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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which art historians are responding to a changing world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely taught’, admits Sarah Victoria Turner, the current Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. As such, the...
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Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...children without fathers, schools without discipline and reward without effort’. He wasn’t the only one to see absent fathers as part of the problem: from across the political aisle, Tottenham MP David Lammy expressed anxiety about the kind of role models filling the ‘father-shaped hole’ in many young men’s lives. Even if we don’t go along with the notion that...
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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities...It is widely recognised that supporting children to become capable and engaged readers plays an important role in their future success. Reading empowers; it facilitates education and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...researcher, Sue Bennett, which will help you to focus more on how children use this technology. Bennett (2012) suggests that technology refers not just to the physical hardware but also incorporates different functionalities such as communicating (texting, instant messaging), sharing (blogs), searching (Google), reporting (camera use) and socialising (social networking...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gender groups
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gender groups

Emily Foster-Hanson talks about her own research (2023) showing how children form stereotypes about gender and how they are related to their parent’s political views...Transcript.
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Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...research to argue that teens - unlike younger children - are competent decision-makers. They argue teens understand advertising and can make good choices about their food and snack consumption, so food advertisers should be free to target teens. Child and media psychologists have carried out experiments to identify when children learn to assess advertising. Most of this...
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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...researchers Elisha Babad, Jacinto Inbar and Robert Rosenthal provided evidence for the Golem effect “with low-expectancy students of high-bias teachers receiving a more negative treatment and performing less well than any of their peers”. [Models of Golem] Golem models awaiting purchasers in Prague The transformation of teacher expectations into student academic...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...centre on horses so the children could become familiar with them. Additionally, we had visitors from as far afield as Poland and Serbia who wanted to set up similar services in their countries. As a result of the education and support the young mothers received, some of them went on to set up their own child-minding businesses. [Police in Moss Side] During the mid-1990s,...
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Article 15 mins