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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...attention to same-sex models. The classic study of Slaby and Frey (1975) assessed children’s understanding of gender as a fixed, unchanging attribute using a structured Gender Concept Interview. Children’s responses to the questions seemed to support Kohlberg’s sequence of gender identity development. Furthermore, the children who demonstrated an appreciation of the...
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Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...attention during periods of pandemic disrupted schooling and online learning because of national lockdowns between 2020-2021. Yet anecdotally the practice of educating children and young people outside of mainstream education has been steadily increasing for several years prior to 2020. While the study of home education around the world has also expanded over the last...
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Autumn on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

Autumn on OpenLearn

...attention to nature It’s an exciting and somewhat difficult time for the animal kingdom. Our free courses on hibernation, migration and surviving the winter are perfect for you to study from the comfort of your home in the ’ber months. 10: Engage with the arts A trip to the cinema, theatre or an art gallery is an ideal activity on a cold or grey day. Or you can check...
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The values of Bond: What 007 tells us about changing attitudes to sexual harassment
History & The Arts

The values of Bond: What 007 tells us about changing attitudes to sexual harassment

...attention, relegating her own desire, much like her desk, outside the centre of power. Similarly, in Ian Fleming’s novels, Moneypenny “functions as an object of desire, chiefly because she basks in the power that radiates from M”, as UK academics Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott put it in their 1987 book Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. But...
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This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...attentions to the big questions of philosophy, ethics and politics, or to develop and exchange scientific knowledge. Cities have been at the heart of nations and empires, where political power is materialised in physical form. The later industrial period saw cities become key nodes in globalised systems of economic production, the distribution of goods, and sites of the...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...attention. Like similar campaign such as #everydaysexism the #metoo hashtag has offered hope and validation to millions of women. Digital mediation also “enables new connections previously unavailable to girls and women, allowing them to redraw the boundaries between themselves and others”. However, what James refers to as trying to act ethically in an unethical space...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...attention to the plight of orangutans and was promptly banned. The explanation given by Clearcast (the body overseeing and vetting advertising in the UK) was that it broke advertising standards by apparently ‘being directed to a political end’ because of Greenpeace involvement. Why we shouldn’t use palm oil but will struggle to avoid it. Palm oil is in our food and...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...attention they need. Of course, in communal settings such as care homes it is not always easy to cater for individual tastes, as the needs of a group of residents may have to be balanced (McDermott et al, 2014). You can complete this Playlist for Life chart to identify your musical preferences and begin to map your musical identity and see how these link with key memories...
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