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Forming a children's monologue discourse: use of anaphoric means in spontaneous children's speech

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Background. The article examines the features of the use of anaphoric means in the spontaneous oral speech of preschool children. Traditionally, children's speech is studied from the point of view of occasional formations, and the construction of ...
Aleksandra A. Aisanova, Aleksandra S. Morozova   +1 more
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

A Small-Scale Evaluation of Large Language Models Used for Grammatical Error Correction in a German Children’s Literature Corpus: A Comparative Study

Applied Sciences
Grammatical error correction (GEC) has become increasingly important for enhancing the quality of OCR-scanned texts. This small-scale study explores the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for GEC in German children’s literature, a genre with ...
Phuong Thao Nguyen, Bernd Nuss, Roswita Dressler, Katie Ovens   +3 more
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how meaningful work is conceptualised by recent graduates. Whilst the imperative to maximise economic returns from higher education (HE) endures in HE policy, less attention is given to how meaningful work is and its relationship to values and identities.
Michael Tomlinson, Manuel Souto‐Otero
wiley   +1 more source

Initial estimates of teacher value‐added in English primary schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract A sizeable literature investigating teacher test score value‐added—the extent to which pupils make different rates of progress under different teachers—has emerged in the United States. While there is much interest in estimating teacher value‐added in other countries such as England, progress has been limited by the lack of datasets linking ...
John Jerrim, Rebecca Allen, Maria Palma Carvajal, Raj Chande, Rob Coe, Calum Davey, Shaun Dillon, Claire Maud, Sam Sims, Ourania Ventista   +9 more
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Cross-linguistic zero-shot communication via ad-hoc pseudowords

In verbal communication, speakers must encode meanings into signs such as words. Within a given language community, the correspondence between word forms and meanings can become conventionalized. However, speakers from different language communities cannot rely on these shared conventions.
Fritz Guenther, Aliona Petrenco, Daniele Gatti   +2 more
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Empowering young people: Powerful knowledge in economics

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Powerful knowledge in school economics is conceptualised as the blending of economics knowledge arising from grasping threshold concepts with expressions of disciplinary thinking in terms of the powers or capabilities that this knowledge can provide to students who possess it.
Emanuel Mizzi
wiley   +1 more source