morrison
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The Sociology of Language Teaching and Learning
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2011 Any language must be treated in a social context. For a language teacher, it is important to relate language to society, because languages are taught and learnt to establish contact and communication across language boundaries. In fact society and culture are more than background and context. They both represent people with whom the learners eventually
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Guided Toward Equity: Communities of Practice and Organizational Change in Community Colleges
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although community colleges advance equity by providing opportunities for marginalized students to pursue higher education, barriers to earning credentials remain, particularly for students of color. Higher education stakeholders are investing in “equity work” as organizations take responsibility for ensuring equitable outcomes.
Karin Yndestad +2 more
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Nordic Social Work ResearchIn this article, we examine how the situation for contemporary poor EU migrants is framed by social work professionals involved in initiatives funded by the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived in Sweden.
Viktor Vesterberg, Magnus Dahlstedt
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The Production of a Sustainability Reporting Norm in Spanish State‐Owned Enterprises
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT State‐owned enterprises (SOEs) are hybrid organizations that pursue social and economic goals and are expected to engage in sustainability reporting. Previous literature has shown limited attention to examining the process by which a norm in sustainability reporting has emerged among SOEs.
Javier Andrades +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores why businesses engage with the United Nations SDG agenda, with a view to understanding how managers construct the business case for the SDGs. Building on and extending the responsibility literature's discussion of the business case for responsibility, the article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing why ...
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Inspired by insights gleaned from biomimicry theory, this paper addresses the persistent lack of theoretically grounded research in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and examines how nature‐inspired biomimicry principles could enhance various dimensions of its competitiveness. This study's theoretical contribution lies in its proposal
Susana Garrido +4 more
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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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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.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 Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.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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