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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...fiction (Scholes et al, 2020). Wider understanding of the life interests of less motivated readers may also prompt a review of the texts available and lead to the provision of an increased variety of genres that appeal to more pupils (McGeown et al., 2020). As research indicates that choice and reader interest significantly enhance readers’ intrinsic motivation and...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...Fiction’ which challenges the utility of the concept and emphasises its vagaries. Lea (2000) critiques Macpherson’s definition and use of institutional racism as conflating individual and intentional racism with unconscious racism and bias. Lea argues that individual actions are highlighted over institutional or organisational processes and contends that...
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Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...learn about how psychology can help the police with their enquiries...Ever wondered about the role that psychology might play in police investigations? Would you like to investigate a fictional criminal case, working alongside a team of detectives, and explore how psychology can be applied to an investigation? In this four-week course, you’ll explore the way suspects...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...fiction. The journey itself may or may not have happened. It’s both a literary ‘topos’ related to the figure of the law-giver in Greek culture, and a reflection of a lot of real travel in the eastern Mediterranean by 6th century Greeks. Solon's reforms are conventionally dated to the first decade of the 6th century. Croesus, by Herodotus' chronology, was born in 595...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...fiction has emerged. Jenny Offill’s Weather (2020) captures the narrator’s anxieties about environmental catastrophe. The High House (2021) by Jessie Greengrass is about a climate scientist. Niall Bourke’s Line (2021) engages with the related refugee and climate crises. Within literary studies, scholars working in the domain of ecocriticism investigate how the...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...Fiction: The world’s first Cyborg-fair’. [Sketch of a cyborg] ‘Cyborg’ is a loaded and attention-grabbing term, bearing associations from sci-fi novels and Hollywood, and whether it’s an entirely accurate label for these activities is up for debate. Some commentators broaden the definition to include anyone who uses artificial devices, such as computer screens...
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...fiction… It bears no relation to the modern benefits system.” The Government are drawn from a narrow social strata whose taken-for-granted assumptions of what is right and wrong are such that it probably never occurs to them to consider the impact on those who have not shared their privileged upbringing. Are MPs missing the common touch? A recent report by The Sutton...
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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...fiction, but scientists recently managed to implant human stem cells into a pig embryo – pushing us a step closer to such a future. There are also other important applications from such research, such as the study of developmental processes and diseases of many kinds. We are, at minimum, several steps and several years away from being able to create fully grown...
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