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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...adults of various ages, genders and backgrounds their ideas about what ease and difficulty imply. We then asked about 200 of them to perform a complicated cognitive task in which some items were relatively easy to solve and others were quite difficult. We found that the people who performed better on the task were the ones who felt that difficult does not mean impossible...
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Article 5 mins
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...adult human being, these chromosomes are replicated and equally partitioned between each cell, so that each cell of the adult individual has the same set of chromosomes, the same set of genes - two sets of chromosomes, two copies of each gene. Along the length of DNA in each chromosome are these units called genes, which is why DNA is referred to as the genetic material....
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Article 10 mins
Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...caring is so habitual, that we often fail to recognise it, even when it’s right in front of our eyes. Our love for some animals even seems to excuse us from complicity in industrialised killing: In a previous KFC TV advertising campaign, pairs of friends undertake the ‘KFC Friendship Bucket Test’: one has to answer a question about their friend, and match their...
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Article 5 mins
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...cared for by parents who are very erratic in their pattern of child care. The same child will be well suited to parents who are more regular in their routines of eating and sleeping. This suggests that the impact of temperament on development has to be analysed as an interaction between the child’s characteristics and features of the environment including parenting....
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Article 15 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...careful monitoring of this, evaluate its impact on young people’s desire to read. This article, which explores reading motivation and self-determination theory, also considers classroom consequences linked to supporting all readers, but particularly those who Moss (2000) coined as ‘can but don’t read’ pupils – the disengaged. But first let’s turn to our goals...
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Article 5 mins
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...care and education are closely linked. Parental and carer participation has also been enabled by specific educational legislation that gives parents and carers a greater voice as ‘consumers’ of a public service. Working on an equal footing with parents and carers is important, as is the understanding that neither a practitioner nor the parent/carer is seen as...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...care whether our favourite food and drink is lovingly crafted by the friendly people who run that small but perfectly formed local enterprise? Are sell-offs always a death-knell to independence, in which distinctive products and services are reduced to brand identity, mass-produced and ultimately undermined by the distorted commercial logics of a remote and unaccountable...
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Article 5 mins
What does the Queen's Speech tell us about the next two years?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the Queen's Speech tell us about the next two years?

...care funding reforms to grammar schools. Some have gone as far as suggesting that a “zombie parliament” lies ahead, in which no significant legislation is passed before a new election takes place. Negotiations with the DUP have dragged on for much longer than expected, leaving May without a firm commitment from the smaller party to prop up her minority government. And...
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