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Education writes back : on the future/present of cultural studies of education / Robert J. Helfenbein -- Discourses of opposition and resistance in education : alternative spaces for a militant pedagogy / Panayota Gounari -- Teaching and learning risk in the context of mathematics education : from the deficit theory to critical pedagogy of risk / Nenad Radakovic -- Fusion of the Ontario curriculum, the Tyler rationale, and EQAO standardized testing : a counter-productive approach to reducing the achievement gap / Ardavan Eiziderad -- Pièce de résistance : board games as a disruptive innovation in education / Jennifer Dickens, Eric Dickens, and Craig Vivian -- Captive songs of resistance : a posthumanist cartography of a deaf diaspora / Joanne Weber -- Theories of the intellectual : education and the cultural politics of free speech / Zeus Leonardo and Nicole Rangel -- Gifted programs : meeting the needs of exceptional students, or just good teaching practice? / Limin Jao -- Young people heating up in the London kettle : reading between the fault lines of race and class wars of the British urban riot scene (1958-2011) / Jo-Anne Dillabough, Charlotte Rochez ,and Beatrice Balfour -- The obstacle of difference and the solution of inclusive schooling / Terry Louisy -- "There's really a lot going on here" : toward a cosmopolitics of reader-response / Rob Simon, Phil Nichols, Will Edwards, and Gerald Campano -- Poststructuralism, linguistic imperialism, and the English-only question / Michael Koslowski -- Semiotics in education / Marcel Danesi -- Rewriting the educational legacy of imperialism / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Re-mixing culture, language and the politics of boundaries in education : toward critical hip-hop ill-literacies / Awad Ibrahim -- The "digitalsSubjects" of 21st century education : on datafication, educational technology and subject formation / Felicitas Macgilchrist -- "You guys are killing me with this dreck" : contemporary attitudes toward the golden, atomic, silver, and bronze eras of comic book production / David Hayes -- Swamp king / Douglas Kellner -- Faith in fakes : the symbolic violence of wrestling / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Heterotopias of the living and the dead / Michelle Dubek, Susan Jagger, and Erminia Pedretti -- Culturally responsive science education at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico : a retrospective, 1974-1989 / Gregory Cajete -- Considerations of spirituality in science education / Darren Hoeg -- Locks / Nicola Maquire -- Enclosing the commons : beyond a beautiful destruction / Rita Forte, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, and Giuliano Reis -- Sketches along the road west : it's a beauty way to go / Susan Jagger -- Symbiotic relationship between academy music studies and indigenous knowledge in folk music: a case of Department of Music and Dance at Kenyatta University / Timothy K. Njoora -- Jean-Michel Basquiat, graffitiaArtist : teacher of resistance / Marla Morris -- Learning through resistance in an urban arts school transformation project / Bronwen Low, Michael Lipset and Melissa Proietti -- Learning stories and Reggio Emilia inspired pedagogical documentation : formative methods of assessment for the elementary school music classroom / Paula MacDowell, Michelle Didier, Kristy Dolha, Christine Stuart, Natalie Vermeer, and Peter Gouzouasis -- Still not at home : poetry in education / Carl Leggo.

Purpose
The last decades have witnessed an increased interest in urban logistics originating from both the research and the practitioners' communities. Sustainable freight transports today are on the political, social and technological agenda of many actors operating in urban contexts. Due to the extent of the covered areas and the continuous progress in many fields, the resulting body of research on urban logistics appears quite fragmented. From an engineering management perspective, the purpose of this paper is to present a systematic literature review (SLR) that aims to consolidate the knowledge on urban logistics, analyse the development of the discipline, and provide future research directions.


Design/methodology/approach
The paper discusses the main evidence emerging from a SLR on urban logistics. The corpus resulting from the SLR has been used to perform a citation network analysis and a main path analysis that together underpin the identification of the most investigated topics and methodologies in the field.


Findings
Through the analysis of a corpus of 104 articles, the most important research contributions on urban logistics that represent the structural backbone in the development of the research over time in the field are detected. Based on these findings, this work identifies and discusses three areas of potential interest for future research.


Originality/value
This paper presents an SLR related to a research area in which the literature is extremely fragmented. The results provide insights about the research path, current trends and future research directions in the field of urban logistics.

OBJECTIVE--To determine the views of Avon's general practitioners about the general practice proposals within the government's white paper Working for Patients. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING--A county in south west England. SUBJECTS--All general practitioner principals (n = 537) under contract with Avon Family Practitioner Committee. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--492 doctors (92%) responded to the survey. More than three quarters of the respondents were opposed to the government's proposals on budgets for specific surgical procedures, prescribing, and diagnostic tests; and between 63% and 93% felt negative about advantages that might accrue from the proposals. Over three quarters of general practitioners were in favour of family practitioner committees monitoring work load, prescribing, and referrals. General practitioners in large, potentially budget holding practices held similar views to doctors in smaller practices. CONCLUSIONS--Avon's general practitioners substantially reject most of the government's proposals about general practice in the white paper Working for Patients.

Solutions to social dilemmas require cooperation. Given that there are commonly multiple avenues for cooperation, sometimes social dilemmas require coordination of strategies in addition to sufficient cooperation to be successful. This study examines one social dilemma where such coordination is necessary: supporting the general welfare. Using World Values Survey data from 33 nations, we compare active membership in charitable organizations versus attitudes toward government welfare programs as examples of two different types of cooperation. We argue that culture influences the form of cooperation a group adopts via the amount of trust it generates. Specifically, individualist cultures promote relatively high levels of trust, which produce first-order cooperation (here, involvement in charitable organizations). Collectivist cultures generate relatively low trust levels, facilitating second-order cooperation (here, greater support for government welfare programs). Findings support our arguments and thus suggest that culture, mediated by trust, shapes individuals' perceptions about creating and sustaining public goods.

Die Zeit von etwa 1911 bis 1961 ist zugleich von einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung darüber begleitet gewesen, wie das Industriegebiet als Lebensraum zu definieren sei. Vorschläge dazu beschränkten sich nicht auf literarische Texte oder heimatselige Gedichte, sondern fanden ihre Entsprechung auch in einer Vielzahl konkreter Versuche, planend und gestaltend in diese meist als unförmig empfundene Landschaft einzugreifen. Dennoch standen sich, so wird zu zeigen sein, literarische und konkret-politische Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Ruhrgebiet gerade dort besonders nah, wo letztere erfolglos blieben. Ob sich nun ein traditionsloses Bürgertum in Ordnungsphantasien hineindachte, weil es realer politischer Handlungsfähigkeit ermangelte, oder ob sich Arbeiter in ein sozialer orientiertes Milieu phantasierten - fast immer hat die Literatur des Ruhrgebiets etwas mit Kompensation zu tun. Fast immer auch mit Zuständen, die in anderen Gegenden Deutschlands entweder nicht so akut oder aber längst selbstverständlich waren. So sehr sich im Verlauf dieses halben Jahrhunderts die Frage nach der Zukunft des Ruhrgebiets immer wieder stellte - die rückbezogene Selbstbeschau sowie die Benennung einer spezifischen Umwelterfahrung des Reviers sind zu Leitmotiven dieser Literatur geworden.

We provide an overview of the rapidly evolving literature on shadow credit intermediation. The shadow banking system consists of a web of specialized financial institutions that conduct credit, maturity, and liquidity transformation without direct, explicit access to public backstops. The lack of such access to sources of government liquidity and credit backstops makes shadow banks inherently fragile. Much of shadow banking activities is intertwined with the operations of core regulated institutions such as bank holding companies and insurance companies, thus creating a source of systemic risk for the financial system at large. We review fundamental reasons for the existence of shadow banking, explain the functioning of shadow banking institutions and activities, discuss why shadow banks need to be regulated, and review the impact of recent reform efforts on shadow banking credit intermediation.

English Language and Literature: Cross Cultural Currents is a collection of essays that interrogate the precarious positions of English and African languages in an era in which English is increasingly becoming the dominant language in Africa while at the same time there is a growing resistance against it. Though many Africans take pride in their own cultural heritage that is expressed by their African languages, they require the economic and social benefits of English. The book presents a language dilemma in which both African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other.The data used by the authors spans a broad spectrum of sources including: fiction, courts, parliamentary Hansards, House of Chiefs, classrooms, internet, roads and bus ranks. Thus, it is reflective of the most and least educated, the most and least influential Africans. The presentations provide broad insights about African symbols, metaphors, imagery and folklores representing undocumented literature that challenge scientific imperialism and deficit theories. The diversity and freshness of the ideas in the book stem from the unique blend of the background of the contributors: English language and literature teachers, teachers of African languages, educationalists, sociologists, historians and politicians. Thus the book is a valuable asset to scholars in linguistics, anthropology and language policy makers.

Factionalism can affect the stability and institutionalization of parties and party systems and it can impact on the efficiency and legitimacy of political parties and political systems as a whole. Nevertheless, factionalism has only received scant attention in the comparative literature on political parties. As this paper shows, there is no dearth of conceptual approaches and hypotheses which can readily be used to advance the systematic analysis of factionalism. We survey the relevant literature and offer a comprehensive analytical framework to stimulate comparatively oriented and nuanced studies of the causes, characteristics and consequences of intra-party groups.

"Die Rezeption der deutschsprachigen Literatur in Portugal wurde und wird noch teilweise von verschiedenartigen und unberechenbaren Faktoren und Kriterien beeinflußt: nostalgische oder modische Wellen, der persönliche Geschmack von Verlegern und, seltener, einiger einflußreicherer Übersetzer, die jeweilige politische Situation, das Vorhandensein oder Nichtvorhandensein von offizieller Förderung, die Studienpläne und Programme der Germanisitik an den Universitäten und, last but not least, heute immer wichtiger werdende Faktoren wie die Marketingstrategie der großen Buchmessen und internationalen Agenturen." In seinem Aufsatz erstellt der Autor eine synthetische Methodologie zur Rezeption der deutschsprachigen Literatur in Portugal und zielt in zwei Phasen auf Auswahl und Ausdeutung herrschender Trends, spezifischer und typischer Phänomene bzw. Einzelerscheinungen. Die erste Phase erstreckt sich vom Kriegsende bis zur Aprilrevolution 1974 und ihre unmittelbaren Auswirkungen. Die zweite Phase deckt den Zeitraum bis Anfang der 90er Jahre ab und beschreibt auch die Reaktion auf die deutsche Vereinigung. (psz)