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A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...writing the light’. This is how we're able to share a view through a lens. Since the first photographs, the technology for keeping images seen through a lens has moved from chemical to electrical, but the questions about how we interpret images are, if anything, becoming more complex to answer. ...it has taken hundreds of years to move from seeing through a lens to...
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...writing from an educational research perspective, suggest that spirituality is innate in children. The features they identify in children's spirituality are presented by Margaret Crompton as: sensing a changed quality in awareness; sensing values, ideas about good and evil or what matters; sensing mystery, wonder and awe; sensing meaning or insight or connectedness. This...
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...writing and speaking – i.e., communicating – clearly and effectively sustain and support rewarding and productive relationships. Conflict, which may arise due to a mismatch between the short- or long-term goals of the partners, can be resolved or managed by appropriate communication mechanisms. World events of 2020/21 have severely limited face-to-face communication...
Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...writing, learning diaries). Provide exemplars, marking guidance, or previously graded assessments to help students understand what good work looks like. Explicitly show how strong assignments map onto the marking criteria (e.g. what counts as ‘analysis’?, what does ‘relevance’ look like?). Signpost when students should begin preparing for assessments, particularly...
Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...writings that show the value of personal experiences. This has given me legitimacy to draw on my South Asian Indian heritage and value the fashions that my family has worn, such as my mother’s saris, valuing Indian clothing as a legitimate source of fashion knowledge, rather being used as a superficial motif or tokenistic symbol for design appropriation. I now teach...
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...Writing in 2000, the influential Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano coined the concept of ‘coloniality of power’ in order to convey the idea that the empire building allowed Western countries to create long-lasting asymmetries of power over the rest of the world based on the idea that European cultures and races were inherently superior to non-European ones....
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...Writing a trace table Computing/ Technology Polymorphism: Object oriented programming Inheritance, loose coupling and dynamic binding, abstraction, relationships Physics Heat transfer Mathematical formalisation, equations, functions Physics Magnetism Charge distribution Coulomb’s third law Induction Charge and electric field Magnetic field Magnetic force Physics...
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...write very big or very small numbers. You'll also cover units of measurement, like kilogrammes, metres, and litres, and how they came about. This week starts with a video about bottled water consumption. It's a short, documentary-style video from the Open University, which uses numbers in a similar way to news programmes and other documentaries. I hope you'll enjoy the...