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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...as big a problem as it might well pan out to be, this is something we really need to take care of and pay attention to. At the same time I started going out with a girl who was very passionate about environmental issues, so it was a kind of combination of the political and the personal, and those two together were a pretty powerful driver. Television, natural history and me In terms of television and natural history I am a ......
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Video 30 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...adults and peers there is a clear motivation for the child to behave in a gender-stereotyped manner. However, there is also evidence of choice and flexibility in children’s behaviour, and this is where cognitive processes come into play. Once children have begun to internalise the standards of behaviour appropriate for males and females, based on the social experiences...
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Article 15 mins
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...adults who may feel have felt in the past that mathematics is not for them. Activity 2 Has your institution been involved in any OER projects? What lessons can you draw on from other projects to inform colleagues and further promote your use of OER? How might you collaborate with other institutions to create and use OER? You can complete this activity in a downloadable...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...care and explain, this decision was reported in session cases for the year 2010. Let's have a page number. COUNSEL: My Lord, my learned friend referred to the case of Sutherland against Campbell, which is to be found at 2004 Session cases, page 179. LORD EASSIE: That's the easy bit. The more difficult bit is knowing whether you should cite the case. LADY DORRIAN Sometimes...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...adults view the world. (New case study.) David Elkind Where is yours? Where’s mine? Now do we both have the same to drink or does one of us have more? Girl I do. (New case study.) David Elkind But isn’t this higher than this one? I mean, this is up here and this is way down here – doesn’t that make this one more? Girl Well, this one may be taller but this one is...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...careful examination of the clues laid by the poet may lead to more questions than answers. You’ll start this course, then, with a question: is poetry simply about expressing feelings? People do turn to poetry in extremis. Prison inmates, often famously, have expressed loneliness and communicated with absent loved ones through poetry. Maybe this accounts for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...careful. These days, a typical opinion poll will involve asking maybe 1,000 or 2,000 carefully chosen people which party they intend to vote for. The people are chosen, as far as possible, to match the population of the area or country being polled, in terms of age, gender, some measure of social class, and probably other features such as work status (employed,...
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My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...care and he was testing me as a Chinese teacher. I could not allow him to carry on behaving like that and I had to stop him. It wasn’t easy for me, as he started to talk about his culture. “Having a cup of tea is our English culture, Miss Yang”, he said cheekily. Having contacted his mother, the ‘tea’ issue was finally resolved, and I was very pleased with his...
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