 "Wakefield Express (Wakefield, England)")
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Mind-reading system nips truancy in the bud.
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PROBLEMS with attendance, low self-esteem and underachievement at schools in Wakefield are being tackled with a tool that helps read children's thoughts.
Schools across the district are using the PASS (Pupils Attitudes to Self and School) system to assess pupils' attitudes to education and find out why they become disenchanted with it.
Pupils log on to answer a range of questions on an electronic questionnaire relating to motivation, liking for school and teachers, attitudes towards school work, the curriculum, educational aspirations and absence for which they are given ...
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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Southwest Journal of Linguistics
; ...nineteenth century anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, who writes, in part, that...main source men learn from.' (Tylor 1898 as cited in C&B 2003:9) Tylor's perspective of literacy reflects...
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Aboriginal subsistence whaling and the right to practice and revitalize cultural traditions and customs *.
Magazine article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy
; ...increased since. In 1871, British anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor defined culture as "that complex whole which includes...influence our ideas of what culture is today. Since Tylor, numerous scholars have refined the concept of culture...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...William Kinglake, author, 1891; Sir George Biddell Airy, astronomer royal, 1892; Sir Edward Augustus Bond, librarian of the...Goldmark, composer, 1915; Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist, 1917; Sabine...
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The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; ...assertions are difficult to prove, just as were the speculations regarding the soul by early anthropologists such as Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. However, she assembles a convincing body of evidence to back her claims and invites others to contribute to...
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Expanding world views through traveling.(President's Message)
Magazine article from: Childhood Education
; ...anthropologists, sociologists, and educators have given various descriptions to define "culture." Anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1994) defined "cultural" as "[including] knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other...
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Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion
; ...social scientists and anthropologists: Comte, de Toqueville, and Bergson, on the one hand, and Edward Burnett Tylor, Robertson Smith, Sir James George Frazer, Bronislaw Malinowski Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, and Marcel Mauss on the other...
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