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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...work in a rural school in the outskirts of Oxfordshire which is predominantly non-black ? sort of speakers, pretty much 90 to 99 per cent white. Its eleven to eighteen mixed comparison school. Q Ok, right then I just want you to say who you are? T I’m a British Asian Muslim I have trained here at the department of education here at Oxford and I have been teaching now...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...working iteratively with the human research ethics committee to support equity-based design and conduct. Alison Buckler illustrates her responses through examples from her experiences within the Ibali project, which has evolved into an international knowledge network, and the CHILD project in Zimbabwe (Power et al., 2021). At one point in the video Alison points...
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Article 30 mins
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...working out how much change you might receive, to how long a journey might take, to solving puzzles. You’re going to start by looking at some puzzles. You may be wondering what puzzles have to do with solving real problems. First of all, they introduce you to working logically and systematically, which is an important general technique that is used often in mathematics....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come
Society, Politics & Law

Why Bernie Sanders could determine the shape of America for years to come

...social issues, voting rights, electoral issues and environmental issues are as likely to be settled by the Supreme Court as by legislation. The bitter sentiment in the Republican base – the feeling among the white middle class in particular that America has been taken away from them – is sent into overdrive by the prospect of a Supreme Court oriented towards liberal...
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Article 10 mins
Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?
History & The Arts

Is ‘Barbenheimer’ going to save cinema?

...social media hype around the theatrical release of ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ save the box office during a difficult time for the film industry?...It’s been impossible to miss the much-hyped ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon this summer. A portmanteau of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) and Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023), the word was coined by film fans on social...
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Article 5 mins
Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?

...social interaction. Second, dating apps allow users to broaden their romantic networks, extending beyond their existing social networks. Thirdly, dating apps are an efficient means of connecting with several potential partners at the same time. And, fourth, the emergence of dating apps has perpetuated a culture in which communication is increasingly focused around...
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Article 5 mins
Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...social injustices in the world. It’s now become something of a catch-all insult for liberals generally, and is so widespread that The Guardian named it as the defining insult of 2016. As often happens with derogatory terms aimed at a particular community, there’s been a move to re-appropriate the word as a badge of pride by the very group it’s meant to vilify. In...
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Article 5 mins
Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...social media. In linguistics and philosophy, there’s a distinction here between ‘using’ a word and ‘mentioning’ it. By mentioning the word (i.e. quoting someone else’s use of it) – and doing so with the full, uncensored version – Black was highlighting just how misogynistic, and extreme much of the abuse she gets is. For the most part, though, swearing in...
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Article 5 mins