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DIFFERENCE. A dispute, contest, disagreement, quarrel.

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Chapter 7, "Teaching Difference as Institutional and Making it Personal: Moving Among Personal, Interpersonal and Institutional Constructions of Difference" by Jennifer Mease, addresses a challenge that she has learned while helping students challenge individual human differences and move toward an institutional understanding of human differences.
Mumby, Dennis K. (Ed.): Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Re-search, Pedagogy, Practice
A simple example will illustrate the importance of checking the [beta] value and the relevant magnitude of difference when interpreting 'no statistically significant difference'.
Errors in the interpretation of 'no statistically significant difference'
For Korzybski, difference was not the absence of 'sameness' (that would make 'sameness' fundamental, which seems a basic structural assumption of the aristotelian metaphysical worldview).
A difference that makes a difference
Leveraging Difference does not compromise important values and goals for equity and justice.
The end of diversity as we know it: why diversity efforts fail and how leveraging difference can succeed
Brian Paddick, CSV Make a Difference Day, c/o Community Service Volunteers, 237 Pentonville Road, London N1 9NJ (www.csv.org.uk/difference)
You can make a real difference; Views of the North
According to Cordelia Fine, we should be skeptical about reports of brain differences between the sexes.
Sex differences in the brain 'exaggerated, forcing gender stereotypes'
"It encouraged me to feel like there are crucial differences between men and women, and those have to be celebrated and acknowledged instead of pushed down."
Redesigning women: is the church's 'new feminism' a good fit?
People are individuals first--just because empirical evidence shows a general difference between men and women on spatial-rotation ability doesn't mean every man will outperform every woman.
Encouraging science
The results of this study suggest that epistemological differences exist among pre-service teachers at precisely a moment in which they should be receptive to the notion of teacher development and student learning as a gradual, effort-laden process and that these differences affect the way in which they approach academic tasks.
Epistemology, self-regulation and challenge
Differences in attitudes based on gender and disability have also been reported, generally indicating that girls possess a more positive attitude toward disability than do boys (Archie & Sherrill, 1989).
Perceptions of children's attitudes towards peers with a severe physical disability
If three-year differences are seen as appropriate and if most sex between young people three or more years apart is not forced, then the sexual behavior that is occurring between partners with a smaller age gap is even more likely to be consensual.
Early predictors of sexual behavior: implications for young adolescents and their parents

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