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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...class, ‘race’ and gender and ideas about how social life should be organised. Poverty is often viewed as a deficiency in the way that poor people conduct their family and personal lives, in their attitudes to work, and so on. Through such arguments poverty comes to be understood not as an outcome of the society in which we live, a product of state failure or of an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...class or school competitions with awards for the number of books read, reviews written and parent signatures in reading records, for instance, have recently become popular. The resultant prizes (a Friday film and popcorn, for example, for the class with the highest percentage of parents’ signatures) are positioned as incentives, but such extrinsic motivators rarely work...
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Article 10 mins
The Funny Thing About...
Society, Politics & Law

The Funny Thing About...

...from Harry Enfield. The Funny Thing About …Teachers Featuring classic comedy from "Allo 'Allo!" and "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", this film looks at the real life careers of teachers. The Funny Thing About… Judges Are all judges white, middle-aged and middle-class? Professor Gary Slapper, of The Open University, talks about the truth behind the stereotype of a judge....
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Video 24 mins
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...class and a new crop of business owners with money to invest. They put their cash to use by investing and speculating in the new inland waterways, making deals long before construction would be completed. Each new route had to be approved by the government and yet speculators would invest even before the Act of Parliament was granted. Demand for shares was huge –...
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Article 5 mins
The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923
Society, Politics & Law

The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923

...class communities. As Marion McIntosh recalled of Glasgow, “if there were boys or men coming into the house you couldn’t have your underwear hanging on the pulley [to dry]. You were told to get it down even if it was your brother” (in Clark and Carnegie, 2008). In Leeds, soldiers returning from the First World War complained about what they believed was the...
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Article 10 mins
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?

...class had done extraordinarily well on a predictive test of academic aptitude and could therefore be expected to become “late bloomers” over the course of the year. It turned out that, within the school year, these five randomly selected kids achieved the greatest gains in academic performance in the class. Obvious evidence for a Pygmalion effect! Ethical experimental...
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Article 5 mins
The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...between Plato's and Xenophon's depictions of Socrates, both present a man who cared nothing for class distinctions or 'proper behavior' and who spoke as easily with women, servants, and slaves as with those of the higher classes. This article was originally published on Ancient.eu, written by Joshua J. Mark and released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence....
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Article 5 mins
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...de-clutter'. Both the BBC and other channels have television series about ‘collectaholics’ and hoarders who meet counsellors persuading them to ‘de-clutter’. There are of course structural and economic contexts making it possible for members of our society to collect and hoard so many objects: First, people at all income levels now can afford many more material...
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