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An empirical analysis of the relationship between nature of science and critical thinking through science definitions and thinking skills
Critical thinking (CRT) skills transversally pervade education and nature of science (NOS) knowledge is a key component of science literacy. Some...
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Political Semiotics as a Constitutive Explanation and Abductive Research Logic
In this chapter, the authors take up the methodological challenges of political semiotics as a form of relational political analysis. They outline...
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The (Re)turn to the Political: Deepening the Grasp of Contingency in the Theories of the Policy Process
In Chap. 7 , we go further away from self-actionalism, by deepening the grasp of contingency in the...
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Motives of Peer Support Volunteers with Experiences of Mental and Addictive Disorders: An Innovative Approach in the Context of Employment Promotion in Germany
Peer support approaches are gaining increasing importance within the mental health sector as an effective way to assist people with mental and...
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Dating in Motion: Online Dating Through the Lives of Different Generations of Men Who Have Sex with Men
From the early years of the internet, its key importance was recognized as a site for sexual minorities to explore and express their identity and...
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Freud in Many Contexts
Freud was a major cultural and intellectual influence in the twentieth century, whose significance waned. Kaye’s exposition argues that part of the...
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Pattern Analysis
Global studies is a new field that is open to a wide variety of approaches. Thus, global studies exists on diverse bandwidths, the same heading,...
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An after-school STEM program through the lens of intersectionality
This article employs the six tenets of intersectional research to examine the interconnections of oppression, relationality, complexity, context,...
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Analyzing Discursive Interviews
The “core business” of data analysis in the discursive interview is the interpretation of the interview transcripts with the aim of reconstructing...
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Analyzing user-generated content using natural language processing: a case study of public satisfaction with healthcare systems
While user-generated online content (UGC) is increasingly available, public opinion studies are yet to fully exploit the abundance and richness of...
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Open and Closed Societies
The threat to the Open Society cannot simply be classified into a left-right political schema, it does have a certain affinity to democracy and...
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Exploring Social Groups
As already noted, the two questions at the heart of this study emerged out of experiences the authors gained while working in six projects (the...
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Do guided mosque tours alleviate the prejudice of non-Muslims against Islam and Muslims? Evidence from a quasi-experimental panel study from Germany
BackgroundAnti-Muslim and anti-Islam attitudes are widespread in contemporary western societies. A grassroots movement of mosques tries to reduce...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Ecuadorian university English teachers’ reflections on emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, affecting, among others, the education industry. As a result, a lock-down quarantine was declared, and...
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Map** validity and validation in modelling for interdisciplinary research
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) is an interdisciplinary and dynamic modelling approach for the study of today’s global challenges. It is used for the...
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Cultural Differences in Media Framing of AI
Media frames are especially important in understanding how the public makes sense of hi-tech artefacts that are either poorly or indirectly...
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Qualitative Inquiry
This chapter discusses the nature of the qualitative inquiry. Qualitative inquiry refers to “a broad approach” that qualitative researchers adopt as...
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Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa
The notion of migration as being at least partly about ‘choice’ is deeply rooted in both academic thought and public policy. Recent contributions...
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Mixed methods research in service-learning: an integrative systematic review
In view of the challenges involved in designing a study of Mixed Methods (MM), as well as the problematics inherent in studying Service-Learning...
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Mainstream Israeli Teenagers Conceptions of Ultra-Orthodox Jews: Humanism, Criticism and Resentfulness
Katzin studies mainstream Israeli teenagers’ conceptions of Ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews. The qualitative study is based on interviews with 48 pupils...