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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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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...physical reflex that can be experienced whether or not an individual is expecting it. Also, the surprise response tends to be longer than the experience of the startle reflex (Ekman et al., 1985). Startle effect: the amygdala hijack The startle reflex is an uncontrollable and automatic response to a sudden, intense stimulus (Field et al., 2015) which is accompanied by an...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...physically changing our brain structure and function. So, what is it about technology that is making many of us anxious and stressed? Here are what we think are the top 5 stressors: 1:Perpetual Distraction The persistent beeping, vibrating and flashing of notifications means that we are constantly distracted and driven to interrupt what we are doing to check our phones....
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. Cooke, C. (2023) ‘Music Education as posthumanist practices’, Presentation for Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Masters in Music Education. Cooke, C. and Saunders, C. (2023) An appreciative approach to inquiry. Available at:
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