This article builds on the criticism of international socialisation narrative which mistakenly represents compliance as and recognises agency only to extent it fails comply. It pertains argument that such a can lead stigmatisation reinforces social orders characterised by specific hierarchies power spatial relations. The example EU member states from Central Europe (CE) went ‘star pupils norm a...

This thesis focuses on children who have lost both parents and are currently living on their own as child headed households (CHHs) in a rural community in Zimbabwe. Children heading households and taking care of siblings is a very ?un-childlike? behaviour yet these are growing phenomena. Through an exploration of how CHHs are constituted and evolve the thesis aims to examine whether local const...

Cultural capital can act as an asset for migrants in a host society, and it be negotiated validated contact with the majority minority population groups. These negotiations occur discursively, such social media discussions. This study analyses members’ discursive positioning discussions that take place Facebook groups aimed at two of Finland’s larger groups, Estonian- Russian-speaking. The ethn...

BACKGROUND Though the Down syndrome behavioural phenotype has been described as involving relative strengths in visuo-spatial processing and sociability, and relative weaknesses in verbal skills and motor planning, the early emergence of this phenotypic pattern of strengths and weaknesses has not yet been fully explored. METHOD In this study, we compared the performance of eighteen 2 to 3-yea...

In this paper, I want to consider the possibility of applying feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine gender in children’s fantasy fiction. There are two major aspects in claiming that a critical linguistic, feminist approach to children’s fantasy might be needed. Firstly, considering the earlier applications of feminist CDA and CDA, one should note that these approaches have rare...