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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...student from a refugee background is labelled as having ‘language difficulties’. While this may highlight a legitimate need, it also risks framing the student through a deficit lens. What might happen if, instead, we asked: What strengths does this learner bring? What experiences, resilience and perspectives could enrich the learning community? This reframing could...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...becomes-- everyone knows what I'm talking about. [MUSIC PLAYING] WOMAN: When was the last time we've ever seen an important movement be contributed by teenagers? [MUSIC PLAYING] MAN [NON ENGLISH SPEECH]: Graffiti it's not limited to only one thing. It's a lot broader, a lot more democratic let's say and even so, people still manage to criticise it. Art is different. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...become more of a factor in modernised urban societies, where (almost by definition) Western influence is greater. It presents a model for musical performance, and is one of many ways in which the West has influenced the rest of the world in the last century or so...Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective: 3.2 Technological change and the mediation of music - The...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...becoming increasingly common. In a stylised form, g, with flamboyant curls and flourishes, is still used as the treble or G clef, and signifies that a note placed on the second line from the bottom is G (see Example 3). Example 3 And this is not any G, but specifically the one above middle C. (We’ll come to an explanation of middle C in a moment.) As Example 4 shows,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...becomes even clearer when we turn to the second reservation about the characterisation of London as multicultural future of the world. For London is not only multicultural. It is also – for instance – a heartland of the production, command and propagation of what we have come to call neoliberal globalisation. Indeed it was in London that many of its lineaments were...
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Article 15 mins
UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...become increasingly dependent on food imports since the 1980s, with about 50% of its food and feed currently being imported. In effect, the UK is exporting the environmental impact and leaving producer nations with the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions released in the service of the British supper table. The UK’s “land footprint” – another term for...
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Article 10 mins
How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
History & The Arts

How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?

...become the envy of countries in the global south, but also the global north. Cuba also has a highly advanced biotechnology industry. These internal advancements and expansive foreign policy have all been achieved in the face of continual US aggression and an economic embargo which has endured for more than 50 years. Some within the island have been dissatisfied at the...
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Article 5 mins
How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...become an important scientific tool. Surveying bird populations is crucial for environmental management, but it is inherently challenging. Some types of terrain are difficult to access, and human observers introduce the element of human bias. The use of audio recordings made by UAVs has the potential to combat both of these challenges, as hard-to-reach sites can be flown...
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