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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...social scientific approach that ‘offers a lens through which to make sense of, deconstruct and challenge racial inequality in society’ (Rollock and Gillborn, 2011). It ‘endeavours to expose the way in which racial inequality is maintained through the operation of structures and assumptions that appear normal and unremarkable’ (Rollock and Gillborn, 2011). CRT...
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...work schedules. My research findings were based on interviews with 12 young people aged between 14-19 years old, originally due to sit exams in Summer 2021. I interviewed the students six weeks before the new teacher assessments were due in May. I completed a parent survey alongside the interviews which received over 400 participants. It showed EHE students typically had...
Studying mammals: Food for thought
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Food for thought

...social structure in both apes and humans to gain an understanding of where we come from and why we behave as we do. This is the tenth course in the Studying mammals series...Who were our ancestors? How are apes and humans related? And where does the extinct Homo erectus fit into the puzzle? In this free course, Studying mammals: Food for thought, we will examine culture,...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...social justice, human rights and intergenerational equality and emphasises how children and those least responsible for climate change are the ones who suffer its most significant consequences. The course looks at the impact climate change has on children’s rights and considers the role the next generation has as activists and campaigners within their changing...
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...social aspects associated with ageing well?...Age-related natural decline happens in both physical and cognitive aspects. Ageing affects our muscles, bones, joints, our brain and all other organs. Despite its relatively small size (2% of our body weight), our brain takes around 20% of all glucose and 20% of all oxygen consumed by the whole body. So, it is no surprise when...
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...worked best economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what...
How Spanish sounded across its history
Languages

How Spanish sounded across its history

...works of literature written by authors from different eras and origins. More information about them and the corresponding transcripts can be found below. The middle ages - Glosa emilianense One of the earliest written examples of a form of Romance similar to Spanish can be found in the notes that a monk wrote in the margins of a religious text in Latin. These notes...
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...work of Richard Owen in this review of Gowan Dawson's Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design in Victorian Literature and Culture 44.4...[Charles Dickens meets a dinosaur] Although he is more likely remembered for coining the term “dinosaur,” Richard Owen also influenced the writings of his friend Charles Dickens. Gowan Dawson offers an historical overview of Owen, noted...