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This multiple case study aimed to develop an understanding of science teachers' interpretations and enacted practices about policy documents' recommendations for developing critical thinking skills among secondary students in public schools. Four public secondary schools were selected through the purposive sampling technique. Data were collected in three different phases. First, four education policy documents, including National Education Policy (2009) and National Curriculum for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Grades IX-X (2006), were analyzed. In the second phase, 12 science teachers from four public schools (3 from each school teaching Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) were interviewed. Besides, these 12 science teachers were observed (every six times) while teaching in a real-life context through video-recorded classroom observations and reflective field notes. With the facilitation of NVivo 11, qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data obtained from all sources. The findings revealed that critical thinking was emphasized in all policy documents, and different pedagogical practices for developing critical thinking were suggested to be used in science classrooms. Analysis of interview data revealed that teachers had some awareness about critical thinking. Furthermore, the classroom observations revealed that they were mainly using the lecture method with some other pedagogies without focusing on critical thinking. A top-down change is also recommended for the implementation of the policies. The assessment system might also be revised, focusing on critical thinking skills development.

Abstract: What is the role of the Social Sciences and Humanities (known collectively as SSH) in the journey to the Fourth Industrial Revolution? What is the impact of these disciplines for the challenges the world faces, supposedly defined by a highly dynamic phase of industrial
and social restructuring, where the adaptive capacity of societies needs to be enhanced by specific skills and techno-social dependencies? What is the role of SSH in building cognitive competences, and new professional paths? This paper, part of the special focus of the Annual Review of New
Directions in the Humanities, seeks to unveil the importance of SSH disciplines to the major STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Although disciplines and research in Social Sciences and Humanities play a fundamental role in the production of knowledge relevant
to society, the last decade of the 20th century has seen a continuous trend towards their devaluation. After a relatively glorious period during the first half of the century, when SSH disciplines still held a relative social influence, the arrival of digital technologies in 1990s, accelerated
their decline. This article traces a brief overview of this decline and explores some of the causes as well as the challenges in valuing SSH. Focusing mainly on Europe, the paper presents the attempts, on behalf of the European Commission, to correct this decline. It also outlines some new
ideas that could help a true integration and transfer of knowledge across STEM AND STEAM disciplines, such as the creation of specific 'missions'. Precisely, one of the diagnoses of the Horizon 2020 experience in Europe has been that investment in research is not effectively linked to the
solution of specific problems. Thus, it is necessary to put in motion co-creation mechanisms among research disciplines and advance in the establishment of intersectoral bridges, bringing SSH research closer to the industry and other social sectors in order to solve the pressing challenges
we face (climate change, mass migration, economic crisis, etc.)

Cover -- Praise page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Ryding and Breakinge -- 2 Manège to Field -- 3 Light-Horse, Dragoons, and Others -- 4 Remounts and Wastage -- 5 Hunting in the Trenches -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Horses in History -- PLATES.

A number of the reports by academicians and practitioners in the United States have called for significant change in accounting education and an enhanced role for accounting history in curricula and research. However, the survey results reported in this paper suggest that achieving wider acceptance of accounting history presents some perplexing problems. Doctoral faculty, especially assistant professors, report less interest in accounting history than non-doctoral faculty. Although a majority of academicians consider accounting history research to be acceptable for promotion, tenure and hiring decisions and a valuable aid to teaching, practitioners, students, doctoral faculty strongly believe that it is of less value than mainstream empirical research in accounting. Most academicians perceive that research in accounting history is not as methodologically rigorous as other branches of accounting research.

1. Mullā Ṣadrā and the Socio-political and Cultural Milieu -- 2. The Central Importance of the Philosophy of the Human Soul in Mullā Ṣadrā's Politics -- 3. Mullā Ṣadrā: Political or Apolitical Philosopher? -- 4. Transcendent Politics -- 5. A New Vision of Socio-political Justice in Transcendent Philosophy -- 6. Ṣadrā's Narrative on the Virtuous City -- 7. Political Authority -- Epilogue.

"Singapore is known for its remarkable economic success while its strict laws on freedom of speech, drugs, vandalism, homosexuality and public protest have been legitimised in the name of maintaining public order, racial harmony and internal security for this success. Lee Kuan Yew's 'Asian values' are widely discussed as a key touchstone for debates on universalism and cultural relativism. Singapore's official position on human rights has very clearly established that national security and public order are prioritized over the full realisation of human rights, within Article 29 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Singapore's tough stance on human rights, however, does not negate the long and persistent existence of a human rights society that exists almost unknown to the world. The focus of this book is on independent activists and writers, documenting this tradition in Singapore society that has a legacy of defending universal values of individual human rights. It uncovers their discourses, main contentions, campaigns, survival strategies, prominent activists and their untold stories during Singapore's first 50 years of independence"--

Dans un livre désormais classique, le politiste américain Sydney Tarrow soulignait les ressources internes mobilisées par les militant·e·s engagé·e·s dans des causes transnationales, évoquant des formes de « cosmopolitisme enraciné ». En analysant le développement récent des circulations entre la France et le Québec, cet article montre, de manière symétrique, combien la comparaison internationale constitue une dimension de plus en plus fréquente, voire obligée, de pratiques sociales et politiques ancrées localement et/ou nationalement. Ainsi, et en dépit des multiples différences qui caractérisent ces sociétés si souvent rapprochées, la France et le Québec tendent à former un vis-à-vis comparatif , dont les ressortissant·e·s, chercheur·e·s mais aussi et surtout fonctionnaires, militant·e·s, élu·e·s, journalistes – tendent à se comparer. Défendant une épistémologie réflexive, cet article invite donc les comparatistes savants à interroger leurs propres méthodes, en tenant compte des usages ordinaires de la comparaison parmi leurs enquêté·e·s (qui se comparent, autant qu'on les compare), ainsi que des enjeux internes de ce comparatisme désormais généralisé.