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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...communities, communities which include their teachers as readers. One of the challenges however, as our book highlights, is teachers’ knowledge of children’s literature. When 22% of 1200 primary phase teachers cannot or do not name a single children’s poet and 24% cannot or do not name a single picture fiction creator, this represents cause for considerable concern....
Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...communication for those who want to communicate about environmental issues. What we can learn from these various examples of different kind of sounds, then, is that all sorts of sounds can powerfully convey the effects of environmental change on vulnerable landscapes like beaches. Further reading and references The audios in this article were recorded by audioBoom, as...
An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...communities en masse. When the coalition government came to power in 2010, these civil orders were amended to give local authorities even greater powers over what people do in public spaces. In particular, Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), brought in under the 2014 Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, allowed local authorities to enforce on-the-spot fines...
Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?

...community alternatives to prison time that can meet the needs of people using illicit drugs, such as residential therapeutic communities, would remove from the system a lot of people who currently are needlessly incarcerated for drug offences. A harm reduction approach would undoubtedly reduce, though not entirely remove, a number of the problems around both drug supply...
Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...communities en masse. When the coalition government came to power in 2010, these civil orders were amended to give local authorities even greater powers over what people do in public spaces. In particular, Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), brought in under the 2014 Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act, allowed local authorities to enforce on-the-spot fines...
Future of Empowerment
Society, Politics & Law

Future of Empowerment

...communities where individuals can develop themselves free from the pressures of career and job. According to author, Paul Mason, this new order will be marked by “Collaborative production, using network technology to produce goods and services that work only when they are free, or shared, defines the route beyond the market system”. Yet if recent history is any...
Introducing Geography Matters
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Geography Matters

...community, with forums and the opportunity to provide feedback, as well as helping students choose which modules they might want to study in the future. Karen also discusses Gillian’s post as Andrew Mellon Project Distinguished Scholar at the University of Pretoria, where Gillian will be researching the different ways that South African cities have been organized and...
Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...communities are among those most affected by Climate Change. As sea levels rise and forests burn, as the Arctic warms and wildlife suffers, many places and ways of living are becoming difficult or impossible. As Kyle Whyte (Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan) says, Indigenous people have had to adapt to dramatically altered...