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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...children from disadvantaged backgrounds – are often assessed against generalised benchmarks that overlook their unique contexts (Baidoo-Anu et al., 2023; Solano-Flores and Nelson-Barber, 2001). In contrast, a ‘social approach’ emphasises the relational and structural factors influencing learning. It shifts the focus away from trying to change individuals to better...
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Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...children and a patron of the poor, all of which paint an essentially accurate picture of the man. But he also attracted considerable criticism, being described by his detractors as a knave, a charlatan and a speculative, scheming, mischievous individual. He had enormous wealth, much of it spent on his propaganda campaigns and, it has to be admitted, on self-promotion. Yet...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway

...children and adults in Norway. Skolebrod is a small cake with vanilla cream, powdered sugar and coconut. My special treat when I'm visiting Norway is skolebrød with afternoon coffee! Image: roboppy under Creative Commons license Lefse Lefse is a traditional soft, Norwegian flatbread made from potato, milk or cream and flour. It’s cooked on a griddle with special long...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...research expedition in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to explore how geography matters to people's 'common-sense' understandings of safety and well-being. Dr Johanna Wadsley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Geography Department of the Open University. This article is based on research conducted in 2012, the year she graduated from The Open University with her...
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A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...children were most certainly going to be subject to racism at points in their lives, as I, my friends and family members had been. Now a Baroness, Doreen Lawrence (Stephen’s mother) spoke about how, even though she experienced extreme anger on many occasions, she felt she could not outwardly show this emotion, especially to the white media. It can be argued that, in her...
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How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...research shows how dramas like Coronation Street can help make sense of abstract political debates, explains Robert Topinka...The study of politics is often the study of war, conflict, terrorism, and statecraft, of the exceptional rather than the everyday. But political identities and ideologies also take shape in the space of ordinary life, in daily routines and banal...
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Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...research leader and campaigner for clean air at the non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Petcoke has far more sulphur content than coal while natural gas has none. But general service tax (GST), now being rolled out in the country as part of tax reforms, seems to favour petcoke over gas. Thus, while clean natural gas attracts a 30 per cent tax, coal is...
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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...Cyber Security Centre (GCHQ) More about SamSam https://www.secureworks.com/research/samsam-ransomware-campaigns https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/03/samsam-ransomware.html?m=1 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/01/samsam-evolution-continues-netting-over.html Atlanta’s spending to fix SamSam http://procurement.atlantaga.gov/awarded-emergency-procurements/...
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