Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is a rare, potentially life-threatening disease characterised by hypomineralisation of bones and teeth. The fundamental defect is reduced functional activity of the enzyme tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (usually just termed alkaline phosphatase [ALP] in clinical practice). Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the ALPL gene result in the most severe ph...

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Douglas Yacek’s recent book The Transformative Classroom proposes a useful aspirational model of transformative education. In this critical commentary, I review and suggest that while it succeeds in overcoming some ethical shortcomings other dominant models education, would like to focusing on more subtle gestures could have the benefit being less dependent teacher’s intention transform constra...

This paper looks at the concept of transformation in digital games and posits it as a core pleasure of digital games that can be positioned within a new discourse of “transformative play”. The poetics of transformation are uniquely suited to particular forms of narrative play, and the power of transformative play has significant implications for the design of persuasive games. Transformative pl...

What kind of responsibility do universities have with regard to the current emergency created by ecological and socio-economic collapse? This work begins considering colonization neoliberal globalization. Education is one areas that appears as a fundamental source business in globalized economy, thus reorienting role State accordance New Public Managements (NPM's) educational policy. The NPM ma...

although university efl students represent a wide array of social and cultural identities, their multiple and diverse identities are not usually considered in foreign language classrooms. this qualitative case study attempted to examine identity conflicts experienced by iranian efl learners at the university context. to this end, two shiraz university students' identities were investigated. sem...

Humans are adapted to spontaneously transfer relevant cultural knowledge to conspecifics and to fast-learn the contents of such teaching through a human-specific social learning system called 'pedagogy' (Csibra & Gergely, 2006). Pedagogical knowledge transfer is triggered by specific communicative cues (such as eye-contact, contingent reactivity, the prosodic pattern of 'motherese', and being a...

ISSN: 1465-0045 (Print) 1557-3028 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fgeo20 Transformative Terrains: Counter Hegemonic Tactics of Dissent in Israel Tali Hatuka To cite this article: Tali Hatuka (2012) Transformative Terrains: Counter Hegemonic Tactics of Dissent in Israel, Geopolitics, 17:4, 926-951, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2012.659298 To link to this article: http://dx.doi...

Previous research has suggested that transformative learning can be fostered in higher education by creating active learning experiences that are directly related to content taught, are personally engaging, and can stimulate reflection. The aim of this qualitative study was to assess changes experienced by students in an e-learning dental hygiene degree completion program beyond attainment of c...