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Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students
Education & Development

Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students

...concept or to carry out a task. Have some short tasks ready for those who finish early. Patience: If some students need more time, be patient and encouraging to help motivation and boost confidence. It will also promote good group dynamics and atmosphere. Errors Error correction: Approach error corrections sensitively but do correct pronunciation as incorrect...
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Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...conceptions of human worth, and of the ideal moral community. Kant believes that all people have absolute value, or dignity, because they can be autonomous and rational, and that they should be treated in ways that recognize these capacities. Kant gives two accounts of how to treat other people. First, he thinks that when you decide what to do, you should act on a...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...concept offering a valuable toolset for design. This article, drawn from over a decade of practice in design for resilience, will suggest how resilience concepts can be enabling for working with urgent change and sustainability in design...Resilience – the property of being able to rebound after a shock or disturbance – has its origins in materials science and...
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Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...concept, based around those in positions of power deciding what and who should be remembered for the benefit of the nation. As Sara McDowell says, ‘Our landscapes are valuable documents on the power plays from which social life is constructed, both materially and rhetorically’. In recent years, however, there has been a shift to approach the concept from a more...
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Culture and regional distinctiveness
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and regional distinctiveness

...is related to the wider economic and political concept of the relationship with Britain and Europe. For those who have exported cattle, there has often been a good living, but for a very large proportion of the population, agriculture was the sole means of subsistence, the land providing food, fuel (turf) and building materials. Explore the articles in this collection ....
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Negotiating trade deals
Money & Business

Negotiating trade deals

...concept can be misleading, as the negotiation of trade deals between nations and regions remain a crucial part of contemporary economics and politics. In light of the financial crisis and the growing challenge to current globalisation, such negotiation will likely only become more important in the future. What precisely do trade agreements do? This would appear to be a...
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Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
History & The Arts

Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale

...concept of ‘the force’ in particular, has religious qualities recognisable by many observers. The extent of the cultural pull of Star Wars requires reference to other conceptual structures as well, however: those of fairy tale, classical myth quests and the ‘family romance’ in a post-Freudian world. The pleasures and satisfactions of tropes and themes familiar...
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Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill
History & The Arts

Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill

...concept of production and labour in Marx’s writings, and the way in which they highlight aspects of fundamental historical materialism, formal equality and the relationship between the state and the individual. Derek Matravers and Gerry Cohen on The German Ideology The German Ideology, Marx and Engels’ 1845 book, is dissected and discussed. The discussion highlights...
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