Emily Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0087-3285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Effectiveness of community interventions for protecting and promoting the mental health of working-age adults experiencing financial uncertainty: A systematic review
Addressing social polarization through critical thinking: Theoretical application in the “Living Well With Difference” course in secondary schools in England
Responding to international calls for critical thinking programs to address social polarisations and extremism through education, this article examines the cognitive and socio-psychological foundations of a critical thinking programme for secondary schools in England called “Living Well With Difference” (LWWD). The aim of LWWD is to develop critical thinking about issues of social polarisation, prejudice and any kind of extreme thinking. These is…
Facilitators and barriers to African American high school students' self‐determination skill expression
We conducted four focus group interviews with 24 high school youth to examine facilitators and barriers to African American high school students' expression of various self‐determination skills (e.g., choice/decision making, self‐advocacy, goal setting, and attainment etc.). The majority of our research participants were African American, with one student identifying as multiracial (African American and White). Key findings revealed that personal…
A Voice for East Germany: Developing the BBC German Service's East Zone Programme
Originally conceived as part of Britain’s psychological warfare effort during the Second World War, the BBC German Service continued to broadcast from London to Germany throughout the Cold War. In 1949, in response to rising tensions between \nthe Western Allies and the Soviets, the German Service created the East Zone Programme, specifically targeting listeners in what was to become the German Democratic Republic. This article analyses the persp…
Introduction: Narratives of Identity and Nationhood in Occupied Germany
‘Frieden, das ist nur Schlamperei, erst der Krieg schafft Ordnung.’ \nThese words from Brecht’s Mutter Courage may not have sounded as ironic to its first Berlin audiences in January 1949 as they do now. After four years of Allied occupation, with Soviets and Western Allies increasingly at odds and West Berlin completely cut off from its \nsurroundings and supported by airlift, peacetime may have seemed more of a mess than the war had. Since the …
Heaven Help the Yankees if They Capture You’: Women Reading Gone With the Wind in Occupied Germany
First published in German in 1937, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was one of the most popular books in Germany throughout the Second World War and well into the occupation period. This article investigates why Mitchell's tale of the American Civil War and the South's humiliating defeat and subsequent occupation by hostile powers captured the popular imagination in occupied Germany. Drawing on the portrayal of women in the post‐war German …
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Introduction: Narratives of Identity and Nationhood in Occupied Germany
‘Frieden, das ist nur Schlamperei, erst der Krieg schafft Ordnung.’ \nThese words from Brecht’s Mutter Courage may not have sounded as ironic to its first Berlin audiences in January 1949 as they do now. After four years of Allied occupation, with Soviets and Western Allies increasingly at odds and West Berlin completely cut off from its \nsurroundings and supported by airlift, peacetime may have seemed more of a mess than the war had. Since the …
Heaven Help the Yankees if They Capture You’: Women Reading Gone With the Wind in Occupied Germany
First published in German in 1937, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was one of the most popular books in Germany throughout the Second World War and well into the occupation period. This article investigates why Mitchell's tale of the American Civil War and the South's humiliating defeat and subsequent occupation by hostile powers captured the popular imagination in occupied Germany. Drawing on the portrayal of women in the post‐war German …
A Voice for East Germany: Developing the BBC German Service's East Zone Programme
Originally conceived as part of Britain’s psychological warfare effort during the Second World War, the BBC German Service continued to broadcast from London to Germany throughout the Cold War. In 1949, in response to rising tensions between \nthe Western Allies and the Soviets, the German Service created the East Zone Programme, specifically targeting listeners in what was to become the German Democratic Republic. This article analyses the persp…
Facilitators and barriers to African American high school students' self‐determination skill expression
We conducted four focus group interviews with 24 high school youth to examine facilitators and barriers to African American high school students' expression of various self‐determination skills (e.g., choice/decision making, self‐advocacy, goal setting, and attainment etc.). The majority of our research participants were African American, with one student identifying as multiracial (African American and White). Key findings revealed that personal…
Effectiveness of community interventions for protecting and promoting the mental health of working-age adults experiencing financial uncertainty: A systematic review
Addressing social polarization through critical thinking: Theoretical application in the “Living Well With Difference” course in secondary schools in England
Responding to international calls for critical thinking programs to address social polarisations and extremism through education, this article examines the cognitive and socio-psychological foundations of a critical thinking programme for secondary schools in England called “Living Well With Difference” (LWWD). The aim of LWWD is to develop critical thinking about issues of social polarisation, prejudice and any kind of extreme thinking. These is…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · German (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works)