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Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...introduction to the contents of this album. Learning with “mini-beasts” A teacher observes and reflects on the learning patterns of the children she works with. Planning in teams How planning for children’s activities requires flexibility and adaptation. Including all children How adults support learning for children with special needs and mother tongues other than...
Norma Waterson: English Folk Singing
History & The Arts

Norma Waterson: English Folk Singing

...introduction to this album Becoming a folk singer Norma Waterson remembers her childhood and reveals how she became a traditional English folk singer. Telling a Story Stories as the foundations of traditional folk music. Tradition and History How traditional songs relate to other musical movements. Differences in gender within the music. Rituals and Ceremonies The...
Exploring the classical world
History & The Arts

Exploring the classical world

...introduction to this album. Interpreting Homer Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey. Homer's people Metaphor, imagery, characterisation and the portrayal of strong emotion in Homer's Odyssey, with dramatised excerpts from book iv. Homer's world The power of the...
Shakespeare: A critical analysis
History & The Arts

Shakespeare: A critical analysis

...audience experience Audience interaction and expectation of Shakespeare's plays. Evaluating Shakespeare's work Concluding opinions assessing Shakespeare and his reputation. Shakespeare: Original pronunciation An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language....
Evolution and the human family
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution and the human family

...introduction to this album. How families have evolved What happens when you apply Darwin to human social structures? Ruth Mace explains the value of this approach. Dismantle the family with Darwinian tools The comparative method can be used to investigate how culture relates to environment. The reproductive pattern of human females is a particularly interesting puzzle for...
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...project currently running on the Norfolk coast, UK (PI Revill, ‘Listening to Climate Change: experiments in sonic democracy’):www.soundingcoastalchange.org. More information on this audio-slideshow Transcript Coping on the coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter Welcome to the first half of a two-part audio-slideshow that explores how...
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...Introduction - This course introduces the concept of heritage and examines its various uses in contemporary society. It then provides a background to the development of critical heritage studies as an area of academic interest, and in particular the way in which heritage studies has developed in response to various critiques of contemporary politics and culture in the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How good were the pollster's predictions?
Science, Maths & Technology

How good were the pollster's predictions?

...projected that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour could end up with fewer than 210. In particular, an analysis of the favourite in each of the seats traded on the Betfair market gave the Tories 366 seats and Labour 208. The Predictwise betting aggregation site gave the Conservatives an 81% chance of securing an overall majority of seats, in line with the large sums of money trading...