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Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...maths lessons, or what other young people understand about money, for example, can be fascinating. 3: Wanting to learn what it is like to do social research. [A group of young students in a classroom setting. One student is presenting the the others, which the teacher watching on.] Discussion Most children and young people have experience of project work at school (i.e....
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...maths easier! Because the circumference is 2πr, and the wheel turns 2π radians in the same time that the circumference is 'moved' this distance, the angular velocity in radians is simply: For our two wheels with radii r 1 and r 2, we have that and Since at the point of contact v 1 = v 2, combining these two expressions gives The fraction r 1/r 2 defines the gear ratio...
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...maths, teachers PE are competent sports folk, and those who teach French surely can speak it. We wouldn't expect a French teacher not to be able to be confident within the language. Yet partly in the way higher education is structured, teachers of English and literacy and primary-secondary schools are more likely to have taken English literature as an A level or degree in...
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Carmarthen: Independent Thinking Press. Strong-Wilson, T. and Ellis, J. (2007) ‘Children and place: Reggio Emilia’s environment as third teacher’, Theory Into Practice, 46(1), pp. 40–7. Tovey, H. (2017) Outdoor Play and Exploration. The Froebel Trust. Available at: https://www.froebel.org.uk/ uploads/ documents/...
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...maths notation and leave out the multiplication sign. For example, in Section 6, you will see the equation of consumption C = a + bY. We write ‘bY’ instead of writing ‘b × Y’ (with the multiplication sign ‘×’). The general rule is that when two terms are placed side by side, they are to be multiplied. The economy as modelled by the circular flow diagram,...
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...maths-technology/ scholarship-teaching-and-learning-stem/ content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab (Accessed: 2 September 2022). Scott, J.T. and Armstrong, A.C. (2019) ‘Disrupting the deficit discourse: reframing metaphors for professional learning in the context of appreciative inquiry’, Professional Development in Education, 45(1), pp. 114–124. Wall,...
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...math but I say the arts particularly because they are the victims of this mentality currently particularly – the arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak, when you’re present in the current moment, when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re...
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Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...Maths recently, which kind of reminded me what it was like to study, but I need the extra qualifications. Ben, my mate, recently finished a course online. And he said he found it really difficult, because he wasn’t used to it – doing it online. So he suggested to me that I build up my skills before I start working on my qualifications. Video 4: John’s introduction...