Life writing and the Southern Hemisphere: texts, spaces, resonances

“…Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies. …”

May I see your credentials, please? Displays of pedagogical expertise by language teaching researchers by Rose, H, McKinley, J

“…To explore such positioning, this study analyzed author biographies (bios; N = 400) of research articles in leading language teaching journals that self-identified as major avenues to communicate research to language teaching practitioners. …”

Cross-cultural Competence as an Element of Professional Training of Foreign Language Specialists by Sergei N. Samozhenov, Irina V. Matveeva

“…The intangible nature of cultural norms and the diversity of students' biographies complicate the process of building soft skills. …”
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A Non-Formal Student Laboratory as a Place for Innovation in Education for Sustainability for All Students by Fiona Affeldt, Katharina Weitz, Antje Siol, Silvija Markic, Ingo Eilks

“…This also includes low-achievers and students who have disadvantaged educational biographies. In this sense, the structuring of non-formal learning environments simultaneously becomes a process of innovation with respect to both the curriculum and the teaching methods. …”
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“They Really Only Look for the Best”: How Young People Frame Problems in School‐to‐Work Transition by Teresa Wintersteller, Veronika Wöhrer, Shenja Danz, Mariam Malik

“…These co‐researchers struggle with constant comparisons to “norm” biographies and their accompanying social pressure as they try to meet the high expectations of school, work, and family. …”
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From immigrants to sports figures: The case study of the ioc refugee team in Rio Olympics 2016 by Rahim, Baidruel Hairiel Abd, Diah, Nurazzura Mohamad, Aman, Mohd Salleh

“…Relevant data were obtained from secondary sources, such as sports articles and biographies on websites, about refugee athletes competing in the Rio Olympics in 2016. …”

WATCH ME MOVE : THE ANIMATION SHOW / by Hilty, Greg, editor 635515, Pardo, Alona, editor 635516, Barbican Art Gallery, editor 635517

Postdramaatiline teater ja autobiograafiline lavastus sotsiaalses kontekstis. Postdramatic Theatre and Autobiographical Performance in Its Social Context by Anneli Saro

“…For answering the research question, production and reception of the following performances are investigated more closely: Meie elulood (Our Biographies, 1982) and Kui ruumid on täis…(Full rooms, 1982) by Merle Karusoo and Elud (The Lives, 2009) by Andres Keil. …”
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Serial Austen. Mashingups with Zombies by Eleonora Federici

“…The interest in her life is so strong that many biographies have been written in order to recover new facts and details. …”
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Mies’s Convention Hall: Convergence of Teaching and Architecture by Zaida Garcia-Requejo, Pablo Rodríguez Rodríguez, María del Pilar Salazar Lozano

“…Thus, the Convention Hall project was also formalized in a thesis submitted by Yujiro Miwa, Henry Kanazawa, and Pao-Chi Chang in June 1954. However, many biographies and publications dealing with Mies’s work ignores the role played by the students and the structural engineer in its development, and their accounts are sometimes confused. …”
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On the Methodology of Studying Long-Term World Development: The Shadow of the Past or the Role of Individuals? by A. M. Libman

“…This paper reviews two avenues of research of this type that are rapidly developing in the last decade – persistence studies (arguing that historical factors have an impact on contemporary political, economic and social development even in spite of apparent historical discontinuities) and studies of personal characteristics of politicians and bureaucrats (arguing that biographies of decision-makers can influence political development to the same extent as structural characteristics of the society). …”
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«A daring feat»: pioneering women directors of the Portuguese press in the United States - historical and socio-symbolic aspects by Alberto Pena-Rodríguez, Clara Sanz-Hernando

“…Andrade and Mary Nunes Silveira, respectively, the editors of A Tribuna Portuguesa (New Jersey) and the Jornal Português (California), through a discussion of their biographies and their professional careers. …”
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“You Have a Lot of Soul, This Is the Main Thing for Creativity.” The Correspondence between Ivan Shmelyov and Leonid Zurov (1928–1929) by Alexei M. Lyubomudrov

“…The published correspondence, thus, introduces new nuances in the biographies of two bright creative personalities of the Russian emigration.…”
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You can’t teach speed: sprinters falsify the deliberate practice model of expertise by Michael P. Lombardo, Robert O. Deaner

“…In Studies 1 and 2 we reviewed biographies of 15 Olympic champions and the 20 fastest American men in U.S. history. …”
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Silent (un)becoming song: Poetic adventures in history, memory and identity in Papusza and Song of Granite by Elzbieta Buslowska

“…Song of Granite (Pat Collins, 2017) and Papusza (Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, 2013) could be described as unconventional film ‘biographies’ (of the Irish folk singer Joe Heaney and Polish-Roma poet Bronislawa Wajs). …”
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Calendars, Compliments, and Computations by Anuj Misra, Jean Arzoumanov

“…The paper includes brief biographies of both astronomers, a summary of the salient features of the canons, a description of the manuscripts utilised and our transcription and transliteration schemes, along with a detailed comparison of the individual chapters in these canons. …”
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Political Pathways and Performance of Women Opposition Leaders in Indonesia and South Korea by Nankyung Choi

“…Using four illustrative cases of women who have pursued executive power through oppositional politics, this article questions whether and how the variation in women’s pathways affects their exercise of power in Indonesia and South Korea, two young though consolidating democracies in East Asia. Drawing on the biographies and policies of two presidents (Megawati Soekarnoputri and Park Geun-hye) and two mayors (Tri Rismaharini and Kim Soo-young) it shows that local women opposition leaders use their executive leadership to initiate and implement public policies, unlike their national counterparts whose pathways and performance are intertwined with family background. …”
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LINGUOPERSONOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT OF THE SPEECH OF RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE DIASPORA (methodological notes) by N. D. Golev

“…The dissertation deals not only with the average speech of the language group, but it also studies the speech activity of individuals with their personal biographies. Good illustrations are the dissertation supplements which include questionnaires and family trees reflecting general social and, as a consequence, language processes. …”
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Luces y sombras de don Juan de Austria by Luc Torres

“…Cette étude a pour but de comparer en s’inspirant de la distinction classique aristotélicienne entre Général (Poésie) et Particulier (Histoire), trois approches en prose ou en vers de la  vie du héros don Juan d’Autriche, fils illégitime de Charles Quint et de Barbara Plomberge, pourfendeur des Musulmans, vainqueur des Morisques en 1570 et des Turcs en 1571 à Lépante.Tout d’abord, en confrontant la vision poétique qu’en donna le jurat de Cordoue, Juan Rufo, dans son épopée La Austriada (1584) qui narre l’enfance du héros et son rôle dans la Guerre de Grenade (1568-1570) et la bataille de Lépante (7 octobre 1571) et celle des historiens et chroniqueurs contemporains, puis, à l’intérieur de cette deuxième division, en comparant la vision qu’en donnèrent les historiens espagnols contemporains, et qui en bonne mesure perdure encore aujourd’hui dans les biographies contemporaines écrites en Espagne, et celle des historiens ou ambassadeurs des autres pays européens français, flamands ou italiens.…”
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Multi-ethnicity of literary culture in courtly circles of 12th century England by Idalia Smoczyk-Jackowiak

“…Multi-ethnicity of literary culture in courtly circles of 12th century England The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the ambivalent attitude of writers attached to the Angevin court towards multi-ethnicity of that milieu. Both, biographies and writings of those courtier-clerics show the subversive nature of the blend of national identities. …”
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