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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...centre extension. For a few years, it even boasted its own subcultural tribe, known locally as the Treebos, a loose collection of punks and goths who made it their base. Even then it was becoming an excruciatingly slow victim of poorly designed commercial drainage. Together, the cows and the Midsummer Place Intu shopping centre extension they were placed in, look like all...
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Video 25 mins
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

...children may well have been shielded and protected from. J.K. Rowling’s books do the very opposite. They are imbued with death, indeed, the very type of deaths which the reader would not expect to experience. The reader lives in a world where they might expect to live into old age and hope to die in their beds. In the world of Harry Potter, deaths are violent and often...
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Article 10 mins
Get in touch
Education & Development

Get in touch

...children’s development and those targeted at familial learning, topics or specific initiatives relevant to learning within and across formal schooling. The resources are offered at different learning levels, suitable for anyone receiving or facilitating home education, including those who work with home-educating families. While we can’t guarantee that there is...
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An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...Centre for Social Research. Available at: https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/ media/ 39363/ bsa_36.pdf (Accessed: 14 April 2022). Dent, K. (2021) ‘Jewish speaker: Meet John and hear him talk about his Jewish faith’, Faith and Belief Forum. Available at: https://faithbeliefforum.org/ aiovg_videos/ jewish-speaker-meet-john-and-hear-him-talk-about-his-jewish-faith/ (Accessed:...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The German language zone
Languages

The German language zone

...children about the city of Berlin and important historical events. Download the Borders:1 tasks and ideas pdf Borders:2 Berlin.de on Checkpoint Charlie Berlin.de provides a lot of information on a wide range of topics relating to Berlin. The particular link here leads to a web page which focuses on the former border crossing “Checkpoint Charlie” in Berlin. Download...
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Activity 5 mins
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...research methods in social sciences...In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Swallows and Amazons
History & The Arts

Swallows and Amazons

...children and the books behind Swallows and Amazons...Explore Swallows and Amazons with exclusive videos and activities. First published in 1930 Swallows and Amazons recounts the adventures of the Walker and Blackett children and their idyllic summer holiday camping and sailing in an imaginary Lake District landscape; encountering pirates and finding buried treasure. From...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Children do better if their parents have higher incomes and more education themselves, and they do better if they come from homes where they have a place to study, where there are reference books and newspapers, and where education is valued. (Wilson and Pickett, 2010, p. 105)...Exploring equality and equity in education: 3 An example of the construction of inequality -...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs