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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...English Riots in the Daily Express Using Moral Panic Theory’, Sociological Research Online, 20(4), pp. 1–10. Olver, K. & Cockbain, E. (2021) ‘Professionals’ Views on Responding to County Lines-Related Criminal Exploitation in the West Midlands, UK’, Child Abuse Review, doi: 10.1002/car.2704 Payne, M. (2009) ‘Modern youth work: purity or common cause?’, in...
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...English essay his teacher would later describe as among the best he had read, police knocked at the door of the family home in Meldreth, a village ten miles south of Cambridge. Steve Mallen was at home, alone. “You become painfully aware that something appalling has happened,” he recalls. “You go through the description, they offer commiserations and a booklet, and...
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...English National Curriculum KS3 test questions, which suggests some potential lack of fairness in testing regimes. It is likely that these issues raised by Cooper’s research relating to assessment apply to all testing regimes. Consider the implications from this (and other) research, which shows that poorer children: … go into lower sets … … so they are entered...
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...English speaking adults, followed by a short dharma talk. After that, meditation will take place. Beginners will be instructed and guided. Advanced meditators will be practising on their own. We call it a day retreat. We just meditate on your own, no instruction, we just do whatever meditation you prefer. Mainly, they want a bit of fresh air, the meditators can go to that...
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...English towns and cities, including London, causing casualties and, of course, instilling fear. It is clear that the killing of innocent civilians had a profound impact on public attitudes in Britain. The bombing of the school in East London provided further evidence for many of Germany’s barbaric aggression, as the following extract from The Times indicates: A hard...
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...English ‘theatre’), a term which expresses their responsibility to watch the festival events on behalf of their community. As well as witnessing the festival, theoroi liaised with local leaders, represented their state in the official procession and sacrifice, and carried out a further sacrifice on behalf of their community. They also looked after the interests of...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...English riots of 2011 and reflect on whether the comparison at stake is between types of behaviour or types of people. ‘An excessive sense of entitlement’ was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself. In the mid-to-late 80s, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – not to...
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...English. But when it originally appeared in 1739 it had, in Hume's words, ‘fallen dead-born from the press’ (Hume, 1962, p. 305). Hume attributed this lack of commercial success to an overly academic style, and set about publishing a more reader-friendly version in the form of two Enquiries in 1748 and 1751 (Hume, 1975). He dithered over whether or not to include some...
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