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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...world. A balance needs to be wrought between teaching the skills of decoding and comprehension and fostering reading for pleasure. Such reading is essentially volitional, intrinsically motivated, child-directed and choice-led. It has making meaning at its heart. In order to build reciprocal communities of readers who can and do choose to read and who think and talk about...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...world and later writings. As well as browsing the narratives, the story forms a useful way to explore the theme of historical ‘truth’ and the challenge of ‘chronology’. You may like to take a look at the Timeline and Introductory articles in the Herodotus OpenLearn Collection to put some of the narratives into context. [Croesus vase] Croesus at the stake. An Attic...
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Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...World Cup has been a key driver for increasing female participation in football at all levels. There are now over 2.5 million registered players in England, with football being the most popular sport for females. On a worldwide scale, FIFA has the strategic goal to increase the level of female participation in football to 60 million players by 2026 (FIFA, 2022). With such...
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Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...world-class standard and had relatable experiences (i.e., some who shared their experience of how they stayed motivated during long periods of injury rehabilitation, some who dealt with uncertainty during their sporting career, some who bounced back after their dreams were dashed, and some who navigated the waves of significant changes including unexpected career...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...world. In the process, they seem to have been competent in highlighting how incompetent they are. The basis for goodwill trust The recent political climate in the UK highlights a trend of ever-increasing and shameless lack of integrity and benevolence. The ‘callous’ implementation of austerity which was slammed by the UN inquiry into the effects of Austerity and...
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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...world and have both emigrated for the other over their time together. They have experienced two different cultures and in many ways are polar opposites – mum is loud and extroverted, dad is quieter and reflective, mum never went to university and doesn’t see herself as academic, dad studied at university for seven years. Almost 30 years later, in December 2020, I...
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Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...world will be fasting from dawn to dusk, which will involve refraining from drinking and eating and of course through the fasting learning to be a better person. This is not always easy as when you haven’t eaten or drunk anything, it’s hard to keep your cool and ensure you are being fair, honest, humble and so on... but nonetheless that is the test for Muslims and...
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Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...World War, women pit brow workers struggled to defend the legal right to perform this work in the face of vigorous campaigns to exclude them. This struggle connected one of the lowest status and most oppressed groups of women with the broader struggles for women’s political, social and economic rights. In recovering the largely overlooked and poorly documented history...
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