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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...study physics further at A Level. Teachers spend considerable time trying to make physics more enjoyable for the students by doing experiments, demonstrations and fun activities. However, fun can be difficult to control. What the teacher thinks will be fun, is not always what students find fun. Additionally, students frequently fail to extract the scientific principle...
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...studies, the arts, spiritual and philosophical thought, literature, systems thinking and ecopsychology, all in the service of unpicking our collective and individual responses to the crisis, much of which is unacknowledged and unconscious. Climate Psychology aims to contribute by: Building understanding and support for individuals and groups Enabling transformation and...
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve...
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the role of reflective practice in ITE (Initial Teacher Education) recognise some models of reflective practice identify the difference between reflection, analysis and description understand the difficulties in ensuring that reflection leads to learning and begin to develop some strategies to ensure reflection...
The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...studied were not told about their family member’s imprisonment but found out through their own investigations. The remaining 83% found out either through direct communication from various family members or indirectly through experiences such as being present at arrests or police investigations. Many children read about their parents or family members offences as it is...
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...study I will never forget my first day at Glasgow Polytechnic (now Glasgow Caldeonian University), better known as ‘the Poly’, on 1 October 1991. I arrived late; all of the new first year social science students were meeting in a lecture theatre. I walked in and there were about 300 students already seated. The member of staff had already started to speak about the...
Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...study in Technology...Forth Road Bridge: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic structural issues of the Forth Road Bridge give examples of how engineers are trying to alleviate the wear and tear on the bridge...Forth Road Bridge: 1 The Forth Road Bridge - Edinburgh reaches over the Firth of Forth with two great bridges...
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How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...study of using Foucault’s disciplinary power’, Critical Social Work, 15(1). Mason, D. (1982) ‘After Scarman: A note on the concept of “institutional racism”’, New Community, 10(1), pp. 38–45. Miles, R. (1989) Racism. London: Routledge. Peeples, L. (2020) ‘What the data says about police brutality and racial bias-and which reforms might work’, Nature,...