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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...adult education system, and Wilfred Clark (1898-1981), who founded the British Wheel of Yoga, have legacies which are much easier to document. Why British women embraced yoga But the significance of these two women in inspiring other women should not be underestimated. Women quickly became the majority of both students and teachers of yoga in Britain, comprising of 70-90%...
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What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...adults capable of making up their own minds seems in stark contrast with the authoritarian tone of publicity from the Department of Health, which baldly says “Men should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol each week, the same as women”. Neither the press release nor the Summary of the guidelines provide any information on the effects of higher consumption, but...
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Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...adults to help protect their rights under the Care Act (HM Government, 2014) and the Children Act (HM Government, 2004). In terms of their protection, this means that there is a collective responsibility to share information about criminal activity or circumstances which appear to threaten a minor or vulnerable adult’s safety or wellbeing, if this is disclosed. This...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...adult) geographic knowledge'. View document Read David Lambert on 'The power and relevance of geography in education' by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Read Alastair Bonnet's 'Geography as the world discipline: connecting popular and academic geographical imaginations' by clicking 'view document'. View document But to argue that teaching geography can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...care much about material wellbeing, are great goods. And the cheapest way to deliver that is through coal which means that if you think it is right these people get richer in every sense of the word, which I think is right, then you would have to accept that they will emit more greenhouse gases. I mean the solution there is not to deny them access to energy as DFID at the...
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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...adults or young people to tell you what ‘learning geography’ involves what do you think they would say? Many people see geography as a subject concerned with remembering the names of places and landforms, and learning about human and physical processes responsible for the world around us. There is a common perception that geographers learn ‘the facts’, present...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...care. In the November 2013 PISA International tests taken by 15-year olds, Shanghai in China topped the table and Hong Kong came third. However, Shanghai and Hong Kong are affluent cities and make up only a small proportion of China’s population. Are they representative of secondary schooling in China as a whole? Does a test result like that really mean that all UK...
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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...have been duped not only by what they have been sold but also by their own naivety. I also wonder how many of ALM’s members have told their children to be careful about what websites they sign up to or reveal on social media, as nothing is private on the web.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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