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Charting new reading research directions
Education & Development

Charting new reading research directions

...concept is edible books. Created from dehydrated vegetable peel, they would directly stimulate children’s taste buds while immersing the child in an exciting story – about broccoli, for instance. This could promote both healthy eating and healthy reading habits. I hope to see edible books like this developed soon, and children and adults might also be inspired to...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...concept, provides a particular challenge to policy makers. The need to measure and quantify a landscape for planning and conservation purposes can often come into tension with slightly more hard-to-pin-down, but nonetheless significant meanings such as ‘beauty’, ‘belonging’ and ‘connectedness’. Of course the CNPA are well aware of the challenges of...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...concept of tort where compensation rather than penalty is the objective of proceedings. [Landscape image of Her Majesty's Prison in Manchester, UK] Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester The vast majority of people who break the criminal law are not dangerous and should not be considered as such. There are some people who may, however, benefit from a change of context and...
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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...concepts, like kuvhura pfungwa (which translates to “opening up the mind”) – it became a critical component, and the community could identify that term,” Chibanda said in an interview with SciDev.Net. "Other terms included kusimudzira, which means “to uplift”, and kusimbisa, which means “to strengthen”. That early research also prompted a renaming from...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...concept and provoke debate about policy, practice and new areas for inquiry, the symposium explores cutting-edge research which documents reading for pleasure practices. Speakers include: Professor Tonne, (University of Oslo) who led a fascinating project on reader engagement with teachers and librarians in Norway; Dr Levy (University of Sheffield) who is currently...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...concept of dying that has been around in healthcare for decades. Dr Mannix has used the term ordinary dying to describe the modern dying process where symptoms are controlled well and people die peacefully. However, she observes that both those who are dying and those that care for them do not expect this ordinary death and therefore don’t recognise this as normal...
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Calculating your carbon footprint
Nature & Environment

Calculating your carbon footprint

...concept of the carbon footprint Transcript There are different ways of measuring the carbon footprint. The production perspective counts the GHG emissions produced by different sectors of a country’s economy – energy supply, manufacturing, transport, agriculture, construction, banking, health services, etc. From this perspective the producers of goods and services...
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...concept of recovery in mental health is that it is ‘a way of living a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life even with the limitations caused by illness. Recovery involved the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness.’ (Anthony, 1993). Although many mainstream mental health services have...
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