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Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...children who don’t have access to the internet or the necessary devices for accessing this content. International development partners, with local and community leaders at their core, have taken responsibility for the development, planning and delivery of initiatives that have ensured we stick to the goal(s) even in times of adversity. Localised approaches that offer...
Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...Children’s understandings of the physical world continue to develop through adolescence and into adulthood. Even adults can continue to develop their understandings of why some things float and some sink. It’s a good topic for discussion. You will need Large bowl of water; about ten different objects – some that float, some that sink; paper and pen; child Activity...
Social care, social work and the law
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care, social work and the law

...Children and the law Three practitioners discuss detailed aspects of the law when working with children, including public and private law, children’s rights and independent services such as Childline. Race and rights These two interviews investigate both general and specific aspects of approaches to race and ethnicity, including policy from the Racial Equality...
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...children. It does this by drawing on the symbolic connection between nature and society and the dilemmas that this connection can be used to represent. Fables have survived into the modern age, although their role seems to have waned under the emergence of other storytelling media. Animals are, thus, still a feature of modern day stories (e.g. David Attenborough’s...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...Children nowadays are real tyrants … they contradict their parents … they tyrannise their teachers The Daily Post on 29 May 2013 Yobs destroy children’s scarecrows in ‘mindless wrecking rampage’ Sir Keith Joseph Member of Parliament (MP) in 1977 For the first time since … Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police, areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for...
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...research into migration and belonging...[Munich panorama] Migration was one of the most heatedly debated issues throughout the EU referendum campaign. In the months leading up to Brexit, European and non-European migrants alike were repeatedly named and shamed. In the aftermath, they report experiencing a mixture of anxiety, fear and shock. The Leave campaign drew...
An introduction to grammar
Languages

An introduction to grammar

...get things done? This video looks at how a functional approach to grammar can help us to understand professional practice in a range of contexts, for example call centres, education, journalism and subtitling. It also looks at how computer software can be used to analyse language in context in the real world. Find out more about the course: Exploring English Grammar...
Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers

...centres around an eight-sided diagram called bā guà. Bā guà was designed by Chinese philosophers about 5,000 years ago, in which the eight elements represent constant changes in the universe. There are eight diagrams in bā guà representing eight related concepts, such as heaven, lake, fire, water. At the centre of bā guà is the yin and the yang symbol. The bā...