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Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!
Education & Development

Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!

...Communities of Practice, linked to pop culture by Oliver and Carr (2003) by way of World of Warcraft. The narrative has continued ever since. Pedagodzilla is the story of Mike’s journey to learning more about pedagogy and Mark’s opportunity to offload his pent-up geekiness. Regular guest, Professor Rebecca Ferguson (The Open University), became the third ‘Zilla’...
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Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...communities which used to be a common sight but are now rare, for example what level of water and nutrients do they need/can they withstand. Floodplain meadows are of course subject to occasional flooding indeed they act as flood protection areas for cities such as Oxford, we know these high biodiversity plant communities can withstand a certain amount of winter flooding...
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Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...communities both positively and negatively...Exploring evidence-based policing: 1 Evidence-based practices - Over time, both organisations and people develop typical ways of doing of things. For organisations, this can often be referred as the culture – ‘the way we do things around here’ as Deal & Kennedy (1982) put it. This can include both spoken and unspoken...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...community, many of whose members were writers. Robert Browning was Lee’s favourite nineteenth-century British poet, and she read through all of his poems immediately after his death in December 1889. Who were the other prominent members of this literary community in the nineteenth century, and did they read one another’s works? Activity 2 We can start to investigate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...communities, living in a state of economic emergency. Woman And if you go down the Whitehouse Road, there’s the Whitehouse Road into Price Centre now, which fourteen year ago, used to be the abattoir but now it's…. Bea Campbell Tyneside is typical. An industrial icon, laid to waste, abandoned by the government and by business. One of its pauperised communities is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...community, there are forums on there, especially where you can ask for advice if there’s something you’re not sure about. You can put a question on there, sometimes with the resources I’ve uploaded instead of writing a comment underneath them people that have used them have sent me a private message over TES. We’ve often exchanged email addresses and they then...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...Community-based work under Prevent began in 2007. The strategy has since come under continual criticism for aggravating perceptions of surveillance and discrimination in Britain’s Muslim communities. Recurring concerns with Prevent relate to the strategy’s disproportionate focus on Muslim communities, the heavy role police play in overseeing the strategy’s delivery,...
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