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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...Children need to learn the names of different colours, and research has suggested that learning the correct terms for different colours is quite a difficult task (Maule, Skelton and Franklin, 2023). The ability to match simple colour terms to the ‘correct’ colour (e.g. matching the word ‘blue’ to the colour blue) isn’t something that children master until around...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...research today compares information such as the number of children enrolled or completing their education. This reflects the modern aim of achieving free, universal and compulsory primary education, which was established in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ambition to achieve free and compulsory primary education for all children has been defined and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The biology of loving our pets
Science, Maths & Technology

The biology of loving our pets

...children, we release a hormone called oxytocin? Because of this, oxytocin is often referred to as the ‘love hormone’. But scientific research has shown that we also release oxytocin, the love hormone, when we see, play or stroke our pets. A study published in Science found that looking into the eyes of pet dogs can increase our oxytocin levels by almost 300% (Nagasawa...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...research...[Donald Rumsfeld] Donald Rumsfeld, widely known for his 'known unknowns' What counts as ‘truth’ is a political hot topic. Yet a previous post has argued that knowledge is relative, a matter of social production, shaped by power dynamics. So how do we reconcile such perspectivism with a continuing search for robust knowledge, whether ‘at home’ or...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...research evidence that they can make a difference to children’s learning, but then life often moves faster than the supply of research evidence. As we have indicated, volunteers are often invited into schools to assist teachers, and teaching assistants are employed without necessarily having any specific training (although, increasingly, in-service training is being...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...research with young children in this area: Little et al. (2011, p. 115) describe it as ‘play that provides opportunities for challenge, testing limits, exploring boundaries and learning about injury-risk’. Stephenson (2003) described 4 year olds’ risky play as ‘attempting something never done before, feeling on the borderline of “out of control” often because...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide

...research on how people behave, it's important to consider the Hawthorne Effect. But why? A really, really quick introduction...[Black background with a halogen light strip positioned diagonally from top left corner to right-hand corner in the middle. Text saying "In the 1920s, workers at the Hawthorne Works in Chicago were observed to be more productive in better-lit...
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Article 5 mins
Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...centres in the entire UK and, thus, no exception...[clydeside map] Encompassing the years from just before the outbreak of conflict in World War One in 1914, until the period of the great depression that ravaged Clydeside and many other industrial cities and regions across the UK in the inter-war years, the period widely referred to as ‘Red Clydeside’ was one of the...
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Article 5 mins