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Publication date: 14 October 2009

Christine Trimingham Jack

Researchers of the history of women teachers have included fiction, as well as memoirs and history, as an important part of that testimony. The aim of this article is to examine…

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Researchers of the history of women teachers have included fiction, as well as memoirs and history, as an important part of that testimony. The aim of this article is to examine the novel, Anne of Avonlea (1925) by Lucy Maude Montgomery as both a source of information about the working life of a woman teacher and, due to the immense popularity of the book, as a shaper of how women understand and enact teaching. Anne is a young teacher in her first posting consisting of a rural Canadian one‐ teacher school. She struggles to resist using corporal punishment in favour of winning her students respect, stimulating their minds and finding a ‘genius’. However, the local community, fellow teachers and her students have different notions of how teachers should behave. Her beliefs are further undermined when in a fit of anger she succumbs to beating one her students. Her reflections on what drove her actions are realistic and contain warnings for contemporary teachers to appreciate the often fragile hold they have on their espoused educational philosophy. Another danger revealed is the unconscious leaking of the shadow side of the psyche in the necessary close but dangerous relationships between students and teacher thereby providing a complex view of what motivates young women to teach and how they approach their work.

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History of Education Review, vol. 38 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0819-8691

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Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-810-0

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Publication date: 1 July 1993

Anne Winning

Questions some assumptions about the benefits of recognizing priorlearning (RPL) in the context of learning a trade. Competence‐basedtraining and recognition of prior learning…

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Questions some assumptions about the benefits of recognizing prior learning (RPL) in the context of learning a trade. Competence‐based training and recognition of prior learning tend to conceive the learning of a trade as merely the acquisition of skills. Further, the process of RPL assumes that skills learned in one context are easily transferred to another. Explores aspects of tradespersonship which may be lost through the emphasis on a hurried path through a modularized course. Suggests that to become a tradesperson requires vocational development within a “culture of practice”. It is a journey requiring time for maturation. Suggests that recognizing prior learning may also be an exercise in re‐cognizing the notion of apprenticeship, in that it may change the conception of what it means to become a tradesperson.

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Education + Training, vol. 35 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 March 1993

Anne Winning

Examines the current rhetoric surrounding the Australian governmentpolicy of “creating a clever country” and developing a“multiskilled workforce”. An outcome of the policy is…

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Examines the current rhetoric surrounding the Australian government policy of “creating a clever country” and developing a “multiskilled workforce”. An outcome of the policy is the drive to increase student numbers in what are traditionally known as technical and further education colleges. Deconstructs the taken‐for‐granted use of the term vocational education and training and the language being used to speak of the implementation of competence‐based education, in order to explore the expectations and limitations of its use. Considers the possible role for education within the present trend towards the provision of education which is driven by industry demands.

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Education + Training, vol. 35 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 30 November 2020

Denise Baden and Lynda Whitehorn

This chapter outlines a unique collaboration between industry, academia and education to embed sustainability across the hairdressing sector. The chapter is in two parts with the…

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This chapter outlines a unique collaboration between industry, academia and education to embed sustainability across the hairdressing sector. The chapter is in two parts with the first part written by Dr Denise Baden from the academic perspective. Dr Baden begins by outlining why the hairdressing sector is especially important to engage with respect to sustainability. Three projects run by the Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, and funded by the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) are then described. Lynda Whitehorn then expands upon the context of hairdressing practice, training and education from the perspective of Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) – a specialist awarding organisation which offers vocational and technical qualifications in a variety of service sectors, including hairdressing and barbering. In the process, we show how the collaboration between academia, industry and education enabled sustainable practice to become embedded across the sector.

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CSR in an age of Isolationism
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ISBN: 978-1-80043-268-0

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Publication date: 27 March 2009

Dawn Onishenko and Lea Caragata

Following the landmark 2003 Ontario Court of Appeal decision legalizing same‐sex marriage, some same‐sex couples sought to formalize their unions through legal marriage. The…

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Following the landmark 2003 Ontario Court of Appeal decision legalizing same‐sex marriage, some same‐sex couples sought to formalize their unions through legal marriage. The purpose of this paper is to explore the personal and political reflections of recently married same‐sex couples on the meaning of their marriages for themselves, their partners, their community as well as the implications for progressive social change in the broader social world.

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An ethnographic approach was employed to semi‐structured in‐depth qualitative interviews with six lesbian and gay couples.

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An emerging thesis is that, while seeking access to a most conventional and conformist institution, same‐sex couples inadvertently become “cutting edge” couples as they make public their declarations of love and commitment and model new and challenging notions of marriage.

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The paper provides a snapshot of a small number of interviews that took place approximately 11 months after the Ontario Court of Appeal decision.

Practical implications

Law should take into account the importance of social and legal recognition of marriage for all. The heteronormativity of marriage is thus challenged from within, to make these types of marriages truly cutting edge.

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The paper provides evidence of the personal and political reflections of people who had the choice to get married and did, at a time when this was seen as really cutting edge. Few personal accounts exist which provide a picture of the continued importance of marriage to human beings.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 28 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 3 September 2019

Jeffrey Berman

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Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-810-0

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Publication date: 11 June 2021

Hillary Jephat Musarurwa

Structural violence (SV) is related to the uneven distribution of resources which then leads to social exclusion and marginalisation of people. Johan Galtung (1969) also refers to…

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Structural violence (SV) is related to the uneven distribution of resources which then leads to social exclusion and marginalisation of people. Johan Galtung (1969) also refers to it as social injustice and it is characterised by unequal access to education, health, water, food, shelter and other basic services. SV manifests itself through different forms of exclusion supported through both public and private institutions. Without support to address economic and educational opportunities, Zimbabwean youth continue to experience SV and high levels of social inequality (Chimucheka, 2012). Conflict transformation (CT) can help address SV since it provides processes and ways to build something desired thus altering the manifestation of the conflict (Waldman, 2009). CT involves action between parties that leads to both social change and justice (M. Evans, 2016). Social entrepreneurship (SE) can be used as a CT tool because it (i) identifies an unjust equilibrium that perpetuates exclusion and marginalisation, (ii) identifies opportunities and innovatively challenges the status quo to add social value and (iii) provides a better future for the marginalised communities through creating a new and stable alternative equilibrium (Baporikar, 2016). This chapter discusses the SV transformation model which the author tested to address the disparities faced by youth in an urban area in Zimbabwe. The action research, which took place between January and May 2017, was carried out in combination with capacity building, social support systems and community participation to address some of the SV indicators prevalent in the community. Whilst SE showed great potential in tackling SV in the community study, findings also reveal contestations between theory and practice. Some of the barriers identified in the field include the community’s failure to self-organise, lack of financial resources and buy-in from the local government. Future research could test the model in multiple settings and over longer periods to see its effectiveness.

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Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-323-9

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Publication date: 1 August 2005

Dorothy Rowe

To describe the meaning of emotion.

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To describe the meaning of emotion.

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Describes how emotion has recently become a popular concept for discussion, but it is not often recognised that human beings are, in essence, meaning‐creating creatures and that emotion is one of the forms of meaning they create.

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What one experiences as “I”, “me”, “myself”, that is, one's sense of being a person, is a meaning‐structure, which has developed through one's interaction with one's environment. One's physiological make‐up is such that all the meanings are guesses about what is going on. Consequently the sense of being a person is always in danger of being invalidated by events. Emotions are meanings, which relate to the validation or invalidation of one's sense of being a person. It is necessary to survive both physically and as a person, but, if there is to be a choice between these two ways of surviving, one almost always chooses to survive as a person and let one's body go. This is seen in acts of heroism and in suicide.

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Emphasises how the need to survive as a person is so important that children as young as 16 months are able to understand and respond to the emotional meanings of their parents and siblings even though they do not develop an intellectual understanding of the theory of mind until they are about four years old. All interactions between people in health‐care management involve validation and invalidation.

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Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 19 no. 4/5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1477-7266

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Publication date: 26 September 2002

Mary Anne Raymond and Jong Won Lim

This paper provides a case study comparing the international advertising strategy that Hyundai Motor Company, Korea, utilized when they introduced the Hyundai Santa Fe in Korea…

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This paper provides a case study comparing the international advertising strategy that Hyundai Motor Company, Korea, utilized when they introduced the Hyundai Santa Fe in Korea and in the United States. Based on Hyundai's understanding of factors affecting standardization and adaptation decisions and possible negative country-of-origin effects, the case illustrates how Hyundai created a positive brand image with a local adaptation advertising strategy. A framework illustrating factors affecting the local adaptation decision, the advertising decisions that Hyundai made, and the effectiveness of those decisions is presented. Given the success of Hyundai's local adaptation advertising strategy and the Santa Fe, Hyundai announced plans to build a production facility in the United States.

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New Directions in International Advertising Research
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76230-950-4

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