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Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...particularly if you are interested in thinking about what participation means today, what national, supra-national and local identities mean, and how research is relevant for our everyday lives. This connects to many of the current and future modules in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, but will be of interest to those of you with other study interests as well....
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Article 5 mins
Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...Everyday food stuffs such as potatoes and apples contain water, but have you ever wondered how much? The answer may surprise you. Cucumber experiment: How to measure osmosis in a cucumber By recording what happens when you drop cucumber into salty water you'll learn about an important process called osmosis. Ice tray experiment: changing states of matter How the physical...
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Video 49 mins
Hanukkah: a festival of light
History & The Arts

Hanukkah: a festival of light

...everyday and ceremonial life were banned. A resistance movement succeeded and set about restoring local life, albeit with at least tacit recognition that the new superpower would continue to dominate the region. During the conflict Jerusalem’s temple had been desecrated. So here’s why light and oil are central to Hanukkah: in restoring the temple to its religious...
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Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...everyday life, including from the rule of law. This is a displacement driven by policy, not migration. And it is a worrying trend. [Notting Hill Carnival 2014] Notting Hill Carnival has taken place in London since 1966 and is a multi-cultural celebration Gradually removing rights While this process was certainly in motion long before, the 1971 Immigration Act marked an...
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Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...English transliteration. Listen carefully to the audio, and repeat the letters you hear. Before you move to joining letters in the next section, learning to write independent letters is highly recommended. [Described image] Figure 1 Arabic alphabet Audio 1 Table 1 Arabic letters TRANSLITERATION THE LETTER’S NAME IN ENGLISH THE LETTER’S NAME IN ARABIC THE LETTER...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...English will help you to recognise how to make OMT work for you in your own learning and teaching of a language. The third session focuses on learning grammar and practising translation and presents you with different sample activities in French, German, Spanish and English to support your learning and teaching in these areas with OMT. Session 4 draws this course to a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...English in comparison with the Welsh or Scottish. It is because of this that it has always been that much harder to pin down what it means to be ‘White’ or to be ‘English’. Interestingly, and in both cases, because they are hard to define and because both ethnic identities constitute the majority then we often find slippages in people’s descriptions where...
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Article 10 mins
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...English literature (or ‘western canon’) rather than a person who could effectively read print (see, for example, Mathieson, 1975; Williams, 1965). By the middle of the 20th century, however, the influence of psychometrics and psycholinguistics on literacy education had led to a change of emphasis from ‘becoming literate’ to a focus on teaching the technical skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs