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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...concepts and methods sufficient or do we need to reconsider the ways we ‘do’ social psychology? The notion of emergence is useful here. We can no longer claim to study how things are, but we need to pay closer attention to the ways that things come into being, for example, new identities, new groupings, new activisms, new ideological and cultural formations. Our final...
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What are the rules around assisted suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are the rules around assisted suicide?

...concept with two people discussing topic] As you saw in How to Die: Simon’s Choice assisted suicide is illegal in the UK. Anyone who participates in active voluntary euthanasia will be prosecuted under criminal law, although challenges to the present position and to the law regarding assisted suicide are common. In the programme, Simon’s consultant says that very few...
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Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...concept of ‘light for size’, recognising another important aspect is the shape of the object. At some point, children realise that there are different sorts of floating. If you used a CD or managed to float a needle, for example, you probably found the idea that ‘it stays down once it’s sunk’ is different from ‘it comes up again if it’s pushed down’....
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Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin

...concept of my theory lies in the fact that although most offspring are very similar to their parents, they are not identical and there is always variation. Some of these variations are caused by mutations, and when these mutations turn out to be beneficial to their survival, it makes the offspring more likely to reproduce and these mutations to be passed on. It has...
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The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...concept of the city was central to both the Roman and the Greek sense of identity...[A castle on the Tiber] Virgil’s story of the Roman people started with the fall of a Greek city, Troy, and reaches its narrative climax with the foundation of another city, Rome. This was only one of a number of quasi-mythical explanations of Rome’s foundation, but when Romans...
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Writing for pleasure?
Education & Development

Writing for pleasure?

...conceptions of writing so heavily framed by the Government’s criteria for writing at the ‘expected standard’ that the voice and verve of the young and their personal engagement in writing is being sidelined? As children across the country endure tests and seek to name and label modal verbs and demonstrate that they can separate their subordinating conjunctions from...
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Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics

...concepts before they become sanitised in textbooks; they witness mathematical practitioners with whom they can identify and perhaps take as role models; they are exposed to the many places outside of universities where mathematics was and is developed; and they will gain a greater understanding of the cultural influences which have affected who is granted access to...
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Carnival and the performance of heritage
History & The Arts

Carnival and the performance of heritage

...Course AD281: Understanding global heritage. Global heritage: case studies Dr Rodney Harrison talks about the audio and video case studies that are integral to the course AD281: Understanding global heritage. Critical heritage studies Dr Rodney Harrison, course chair of the course AD281 Understanding global heritage, explains the concept of critical heritage studies....
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