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Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...writing of history...Changing places and re-telling stories: Battle of Thermopylae In this introductory activity, we suggest you take a look at the Hestia project map to try to understand more about how we can interpret the importance of the geography and topography at Thermopylae, site of a significant battle during the Greek and Persian Wars. This is particularly...
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...writing activity than one might typically expect if at a school, instead using more conversation and practical based learning with an emphasis on past papers, which helped them learn, analyse and understand exam technique, marking and timings. This more relaxed or informal approach was part of the reason that the system that replaced exams with TAG in 2021 did not work...
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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...writing at a table on a writing-slope. This image does identify Austen as a writer, but in distinctly amateur and even secretive mode; her face is averted, her shoulder turned to the viewer, and her arm cast protectively across her work. There is, in short, something unusually shifty about this depiction of a writer, and it is confirmed by the image of the house to the...
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...write ghost stories. Mary’s effort, Frankenstein, was penned at a time when scientists were investigating the possibility of using electrical power to regenerate corpses. Her novel concerned Victor Frankenstein’s attempt to re-animate a dead body, and the dreadful consequences of his actions. Her own life was fast becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide;...
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Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...creative uses that Syrian refugee children make of the phone camera, for example, to capture their living conditions in Pikpa camp on the island of Lesvos. They may be victims of war, but they continue actively to imagine new lives through their photography – as we have found in our research with refugees at Pikpa and captured in our book Communities of Solidarity: The...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...creatively. These and similar assessment activities support and enforce the shift that can be observed in language teaching in times of online translation tools: the emphasis of language learning shifts from the acquisition of linguistic knowledge and the emphasis on accuracy to imparting cultural awareness, use of register, and idiomatic language. References, sources and...
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Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...creative approach to architecture and design, a reputation that lives on to this day. Gropius' aims, as refined in 1923, in his text Idee und Aufbau, included the idea that workers in all the crafts should design for a better world using the idea of machine production as a stimulus. New thinking on minimalist design and creating space was pioneered by Gropius' fellow...
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Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

...educational outcomes, it is still one of the main ways human beings express their feelings and creativity. It is a universal language everybody can understand and enjoy – so there are still plenty of good reasons to teach, perform, and listen to a variety of music.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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