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Cattaneo, Zaira; Fantino, Micaela; Tinti, Carla; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; Silvanto, Juha; Vecchi, Tomaso – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Our representation of peripersonal space does not always accurately reflect the physical world. An example of this is "pseudoneglect", a phenomenon in which neurologically normal individuals bisect to the left of the veridical midpoint, reflecting an overrepresentation of the left portion of space compared with the right one. Consistent biases…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Comparative Analysis, Vision
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Schwartz, Joni – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
This article, based on an ethnographic study of an urban General Education Development (GED) program, suggests that for some marginalized young men of color, Adult education programs are counter-spaces of spatial justice in opposition to previous negative school spaces. Framed by critical race theory (CRT) and drawing on critical geography and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Males, High School Equivalency Programs, African American Students
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Schostak, John – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
There is nothing natural about space as it is understood here. Spacing is an act that constructs relationships, intervals, separations and thus boundaries. The earth has no territories other than those imagined and enforced through acts of territorialisation. A city has its private spaces closed to open access and open spaces that are inscribed…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Personal Space, Social Psychology, Social Attitudes
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Jenkins, Toby S. – About Campus, 2011
Throughout many ethnic communities, culture, place, and education have always been important to each other. There are countless creative strategies and approaches to education, inclusion, and personal development that can be derived from studying cultural spaces within any culture. In this article, the author looks specifically at the African…
Descriptors: African Americans, African American Achievement, African American Culture, Social Experience
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Reid, Hazel; West, Linden – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2011
We report in this article on the second phase of an in-depth project examining practitioners' use of a narrative model for 1-1 career guidance interviews in England, derived from the work of Mark Savickas. Using biographical narrative interviews, we explored the impact and constraints experienced by eight practitioner participants when engaging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Experiential Learning
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Anu Kajamaa – Learning Organization, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this article is to examine whether the boundary between the separate worlds of evaluation and frontline work in a hospital can be overcome. The study provides an example of a rare, innovative creation process of an assessment tool in which the tool users and the tool producer participated. The article aims to widen the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Vertical Organization, Nurses
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Shih, Chih-Ming; Huang, Kuang-Hsu – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
This case study investigated a shared living space used by four participants with severe visual impairments and their four sighted children. In this case study, the authors discovered that the participants with visual impairments focused on two aspects of design features: tactile and visual. At the same time, they revealed a unique aesthetic…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Visual Perception, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Holligan, Christopher Peter; Deuchar, Ross – Journal of Youth Studies, 2009
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, small-scale qualitative research enquiry into the perceptions and experiences of young people in communities afflicted by deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. The context within which we address this focus contains a culture reputed to involve sectarianism, territoriality and gangs.…
Descriptors: Crime, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
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Danaher, Patrick Alan; Danaher, Geoff; Moriarty, Beverley – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Australian occupational Travelers such as circus and fairground people often enter territories normally occupied by permanent residents. This article examines the ways in which these Travelers act as "space invaders," disrupting the boundaries between urban and rural, and as pedagogical innovators, when they develop pioneering approaches…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Migrant Problems, Migrant Workers, Occupational Mobility