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Investigating Psychology Interactive
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating Psychology Interactive

...social, conceptual and historical changes; the development and application of different perspectives and methods; and through chains of influence between researchers. Note 1: some information given here about Hans Asperger and Asperger syndrome is now out of date. You can find more current information in Week 1 of our badged course Understanding autism. Note 2: the dates...
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Activity 15 mins
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...social unrest here in London in the autumn. But I don't really know anything about it because I know nothing of and I am not interested in politics. That was written in 1931. Even when he goes to Wigan in 1936, and he begins-- he will write that Mr. So-and-so who I met, he said, is active in the labour movement, and it's almost anthropological. Orwell doesn't really know...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...social movement gaining widespread popular support. A Facebook live video of the 6th of June Corbyn election event in Birmingham featuring the comic actor Steve Coogan and the dance act Clean Bandit was watched an astonishing 2.3 million times by the time polls closed. The aggressive use of feel-good videos, policy explainers, and shareable media helped drive forward the...
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Article 5 mins
Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...socialism. It was this question above all others which led to a major and irreversible split within one of the most important of the women's suffrage organisations, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU, commonly know as the Suffragettes, founded in 1903). This split mirrored the ideological rift with her mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel, the founders...
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Article 10 mins
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...social media. Alternatively, they may get really interested in a subject at school or have a hobby that they want to turn into a career. Other goals may include travelling, setting up a small business or starting a relationship. Whatever their personal interests, having aspirations gives them a direction for their future lives. [Young people watching the waterfront view...
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Article 5 mins
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...social, political and economic pressures. These social, political and economic processes created administrations which brought together competing interests and loyalties. The mix of priorities and interests meant that the focus of these processes was often not primarily upon what we might now think of as educational targets. [A stick figure carrying a plate of large boxes...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...social media channels: Twitter, Facebook or Instagram . About the project [Laura Hampton ] The project will tell herstories of twentieth-century migrant women entrepreneurs by comparing their presence in the latest available 2011 Census to that of 1911. Six public engagement activities aim to uncover the legacies of migrant women entrepreneurs in Britain, and demonstrate...
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Article 5 mins
Reading communities
Education & Development

Reading communities

...social spaces that encouraged choice, parental and library involvement and child ownership of their RfP Make strong connections between children’s home and school reading worlds Foster children’s autonomy as readers who can exercise discrimination within and beyond school Build new and more equal reading relationships with families and community members. In this film...
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Video 30 mins