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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...systems, these surveys arguably serve to constrain what counts as reading in school and are likely to limit longer-term goals. To foster readers for life, a better balance needs to be struck between teaching reading skills and encouraging reading for pleasure – volitional reading which reflects the agency of the reader. As Cremin et al., (2014) have shown readers...
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Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...system or 'AV'. But what happens when there is no vote – if an issue isn't addressed by the political parties of the day, or if the government retracts its election promises? Then there is protest, of course. Policed, of course, with 'legitimate force' used against any protesters deemed to be acting against the public interest (illegally). So a Climate Camp, a group of...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...systems. Nevertheless, individuals can contribute by reducing their personal carbon footprints. The UK’s Committee on Climate Change said in its 2021 Report to Parliament that individual action could potentially reduce national emissions by over half by 2035. Meeting the Net Zero target will require increased action from people, as consumers, workers, households,...
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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...systems of processes, actors and relations from a macro (economic) perspective, whether this may be national, regional or sectoral. I suggest that to better understand migrant’s enterprises and their potential for sustaining social inclusion as well as economic growth, research and policy need to be concerned with the socio-political aspects of entrepreneurship....
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Is democracy a good thing?
Society, Politics & Law

Is democracy a good thing?

...system, stigmatized it as the worst form of government (apart from all the others that have been tried). The great Greek philosopher, Plato, was no fan of democracy. There are a couple of arguments he had against it which have a particular resonance for our times. His first argument comes in two stages. The first is that running a state takes expertise. Not everyone is...
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Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?
Science, Maths & Technology

Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?

...mycoprotein]Industrial fermentation vats. More versatile farming The global food system is highly vulnerable and exposed to a multitude of risks such as: pests and pathogens, environmental degradation, climate variability, and extreme weather events. Mycoprotein is more resilient to these factors because it can be produced in urban environments where it would be unfeasible to farm crops and livestock. With global ......
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Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?

...system a lot of people who currently are needlessly incarcerated for drug offences. A harm reduction approach would undoubtedly reduce, though not entirely remove, a number of the problems around both drug supply and demand. But it is also essential that there are moral education campaigns that raise awareness about both the harms of taking drugs and the inherent harms of...
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Public health communication during a pandemic
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Public health communication during a pandemic

...of capacity for action and undermining the high levels of trust needed between those who issue the message and those who are expected to enact them. Getting the message ‘right’ is, therefore, not enough. It is vital to get the conditions ‘right’, given that ultimately, the effectiveness of public health campaigns relies on the political and systems they reflect....
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