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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...based learning, with a particular focus on the development of the young child's brain, and is of particular relevance to those who work with young children. We begin by looking at the structure and functions of the brain, and the impact that sensory deprivation can have on these. We consider the implications of current understandings of brain development for teaching and...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution The American Civil Rights Movement With a focus on the Sixties as experienced by the West, you’ll explore how the era has been presented as one of protest, change and crisis. You will explore the Sixties from the point of view of politics, society, culture, religion, economics and technology. In A Spiritual Revolution?: Wicca and...
Phosphating (non-electrolytic coatings)
Science, Maths & Technology

Phosphating (non-electrolytic coatings)

...base metal, also offering good surface adhesion for paint or powder coating...Typical immersion phosphating tank for batch coating of small parts. Drum into which parts are loaded is shown in immersion position. [Images to demonstrate 'Phosphating (non-electrolytic coatings)' - see article ] Typical drum used in batch phosphate coating of small parts. [Images to...
Sherry is not just for Christmas
Science, Maths & Technology

Sherry is not just for Christmas

...de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain] All these sherries can be described as dry, with the more familiar cream sherry being made by mixing the oxidised Oloroso with a very sweet sherry made from a different grape, called Pedro Ximenez or PX. The fortified wine is aged in barrels made from American oak in a system known as a solera. Effectively the barrels are placed on top...
The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...de la Concorde will create an impressive backdrop to showcase the talent and skills of the competing B-Boys and B-Girls, as breakers are known, but will it overcome the arguments of the critics that it is not really a sport? The following video introduces GB breaker Sam Phillips, a.k.a B-Boy Sheku. Sam talks about training as an athlete and dancing like an artist....
The Romantics
History & The Arts

The Romantics

...and studying literature... Romantic authorship Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. The self How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? Wordsworth and De Quincy Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. Romantic timelines What is the impact of writing in different literary periods?...
Audio 31 mins
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...based violence. The solution, however, does not lie in prevention by communities alone, but also greater state action in supporting black feminist leadership, and ensuring protection and provision. "I find it really hard to say how much her death has affected me. Words just do not say enough.. .. The last time I saw Banaz alive was in 2005 ... I wish with all my heart I...
Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...based on data relating to the wages of craftsmen compiled during the 1950s and 1960s by Phelps-Brown and Hopkins. The estimates of growth rates were revised downwards by Deane and Cole, largely on the basis of alternative data based on new research into Gross Domestic Product as well as wages. In the mid-1980s a further and more radical downward estimate of growth figures...