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Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...change the colours. For example, logwood creates a blood red solution, although it will change to blue in alkaline solutions and to yellow-orange in highly acidic solutions. Finally, the scientists used a range of coloured inks on our Rough Science paper. They made brushes out of Ellen's hair and used Acacia seed pods as ink pens. Find out more Paper Handmade Paper - from...
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The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction

...change. This article explores why cash alone isn’t enough and how respectful, tailored support can help people overcome poverty...There are many definitions of poverty, yet at the heart of all of them lies the lack of adequate income to meet essential needs. It is therefore no surprise that poverty reduction policies often focus on providing poor people with cash, often...
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Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...change over time. What emerges as an important way for people to organize themselves in one period, whether that be skin colour or religion, may turn out to have little significance in another. Particular ethnic groups therefore tend to emerge and change over time as a consequence of particular social and political developments. There are two common misconceptions about...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...changes and influences have further increased the national and international focus on race and equality, with the tragic death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 and the subsequent re-focus on the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM). Arguably, BLM has served to profile the issues and has created a further window of opportunity to push for real and systemic change. Note:...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...changing rather than eternal. And nothing that follows is meant to gainsay that. What I should like to explore about this imagination of place held by so many Londoners, however, is how it might be broadened out. First of all this is an internal, indeed internalised, view of the city. It is about hospitality, about those who come to 'us', about the strangers within the...
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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...changes the dynamics of the usual learning environment. It gives you as a teacher the opportunity to start afresh with each child, to reach and engage with pupils in new and different ways. This free course, Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits, explores practical ways in which you can make the most of the UK's extraordinarily dynamic and diverse museums and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...Chang, 2005; Chalfant, 2006). The Bronx represents a universal myth that can be used by global hip hop practitioners to imagine old school authenticity in their local contexts. The two terms ‘hip’ and ‘hop’ are themselves important words for the practitioners’ understanding of the culture. One of the most famous ambassadors of hip hop, the self-proclaimed teacha...
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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...changed does sort of highlight some of the key uses of bedrooms by young people. Of course the bedroom is one of the first spaces that they have any control over, one of the first spaces that they can call their own, even if their bedrooms are shared often young people do find a way of actually marking out that space and being able to use the resources that they have...
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