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Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...physical traits, they feel it is quite easy to change negative psychological traits (e.g., being very shy/fearful). This optimism seems to diminish by 7 to 10 years of age however, as children, like adults, come to believe that negative psychological traits are relatively difficult to change. What, then, makes children happy? In the long term, the basic ingredients that...
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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...physical difficulties that can limit what they are able to do, so that they may have to give up lifelong-loved activities. If we also begin to lose skills through cognitive difficulties, such as those associated with dementia, this can have an even more profound effect on our sense of self, as we have to ‘re-learn’ to live without being able to rely on memory or being...
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The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...University, 1992 A course designed for use by science teachers from a wide variety of backgrounds, with varying experience of teaching science. A familiarity with some basic science (perhaps physics or biology) is assumed, but little understanding of chemistry is required. The mathematical understanding needed for the course is not great. Read more articles on clothes...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...physically and socially), a rich read aloud programme, the provision of quality time for independent choice-led reading, and space and time for informal talk about texts . In the UKLA study, many of the teachers (from 27 English schools) started by conducting an audit to determine the opportunities currently on offer for children to read for pleasure and the space made...
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The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...physical labour working at speed, gutting the fish and the pay was low: ‘The normal average take home pay for a whole season was about £10 to £12 up to the beginning of the 20th century…’ Angus Macleod, Archive. In Great Yarmouth during the early 20th Century it was reported that women and girls were woken at 5am to bandage their fingers for the work ahead and...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...physical timeline. Since the early 1700s, each wave of immigrants to Arnold Circus has established their own place of worship here on Brick Lane. The building began life as a church for the French Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in the 17th century. In the late-19th century, it was converted into the Machzike Adass or Spitalfields Great Synagogue. With the...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...physical environment and the social environment together. And that form of geographical imagination, as we said earlier on, is key to bringing those things back together and that’s what we want to try and do in this module. Michael: Brilliant! Thank you. This is a second level module, part of Q99, and it hits the shelves in - ? George: In September, 2018! Michael:...
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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...physical state of being. It is not a management activity, where something is ‘done’ to employees to ‘make’ them engaged (although management is a factor that influences engagement), nor is it job satisfaction (which may contribute to or result from engagement, but is distinct). Employee engagement is much more about a two-way commitment and communication between...
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