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Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...everyday ideas to using scientific ideas Qualitative to quantitative explanations using formulae and equations Explanations based on observable entities to ones using unobservable, idealised entities. Words: 0 Just as with knowledge and conceptual understanding of the content, assessing skills should be an integral part of everyday teaching, so that both students and...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...English Literatures. Peter Lang, 2001. Rieder, John. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2008. Sleigh, Charlotte. Literature and Science. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. 1979. Edited by Gerry Canavan, Peter Lang, 2016. Ralahine Utopian Studies 18....
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Article 10 mins
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...English sport governance’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, pp. 1–17. doi: 10.1177/1012690219865980. Sport England (2019a) Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, Academic Year 2018/19. Available at:
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Article 15 mins
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...English Health Authority 11% of one parent families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading exercise would mean that the...
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Article 5 mins
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...English Mana prestige, power, strength Kaitiakitanga guardianship, environmental stewardship Kaitiaki guardian, protector Whenua land Papatūānuku mother earth Activity 1 Thinking about cultural practices in New Zealand Timing: Allow about 20 minutes In the first video Maria is responding to the question: Can you describe some of the cultural practices which inform young...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...English as their first language (ONS, 2021)...Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change: 3.2 Principal views? - So let’s read about school leaders’ views of some of these challenges and how they deal with them. Activity 6 Principal views? Timing: 45 minutes Read Sider, S., Maich, K., Morvan, J., Villella, M., Ling, P. and Repp, C., (2021) ‘Inclusive school leadership:...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...everyday life, individualism and the state forged in the late 18th century continue to shape today’s debates about how to balance personal dietary freedom with the health of the body politic. The seductive promise that, collectively and individually, we can somehow eat our way to health and economic well-being remains a powerful component of our neoliberal world. This...
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Article 5 mins
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...everyday meanings. It does however have a precise scientific meaning and is an important concept. Think of two or three phrases in which you include the word ‘energy’ in an everyday sense. Possible examples are: ‘Where do children get their energy from?’, ‘I haven’t got the energy to get up’ or ‘Sweets are full of energy’. None of the everyday uses of...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs