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The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja
Society, Politics & Law

The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja

...writing on the CONIFA tournament is in press, but a documentary I made The other World Cup: Football Across Borders was released last year and shown at the inaugural Football Collective conference. The film culminates in the 2016 World Football Cup, hosted and won by Abkhazia, a self-declared independent territory, considered by the UN to be a part of Georgia. It examines...
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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...writes: “These efforts were relatively short-lived, and many IOCs have subsequently pulled out of such ventures.” Limiting emissions There are doubts over whether the oil companies have the necessary technical and managerial skills to operate successfully in what is rapidly becoming a decentralised energy system. The IOCs also find themselves burdened with “stranded...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...write and have been expelled or truanted from school; were unemployed or on benefits before imprisonment, and have multiple and often serious mental health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at meeting human need and addressing the...
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
Languages

What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...writes blogger Mehak Anwar, ‘they are, after all, silly little characters that look more or less like cartoons’. Although the use of emoji now extends into all domains of life, from politics to education, for many they’re still associated with a type of expression which is light-hearted, even childish. And this association colours the meaning they have in all...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the...
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Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...writing and his buildings, he is the main player in the Modernist story, his visions of homes and cities as innovative as they are influential. Many of his ideas on urban living became the blueprint for post-war reconstruction, and the many failures of his would-be imitators led to Le Corbusier being blamed for the problems of western cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Like...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...write down the story that described their drawing. The group then put their drawings together, deciding themselves what order the collection should follow, which facilitated a group discussion about how their stories and experiences were similar or different. [Stories from Child Language Brokering as described in the text] [Stories from Child Language Brokering as...
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Is being a student good for your mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is being a student good for your mental health?

...writing to all University Vice-Chancellors in the UK telling them that he expected them to make students’ mental health a key priority. So why should students be particularly vulnerable to mental health problems? Seemingly students should be able to feel good about themselves as they have achieved a place at university and have access to all the social and educational...
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