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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...everyday environmental challenges alongside keeping in mind the bigger picture of climate crisis and social injustice? Democracy that includes the non-human An approach I find helpful is to acknowledge the limits of our power and knowledge as adults and, with and alongside children, to ask questions about what we do and how we feel. We need to think about how social...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat, but a substance with a physical location that can flow from one place to another. The trouble is that students’ incorrect ideas can lead them to reject what they are taught. Even when teachers provide evidence that...
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Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...English is the language of industry and commerce and industrialisation and tourism had increased regular contact with the English-speaking outside world.To retain what was left of an Irish-speaking culture, employment was needed, and that meant bringing in manufacturing industry. But wouldn’t this undermine the unique culture still further? Would the cure kill the...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...English Language and Literature BA with the Open University, she also discovered OpenLearn! ‘I hadn’t studied for almost 30 years and wanted to get my brain back into learning mode before my course started, so I did the Being an OU student induction course on OpenLearn to help me get to grips with the site,’ Charity explained. ‘I found that course interesting, so...
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Speak in colours!
Languages

Speak in colours!

...English we can say ‘I’m feeling blue’ or ‘I saw red’). Evoking a colour can be a striking way of conveying a vivid impression of the mood or physical appearance of an individual. All languages do this since colours have strong connotations (even if in different cultures, colours are not always invested with the same symbolic meaning, however we will not be...
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How was the US election viewed in the Middle East
Society, Politics & Law

How was the US election viewed in the Middle East

...English, hated journalists, or were Alex Jones fans. Well, there was only one Alex Jones fan. But it was a bit odd to hear anti-Semitic conspiracy theories from a guy in an Israeli settlement. There was also one person who vaguely hoped Clinton won, though he seemed to imply he wasn’t from the settlement. There were basically two reasons people gave for their enthusiasm...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
Languages

The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love

...English equivalent. He reckons there's at least fourteen flavours of love...[Peach shaped like a heart] No emotion, surely, is as cherished and sought after as love. Yet on occasions such as Valentine’s day, we can often be misled into thinking that it consists solely in the swooning, star-crossed romance of falling deeply “in love”. But on reflection, love is far...
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Where are you really from?
Education & Development

Where are you really from?

...English, having been born in Aylesbury and brought up in Milton Keynes, England, the equation seems relatively straightforward. Until of course you see that I am a brown-skinned woman who wears a hijab with a foreign sounding name. The legitimacy of my ‘Englishness’ is suddenly called into question and the label can be a difficult pill for many people to swallow. As a...
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