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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...care). This is particularly meaningful when empathy in some groups may be on the decline (Konrath, O’Brien and Hsing, 2011) and, meanwhile, the arts and humanities are marginalised in school curricula, and arts and culture threatened by local authority funding cuts. Find more research at artscog.co.uk. Author: Rose Turner References Barras, C. (2013) Reading literary...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...sovereignty, empire, race, and revolution in lecture halls filled with future lawyers, clergy, and politicians. Teaching such material required careful judgement, especially when classroom discussions touched on live political controversies. It is another way of exploring the relationship between political theory and political reality, and how the two shape one another....
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Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...caring responsibilities at home. We also know that a higher-than-average percentage of students on A227 (38% this year) have declared one or more disabilities. Taken together, these issues raised two key questions for the department: What challenges to students and staff may have been created in attempting to create a paradigm shift in understandings of ‘religion’ as...
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Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities

...Care courses and qualifications. What is an invisible disability? Invisible disabilities are disabilities or long-term conditions which aren’t immediately apparent when looking at someone. The term includes a whole range of conditions and diagnoses such as long-term health conditions, learning difficulties and mental health conditions. However, it is important to note...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...care but does not express those overtly. Internalising is a particularly important concept to understand in autism, as some autistic people tend to internalise their difficulties, meaning that their needs may not be detected as early as the needs of autistic people who present with a more externalising profile and accompanying learning disabilities, for example. The...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...caring professions (e.g. nurses and teachers) became exhausted while dealing with the chronic strain associated with their roles. They reportedly felt ‘burned out’. The workers reported emotional exhaustion, a loss of empathy towards their clients and feelings of being inept at work. Research into athletic burnout commenced in the 1980s, four decades ago. Three broad...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...adults all can be functional simultaneously. SAQ 3 Reread LoM p. 29 and p. 122 to identify two very different herbivores that exploit this delayed eruption. Write a few sentences to explain how they do so, making clear the similarities and the main difference between them. Answer The two animals are the kangaroo, which is a marsupial, and the elephant, a placental mammal....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...care haunt me, I throw it off the scent in Spenser's forests, or seek refuge from it among Shakspeare's men and women, who are by far the best company I have met with, or am like to meet with, on earth. I am sitting at this present moment with my curtains drawn; the cheerful fire is winking at all the furniture in the room, and from every leg and arm the furniture is...
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