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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...English, but also Mathematics and Science subjects (Whitten et al., 2016). [A girl in school uniform sat at a classroom table reading a book.] Reading for Pleasure is also a tool for social justice and is recognised as a stronger indicator of future educational attainment than socio-economic status (OECD, 2021). Research has found that reading to 4–5-year-olds regularly...
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...English attitudes to the landscape of Wales in the 1760s with the development of the Romantic movement. This extract is from Programme 6, Love and learning, of the BBC Radio Wales Millennium History series, The People of Wales (1999). Audio 10 (duration 1:55)...Welsh history and its sources: 3.7.1 Welsh nonconformity - Neil Evans discusses Nonconformist religion in...
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An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...English as a second language, or special educational needs. You also need to be aware of the makeup of your school in terms of things like ethnicity, gender, and prior attainment. Once you've spent some time discovering your school community, it's important to find out about the school's mission statement and development plan, which are usually on the school website,...
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...English Literatures. Peter Lang, 2001. Rieder, John. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2008. Sleigh, Charlotte. Literature and Science. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. 1979. Edited by Gerry Canavan, Peter Lang, 2016. Ralahine Utopian Studies 18....
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...English Health Authority 11% of one parent families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading exercise would mean that the...
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...English sport governance’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, pp. 1–17. doi: 10.1177/1012690219865980. Sport England (2019a) Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, Academic Year 2018/19. Available at:
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...English secondary schools. Grant number: ES/V016989/1. The project was led by Professor Jacqueline Baxter, with thanks to Dr Katharine Jewitt, Research Associate, for her work on the course. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...English, the Scottish and so on, as well as people who were skilled workers, unskilled workers, people in very precarious forms of employment. And those divisions have always existed to be exploited and, from the 1980s onwards, many of those internal divisions widened for various reasons, not least because of deindustrialisation, consigning many traditional industrial...