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...skills in, building positive relationships with people who might have different life experiences and values. From this perspective, Peace might be seen as a verb, the (sometimes hard) work and effort of co-operation and communication that human beings carry out in their everyday relationships with each other. What is intercultural competence? Peace and intercultural...

...studied for decades, with research indicating a clear correlation between these three strands, often linked to the amount of reading undertaken (e.g., Wigfield and Guthrie, 1997; Hebbecker et al, 2019). Many psychological researchers, viewing reading as an individual endeavor, highlight extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Others, looking through a broader social-cultural...

...skills; my parents however, were not averse to their daughters pursuing careers. Additionally, during that era, my father emphasised that an educated woman had a much better prospect of marriage than an uneducated one. The teacher training college was located quite a distance from my immediate home so the prospect of leaving home and all my friends and family was daunting...