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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...technological advances of global benefit, and negotiate policy’ (Lindsey, 2022). The edited contributions in these videos come from national representatives and climate activists from across countries in the Global South and show you the debates that are too often silenced. In Video 1, the edited speeches from COP26 are interspersed with interviews from key contributors...
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...Education and has championed immersion language teaching in the state. “We have found that the kids do as well and generally better than monolingual counterparts in all subjects. They are better at concentrating, focusing and have a lot more self-esteem. Anytime you understand another language, you understand your language and culture better. It is economically and...
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...educational work of small Marxist revolutionary parties such as the British Socialist Party (BSP) and the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) (Duncan LR, D.ii see section 6). The 40 hours strike, the context for ‘Bloody Friday’ (the riot in George Square, Glasgow, January 31, 1919), was in many ways the culmination of this process of socialist radicalisation and...
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...educational underachievement, poverty, poor parenting. But the Ceasefire Babies are also dealing with the added stress of the conflict – even though most of them never witnessed it directly. “When one person sees something awful, when one person is traumatised, it will affect how they relate to everybody else, including how they relate to their children, their...
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...Education Studies (Primary) qualification. Most contemporary theorists argue that cognitive processes need to be taken into account in order to explain how the social environment makes its mark on the child’s gender development and how the child plays an important role in directing his or her own gender development. Cognitive processes The theories covered in this...
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...educational demonstrations provided by Academo. [Online]. Available at: https://academo.org/ demos/ wave-interference-beat-frequency/ (Accessed 19 June 2019). Wave on a string (2017) PhET Interactive Simulations provided by University of Colorado, Boulder. [Online]. Available at: https://phet.colorado.edu/ en/ simulation/ wave-on-a-string (Accessed 19 June 2019)...What...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...education 37 Buying or ordering tickets / goods or services 50 Selling goods or services 10 Personal banking and financial services 37 Playing or downloading games 13 Using chat rooms 19 Playing or downloading music 27 Reading or downloading online news 32 Listening to web radio / watching web television 16 Downloading other software 24 Downloading images 27 Looking for a...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...education, both Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee were taught at home with the aid of tutors, and developed their formidable intellects through voracious and often systematic reading at home. Both had the run of their parents’ libraries, and as child prodigies, displayed a prodigious gift for languages: French, German, Italian, Greek and Latin, and in Barrett...