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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...
Level 1: Introductory 12 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...
Level 3: Advanced 11 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...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...careful interpretation understand the importance of contextualisation in analysing photographs...Picturing the family: 1 How to avoid damage when handling photographs - Remember to treat your photographs with the consideration demanded by their age and fragility. Careless handling and storage will cause damage. Handle photographs at the edges: the skin carries chemicals...
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,...
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...
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...care this new constitutional animal." Embed from Getty Images In May, the campaign was disturbed by a leak of campaign materials The normally secure printing of government materials fell apart as referendum leaflets leaked. Copies of the pamphlet putting the government case were sent to the Daily Telegraph; not realising it had a scoop, the Telegraph thought they'd been...
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...caring. Social psychological research suggests that such complementary stereotypes are particularly effective mechanisms for obscuring gender inequality – much more so than overt misogyny, which is easy to recognise and challenge. By affording scientific validation to complementary gender stereotypes, sex difference research may help to bolster enduring gender...