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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Blank slates"”.
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Immigrants' Political Suitcases: A Theory of Imported Socialization
… individuals entered the nation as political blank slates; that is, we ignore the possible influence of experiences in immigrants’ nations of origin. By contrast, this study develops and tests a theory of imported socialization in an effort to understand how immigrants’ political socialization …
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Explicit versus tacit knowledge in early science education: the case of primary school children's understanding of object speed and acceleration
Children are not blank slates when they begin school; instead, they bring prior conceptions about the everyday world with them. Situations of motion are ubiquitous in everyday life, and because of much interchange with the physical world conceptions are affected from a very early age. Yet prior …
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Dancing the Other in South Africa
… of cultural inscription and dancing bodies as blank slates; questions of (in)visibility and frailty of older persons, wisdom and (in)dependent older dancers and the ontologies of marginalisation for Older dancing within concert theatre Dance. This suggested a thesis of wider Body-space reading …
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Production and Characterisation of Self-Crosslinked Chitosan-Carrageenan Polyelectrolyte Complexes
Macromolecular biomaterials often require covalent crosslinking to achieve adequate stability and mechanical strength for their given application. However, the use of auxiliary chemicals may be associated with long-term toxicity in the body. Oppositely-charged polyelectrolytes (PEs) have the …