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"Perhaps the humbling lesson to be learned from both Foucault’s unique Orientalism and his problematic expedition to Iran in 1978 could be that 'intellectuals' have to be silent sometimes, in order to learn to speak."

"If we are to understand the manner in which we can be transformed by an object and in turn what enables us to transform and work on objects, we can move closer to an enveloped notion of economics."

"The text of the Avesta also encourages incest, which is the main prohibition in Leviticus 18 and 20. If the authors of H thus knew about these Persian ideas, they were following the Persians by prohibiting anal sex and at the same time showing resistance to Persian ideas by outlawing incest."

"In the end, Stof also merely tells a story, but the novel suggests that human beings can construct new narratives which may have potentially far-reaching implications for our relationship with the non-human environment."

"Gesels.net was therefore designed and developed to serve as an eLE for South African teachers. Although individual teachers join both Facebook and Gesels.net, these tools have not yet been adopted by the staff of schools to establish schoolwide learning communities."

"According to his understanding of accommodatio, God not only revealed God-self in accordance with the cognitive limitations of fallible humans, but also in accordance with the contextually bound ignorance, misconceptions and prejudices of the Biblical text’s original audience ..."

"The study shows that while good management and teaching can play a role, non-academic mentorship not only helps to bridge access, but also to build survival capital through recognition and productive engagement."

"If literacy is not mastered adequately, it can create endless learning problems for any child. This is especially evident in the case of learners from impoverished households."

"When one considers the open hostility from some congregations against non-heterosexual orientations, one cannot help but wonder what the attitude towards the transgender person would be. Would it be one of understanding? Would it be accepting and inviting?"

"It will indicate that Jonker’s doctoral studies equipped him to convey unequivocally to the DRC the message of the Gospel concerning her policy of separate churches for separate ethnic groups."

"Overall, the qualitative results revealed that the differences in the participants’ experiences of teaching in the asynchronous online and mixed delivery modes revolved mainly around the way in which lecturers supported them to master the learning outcomes, as well as the teaching methods they were exposed to."

"The Book of Wisdom alludes to Solomon and his wisdom. However, wisdom is personified in this book. She becomes a life companion to those who follow her. She was used by God to create the world."

"How do learners use their linguistic capital to navigate their educational processes at a school in the Northern Cape? Data were gathered through in-depth semi-structured interviews held with two learners from Namibia, an Ovambo-speaking male learner and a Damara-Nama-speaking female learner."

"The South African legal framework gives too much discretion to individual operators, which increases the possibility of human rights violations. Secondly, it appears that ordinary CCTV footage can be used as a data source for AFR systems."

"As (apparently) genderless outsider, Nataniël’s artistic meta-text thus simultaneously mediates exceptional visibility and invisibility. Such self-fashioning, underlining contrasting aspects of his persona, empowers him to engage in a wide range of role play."

"He thereby consolidated the Dutch constitutional democracy at a time when the system was still young and, given the revolutionary climate at the time, still vulnerable. By means of his narrative emphasis on principled political engagement within a constitutional democratic framework he laid the foundations of the Dutch political party system."

"Given the challenges of the terminology, we advise that universities should teach in English and the prevalent local language, but use the English terminology as a form of standardisation. In doing so, students will get the proverbial best of both worlds: the English terminology and the best possible understanding."

"In conclusion, it is important to note that using WhatsApp in this way not only gave students an opportunity to interact with the lesson content, their peers and tutors, but also allowed them to create a community of inquiry, forging significant relationships that allowed them to learn from and with each other."

"What distinguishes Son of Saul from other mainstream Holocaust films, however, is how Nemes juxtaposes the film’s content with its form. Nemes opts for a modernist form of representation that rejects an omnipresent point of view and, instead, limits the film’s scope to Saul’s perspective."

"The purpose of this article is not to critique this biological approach to religion, but to draw attention to the questionable origin and influence of a key assumption at the basis of it, namely that religion can be defined only with reference to the supernatural and/or the extraordinary."