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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...change might be immanent. The non-revolutionary left sections of the working class could also feel empowered and excited by the apparent spectacle of a working-class seizure of power in Russia. In the post-war upheavals which swept Europe, the 40 Hours strike certainly tapped into these feelings of a broader, international working-class challenge. However, these feelings...
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...changing themed displays, impassioned text recommendations, reading aloud and ‘book blessings’, as well as opportunities to participate in peer-to-peer recommendations are needed. Otherwise, pupils may become overwhelmed by the choice available and fail to find a text that is personally relevant, speaks to their interests or inspires. Self-efficacy We all need to feel...
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...changed significantly since the 1950s to exclude certain groups of people from the former colonies who previously were included. So we can look at who is included and who is excluded but we can also look at who is included formally in a notion of membership of that community, but actually when it comes to securing their rights, they don’t get the rights presumed to go...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...changing in the same way (i.e. the gradient is either positive for both points or negative for both points). The maximum vertical displacement of the wave from the undisturbed surface is the amplitude. We can also plot a wave as a function of time. Using the same example of the stone splash in a pond, if we now focus on a point on the surface at a fixed distance from...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...changes throughout the whole curriculum starting with induction, as well as support services (Office for Students, 2020)...Supporting university students with a mental health condition: Conclusion - Considering how to improve students’ mental health can bolster student wellbeing and success. This course drew on the findings from a study of tutors and students to...
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...changed between 1998 and 2004. [Figure 3] Figure 3 UK Households with home access to the Internet, April to June (source: National Statistics Survey, 2004) Activity 7 (exploratory) Study the bar chart in Figure 3. What do you think it shows about the growth in home access to the internet? Answer The first thing I noticed is that the bars are getting longer from left to...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...changing process, where students live with this uncertainty as they search for an understanding and begin to focus in on the concept. [Described image] Figure 4 Liminal Space, Harlow et al (2011, p2) Students adopt a range of strategies to cope with threshold concepts. Mimicry (Harlow et al., 2011) is often used by students and results in a situation where the students...
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...changed their minds by reading the saddest passages aloud to them (UK RED: 2368). Arthur Harding, a Victorian professional criminal, enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read them in prison (UK RED: 5220), and another inmate, a fruit seller turned petty crook, was a Dickens expert who could perform any one of his characters on demand (UK RED: 12545)....