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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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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
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...account of the pupil’s subjective world – that world where her particular aesthetic projects are conceived and her unique aesthetic judgements are made. (Ross and Mitchell, 1993, p. 100) In other words, an important part of assessment is to ascertain what it is that the pupil is trying to achieve and express; ‘teachers and young people should sit down together in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...account with sadness. I am not in the ordinary sense a biographer. I cannot set down a critical estimate, a cold, dispassionate summing-up of a man I loved; but I can write of a few things that happened when I was a little girl, and when he used to say to me that I was "his little girl." The gracious presence of Lewis Carroll is with us no longer. Never again will his...
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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...Accounts have been unable to be finally and completely audited and approved because they are in such disarray and the rot goes deeper still. Most decent people, regardless of their politics, want to help those in need, especially those fallen on hard times through no fault of their own, the widowed, the orphaned, the disabled. The objection to the Social Security System...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...accounts in the social policy context of two particular historical moments – the decade following 1933 and the period between 1991 and 2003. During this latter period ‘asylum’ was constructed by successive UK governments as a ‘political crisis’ in the context of a ‘crisis’ of the UK welfare state, a drive towards a common European asylum policy (Bloch and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs