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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Culture And Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism, Nathan Poirier
Culture And Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism, Nathan Poirier
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
No abstract provided.
Playing Out: The Importance Of The City As A Playground For Skateboard And Parkour, Mike Jeffries, Sebastian Messer, Jon Swords
Playing Out: The Importance Of The City As A Playground For Skateboard And Parkour, Mike Jeffries, Sebastian Messer, Jon Swords
Occasional Paper Series
The authors document young skaters and freerunners’ improvisational use of public space and the development of their interpersonal relationships and learning.
What (And Where) Is The ‘Learning’ When We Talk About Learning In The Home?, Julian Sefton-Green
What (And Where) Is The ‘Learning’ When We Talk About Learning In The Home?, Julian Sefton-Green
Occasional Paper Series
In this paper, I will build on the proposal that we need to pay attention to both of these frames through characterizing the metadiscourse surrounding learning in the home. I suggest that this metadiscourse is made up of several elements. I will show how a number of families — the subjects of a larger research project that investigates learning across time and contexts — adopt and use folk “ theories of learning,” and I will consider, in particular, how such theories relate to dominant discourses around learning in school. Second, I will explore how media technologies — and in particular, …
Front Matter And Introduction: The Other 17 Hours - Valuing Out-Of-School Time, Jennifer Rebecca Teitle
Front Matter And Introduction: The Other 17 Hours - Valuing Out-Of-School Time, Jennifer Rebecca Teitle
Occasional Paper Series
No abstract provided.
Visualizing Spaces Of Childhood, Heather Kaplan
Visualizing Spaces Of Childhood, Heather Kaplan
Occasional Paper Series
Explores the connections between our images of the child and our understandings of children’s spaces to posit childhood itself as a construction of both image and space.
Digital Engagement: Personality Is The Context Of The Text, Diane C. Spencer-Scarr
Digital Engagement: Personality Is The Context Of The Text, Diane C. Spencer-Scarr
Proceedings from the Document Academy
This paper examines digital-technology as a tool and an environment with the individuals’ personality at the intersection of the two: Its impact on social memory and the unbound document. With the ubiquitous embedding of digital networked technology in society and the emergence of the unbounded document, humans increasingly obtain information by grasping snippets of decontextualized text sourced through non-human entities from globally dispersed databases that have stripped out context. Then in a Kafkian way humans’ have to build from the middle to make sense of the information snippets. The paper explores how the inherent nature of the individual can be …