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How sustainable finance is becoming mainstream?
The emerging economic, social, and environmental pressures highlighted the need for long-term approaches to bring sustainable development. The concept of sustainable finance evolved as a novel field of finance that actively contributes to sustainable development. However, despite the fact that the …
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Mainstream teacher attitudes toward english language learners
… was to collect and analyze data from practicing mainstream K-12 teachers currently enrolled in graduate courses at a large, urban, Midwest university regarding four categories of their attitudes toward English language learners: (a) inclusion of ELLs, (b) the second language acquisition …
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Hidden Hout Bay mainstream, myths and margins
This essay, which accompanies a photo-book, constructs a different picture which I have made of Hout Bay; a picture that lies behind the glossy postcard and calendar photographs of this global tourist attraction; one that lies hidden from foreign tourists as well as from local visitors to the …
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Imagining possibilities: Trans representations in mainstream film
… is important to understand what they enable for mainstream audiences as well as the role they play in cultural discourses about heteronormativity. The ways that the films construct trans narratives and characters tends to be closely tied to the genre they are intended to be part of, and they are …
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Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
… groups such as the Proud Boys, and then into mainstream American politics through the MAGA movement up to and including the political rhetoric of President Donald Trump and his rhetorical denial of the events of the January 6th insurrection. Ironic distancing has now become a common way to …
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Tanzania’s Mainstream News Media Engagement with National Development
This thesis examines the ways in which Tanzania’s media report news on development issues and what accounts for the way they report, guided by social constructionist philosophy and framing theory. In terms of how they report news, the thesis draws on primary data generated from: (1) an analysis of …
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School Refusal: from short stay school to mainstream
… young people who have been reintegrated into mainstream school following a period at a Short Stay School (PRU) for key stage 3 and 4 pupils with mental health and medical needs. In addition to the young people, participants include their mothers, the learning mentor from the Short Stay School …
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Supermarket tabloid influence on mainstream daily newspaper editorial content
Daily newspapers' content is influenced by the tabloid press in two ways. First, the dailies serve as a watchdog by criticizing tabloids' sensational news, covering litigation against tabloids, and allowing the subjects of tabloid reports to rebut or criticize allegations tabloids make against …
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Children with Williams Syndrome: Experiences of mainstream primary schools
… shared their daily experiences of attending a mainstream primary school in the South West of England, UK. Using an adaptation of the Mosaic approach (Clark, 2011), children shared their perceptions and experiences of belonging to a class, developing responsibility and learning to follow the …
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The inclusion of Maltese hearing : impaired children in the mainstream
… with hearing-impairment are included in the mainstream. This study took into consideration parents', teachers', learning support assistants', teachers' of the deaf and sign language interpreter's views about dealing with a hearing- impaired child at school. It tackled issues such as …
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Lack of Preparation for Mainstream Teachers of English Language Learners
… to resolve the issue of lack of preparation in mainstream teachers in regard to English Language Learners (ELLs). Through research, three main themes were identified as contributing factors to the issue; current legislation that affects ELL education, deficits in mainstream teacher preparation …
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Mainstream Success Following Placement in a Modified Type II Setting
… success of students upon their return to the mainstream. This study compared the success of students formerly placed in a modified disciplinary Type II setting, once they have returned to the mainstream, with their success prior to disciplinary placement. The purpose of the study was to …
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Mainstreaming the Marginalized: Secondary Mainstream Teachers' Perceptions of ESL Students
… What are the perceptions and experiences of mainstream classroom teachers working with ESL students in their regular, content area classrooms? There are increasing numbers of ESL students entering mainstream classrooms. Unfortunately, most mainstream teachers often are not trained to teach …
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A Hearing-Impaired Child in the Mainstream: a Case Study
… of this case study was to demonstrate that the mainstreaming of a hearing impaired child could be successfully achieved by determination of the current academic and social status of the child through a case study approach followed by research into current practices in teaching hearing impaired …
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Depictions of Mental Disorder in Mainstream American Film 1988-2010
… and thematic depictions of mental disorder in mainstream American film from 1988 to 2010. The research was an extension of an earlier investigation on portrayals of psychological disability in Hollywood movies (Levers, 1988, 2001). The theoretical and historical grounding for the project …
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The double-edged sword : defining prostitution in mainstream Canadian press
Relying on a sample of newspaper articles from The Toronto Star and The Montreal Gazette, this analysis examines the discourse through which prostitutes and prostitution are represented in the media. The sample (N = 52) is randomly chosen from 749 articles collected between 1993 and 1994. A …
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