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Set Moves: Constructions of Travel in Commercial Games for Children
LiteratureDuring the long nineteenth century, Western publics experienced the invention and proliferation of commercial games for children. Card games, board games, and other parlor games were no longer for adults only; these new offerings formalized some aspects ...
Melissa Jenkins
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Haptic vision, footwork, place-making: A peripatetic phenomenology of the mobile phone pedestrian [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we aim to develop a post-phenomenology of walking through an analysis of the relation between pedestrian mobility and the use of mobile devices, and then apply this analysis to users of third and fourth generation location-aware touch ...
Richardson, I., Wilken, R.
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Generative and Participatory Parametric Frameworks for Multi-player Design Games
Footprint, 2013 Generative design processes have been the focus of current architectural research and practice largely due to the phenomenon of emergence explored within self-organisation, generative grammars and evolutionary techniques.
Henriette Bier, Yeekee Ku
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson +2 more
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Sustainability as an Input for the Design of Olympic Villages [PDF]
Megaron, 2011 Since the 1960s, hosting the Olympic Games has been seen as an opportunity to create urban development. The post-Games use of sport venues, the fulfillment of a city’s housing needs by using Olympic Village buildings and the renewal of ...
Banu DORALP, Ömür BARKUL
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The Olympic transport legacy [PDF]
, 2010 This article examine sustainable transport provision for the London 2012Olympics and its intended legacy role in economic and social regeneration across East London. It concludes that ultimately, legacy success will depend on the ability to adapt to, and
Ieromonachou, Petros +2 more
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Uncertainty in Multi-Commodity Routing Networks: When does it help?
, 2018 We study the equilibrium behavior in a multi-commodity selfish routing game with many types of uncertain users where each user over- or under-estimates their congestion costs by a multiplicative factor.
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Looking back and ahead: lessons from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2012 Hyun Bang Shin looks back at the Beijing Olympics to derive some indication of the what the legacy of the London Games might be. He warns that diversion of national resources may pose additional development opportunities for host cities, but constraints ...
Shin, Hyun Bang
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