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How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...studied, such as government documents, private letters, newspaper reports, diaries, eye-witness accounts and so on. As an example, let’s look at some primary source material from the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. In Manchester on the morning of August 16th, 1819, a peaceful mass meeting was called by pro-democracy and anti-poverty protesters to demand the vote. The speaker...
Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees

...studying more than one subject and the future forward for learning...[A girl with glasses looking at a number of books] If you are studying more than one subject as part of your qualification, there is an exciting opportunity to find ways in which those subjects intersect and influence each other. The academic environment is a setting where the pursuit of knowledge is...
A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...studies and a substantial number of their supporters. The hashtag #BelieveBlackWomen was a theme across all of the case studies. This is related to tone policing in that if one ignores the existence of racial injustice, one may also disregard the resulting rage. It is also related to white centring in that it is possible to reject racial injustice with alternate reasons,...
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...studying this course, you will be able to: understand the differences between tutoring and mentoring in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) consider the similarities and differences between tutoring and mentoring pedagogy develop a range of strategies for supporting beginner teachers...Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers: 1 What is the difference? - The...
Surviving the winter
Nature & Environment

Surviving the winter

...study one aspect of the fluctuating nature of an organisms environment. We consider how organisms living in a temperate climate, such as that in Britain, are adapted to cope with winter. You will see that there is much diversity of adaptations among organisms, with different species coping with the demands of a fluctuating environment in quite different ways. As cyclic...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...skills as well as your measurement knowledge. That completes the study for this week, except for this week’s quiz...Week 1: Measurement of length: 7 This week's quiz - Go to: Week 1 practice quiz. Open the quiz in a new tab or window (by holding ctrl [or cmd on a Mac] when you click the link)...Week 1: Measurement of length: 8 Summary - Congratulations for making it to...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Scale your business with the Eagle Labs Academy
Money & Business

Scale your business with the Eagle Labs Academy

...skills, or you're at the exciting stage of raising capital. Eagle Labs Academy can help with all of this and more. It is free, you don’t have to be a Barclays customer and it’s available to all founders and their team to register for. Eagle Labs has partnered with experts across the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem who have contributed content and inspirational...
TESSA: Dealing with Sensitive Issues
Education & Development

TESSA: Dealing with Sensitive Issues

...skills to cope with difficult situations. In these short dramas teachers encounter a number of incidents: 'Aduja’s Predicament'– potential abuse; 'The Notorious Fighter' - an aggressive pupil; and 'The Chase and Where do Babies' come from - misunderstandings and classroom myths. Each drama poses a dilemma for the listener to discuss... TESSA - Where Do Babies come...