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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...centrality of race and racism in society such that racism is endemic and ‘normalised’ (Delgado and Stefancic, 2001; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Gillborn, 2008), and the very ‘ordinariness makes racism hard to recognize much less address' (Delgado and Stefancic, 2007). CRT emphasises how political, social, and economic arrangements are structured by racial hierarchy...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...central motifs of any conspiracy theory! Look again… One possible reason why the psychology of conspiracy theories produced so few meaningful results is that researchers have been approaching this phenomenon in the wrong way. They have tended to see conspiracy theories first and foremost as individual beliefs, thereby reducing them to events that are going on inside a...
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Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
History & The Arts

Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing

...centrality of the abortion plotline in Dirty Dancing and its depiction of class conflict remain groundbreaking and noteworthy even today. Deconstructing Dirty Dancing attempts to unpack the film and reveal the reasons for its longevity. Stephen Lee Naish sets out to prove that Dirty Dancing, ostensibly about the romance between Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a middle-class...
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The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...central government assembly to a quarter, rather than a guaranteed ‘weightage’ of a third as demanded by Muslim political organisations. 1930-1933 Gandhi launches further all-India Civil Disobedience campaigns, now based on the demand for purna swaraj (full independence from British rule). This time Muslim participation is very low compared to 1919-22, with the...
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Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...central circle with the words ‘What do we mean by inquiry? A positive core’. four further circles appear, each linked to the positive core. The top one has the words ‘Immersing. Discovering’, the second to the right has ‘Imagining. Dreaming’, the third to the bottom has ‘Innovating, Designing’, and the fourth to the left has ‘Reimmersing’ with the...
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Moons of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of the Solar System

...central role in our exploration of the planets. For an introductory astronomy course, try The Open University course S194 Introducing astronomy... Europa The quest to find life elsewhere in the universe is biggest in modern science. An ice covered ocean on a small world orbiting Jupiter may hold the answers to this fundamental question. Archive footage appears courtesy of...
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Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...central to postgraduate study and will encourage you to think critically about how to apply your learning to your own context. [A word cloud from some students when studying the Masters in Education programme.] Keywords students identified when thinking about their experience of Personal Development Planning (PDP) when studying on the Masters in Education programme. If...
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Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute

...central Glasgow in early September 2022. In a wide-ranging discussion, Lyn-Marie talks about her own involvement in trade unionism in Glasgow, the background to the Glasgow Equal Pay Dispute and the key aspects of the struggle with the City Council. She also reflects on the significance of the strike for women workers in Glasgow and beyond: [bb]Striking Glasgow Council...
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