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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...children for employment. The reality of finding employment A doctoral research study led by Lancaster University’s Rachael Barrow aims to gain insights into the reality of how employment is gained and experienced by previously home-educated adults. The research included interviews with a sample consisting of 30 adults aged between 18 and 65 who had been home educated...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...researchers found that when part of an asphalt play area was transformed into a more natural area with vegetation, children’s social behaviour changed; they showed less aggression when playing in the natural area than on the asphalt area. Another study that compares children’s behaviour on natural vs. less natural areas of a play environment found that children not...
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What is Open Thanatology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Open Thanatology?

...research centre dedicated to death-related topics. The Centre builds on the long-standing death and dying research at the University with a renewed energy to promote these fields of research and education. The Open Thanatology Hub showcases education we have created based on our research and flag-ship modules and curriculum here at the Open ......
Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question

...children. The charity cited two particular research projects which suggest a link between drinking cow’s milk and autism. It was originally released a few years ago, but has recently been relaunched on social media causing much discussion. The research that underpins PETA’s claim is based on two small-scale studies. One was a “blind” study of 20 children, half of...
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...children eligible for Free School Meals not receive them? In 2012, research suggested that as more than one in four children who could be receiving Free School Meals were not taking advantage of the benefit. Angus Holford of the University of Essex carried out research into the peer effect. He found that encouraging a small number of children to take the meals had a...
Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...centred approach to the design of technology for animals (visit the Centre for Research in Computing website). As dogs have co-evolved with humans for thousands of years and share a very special relationship with us, not only as companions but also as working partners, much ACI research and design has naturally been focussing on them. For example, researchers have ......
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...centre of classroom practice. This research reveals that children’s pleasure in reading is strongly influenced by reading networks and relationships: between teachers; between teachers and children; between children and children; and in some cases, between children, teachers, families and communities. In schools where staff and ......
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...research combining linguistics and psychology to revolutionise the way we understand children’s language learning. Back in 1977, she challenged Noam Chomsky’s idea that children’s understanding of language grammar is innate. Snow’s research noted that parents tend to speak very differently to their children as opposed to other adults. Parents’ speech is often...