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Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!
Education & Development

Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!

...Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and as a paperback. This means you can use it in your own teaching and practice and share it (just make sure to name drop it and, if you’re feeling generous, let us know!). And if that whets your appetite for playful pedagogues posing preposterous questions then you should listen to more at...
How to celebrate Halloween with young children
Education & Development

How to celebrate Halloween with young children

...creativity. Some ways to enhance these elements are through thinking about costumes, decorations and making the most of daytime activities. When it comes to costumes, encourage children to think about fun, imaginative ideas, such as superheroes, animals, or characters from books. Talk about the idea that costumes are only pretend, and that behind the mask or under the hat...
Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...risk, alongside drug use, smoking, drinking and unprotected sex. Then it becomes clear: the way to respond to stabbing deaths among young people is to improve their life chances and opportunities, by investing in education, health and welfare services for all. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...O'Dell, Professor of critical developmental psychology, The Open University; Charlotte Brownlow, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, and Sandra Thom-Jones, Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...creativity that we can equate with, the sort of creative freedom of Romanticism, particularly the works that he did without a commission. I think it's important to make that distinction in Goya's career. After an illness in 1793, he worked on a small series of cabinet paintings - a variety of subjects - he delivered these to the Royal Academy, so that they could be seen...
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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...creatively about inclusion. There are at least three reasons for that. One is that in high school, you have a wide range of classes offered. In elementary school, this isn't true. Everyone does the same thing. And there's one kind of math to take. In high school, you have to take advantage of the entire catalog. You have to look across grade levels. You have to be...
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...writing up their voyages for publication. These accounts are a fascinating example of extreme travel writing, of efforts to communicate an utterly new experience to the reader. Lunardi published volumes of letters; as Clare Brant has pointed out, the conventions of the epistolatory form invited readers to relive the sensations of the author in their imagination. Thomas...
Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...writing) is the EU’s threat to quarantine Greece by suspending it from the Schengen travel zone. The political effect of such barriers is by and large symbolic, aimed more at reassuring domestic audiences than actually plugging security or halting the flow of migrants. But they do achieve one thing: they make it difficult for people to reach, not Europe’s shores, but...