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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...working in a factory would have been perfectly acceptable. Now, it would cause social services' intervention and the prosecution of both parents and factory owner. American colonial families: Industrious girls treated with respect The differences between the expectations placed on children today and those placed on them in the past are neatly summed up by two American...
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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...work on African American lives deserves attention today...[W.E.B. Du Bois] William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois was an extraordinary man, living in extraordinary times. He grew up in the North of America, where he went to a mixed school and his early talents were recognised and supported. His community collected money to send him to university; he was the first...
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Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...working Evaluator/critic Questions the group’s ideas and procedures Social behaviours Encourager Supports and rewards others Harmoniser Mediates conflicts among members Compromiser Shifts their position in order to reduce conflict Expediter Facilitates communications from others Standard setter Evaluates the quality of the group’s interactions Follower Accepts ideas...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...social media create...[Beyond The Babble in action] Beyond The Babble You can learn more about the ‘art of listening’ and many ideas that inspired this installation as well as the collaboration between Lucia Scazzoccio a sonic artist and social broadcaster and Giota Alevizou, in the conversation below. Transcript Giota: You describe yourself as a Social Broadcaster...
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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...work. What can be done to solve it? (The advice could work in other workplaces, too...)...It is a stomach-churning reality that the NHS rests on bullying the people who work in it. This “endemic culture of bullying” has facilitated a growing crisis of structural discrimination and racism, staff burnout and stress, and with it a risk to patient safety. Getting a...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...working-class parents of these children had only dreamed of. Another nine major pieces of legislation were passed with strong support across the political parties before the decade was out. The list of legislation brought forward by Atlee's government shows that along with opportunities for access to education came a house building programme, free health services and,...
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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...work of social psychologists Stephen Reicher and Alexander Haslam and their replication of the (in)famous Philip Zimbardo’s prison experiment. This study was later aired by the BBC as a four-part documentary entitled The Experiment. Activity 6 To explore these researchers’ links in psychology, pin all nodes associated with them. Using the links and the information...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...social injustice together: how early years practitioners and young children can respond to the climate crisis alongside non-human creatures and the material world around them...[Young child on a woodland path] If you work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about...
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