Anticipatory analysis and its alternatives in life-course research. Part 1: Education and first childbearing [PDF]
Procedures that seek to explain current behavior by future outcomes (anticipatory analysis) constitute a widespread but problematic approach in life-course analysis because they disturb the role of time and the temporal order of events.
Jan M. Hoem, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Criticality of environmental information obtainable by dynamically controlled quantum probes [PDF]
, 2015 A universal approach to decoherence control combined with quantum estimation theory reveals a critical behavior, akin to a phase transition, of the information obtainable by a qubit probe concerning the memory time of environmental fluctuations.
Alvarez, Gonzalo A. +2 more
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Incommensurability and rationality in engineering design: the case of functional decomposition [PDF]
, 2011 In engineering design research different models of functional decomposition are advanced side-by-side. In this paper I explain and validate this co-existence of models in terms of the Kuhnian thesis of methodological incommensurability.
van Eck, Dingmar
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Goldman and Siegel on the epistemic aims of education [PDF]
, 2020 Philosophers have claimed that education aims at fostering disparate epistemic goals. In this paper we focus on an important segment of this debate involving conversation between Alvin Goldman and Harvey Siegel.
Marabini, Alessia, Moretti, Luca
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Acculturation as the Key to the Ultimate Attainment? [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter focuses on the variables predicting L2 attainment in 149 migrants (L1 Polish and L2 English) who relocated to the UK in early adulthood. They are highly educated sequential bilinguals who have been resident in the UK for an average of eight years following migration.
Hammer, K., Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Integration of citizenship education with religious education in Lesotho secondary schools
In die Skriflig, 2019 The current article fervently acknowledges the general agreement that Lesotho had never experienced a stable democracy ever since the ultimate attainment of political independence in 1966. Among other possible solutions proposed to the problem of Lesotho’
Rasebate I. Mokotso
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Anticipatory analysis and its alternatives in life-course research [PDF]
Procedures that seek to explain current behavior by future outcomes (anticipatory analysis) constitute a widespread but problematic approach in life-course analysis because they disturb the role of time and the temporal order of events.
Jan M. Hoem, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Individual variability in the perceptual learning of L2 speech sounds and its cognitive correlates [PDF]
, 2010 This study explored which cognitive processes are related to individual variability in the learning of novel phonemic contrasts in a second language.
Hazan, V., Kim, Y.H.
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Principals’ Management Strategies in High-Performing Schools
Вопросы образования, 2016 The article evaluates the effectiveness of schools with regard to their contextual characteristics. We use the data from the 2012/2013 Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations, namely the results of a survey among the principals of 979 schools ...
Natalya Derbyshire, Мarina Pinskaya
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