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Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...education should be: the point of education, on this view, is not just to tell people facts, but to teach them how to think for themselves and to subject their own views to critical scrutiny. Socrates denied he was a teacher: but some would argue that he is just what a teacher should be. Finally, Socrates’ life – and more importantly, his death – have been taken as...
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...educational, health and economic outcomes and experiences vary a great deal in the US and England and Wales based on race. However, they are also based on the intersection of multiple identities and social characterisations (class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ability/disability) that confer different experiences of advantage/disadvantage,...
Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...education?...Why teach art?: 3. Responding to criticisms - A government minister and a school governor made the following comments, respectively: ‘Art is the icing on the cake.’ ‘We have children here who can't even speak English properly – they should be doing more of that instead of leisure subjects like art.’ Both of these are, as you may appreciate,...
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Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...education in 18th Century Britain and America...John Cannon, a teenaged agricultural laborer, bought a book called Aristotle’s Masterpiece for a shilling in 1700. He usually read chapbooks like Fortunatus and Dr Faustus, but he bought the Masterpiece in order to “pry into the Secrets of Nature especially of the female sex” — to find out about sex. What he learned...
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...educators, who are readers in their personal lives and teachers of reading in their professional lives, constantly reflect on reading and being a reader in order to enrich their provision and more effectively nurture recreational reading (Cremin et al., 2022). However, even for Reading Teachers, motivating disengaged readers is not easy. Some of these young people will...
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...technologies today are much more complex than those of our ancestors. In many cases intuition is poorly adapted to solving problems in the modern world. Think twice before you decide to trust intuition over rational analysis, especially in important matters, and watch out for people who tell you intuition can be a panacea for decision-making ills. (Simons and Chabris,...
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...education. As a Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor you will be required to offer dynamic and effective supervision. This course offers you a wide range of self-directed learning materials and you will be taken through a series of themes and activities with key resources, designed to support you to develop effective, relational supervisory practice that empowers...
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...education and care. When a baby is born, there is often a wealth of friends and family who are ready to offer advice and guidance to the new parent on the best way to care for the young child. That advice is informed by family practices and society's expectations. Once the child enters a more formal care setting, advice continues to abound. It is often dictated by policy,...