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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...systems, which allow an infinite number of words to be written from finite means (the 26 letters of the English alphabet, for example), there are a limited number of emoji ‘words’. This means that if you want to express anything that falls outside the current range, you need to adapt or combine the resources available to you in the best way you can. It’s this that...
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Article 20 mins
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the relationship of behaviour to context, the influence of neighbourhood, cultural background, social and economic situations. A holistic approach to children’s needs balances...
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Article 5 mins
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

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

...think to have the right culture you need a mix of males and females, and you need people from different backgrounds. An athlete needs to see someone who looks like them - whether it’s colour, sex or gender. That’s always a good starting point. (Paula Dunn, first women and black women Paralympics head coach) [women playing volleyball] We’re at the stage where we have...
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Article 15 mins
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...think, and act in different ways, and using reading to shape one’s writing. The pleasure of inner work: e.g., using reading to learn about oneself, to imagine oneself in different situations and consider options. However, this study of the young people’s perceptions, indicates that only their intellectual pleasure was directly fostered in school. Wilhelm (2016) urges...
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Article 5 mins
Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...think of a leader? Is the customary vision of the powerful politician or business leader still entirely relevant today? In these recent times of massive political and economic upheaval, it appears that society’s faith in its traditional leaders is at its lowest ebb: for many they're no longer a source of support or trust, and as a result people have started looking...
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Video 58 mins
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...thinking about why we teach pronunciation and what pronunciation to teach. You will also familiarise yourself with the main features of pronunciation. You will be asked to reflect on concepts such as intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent, language variation, articulation and acoustics. By the end of this week you will have: considered the differences between...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any shortcomings in jury decision-making lie, and, if possible, to overcome these shortcomings. We know from both everyday decision making and...
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Article 5 mins
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...think of history as something that should be confined to books and school lessons, something almost alien. The author L. P. Hartley called it, ‘a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ But in truth, history is all around us. It is today, because without the recording of actions of people now, there would be nothing to study in the future. The way we...
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Article 5 mins