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Creating safe spaces and brave spaces

October 28, 2020 0

What are they? Safe spaces came into existence to give people from a marginalised or persecuted group a way to meet, sometimes with political purposes, without having to defend themselves against prejudice or abuse. The […]

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Cognitive control in an age of digital distraction

October 16, 2020 0

What is cognitive control? Cognitive control is crucial to deep, purposeful learning and is achieved through the following functions (Gazzaley and Rosen, 2016, p80; Parry, 2019): attention – a mental spotlight which needs to be […]