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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
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Sortir, mais hors de la ville ?
Géographie et Cultures, 2005 Cinema-going is more popular in the UK than if has been than any lime in the last forty years. The key factor in this resurgence of cinema attendance is the emergence of the multiplex. The first UK multiplex was opened in 1985, and today they possess the
Phil Hubbard
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Suburbs of Acquiescence, Suburbs of Protest
Housing Studies, 2000 This paper explores the effect of the policy of home ownership on the docility of the suburban population of Australian cities. It challenges the received wisdom that home ownership made Australians more compliant and less inclined to take part in industrial and social contest.
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023 Suburban inequality is the focus of this double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. This introduction addresses the limited related scholarship, describes how inequality unfolds differently in suburban communities ...
R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy +3 more
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Social exclusion and the future of cities [PDF]
, 2000 In both Britain and the United States, people have been moving away from the inner cities to suburban developments, often leaving behind concentrations of poverty and decaying neighbourhoods. Anne Power's paper focuses on the British situation.
Power, Anne, Wilson, William Julius
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023 Suburbs were once a haven for advantaged, White families to avoid city life and access high-status schools. This urban-suburban divide, however, has changed in recent decades as suburban communities (and their school districts) have diversified.
Ann Owens, Peter Rich
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer +2 more
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