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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...accounts to share information about specific crimes within local communities. The reporting of crimes through journalism are also shared through different media including local and national news channels, news sites and through social media. Information shared through different media can shape how the public understand and perceive crimes, criminals and families of...
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Article 5 mins
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...accountability for the use of force by police. Ultimately, we need to move away from an 'us' and 'them' orientation ... and work towards building bridges and increasing communication between the public and the policeUltimately, we need to move away from an ‘us’ and ‘them’ orientation (whether from a police or community position) and work towards building bridges...
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Article 10 mins
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...accounts of the past. This free course, Historical perspectives on race, will introduce you to ideas and scholarship dealing with the construction of race, and help you to start exploring people’s lived experiences of race through a set of case studies from the late eighteenth century onwards...Race is not biological. It is a social construction. Yet we know that in our...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...account of this in your planning and in your teaching...This free course, Secondary learning, will identify and explore some of the key issues around learning and teaching in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your practice as a secondary teacher and develop a greater awareness of how students learn...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...accounts for notorious accounts through history of those who ‘came back from the dead’. As a corollary, those who were fearful of being buried alive were spurred on to develop ‘safety coffins’ equipped with feeding tubes and bells. As recently as 2011, a council in the Malatya province of central Turkey announced it had built a morgue with a warning system and...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...account for the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Another teacher might emphasise that the particle theory is a model of what matter is like, drawing attention to the way in which this idea developed and how it relates to evidence. Reiss (2002, p. 43) gives the popular view of science as consisting of: a body of knowledge about the world. The facts that comprise...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...accountant got very agitated and asked him to consider very carefully what he was offering! What was he worried about? Answer In order to decide if the king was being exceptionally generous, you need to look at exactly what he was proposing. In the beginning the numbers are quite small, 2 bags of rice in the first week, 4 bags in the second, then 8 in the third, 16 in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...accounts in the media of why they doped. However, researchers are trying to investigate this in detail (e.g., Underwood, van de Ven and Dunn, 2021). It is often the contrast between the two channels of knowledge (i.e., media accounts and research) that brings a contemporary issue to life, creating debate and public dialogue including social media discussion. There is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs