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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...perceptions of their academic ability. He points to the way that media reports will often focus on issues supposedly faced by white boys in education. By collapsing a number of categories including boys from a traveller community – who also face particular discrimination in education – into a ‘white’ category, policy makers can make a case for putting resources...
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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...perceptions, values, and attitudes of an ethnic group, and come to see themselves and others as members of the group. It consists of verbal and non-verbal messages and practices with racialised communities that aim to shape the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours of children surrounding race. In their study titled ‘What should young Black children know about race?’,...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...perceptions, belief and actions driven by imperial power. Equiano’s autobiography was and remains powerful because it describes the experience of slavery and gives vivid images of the middle passage from the perspective of the victims who are labelled as slaves. His autobiography was a significant contributor to changing perspectives on the slave trade in British...
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...perceptions to advocate for their children, even in the face of structural barriers, found their tenacity mischaracterised as ‘aggression’, and there were consistent accounts of Black children being given less latitude and understanding for their ‘autistic traits’ and associated behaviours, when compared with their White autistic peers. One indicative example was...
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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...perceptions in The Lonely Londoners. The impact of this on the novel’s gender perspectives will be discussed later. After almost thirty years, growing disillusionment with England led Selvon to emigrate to Canada in 1978. His literary fame brought him a number of awards and academic posts in Britain, the West Indies and Canada. Selvon returned to Trinidad in 1993, dying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...perception of the MMR vaccine explain why there is such a strong consensus amongst the medical profession testifying to the safety of the MMR vaccine...The MMR vaccine: Public health, private fears: 1 The MMR controversy - The furore over the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination has rapidly escalated into a landmark controversy in the UK. Since the suggestion in...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...perceptions of Wales. Particularly for people in Wales, rugby is, and its star players are, seen as embodying the essential characteristics and values of the nation – egalitarianism, meritocracy, patriarchy and classlessness (Evans et al., 1999). It is often said that the mood or confidence of the people of Wales, and Wales as a nation, rises and falls with the fortunes...
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Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...Perceptions of Staff Support for Student Mental Health: A University Case Study’, Education Science, 12(237). Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/4/237 (Accessed: 15 August 2025). Pereira, S., Early, N., Outar, L., Walker, L. and Dzikiti, C. (2019) Student Mental Health Survey 2018: A large scale study into the prevalence of student mental illness within UK...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs