Setting Goals to Promote Academic and Personal Achievement by Eric D. Rubenstein, Andrew C. Thoron

“…The future that we develop motivates us to engage in learning environments, work experiences, and social encounters/settings. …”
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Language Assessment Practices and Beliefs: Implications for Language Assessment Literacy by Frank Giraldo

“…The findings show that the teachers used varied traditional and alternative assessment instruments, assessed language and non-language constructs, used assessment information to improve teaching and learning, evaluated assessment results, and engaged students in quantitative peer assessment. …”
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Socioeconomic Factors and Work Disability: Clues to Managing Chronic Pain Disorder by Robert W Teasell, Hillel M Finestone

“…Work disability in lower socioeconomic groups is associated with issues of physical work demands and work flexibility (ie, the ability to control the pace of work, take unscheduled breaks or engage in modified work). Workplace interventions, particularly in the subacute phase, that are geared to workers' limitations offer the best opportunity to reduce the current burden of disability. …”
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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…The authors in this Supplementum critically engage the topic of the transmission and reception of biblical discourse in Africa from diverse frames of reference, by applying various interpretational lenses. …”
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Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy by J. Punt

“…Antipathy towards cultural studies approaches such as postcolonial theory on the one hand is born from ideological preoccupation, intellectual comfort and turf-protection, but on the other hand deprives the biblical studies guild (and associated studies in theology and religion) from a broader spectrum of resources and reimagined engagements with biblical texts and their colonialist-infused legacies.…”
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Caribbean Insular Mobilities by Carlo Cubero

“…Here, the author reviews core concepts in Caribbeanist research and places ‘mobility’ and ‘insularity’ in conversation with each other, arguing that, rather than posing a puzzle to unravel, they operate simultaneously in the process of constituting Caribbean island social identities. Engaging with the simultaneity of stasis and movement can be a powerful tool for researchers seeking to understand the complexities of Caribbean social life. …”
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Patrimoine et territoire, les nouvelles ressources du développement by Pierre-Antoine Landel, Nicolas Senil

“…It proposes a second reading of the various works engaged on this notion, tries to bring it some additional elements and confronts these theoretical propositions with a first analysis of the files deposited by the 342 territories having answered the call to project "Pôles d'excellence rurale" launched by the Interministerial Delegation for Territorial Planning and Competitiveness (DIACT) in December, 2005. …”
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L’éducation et le soin comme agir sur soi : liminaire by Jean-Marie Barbier

“…The ordered actions dominating the transformation of oneself and by oneself involve three conditions : to recognize to be able to act on oneself ; to engage oneself as a subject of one's own transformation ; a space for "self-cultivation".…”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…This essay therefore engages in a comparative exercise, identifying marital rites in the diaspora that have maintained close ties with homeland and those that have diverged from them. …”
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Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…They are not only accepted but sought after, as ultra-refined figures of conventional gentlemanliness and masters of ceremonies of sorts.Their presentability is matched by their power to convince whoever engages in controversies with them. Their strong reliance on rhetoric ensures their supremacy in polite conversation, even if their intellectual and cultural edge does a lot to secure their domination. …”
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Dziecko w działaniu – refleksje praktyka by Paulina Grzelecka

“…For the teacher’s work I have described the possibility of diagnosing students cognitive development based on their social role; how do they build strategies of logical thinking; what is wrong with preschool education; and how to engage students in classes. This text is a result of taking a part in the project Laboratorium Wczesnej Edukacji. …”
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The biopolitics of Arctic tourism development and sustainability by Aapo Lunden

“…The article claims, from a biopolitical perspective, that arctified visions of tourism and sustainable tourism in the Arctic can be understood as the production of heterotopic spaces. By engaging with Foucault’s concept of heterotopia as spaces of exception based on deviation (alterity) and compensation (sustainability), the article further claims that it provides a valuable framework for analysing contemporary challenges and paradoxes of sustainability and tourism growth strategies in the Arctic. …”
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Ribeirinho Food Regimes, Socioeconomic Inclusion and Unsustainable Development of the Amazonian Floodplain by Tatiana Schor, Gustavo S. Azenha

“…The changing of alimentary habits is a strong indicator of changes in perceptions, uses, and engagements with nature in the Amazon, providing a useful vehicle for examining the gap between the myths of sustainability and the reality of rapid urbanization and changing livelihoods in the contemporary Amazon. …”
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Applying Culturally Relevant Teaching to Workshops—The Checklist by Cecilia E Suarez, John M Diaz, Laura E Valencia

“…In this new 2-page article, a follow-up to EDIS article AEC678, Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Framework for Educating Diverse Audience, the authors provide a checklist to serve as a guiding tool when planning workshops and to ensure that participants feel connected to, engaged with, and understood while working toward achieving workshop educational goals. …”
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TOPOLOGY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY: DYNAMIC DESCRIPTIVE MODEL by R. A. Zayakina

“…The article continues the topological study of social networks created by universities which are engaged in entrepreneurial activities and strive to become members of industrial clusters. …”
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Reconfiguring Gender Through Digital Narratives: Multiliteracies and Social Justice in Additional Languages Teacher Education by Margarida Castellano Sanz, Agustín Reyes-Torres

“…Drawing on the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, which emphasizes the need to engage with diverse modes of meaning construction, the text discusses how digital resources contribute to challenge traditional gender roles and foster inclusive learning environments. …”
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CHINA - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE COOPERATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RISE OF CHINA: A REALIST PERSPECTIVE by Yiğit Yamanlar

“…Following the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, China began to engage in power competition in the CEE region for its economic and political interests. …”
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Long Noncoding RNAs in Metabolic Syndrome Related Disorders by Magdalena Losko, Jerzy Kotlinowski, Jolanta Jura

“…Noncoding genes (noncoding RNA, sequences, and pseudogenes) comprise 67% of all genes and they are represented by housekeeping noncoding RNAs (transfer RNA (tRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), small nuclear RNA (snRNA), and small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA)) that are engaged in basic cellular processes and by regulatory noncoding RNA (short and long noncoding RNA (ncRNA)) that are important for gene expression/transcript stability. …”
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IMPERATIVES OF NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU by SAMUEL NAANSUAN DAWAM, SOLOMON JANG ARIN

“…The study concludes with an assessment of the effectiveness of President Tinubu’s foreign policy and its implications for Nigeria’s future diplomatic engagements. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of Nigeria’s foreign policy dynamics and offer insights for policy formulation and implementation. …”
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Die rol van die NGK-leierskap in die aanloop tot die eerste demokratiese verkiesing in Suid-Afrika: 1990-1994 by Johan M. van der Merwe

“…It then describes how the leadership of the church engaged with different political leaders between 1990 and 1994. …”
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