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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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„Późne lato” Johna Crowleya jako postmodernistyczna wizja procesualnej koncepcji tożsamości
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 The article John Crowley’s “Engine Summer”: A Postmodern Vision of the Processual Construction of Identity analyses the eponymous novel as pivoted around the narrative’s role in constructing both individual and collective identity. Drawing from Mieke Bal’
Małgorzata Gancarczyk
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The real lives of urban fantasies [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2013 This paper is a response to and a commentary on Vanessa Watson’s paper on “African urban fantasies” in this issue of the Journal, which analyzes new urban master plans developed by international architectural firms and property development companies for many cities in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Shifting realities: Tron cyberspace and the “New” consciousness in 21st Century technoscapes [PDF]
, 2012 The existing direction of the (mis)use of information technologies founded on the deceptively secular rationalised heritage of scientism, arguably spells the increasing proximity to a dystopian nightmare that is far from mere fiction and imbued with the ...
Efthimiou, O.
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Is it time for the risky classroom? Dealing with risk and uncertainty is a natural part of adult life. Yet modern children are shielded from risk at every opportunity. A pedagogical shift is required [PDF]
, 2017 Risk within learning environments is a much debated topic within early childhood education. The sector sees and understands the benefits of risk but often remain risk adverse.
McCormack, M +3 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Trials and Tribulations in London Below
Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2017 Neil Gaiman is a highly acclaimed British author of novels, short fiction, film scripts, graphic novels, and radio plays. His first novel, Neverwhere, was his attempt to fill in the blanks left by the television series with the same name, by writing down
Irina Rață
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Countryside Fantasy in the Context of Urban-Rural Divided post-Mao China [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2017 This paper focuses on an urban-rural experimental reality television show, The Exchange Programme. Within the context of the contradictions and struggles between capitalism and socialism currently faced by the Chinese government, I argue the programme’s ...
Cheng Han
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Remades and their Sociospace in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy
Between, 2022 The aim of the present paper is to consider Remades (posthuman figures who populate China Miéville’s “Bas-Lag trilogy”) as simulacra of their social milieu, highlighting the interconnection of power and economic systems which shapes the “remaking ...
Camilla Del Grazia
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