Rousseau’s errors: they persist today in educational theory by Peter Gray

“…In this essay, the author contends that the approach to education described by Rousseau in Émile is not only impractical but is founded on four misconceptions concerning human nature and development. …”
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Reflexividade e agência na teoria sociológica contemporânea by Camila Penna

“…The article discusses some of the contributions of contemporary sociological theory to the debate on agency and on reflexivity and traces the position of relevant authors in the current theoretical production regarding the work of the sociologist and the role of sociology. …”
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Cidade de Deus: entre o testemunho e a ficção by Sandro R. Barros

“…The following article discusses the problematic epistemological separation be- tween Paulo Lins's novel and the author's identity as a construct that redirects the text's message in very specific ways. …”
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Towards an agency-oriented model of congregational vitality: by C.A.M. Hermans

“… The author defines ‘congregational vitality’ as a disposition of the members of the congregation, who act in a role within the social system of the congregation. …”
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Economic Assessment of Brazilian Public Ports: Value-Based Management by Erivelto Fioresi de Sousa, Francisco José Kliemann, Rafael Fontoura Andriotti, Rodrigo Rech Campagnolo

“…Therefore, we assessed the port authorities with traditional financial indicators as well as with Economic Value Added (EVA) indicators, aiming to assess companies’ ability to create wealth for ports’ capital investors. …”
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Jeremiah 34:8-22 - a call for the enactment of distributive justice? by M. D. Terblanche

“… This article seeks to determine whether the author of Jeremiah 34:8-22, in his critique of the events relating to the manumission of Hebrew slaves in 589/588 BCE during Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Jerusalem, called for the enactment of distributive justice. …”
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UNEXPECTED POSSIBLE. A BUILDING-BLOCK APPROACH TO SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES REVISITED by C.A.M. Hermans

“…Religious experiences include a reference to God as ultimate. Next, the author presents insights from neuropsychology and cognitive science, which assist in understanding human processing of surprise in embodied, cultural and social practices. …”
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Knowledge Unlatched: A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books by Montgomery Lucy

“…It involved libraries, publishers, authors, readers and research funders in the process of developing and testing a global library consortium model for supporting Open Access books. …”
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A censura ao direito de sonhar em Quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…Therefore, we understand that Carolina‟s work found echo of many authorized voices and thus enriches Brazilian contemporary li terary scene with greater representativeness.…”
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Mission among the Jews by A. van de Beek

“… The author discusses whether the issue of mission among the Jews deals with the basic question of mission or whether it is the core of the Christian faith. …”
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Sociabilidade e cidadania: os espaços públicos de Salvador como entrelaçamento do concreto, do simbólico e do imaginário by Cíntia San Martin Fernandes

“…For this purpose, the author chose Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, as a constitutive example of a city that builds its sociability, its daily interlacement, not on instrumental rational relationships (ruled by objective and regulating ends and means), but on sensitive reason (ruled by sensitivities, such as art, aesthetics, the body and gestures). …”
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Solving problems in the text as main way in teaching applying arithmetic by Bronius Balčytis

“…Special focus is made on the problems that could be applied in everyday life of primary school pupils. The author introduces various methods of teaching. …”
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The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…In many reports, as well as in the reaction of the political authorities, one can sense a desire to link Russian actions in Ukraine with Russia’s policy regarding the border issue with Japan. …”
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Publishing Trends of Informal Lithuanian Youth Publications –Fanzines – at the End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė

“…The study applies descriptive metadata analysis and systematization of fanzines, as well as ethnographic research methods (targeted interview, questionnaire, and qualitative interviews with fanzine authors, publishers, and collectors). The research results showed that in Lithuania, mainly in the 1990s, metal music fanzine authors, unlike punks and science fiction fans, created more publications written in English. …”
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Proposals by the Ministry of Internal Affairs Commission Headed by F. K. Girs to Subordinate the Kirghiz Inner Horde under Astrakhan Governorate: Administrative Structure and Judic... by Evgeniy A. Gunaev

“…However, the Russian authorities did tend to retain the court of biys for certain spheres of Kazakh life. …”
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SAMPLING OF MATERIAL FROM AN OBJECT OF PROCESSING ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY REDUCED TO ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING by Alin NIOAŢĂ, Florin CIOFU

“…The authors have studied some aspects of the mechanism of material removal by electrical discharge machining of a work piece formed by a plate of silicium or germanium placed between plates of steel, aluminum or cooper.…”
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Why Do So Few Preliminary Questions Come From Czechia? by Kunertová Tereza

“…In her analysis, the author identifies three possible factors underpinning the issue. …”
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Invitation to heretical reading of Montessori pedagogy by Jarosław Jendza

“… In the article the author invites readers to initiate a certain mode of reading that – inspired by Agamben and Holmes – is called heretical reading. …”
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Dataset of vocabulary in Uzbek primary education: Extraction and analysis in case of the school corpusZenodo by Khabibulla Madatov, Sapura Sattarova, Jernej Vičič

“…The second dataset was created from 35 primary school textbooks for grades 1-4 approved by the Ministry of Preschool and School Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and it was named the ``Uzbek Primary School Corpus'' (UPSC) by authors. Using the ``Comparative Lemma Extraction Method'' (CLEM) proposed by the authors of the article, a vocabulary for grades 1-4 was created, and the problem of determining the number of new words (disregarding word forms as Uzbek is a morphologically rich language) that primary school pupils should learn each academic year was solved.…”
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A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics by N.A. Terefe

“… This book is a revised version of the author’s PhD thesis that was submitted to Denver University and the Iliff School of Theology. …”
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