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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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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2023 Małgorzata Marks-Krzyszkowska +2 more
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia SociologicaThe aim of the paper is to present the phenomenon of the division of sociology into subdisciplines, using the sociology of the body and the sociology of sport as examples, and to show the possibility of mutual inspirations between the achievements of the
Jakub Ryszard Stempień +1 more
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Power, (De)Politicisation and Polycentric Governance: Evidence From UK Local Climate Policy
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article extends (de)politicisation theory to elucidate power dynamics in polycentric governance. It develops an original analytical framework to empirically investigate how governmental, societal and discursive (de)politicisation processes emerge within and across decision‐making centres. The framework focuses on dimensions of technocracy,
Timea Nochta +2 more
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Desenvolvimento e Urbanização: Senso e Contrassenso do Desenvolvimentismo
Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2011 This paper proposes a rapprochement between the sociology of development and urban sociology. The towns are the core of development as they are in them, which appear the characteristic culture of the development of the modern capitalist state - "urban ...
Sarah Pereira Soares +1 more
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is now a cornerstone of global environmental policy. However, current debates often frame CE as a future‐oriented strategy to be adopted or scaled, implicitly assuming that emerging economies and the Global South are starting from strictly linear conditions. Drawing on practice‐oriented and institutional perspectives,
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Cali Nuur
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Lithuanian Rural Settlements: The Legacy of Soviet Rural Planning and Current Challenges
Quaestiones GeographicaeThe article analyses the changes to the system of the distribution of population in rural areas in Lithuania, one of the former Soviet states: it compares the transformation of settlements during the socialist era and the transformations of the rural ...
KRIAUČIŪNAS EDIS +3 more
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The footballisation of the polish sociology of sport
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 The article addresses the issue of the unique position of football among sports, which supports Bromberger’s thesis on the footballisation of society.
Jakub Ryszard Stempień
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From Insight to Theory: Advancing Sentiment Evaluation for Diaspora Development Projects
New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of “sentiment evaluation,” drawing on a mid‐term evaluation by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) of its program supporting Somali diaspora activism in Somaliland. Conducted in 2014, the evaluation revealed that “sentiment,” the emotional, identity‐based attachment linking diaspora actors to their homeland ...
Valeria Saggiomo +1 more
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Die Stadt e la teoria contemporanea della città
SocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2020 Die Stadt is traditionally declared as one of the milestone texts of urban sociology, a pioneering contribution of theory of the city. Urban sociology is recently renewing trough new attempts of theory of the city: proposals of new uses of the notion of ...
Annick Magnier
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