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Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...resources as well as work done by others. Of course, these days you can find any number of websites that offer advice, but try to stick to official sites such as the General Register Office, whilst Cyndi's List has an amazing collection of resources. Alternatively, you can buy one of the many periodicals devoted to the subject, or pick up PC software that has been...
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...resources of these ‘outsiders’ were the limitless, official resources of the state, making film and videos as part of their PR function to educate and persuade the public of their policies on health, housing, childcare and education. The state often branded the unofficial users of the film as ‘ideological’, missing the point that they themselves were ideological,...
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...resources section. In the book he recounts the challenges and insights that people have experienced through the death of someone important. In conducting research working with people who have experienced grief, I have often listened to people as they search hard for meaning. What does this look like? It could be about making sense of the death. Sometimes it is gratitude...
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...human or animal was present inside. The country house of the leading Liberal politician David Lloyd George was fire-bombed in February 1913. Another tactic was vandalising paintings and other valuable objects in galleries and museums (targets included the Velázquez painting popularly known as ‘The Rokeby Venus’, which represented the Goddess of Love as a female...
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...Resource Course: Teaching Secondary Music – Issues in Practice. Hello, I’m Gary Spruce. I’ve worked for many years in music education as a secondary school teacher and in initial teacher education. I learned that music is one of the most rewarding subjects to teach in secondary schools but also that it is one of the most challenging. For many young people music is a...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...resources. This choice is partly based on its association with other educated norms in Hispanic culture and on its prestige, although emphasis is placed on the pluricentric nature of Spanish. The treatment of dialectal varieties in the classroom generally depends on three main factors; where teaching staff come from, who is authoring teaching materials, and the...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...resources - Reading Anderson, D. (2000) The Story of the Olympics. New York, Harper Collins. Finley, M.I., & Pleket, H.W. (1976) The Olympic Games: the first thousand years. New York, Viking Press. Paleologos, C. (1976) The Ancient Olympic Games, in Killanin, L. & Rodda, J. (Eds.), The Olympic Games (pp. 24-26). New York, Macmillan. Web links Olympic History The Ancient...
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...resource, and sexuality. They do little to challenge a gender ideology that is based on a simple binary classification model which comes with quite fixed ideas about how to understand sex and gender. This binary model suggests that all people can be classified into one of two sex categories: male or female. These sex categories are identified as oppositional and defined...