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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...learning outcomes...There is an ongoing revolution in the running of state schools and this is making the position of the school business manager both significant and necessary. Government thinking, together with profound changes in society generally, will affect every institution both in terms of pedagogy and the physical environment, particularly technology and levels...
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...fiction – films which historians still mostly study? How and why did film-makers use this medium? Three broad categories of user come to mind - professionals, amateurs and organisations. The professionals were those who embraced the new medium of film from the late nineteenth century as a way of making a living or expressing themselves. They ranged from the...
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...learned through concrete examples of human interactions and tends to remain localised and parochial to that activity until more and more concrete paradigms are experienced. Paul, are careers in psychological profiling generally available? Do have any more information? I'm seriously interested. Andre Hopper I think it must be an argument that people who commit serious...
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...learn how children’s fiction, ranging from classics such as Beatrix Potter to contemporary authors like Anthony Browne, combines images and text in remarkably sophisticated ways to communicate with young and old. This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course EA300 Children’s literature ...Exploring books for children: words and pictures:...
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...learning through a pedagogy of hope and care which supports your learners in understanding the causes and impacts of environmental collapse and in addressing them through global citizenship, individual and collective direct action, and democratic participation. The course covers multiple sectors, subject areas and contexts...Education has a vital role in tackling the...
‘There Were Four of Us’
History & The Arts

‘There Were Four of Us’

...fiction. However, she doesn’t emerge well from many of them, being depicted as a talentless hanger-on or spurned lover. She is often a foil to the poised and talented Mary, or presented as Byron’s mistake. At first glance, her depiction in Ken Russell’s 1986 film Gothic (released by the BFI on Blu-ray) is of a piece with these portraits, if not the apotheosis of...
What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?
Society, Politics & Law

What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?

...fictional stories isn’t a summer blockbuster and doesn’t star a big-budget Hollywood celebrity. It’s the story that individuals are poor due to their lack of will/drive/desire, and if they worked harder, they’d work themselves out of poverty. We like to call it the “American Dream.” Perhaps the most effective endorsement of this story is that people continue...
Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...fiction masterpiece? The purpose of this article has been to take a fresh look how you think about preparing and delivering your assignment. Reflecting on the processes of sourcing and referencing may help you in providing an assignment that is enriched by careful consideration of the breadth and depth of source material. It may help you to deliver an assignment that is...