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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...classes to Yorkshire and Derbyshire coal miners, steelworkers, railway workers, engineers and local authority manual workers. The students’ trade unions and employers arranged the courses and the students contributed by deciding on what they would learn. Many learnt by teaching one another. The notion of students as peer-teachers, supported to develop their own ideas...
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...classed with other moral virtues such as honesty, fairness, generosity or kindness. Having these moral virtues (it might be argued) implies more than just having the right impulses: it means understanding why and when these impulses are morally valuable and acting accordingly. So, on this second view, a good case can be made for the view that, while lions and boars can be...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...class of viruses, which mainly infect bats, but can also infect other species, including humans. This newly discovered virus was named SARS-CoV-2 due to its similarities with a previously identified coronavirus (SARS-COV) that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes (SARS) in the early 2000s (for more information about what a virus is see this article on...
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Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Class Stamp to commemorate the centenary of the conflict. But underneath the image, and cropped out from the stamp, is the annotation William’s mother added to the photograph that she sent in remembrance of her son to the Imperial War Museum in 1919. It begins ‘Mother’s Billie Boy’ and ends with the note ‘one of the very best’. These small annotations reveal...
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Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking
Education & Development

Why Design Education needs Black and Women of Colour Feminist Thinking

...class, race and gender, as well as disability, sexuality and others – work together to structure people's life chances. These different forms of oppressions do not operate independently, rather they are inter-related so that racism is not independent of capitalism, patriarchy is not independent of bias against people with disabilities, and so forth. Recently, design...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...class, and indeed a school, where she was the only Black member. When we played together, she shared her annoyance at the Deputy Head having referred to her as ‘coloured’. Now I was confused. I told her that mummy had said that that was the polite way to speak. She pointed out that her skin was not ‘all colours like a rainbow’, but ‘black’. At this point,...
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Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive
Education & Development

Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive

...class student might feel like they already stand out too much. Any student who feels like an outsider is likely to be wary about asking for help. That’s why any adjustments you make should be options open to every student, not just to those with a diagnosis, or who are willing to admit to finding things difficult. You never know which students will benefit from your...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...Class, And Sports Activities Of Preschool Children. Perceptual and Motor Skills: Volume 102, Issue , pp. 477-484. Ronbeck, N., F., and Vikander, N., O., (2011) ‘The role of Peers: siblings and friends in the recruitment and development of athletes’, Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis, Vol.17. Williams, H. (2011) ‘My secret life: Victoria Pendleton, Olympic...
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