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Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian ...
Amy Bywater, Helen Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Urban games: conceito e potencialidades educativas [PDF]

, 2014
proporcionar uma aprendizagem em contexto real, sendo que a literatura revela vários exemplos de sucesso em termos de motivação, interação e colaboração entre os alunos que os realizaram.
Coutinho, Clara Pereira, Vieira, Liliana de Sousa   +1 more
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Connecting physical and social dimensions of place attachment: what can we learn from attachment to urban recreational spaces? [PDF]

, 2016
This paper is concerned with the ways in which people form attachments to recreational spaces. More specifically it examines the relationship between recreational spaces associated with sporting activity in urban neighbourhoods and place attachment.
Bradley, Lisa, Hastings, Annette, Madgin, Rebecca   +2 more
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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Games Transform Cities? Geogames as Tools for Research, Education, and Urban Praxis

Urban Planning
Geogames have matured from an emergent field in the 2000s into a transformative intersection of game design, geographic information science, and games with a purpose.
Bruno Andrade, Alenka Poplin, Marta Brković Dodig, David Schwartz   +3 more
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Mean Field Games models of segregation

, 2016
This paper introduces and analyses some models in the framework of Mean Field Games describing interactions between two populations motivated by the studies on urban settlements and residential choice by Thomas Schelling.
Achdou, Yves, Bardi, Martino, Cirant, Marco   +2 more
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Towards reviving post-Olympic Athens as a cultural destination [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the effects of global change on the status and qualities of the Greek national capital, Athens, focusing on how they affect the development of cultural tourism in the city.
Alevizopoulou M., Apostolopoulos Y., Arksey H., Asprogerakas E., Denzin N. K., Georgios Boustras, Glaser B. G., Graham B., Hall C. M., King N., Koutoulas D., Leontidou L., Leontidou L., Maitland R., McKercher B., Meethan K., Miles M., Morgan N., Nikolaos Boukas, Papageorgiou-Venetas A., Shaw G., Theobald W. F., Van der Borg J., Vassilios Ziakas, Weed M., Wickens E., Yin R. K.   +26 more
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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis, Ciro Cangiano, Alessandro Lovari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The City Game Fit:

, 2020
With the increasing mobility and connectivity of technological devices in smart cities, games are also used to address urban challenges like citizenship or equality. In my thesis, I argue that the design of many of these game solutions does not fit the challenge they try to address.
openaire   +4 more sources