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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...money you sent me, I’m still living out on my own. Michael has built himself a fine house, and Brigitte’s daughters have grown. And thank you for sending your family picture, Your lovely young women and men. You say that you might even come for a visit, Oh what joy to see you again. Kilkelly Ireland, 1892. My dear brother John, I’m sorry I didn’t write sooner to...
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...busy schedule of rampaging around and eating bread sticks wanes. He starts to grizzle and wriggle and claw at the EEG cap. These movements corrupt the brain activity data. “That’s the interesting challenge with infants,” says Smith. “They’re completely non-compliant to instructions.” What about the educational potential of devices? There are thousands of apps,...
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...business chaos and the resultant pubic disorder. Such presentations of the complexities of social life in popular culture served to highlight and critique social discontent and unrest against institutions of power. In doing so, the stage became a platform for voicing the struggles of honest working ‘men’ against financial institutions that dictated economic policy....
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...business, the creative industries, the charity sector and NGOs, publishing and journalism, and education (Robertson et al., 2021). Developing highly valued skills for employment is also true for university students who study Theology & Religious Studies (TRS) or related subjects like Religion, Philosophy & Ethics. Those with degrees in these fields are highly employable;...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...busy at times with thoughts, but your body might feel quite floppy and relaxed. It’s not as simple as you’re either in rest-and-digest mode or alert and engaged. Things are very close together. The neurochemicals mix up. And if you’ve got more of one than the other at one point in time, you might be tipping towards, say, rest and digest. Are you going to move into a...
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...business or any serious object whatever; and had just taken refuge in Egypt as one might turn aside into the Burlington Arcade or the Passage des Panoramas – to get out of the rain ... Here then, without definite plans, outfit, or any kind of Oriental experience, behold us arrived in Cairo on the 29th of November 1873. (pp. 2–3) These half buried pylons, this solitary...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...business, with identifiable causes and effects that could be formulated as universally applicable principles. The world did not have to be a vale of tears or a preparation for other states of existence. The very object of government, indeed, was held to be the maximisation of pleasure, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or – in the words of the Declaration...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...busy the practitioners, the teachers and teachers’ assistants were within the two case studies. One of the adaptations I made was to present the practitioners with a summary of the individual children’s involvement in the study, so to demonstrate their interests and priorities, what they had been telling me about their existing environment, and these became the...