Search Results for State-Deniers

.... Austria “Staatenbund Österreich” (Austrian Commonwealth) led by Styria farmer Monika Unger; “State Union of Austria” An estimated 22,000 “state deniers” ( Marko, 2020 ), but said to be decreasing in numbers. They believe the government has no authority over them; they used the U.S.-based One People’s...

..., 2025b ). They likely have connected with an American sovereign citizen guru Russell Jay Gould. Sovereign citizens Legitimate Creditors of the Czech Republic Reichsbürger State-Deniers Sovereign People The Netherlands The government of the Netherlands recognized the movement in September 2024...

...://hechingerreport.org/an-illinois-district-proved-gifted-programs-can-be-racially-diverse/ Ford , D. Y. ( 2011 ). Multicultural gifted education ( 2nd ed ). Prufrock Press . Ford , D. Y. ( 2014 ). School district U-46: A clarion call to school districts, state departments of education...

.... A. ( 2017 ). Science confidence gap: Education, trust in scientific methods, and trust in scientific institutions in the United States, 2014 . Public Understanding of Science , 26 ( 6 ), 704 – 720 . 10.1177/0963662515617367 Allan , E. J. , & Madden , M. ( 2012 ). The nature...

... , J. A. ( 2017 ). Science confidence gap: Education, trust in scientific methods, and trust in scientific institutions in the United States, 2014 . Public Understanding of Science , 26 ( 6 ), 704 – 720 . 10.1177/0963662515617367 Allan , E. J. , & Madden , M. ( 2012...

... these [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] programs and their curriculum are damaging and not aligned with state workforce demands” ( Forbes, 2024 ) and course syllabi were posted on the website of conservative watchdog Parents Defending Education, the University of North Texas responded by renaming and revising 78...

... ( Oxford Languages, n.d., a ) defines normal when used as a noun as “the usual, typical, or expected state or condition.” As an adjective, normal is defined as “conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.” From both perspectives, normal refers to expectations that “normal” exists as a steady...

..., twice as many witch accusations occur in years of heavy rainfall ( Miguel, 2005 ). In addition to weather events, alleged witches in some poverty-stricken parts of Africa are blamed for outbreaks of diseases like HIV/AIDS ( Oster, 2004 ). Other contemporary examples occur in the United States...

... authoritarian state. As Timothy Snyder (2024) , a noted historian on autocracy, puts it, “Without a civil service, the law becomes mere paper, which the oligarchs [could convert] . . . to an agency of destruction, run by people who believe that government should exist for the wealthy or not at all.” Some Just...

... aspiring to...well, Humanism. The premise of the book can be stated simply. Habitually, we evaluators present a programme as a context, and within that context we portray people and events. Those people and events are given identity and meaning by the programme. In a school programme, for example...

... Summit in Azerbaijan experienced a dramatic political moment ( Jović-Lazić & Bošković, 2024 ), when net-zero leaders, including the United States and China, boycotted the summit, exposing geopolitical divides that challenge any real global climate action. It was a snapshot of a politically divided...

... such as “amateur,” and the abuse of the idea of tolerance to silence perspectives that might challenge science. Given our current state of conspiratorial voices in the world, it is important to note that Stengers, nor I, are suggesting that climate scientists seek out climate deniers, or astronomers seek out flat...

... ( Ciepley, 2013 ; Horn, 2017 ; Stout, 2012 ). Emanating from the United States, shareholder value has become a dominant ‘social norm’ in corporate governance practice across many jurisdictions, and in many ways, as prominent scholars have emphasized, shareholder value primacy constitutes ‘the main barrier...

.... Social programs are vehicles for the co-option of people into ideal, even utopian, political states – that is, states which too often represent the denial of complexity and shortfall. As Dollimore (1998, p. xxvii ) puts it: The difficulty we have of confronting the reality that programs will often fall...

... culminated in the Greening Curriculum Guidance ( UNESCO , 2024). For the purpose of this chapter, we will consider the very latest and internationally formalised UNESCO definition, where they state that ESD should teach: Individuals to make informed decisions and take action, both individually...