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How To Be A Better LGBTQI+ Ally
Health, Sports & Psychology

How To Be A Better LGBTQI+ Ally

...interactive...You can make a huge difference to the lives of LGBTQI+ youth by showing your support as an ally. You’ll be doing your bit to help someone thrive, rather than just survive. But while most people want to be allies, there can be confusion around how to go about it. This interactive, based on real life stories from LGBTQI+ young people, is here to help. [How...
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Activity 20 mins
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...Social interaction supports the development of a sense of collective or social identity and responsibility. We see this in cultural traditions and rituals from around the world, but it has also developed in new forms in the modern day. Group identity might be developed via online forums and activities around shared arts practices, for example, which are particularly...
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Article 5 mins
Charting new reading research directions
Education & Development

Charting new reading research directions

...social justice in early childhood literacy, focusing on the role of technology in children’s reading and agency. She is also examining how children engage their senses when reading. Annie Brookman-Byrne talks with Natalia about changes in reading research – and a possible future in which children learn with edible books. Annie Brookman-Byrne: Many adults wonder...
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Article 5 mins
How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...interactions with them and so reduce prejudice. Intergroup threat was another factor that mediated the contact: prejudice effect. Increased contact reduced the perceived threat, not just from the individual that the contact was with, but with the outgroup, which in turn reduced prejudice. Thomas Pettigrew, a student of Allport’s at Harvard and the leading proselytizer...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...social interactions, and then moved to the individual level as they began to internalise their learning. While Piaget saw the child as actively discovering the world through individual interactions with it, Vygotsky saw the child as more of an apprentice, learning through a social environment of others who had more experience and were sensitive to the child’s needs and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class
Languages

Ambridge accents: How The Archers use accent to depict class

...interactions. This is not to say that we are all in the habit of taking on completely different personalities when we feel like it. Rather it is an acknowledgement of the fact that our identities are multiple, multifaceted and fluid. We use our voices, as well as our dress and behaviour, to subtly adjust our identities according to the context in which we find ourselves....
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...social behaviour. The violent disturbances in some English cities in August 2011 were the latest events to trigger vigorous debate,about the state of British youth in general, but with a particular focus on the so-called ‘problem’ of boys. Media pundits and politicians have offered a wide range of explanations for the current ‘crisis’ in young masculinity. These...
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Article 5 mins
Living with a learning disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with a learning disability

...interactive to find out if people with learning disabilities have more independence now institutions are closed and if it has led to a greater inclusion within local communities...How would you feel if you couldn't choose what clothes you wanted to wear or buy? Find out for yourself, as this is just one of the scenarios covered in our interactive. Select here to begin the...
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Activity 5 mins