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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...community projects, in schools and with Volunteer Police Cadets – but we found that too frequently these initiatives were the result of the enthusiasm of a handful of staff, and practice was not widespread, leading to a ‘postcode lottery’ effect. (All Party Parliamentary Group for Children, 2014, p. 2) The key implication of this is that first impressions count. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...community – that means contributing to that network and making it work for us and using it as a filter. I don’t often read lots of blogs because I know that if something interesting is coming out then my social network will act as a filter and surface it for me. My fourth one is reciprocity. When I was writing my previous book before the creative commons version one,...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...communicate denial of climate change and increasingly helping people with the anxiety and distress experienced when faced with the seriousness of the climate crisis. On the Climate Psychology Alliance website, this is how their work is described: Climate Psychology is concerned with the emotions and the social and mental processes that have contributed to the ecological...
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Article 5 mins
What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?
Nature & Environment

What is aquaponics - and how can fish poo help feed the world?

...communities more resilient – all without creating pollution or using scarce resources, such as oil. [Trout fry in a tank] These trout fry could help provide the fertilizer to make chips... It begins with fish poo and pee, both of which contain lots of ammonia. Worms that live in rooting substrates break the solids down and then bacteria convert the ammonia into nitrate,...
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Article 5 mins
Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...community, Sin Dee Reel (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor). The reception has so far been overwhelmingly positive. [A still from the movie Tangerine] A still from Tangerine Tangerine follows in the wake of an upsurge in transgender programming in recent years, the quantity of which has resulted in some commentators asking whether there are too many. These...
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Article 5 mins
Intergenerational perceptions: Busting age-related stereotypes
Education & Development

Intergenerational perceptions: Busting age-related stereotypes

...communicate their view on a whole group of people belonging to a certain category. However, stereotypes do seem to play an important role in shaping attitudes and potentially norms. The features of the Old School Project we are interested in at the OU are related to intergenerational perceptions. We are keen to explore how perceptions and stereotypes influence the...
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Video 20 mins
Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest
Languages

Language variety all but disappears from the Eurovision song contest

...communication Apple app. However, as it appears spelt as two separate words the song was allowed without the need for a lyric change. A bigger controversy for the contest this year has been caused by the Ukrainian entry. The song is called 1944 and is sung by Jamala, a Crimean Tatar. The lyrics reference Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean ethnic Tatar population, which...
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Article 10 mins
What will Donald Trump do for the environment?
Nature & Environment

What will Donald Trump do for the environment?

...community is particularly concerned by Trump’s anti-climate and broader anti-environmental stance during his presidential campaign. Trump’s more extreme campaign statements may not eventuate. But there will most likely be substantive changes in how the United States engages with the world on environmental, and many other, issues. Yet the environmental movement must...
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Article 5 mins