1,457 search results
Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...concept of ‘light for size’, recognising another important aspect is the shape of the object. At some point, children realise that there are different sorts of floating. If you used a CD or managed to float a needle, for example, you probably found the idea that ‘it stays down once it’s sunk’ is different from ‘it comes up again if it’s pushed down’....
View activity Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Activity 10 mins
Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin

...concept of my theory lies in the fact that although most offspring are very similar to their parents, they are not identical and there is always variation. Some of these variations are caused by mutations, and when these mutations turn out to be beneficial to their survival, it makes the offspring more likely to reproduce and these mutations to be passed on. It has...
View article Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
Article 5 mins
The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...concept of the city was central to both the Roman and the Greek sense of identity...[A castle on the Tiber] Virgil’s story of the Roman people started with the fall of a Greek city, Troy, and reaches its narrative climax with the foundation of another city, Rome. This was only one of a number of quasi-mythical explanations of Rome’s foundation, but when Romans...
View article The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
Article 5 mins
Writing for pleasure?
Education & Development

Writing for pleasure?

...conceptions of writing so heavily framed by the Government’s criteria for writing at the ‘expected standard’ that the voice and verve of the young and their personal engagement in writing is being sidelined? As children across the country endure tests and seek to name and label modal verbs and demonstrate that they can separate their subordinating conjunctions from...
View article Writing for pleasure?
Article 10 mins
Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics

...concepts before they become sanitised in textbooks; they witness mathematical practitioners with whom they can identify and perhaps take as role models; they are exposed to the many places outside of universities where mathematics was and is developed; and they will gain a greater understanding of the cultural influences which have affected who is granted access to...
View video Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
Video 10 mins
Carnival and the performance of heritage
History & The Arts

Carnival and the performance of heritage

...Course AD281: Understanding global heritage. Global heritage: case studies Dr Rodney Harrison talks about the audio and video case studies that are integral to the course AD281: Understanding global heritage. Critical heritage studies Dr Rodney Harrison, course chair of the course AD281 Understanding global heritage, explains the concept of critical heritage studies....
View audio Carnival and the performance of heritage
Audio 1 hr 48 mins
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...concepts of ‘acts of citizenship’ and ‘activist citizenship’ explain why European citizenship is said to be ‘derivative’ citizenship discuss the limits around thinking of citizenship as a status, and of thinking of citizenship from the perspective of those who already hold it understand how citizenship can be seen differently by asking ‘how do people do...
View course Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...concept: "Fauxpen," which is defined as "a description of software that claims to be open source, but lacks the full freedoms required by the Open Source Definition. Sadly, this is the negative impact of open source software's success. I'm seeing more and more companies, undertaking more and more egregious marketing and promotion schemes that exaggerate their...
View article What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Article 5 mins