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Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...world from their parents or other people they encounter. From the start of their lives most babies will try to communicate by various means such as crying and making gestures and sounds. Over the next few years they will learn to speak in order to learn. Most people around them will help them develop speaking skills by talking to them and encouraging them as they try to...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...World War I Recruitment poster] Offering the government a bracelet for to re-fashion into a bullet wasn’t an unusual gesture in 1915. If Britons weren’t putting their lives in the line, many felt compelled to make financial sacrifices to help pay for the war. With most taxable economic activity suspended, the country had to finance much of its military spending by...
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History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...World War II and to bolster Britain’s depleted workforce. In 1948 the UK and Colonies citizenship was created. Accordingly, every citizen of the Commonwealth had the right to reside in the UK. Estimates suggest this could have meant as many as 800 million people. There were arrivals from all over the Commonwealth. But host communities were not offered enough by way of...
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Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...worlds, the readers meet themselves. With the persuasive power of personalisation, publishers find their way into children’s inner worlds quicker than with standard books. Personalised baptism books with “God Loves [Child’s Name]” are one example of how family choices and ideologies become directly imposed on the child. While some adjustments are becoming standard...
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War enthusiasm
History & The Arts

War enthusiasm

...World War I Recruitment poster] Original Kitchener World War I recruitment poster Of course, there was a crucial difference between the British army and those from the continent: Britain’s was a volunteer army, not one made up of conscripts, and it could be argued that the huge numbers of volunteers that rushed forward in the first weeks of the war indicate the extent...
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Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?
Nature & Environment

Clean Brexit, Dirty Brexit: Is this the last exit before armageddon?

...world. Consequences lasting generations. Rutland is home to “picture postcard cottages” and quaint towns brimming with antique shops and local galleries. It is Britain’s smallest county and its motto since 1950 has been Multum in Parvo, “much in little”. It does have a castle. And a population of 38,000 people. This is fewer than the number of people who die...
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Perseus: what’s in a name?
History & The Arts

Perseus: what’s in a name?

...world. Unlike an Odysseus, Achilles, or Jason, Perseus was not the hero of a great epic poem, or a tragic play – or at least, not one that has survived – and you might struggle to recall the details of any of his adventures. Yet Perseus’ story has been told and retold countless times across the centuries, and it remains an important and influential part of the canon...
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Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...promoting or demonizing certain terms, and finding new ways to represent the world. Which is where literature and all the other creative arts come in. It’s the creative remoulding of our culture which influences how we collectively see the world, respond to the challenges facing us as a society, and act now to try to shape the future threatened by these challenges....
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