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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....
How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?

...creative projects The occasional mender: just fixes what they need, when they need it The delegating mender: prefers someone else to do the fixing The heritage mender: learns from traditions and passes them on The serviced mender: takes things to professionals to get the job done. These personas show us that a one-size-fits-all solution won’t work. A repair café might...
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...
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figures 1 and 4: kentoh; Getty Images Figure 2: dima_sidelnikov; Getty...
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Write brief notes below or in your notebook. Discussion Perhaps your employer or organisation provided support and learning opportunities to manage the change required. How far did this help you, or might something else have worked better? If your organisation didn’t offer you support through this change – consider what you could have done instead to explore learning...
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The author at home
History & The Arts

The author at home

...writing about the history and the cultural work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate practical joke known...