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Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh
History & The Arts

Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh

...class, Englishness and patriotism had reached breaking point. They contain traces of the experiences in the trenches that marked both Milne and Shepard, whose illustrations of carnage at the Somme and Paschendale were the subject of a separate recent exhibition. The pastoral paradise of Hundred Acre Wood was one that Milne, who wrote passionately in favour of pacifism,...
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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...class. For tests to work as qualifications there needs to be confidence that they are fair tests of the whole group taking them, and that they are appropriate to the subject being tested. That’s not always the case. In 2008, Key Stage 3 SATS for Year 9 were abolished, among other reasons, because of concerns over the marking system. In 2015 the Scottish Qualificiations...
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Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...class, set against a backdrop of homophobia, racism and socio-economic deprivation. Transcript Paris is Burning garnered widespread positive critical appraisal and won a Sundance Film Festival Jury prize. Its popularity was far reaching and it drew significant attention from feminist and queer scholars offering different interpretations. The legacy of the film can be...
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Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...class anxiety is huge on the Continent when it comes to kids learning English, with adults putting a lot of pressure on themselves too. Evening courses are always full. So, that’s to partly explain how we’ve come to Brexit – Europe’s historical schism. It’s also to do with soft power veering out of control. Too much attraction. Appeal gone bonkers. True, the...
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Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...class. They found that students who did less well in the tests tended to have inaccurate assessments of their own rank compared with students who performed better. Students with high ability were found to underestimate their competence, assuming that others must also find the tests easy to complete. Follow-up studies based on Dunning & Krueger’s initial findings support...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...class, ethnicity and material resources, moral judgements are sometimes required about what may be considered harmful to the less powerful, and when to intervene. But perhaps there is scope also for drawing on the work of anthropologists such as Richard Schweder, who seeks to explicate the ways in which peoples around the world respond to life’s joys, suffering and...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...hawkery: it often has little to do with clarity of communication, and everything to do with class and social positioning. Everyone makes mistakes, after all; and so Trump’s dismissive attitude to linguistic proprieties and pedantry may in fact bolster his powerful anti-elitist brand. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...class inequalities, which the Trump administration had stoked up in an effort to woo sections of the white electorate. And in many other so-called democracies we see political spaces being closed down by populist leaders who appeal to more extreme views in order to consolidate their power. The COVID-19 pandemic has played into and exacerbated many of these economic,...
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