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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...everyday pressures, and drawing on a history of practice, schools tend to spend a lot of time focusing on mechanistic matters. The purpose of education seems to be subsumed by processes and structures, dominated by an overemphasis on what might be seen as component parts of any wider goal (e.g. types of behaviour, grades, particular bits of subject knowledge, certain...
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Article 15 mins
Language and Meaning: How We Learn
Languages

Language and Meaning: How We Learn

...English language teachers in the early 21st century need to know about the relationship between language and meaning? How can teachers enable students to learn language, learn through language and learn about language in the myriad different contemporary contexts of formal and informal learning? This material is taken from The Open University course E852 Language,...
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Video 26 mins
My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...English students the Chinese way? Whose idea is that?” I thought to myself. But in the meantime I was thrilled that I had this opportunity to be involved in this programme and to teach English students in a typical English school, which is situated in the beautiful countryside. I was excited but nervous at the same time. I will be teaching Science to English students...
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Article 10 mins
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner (Chinese)
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner (Chinese)

...version of Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner, which is also available in English...本免费课程是“学会教学：成为反思型教学实践者”课程的中文翻译版本，英文原版也在本网站中提供。 This free course is the Chinese version of Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner, which is also available in English....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Why is fish the translator's nightmare?
Languages

Why is fish the translator's nightmare?

...English?" "The one that lays caviar. Y'know, sort of Russian." I had to say sort-of, since I don't know where Russia ends, nowadays. "Actually," Dori-chan corrected, "most caviar comes from Iran." The waitress smiled, perhaps wondering whether we wanted an answer or a conversation. To avoid the latter, she replied German. "Er kommt aus dem Schwarzes Meer." The Black Sea....
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Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?
Society, Politics & Law

Will India prove fertile ground for post-Brexit trade?

...English speakers in India today than there are in the UK. After the US, India has the most English speakers in the world, about 125m. The number is larger when you include people with some conversational ability in English, amounting to more than a third of Indians. This is the largest English speaking population in the world and their English can be gloriously...
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Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?
Money & Business

Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?

...English Premier League is starting to suffer financial strains familiar in Mugabe's Zimbabwe. As the transfer window prepares to slam shut, Josh McLeod explains why men's football might be heading for a period of price stagnation...[Neymar, who earns a living by playing football] Neymar: You could buy five, and still get a bit of change from a billion quid. The big summer...
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My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Society, Politics & Law

My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live

...meet, as Professor Allan Cochrane explains the motivations running through his work. It threads together studies of how people live, manage and organise their lives, drawing in both local and global networks of power and ideas. Cities allow us to understand, and are key parts of how, abstract theories and sweeping trends become grounded in local and everyday experiences....
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