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Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...work and resources are available to support children’s social and emotional learning, but very rarely from an arts-based approach. We strongly believe that an arts-based approach, and dance in particular, offers an extra dimension through the physicality of movement: where embodiment and exploration of physical metaphors and representations of emotions offers a context...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...works in Chinese condemning the “religion of Fo” (fo is the Chinese word for Buddha). Early reports on the Buddhism of Thailand came from delegations sent to the court of Siam by Louis XIV, delegations that included Jesuit priests. The term “Buddhism” would not appear in English until the early nineteenth century. The Jesuits who wrote the reports and the scholars...
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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...work of Dr Pat Jess from The Open University Geography Department who looked at the West of Ireland in the early 1980s for an Open University course ‘Changing Britain, Changing world: geographical perspectives’. The course was studied by Open University students between 1985 and 1995. The collection of articles uses the course materials to give an overview of issues...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...Work Package leads are shared among people with a variety of backgrounds. Ilyés (2019) explores how approaches associated with agile working can support researchers in this. They talk about cohering around an agreed topic, in ways that suit the capacities of those involved and support them to research. As well as having a group of people at various career stages, they...
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Green Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Green Brexit?

...working with the Clean Air in London campaign to draft a Clean Air Bill to Parliament that includes the key principles, like future generations, that are currently in EU law. The central idea of the Bill is to make healthy air a human right and this is to be backed up by a Citizen’s Commission which would help people take legal action if their health was impacted by...
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Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being an Olympic Parent: the family behind the athlete

...working with them around the clock, but at times a simple hug or words of support from mum or dad are invaluable to the athlete. ...To become an Olympic athlete requires an abundance of hard work, determination, talent and plenty of support and being an Olympic parent is not an easy job either. Aside from the obvious financial and logistical support, it’s important to...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...Works of the Late Edward Ind of Cambridge Esq and a Biological Sketch of his Life (Ind and Mott, 1822). His daughter Joanna Vassa’s early life remains a mystery, but it is known that she married Reverend Henry Bromley, a congregationalist minister from Islington, London. There is no evidence that the couple had children and she died while separated from her husband in...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...work though, [US sking and basketball champion Alana] Nichols' medals are worth less than those of Olympians. That's because Paralympians get only $5,000 from the U.S. Olympic Committee for winning gold. Olympians get $25,000 for their gold medals. Silver medals are worth $15,000 for Olympians, while Paralympians only get $3,000. Bronze medals are worth $10,000 for...
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