Why is the work of educational researcher John Hattie’s so popular today? This question we will try to answer in this paper. Based on a very large empirical database, Hattie calculates effects numerous interventions and factors influencing student achievements. Despite documented methodological flaws his work, keep attracting attention policy makers, teachers researchers all over world. We prop...

Entrepreneurs commonly engage in discursive activities to pursue the legitimacy of their new organizations. Previous studies on this pursuit have essentially been focused verbal language and there is limited understanding how other communication modes, such as visual, offer specific potentials for influencing legitimation audiences. With contemporary pervasiveness digital documents online envir...

“There is no compelling ‘business case’ for the present level of stop and search ... it has a deeply damaging effect on society; it impacts negatively on the law abiding population and is cause of a loss of public support for and de-legitimation of the police. It increases the frequency of adversarial encounters – some of which have the potential to trigger public disorder – and contributes to ...

This study analyses the position of Roma people in the former Yugoslavia using state and civil society discourse on human rights implementation. It reveals that states are failing to give sufficient prioritisation to tackling longstanding discrimination and oppression. Instead of positive the effects predicted by complementarity theory, the findings reveal ‘frame dis-alignment’ between politica...