To explore a cohort of mental health nurses’ views and experiences in developing applying critical appraisal research skills to identify helping hindering factors. In accordance with evidence-based practice principles, there is an expectation that student (mental health) nurses will become competent understanding make judgements about its trustworthiness applicability the clinical setting. This...

The most recent Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education (IIE, 2020) indicates that number non-white U.S. study abroad students has been steadily growing over past 10 years, and now it accounts for 31% all pursuing part their education abroad. This focuses on four Spanish heritage language learners (SHLLs) Dominican, Mexican, Peruvian, Colombian/Venezuelan descent with diff...

This article contributes to the limited body of work attending girlhood in children’s nonfiction, with specific focus on collective biographies about women published since 2016. In recent years, nonfiction books have proliferated rapidly United Kingdom and beyond. proliferation has coincided an intensification academic public interest young people’s engagement feminist ideas, where female empow...

Whilst works of art, including fiction, are well established as legitimate objects sociological analysis, and the narratives crafted by subjects social research widely understood to be meaningful, use creative writing a methodology is still quite novel within law sciences. In this article, I seek demonstrate how practice process creating fiction can extend aesthetic, affective, ontological poss...

Abstract Background Imbalances in the distribution of health as well global interconnectedness led to consideration a public good. Health is placed therefor at center goal-based movement for sustainability by United Nations (UN). System Strengthening (HSS) an approach align and harmonize all stakeholders sustainable planning health. Methods Frameworks published nation states, multilateral insti...

This paper proceeds from an ongoing investigation of three curriculum reforms in art education from 1980 to the present. I am interested in showing how art education has constituted itself both as a subject of knowledge and as a knowing subject. This research reveals the politics of curriculum practice. Discourse analysis and theories of governmentality, arising principally from the work of the...

What is the state of debate regarding gendered political economy? Answering this question depends on the existence of a debate, who is presumed to be participating and, especially, how we understand ‘gender’. Among self-proclaimed feminist scholars we can readily identify a range of positions on ‘gender and political economy’. While disciplinary locations prompt some of the variation, the most ...

In this paper we present a poststructuralist analysis of customer database technology. This approach allows us to regard customer databases as configurations of language that produce new and significant discursive effects. In particular, we focus on the role of the databases and related technologies such as customer relationship management (CRM) in the discursive construction of both customers ...

If marketing is truly the “ultimate social practice of postmodern consumer culture” (Firat, 1993) then it carries the heavy burden of “determining the conditions and meanings of life for the future” (Firat and Venkatesh, 1993). Certainly, social theory is now focusing on consumption as playing a central role in the way the social world is constructed, and it can be argued that marketing is too ...

Our paper, ‘Human Geography without Scale’ (Marston et al. 2005), is developed in two parts: a critique that is immanent to scale, where we show that, even on the grounds of contemporary spatial theory, the concept is deficient; and a critique that is extrinsic to those grounds, where we make a contribution to an alternative ontology that does not rely on the transcendental abstraction of scale...