Stories
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Getting around the rules of sex education
What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?
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Children in burns prevention campaigns
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
Catalogue
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Physical degeneracy of the American people : showing that a system of education and abuse and neglect of children are among the chief causes of this degeneracy.
Date: 1858- Books
Physical education and sport: sociological and cultural perspectives : an introductory reader / edited by J.A. Mangan.
Date: [1973]- Books
G is for genes : the impact of genetics on education and achievement / Kathryn Asbury and Robert Plomin.
Asbury, Kathryn.Date: 2014
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Organised play at home and abroad : physical recreation for elementary school children out of school hours / edited by R.E. Roper ; with a preface by the Bishop of Ripon.
Roper, R. E. (Reginald Edward), 1875-Date: 1911- Books
To wives and mothers : how to keep yourselves and your children well and strong / compiled by the Association of Infant Welfare and Maternity Centres.
Date: 1916