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Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers
Abstract This paper presents the findings related to culture from an online survey with French as a second language (FSL) teachers (n = 45) about equity and antioppression in the Ontario FSL curriculum. FSL teachers defined culture and reflected on the link between language and culture and the role of students' cultures in FSL. Framed by an anti‐biased,
Marika Kunnas +2 more
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Blank slate: squares and political order of city [PDF]
This paper aims to analyze the square beyond an architectural element in the city, but weaves this blank slate, with its contemporary socio political atmosphere as a new paradigm.
Mehan, Asma
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What the golden rule teaches us about ethics
Abstract The Golden Rule is regularly used in ordinary life, across many different cultures, to acquire new moral knowledge. At the same time, the Golden Rule is widely ignored both in ethics and metaethics because it seems to be an implausible normative theory.
Shane William Ward
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ABSTRACT Waves of psychological research over 50 years have resulted in the development of scales to measure psychological resilience. Multiple psychological resilience definitions and factors have emerged during this time, making its measurement complex.
Judye L. Margetts +4 more
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Reframing covenant for nursing: From individual commitments to covenant with society
Abstract Today's constrained healthcare environment can make it very difficult for nurses to provide compassionate, competent, and ethical care, and yet their continued commitment to care is viewed as requisite. Nurses' commitment to care of patients, enmeshed with professional identity, may be understood as heroic. A few nursing scholars have advanced
Dorolen Wolfs +4 more
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Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]
Modality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
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Subjectivity and the Cultural Constraints of Academic Literature in Material Culture: An Investigation into the Discussion of Pattern and Symbol in Persian Carpets [PDF]
This paper examines the academic literature on material culture, focusing on inherent cultural standpoints within the European tradition and the impossibility of arriving at an objective position.
Rad, Fatemeh Safaii
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Negotiating the salientization of identity: Hindu? Indian? American?
Abstract This chapter starts by briefly decluttering how religion is defined through western theistic attributes, then explores students’ Hindu experiences while centering a counter socio‐religio‐cultural narrative of lived religion. I look into systemic institutional misalignments stemming from white Christian supremacy and lastly, aspects of student ...
Gaurav Harshe
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From Manichaeism to Zoroastrianism: On the History of the Teaching of the ‘Two Principles’
The essential feature in the religious history of Pre-Islamic Iran is its dualistic worldview. It marks all stages of Zoroastrianism and also Manichaeism, in which dualism can be regarded as the most important Zoroastrian piece of inheritance.
Götz König
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Equality\u27s Future: An Introduction [PDF]
We stand at an extraordinary moment: never before have so many powerful men wished to be women. For the first time in history, a massive number of male and female voters--18 million in fact--cast their ballots to nominate a woman, Senator Hillary Clinton,
Nourse, Victoria
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