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Sharing the planet unit: Too late?
This is one of a series of pages designed to illustrate how to go about developing unit plans for teaching the Themes. These should not be seen as complete downloadable packages, but rather as drafts...
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A Short History of America
Sometimes, you find a teaching resource or activity that works so well that it lasts for years. I am very grateful to my former colleague and friend David Potter at YCIS Shanghai for introducing me to...
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Criminalising clothes
Organising social respectability? ... there have been rules about who can wear what throughout human history. Such rules have always have much to do with social hierarchy, but also ideology and religion....
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Hate speech
Society and ideas ... arguably, society cannot properly exist without language, without the ability to communicate ideas. The problem is that ideas can also be profoundly disruptive of society. Should...
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Covid metaphors
Language is full of metaphors - but what do metaphors actually do? An effective metaphor communicates by being a vivid comparison - it explains something unfamiliar or unclear through relating it to something...
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Covid rule-breaking
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on all human societies. As with all stress-tests, this impact has raised questions, and perhaps reveals truths, about how those societies work. The article...
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Attitudes to lockdown
It is evident that situations of stress throw a strong clear light on social attitudes and relationships. This is particularly true of the COVID-19 pandemia,with its impact not only on all nations, but...
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Human rights?
The fundamental structures of human rights ... the concept of 'human rights' is actually relatively recent, isn't it? The idea that there are basic moralities that should govern human behaviour has been...
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UN Human Rights
Organising humanity ... the UN Declaration of Human Rights, examined in this page, is a pretty ambitious attempt at social organisation (as indicated by the adjective 'universal' ... perhaps a little...
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Declaration of Independence
Deciding social organisation ... as noted below, the US Declaration of Independence is a rare example of a radical, fundamental decision about how to organise society which actually worked at the time,...