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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...
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....
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,...
OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old
Education & Development

OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old

...class education, helping you to meet your professional and personal goals. With tuition fee loans, financial support, and pay as you go options available, studying with The Open University is a lot more affordable than you might think. Find out more Fel darparydd mwyaf astudiaeth ran amser prifysgol yng Nghymru, mae’r Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru yn cynnig dewis eang o...
Centreless grinding
Science, Maths & Technology

Centreless grinding

...finishing operations. Tolerances: Parameter Production (mm) Precision (mm) Diameter ±0.0025 ±0.00065 Parallelism ±0.0025 ±0.00065 Roundness ±0.0003 - Concentricity of stepped diameter ±0.0065 ±0.0025 Precision tolerances are far more costly to hold since they require first class machinery, wheels and operating procedures. See Also: Grinding and Creep feed grinding....
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...team’s research has an explicit focus on how ethnicity, gender and social class intersect in producing educational disadvantage. In examining teachers’ perceptions and practices as well as children’s own experiences of reading pedagogy, the team hope to offer more nuanced understandings of disengagement and suggest possible ways forward with long term goals in mind....
Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...class and social privilege. How ‘ordinary’ dying could be problematic Recognising this, we are now also in a better position to reflect on the implications of claiming that the Queen’s death is ‘ordinary,’ or that it could teach people how to die more like her, has for how we approach inequalities in society and palliative and end of life care. There is much to...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...class, race or gender. Key, in this regard, is preventing private actors from unduly influencing the government and its institutions to their own advantage. Corruption in the form of “kickbacks”, are therefore illegal and heavily regulated. However, many fear that through sponsorship corporations may be legally violating this principle of government neutrality. In an...