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Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...in 2014, Meron Wondemaghen charts how Homeland's portrayal of Carrie Mathison's mental illness deteriorated as the series progressed...When Homeland first aired in 2011 starring a CIA agent with bipolar disorder, Carrie Mathison (played by Claire Danes), it was commended for its realistic portrayals of people with mental illness. Courtney Reyers from The National
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...write Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty in The Resilient Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy. “The vision that emerged was of care organizations actively supported and governed by the stakeholders—that is, the users of services, the families of people receiving care, the paid staff and the volunteers.” “Bureaucratic welfare services were...
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...writing letter to donor families and recipients Order of St John UK award Donor family network Organisations that provide bereavement support: Cruse bereavement support Compassionate friends supporting bereaved parents and families Child bereavement UK. Key sources NHS Blood and Transplant website The Organ donation law in parts of the UK The family remains at the centre...
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...
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....