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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...education. Safety campaigns can only work if people think the messaging is relevant to them and choose to change their behaviour. But psychological research shows that many people are overconfident in their driving abilities and think it’s ‘normal’ to drive recklessly and break road laws. The number of people who are killed or seriously injured on UK roads has...
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Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...education (display boards) or team breaks. It also showcased the benefits of bereavement suite spaces for babies, children and young people of all ages. When accessing the mortuary, the team highlighted how the presence of objects like industrial dustbins, plain tarpaulin used on concealment trolleys, and selection (or absence) of wall art can have a negative impact on...
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Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...education should be: the point of education, on this view, is not just to tell people facts, but to teach them how to think for themselves and to subject their own views to critical scrutiny. Socrates denied he was a teacher: but some would argue that he is just what a teacher should be. Finally, Socrates’ life – and more importantly, his death – have been taken as...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...education’, in Dyson, S. and McCallister, M. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Nurse Education. UK: Routledge. Statista (2019) Global active usage penetration of leading social networks as of February 2019. Available at: www.statista.com/statistics/274773/global-penetration-of-selected-social-media-sites/ (Accessed 22 January 2022). Now take a decision-making...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...educational, health and economic outcomes and experiences vary a great deal in the US and England and Wales based on race. However, they are also based on the intersection of multiple identities and social characterisations (class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ability/disability) that confer different experiences of advantage/disadvantage,...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...education?...Why teach art?: 3. Responding to criticisms - A government minister and a school governor made the following comments, respectively: ‘Art is the icing on the cake.’ ‘We have children here who can't even speak English properly – they should be doing more of that instead of leisure subjects like art.’ Both of these are, as you may appreciate,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...education in 18th Century Britain and America...John Cannon, a teenaged agricultural laborer, bought a book called Aristotle’s Masterpiece for a shilling in 1700. He usually read chapbooks like Fortunatus and Dr Faustus, but he bought the Masterpiece in order to “pry into the Secrets of Nature especially of the female sex” — to find out about sex. What he learned...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...educators, who are readers in their personal lives and teachers of reading in their professional lives, constantly reflect on reading and being a reader in order to enrich their provision and more effectively nurture recreational reading (Cremin et al., 2022). However, even for Reading Teachers, motivating disengaged readers is not easy. Some of these young people will...
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