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Katina Pollock
Administrator and Teachers' Perceptions of School Success in a Publicly Funded Catholic School in Ontario, Canada
Education

School success is a complex and abstract notion. Asking questions about what is meant by school success is important, since the ways in which educator...

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Gail Mayotte, Dan Wei, Sarah Lamphier, Thomas Doyle
Enhancing Capacity to Improve Student Learning
Education

Professional development provides a means to build capacity among school personnel when it is delivered as part of a systematic, long-term approach to...

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Rebecca A. Proehl, Shelese Douglas, Dean Elias, Anthony H. Johnson, Wendy Westsmith
A Collaborative Approach: Assessing the Impact of Multi-Grade Classrooms
Education

Catholic schools in the United States are faced with the looming challenge of declining enrollments. One possible strategy for dealing with this probl...

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This article addresses a highly pertinent and pressing issue facing Catholic education in the United States: declining enrollments and the strategic r...

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Kenith C. Britt
Identification, Description, and Perceived Viability of K—12 Consolidated Catholic School Systems
Administration

Catholic education has been in a state of substantial decline since 1965. In order to help sustain the ministry of Catholic schools, one approach that...

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This paper addresses a critically important issue within contemporary religious education: the sustained decline of Catholic schools since 1965. Focus...

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Michael Matthew Kaylor
'Sometimes you did see me' : Forrest Reid's Demophon
Literature

The writings of the Ulster novelist Forrest Reid hark back to his childhood as well as to that of humanity — the Greco-Roman period. As one critic wou...

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This article, "'Sometimes you did see me' : Forrest Reid's Demophon," promises a focused and insightful examination of a key work by the Ulster noveli...

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Mariia Karacheva, Martina Juričková
Lucy Gray Baird and Katniss Everdeen : representation of women in Hunger Games
Literature

This article explores the representation of women in the novels of Suzanne Collins, 'The Hunger Games' trilogy (2008-2010) and The Ballad of Songbirds...

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This article proposes a timely and relevant comparative analysis of female representation within Suzanne Collins's *The Hunger Games* universe, focusi...

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Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan
Placelessness in Stuart Dybek's short stories : the new tramps
Literature

The article explores the sense of placelessness in two collections of short fiction by Stuart Dybek: Childhood and Other Neighborhoods (1980) and The...

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This article proposes an engaging and timely examination of the theme of placelessness in Stuart Dybek's short stories, specifically drawing from *Chi...

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Monika Christine Rohmer
The sea as a challenge for ecolinguistic research : proposing a comparative cognitive framework to unravel differences in conceptualisation
Linguistics

By a contrastive and comparative research between French and Wolof in Senegal, this paper interrogates in how far the conceptualisation of the environ...

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This paper tackles a fundamental question in ecolinguistics: the extent to which environmental conceptualisation is language-bound. By focusing on the...

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Anna Raimo
From crisis to control : the framing of water in Italian climate discourse
Journalism

This research aims to examine how hydro-climatic phenomena – specifically glacial melting and sea level rise – are discursively framed in contemporary...

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The study, "From crisis to control: the framing of water in Italian climate discourse," presents a highly relevant and timely investigation into the p...

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