REVIVALISTICS: Why Should We Invest Time and Money in Reclaiming ‘Dead’ Languages?
By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann
This article introduces revivalistics, the new science behind language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. It explores the various benefits of language revival.
Revivalistics
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Five Ways the Internet Era has Changed British English – New Research
By Vaclav Brezina
The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like...
Facebook, The Metaverse And The Monetisation Of Higher Education
By John Preston
The metaverse is a virtual world in which users, represented by an avatar, can shop, socialise, take part in leisure activities – and learn....
Four Tips for Learning Language Through Film and TV
By Neophytos Mitsigkas
Films and TV shows can be great tools to help you become a more competent speaker of another language. By captivating your...
Cannabis: How it Affects Our Cognition and Psychology – New Research
By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Martine Skumlien, and Tianye Jia
Cannabis has been used by humans for thousands of years and is one of...
Five Ways the New Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy for Schools in England Doesn’t...
By Elizabeth Rushton and Lynda Dunlop
The UK government has introduced a new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools. However, our research shows that it does...
How Lockdown has Affected Children’s Speech – and what Parents can do to Help
By Yvonne Wren
The pandemic means many children will have spent the best part of a year interacting much less than normal with teachers, friends...
Why We’re Searching England for New Dialects
By Fiona Doglas
When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak...
How Missing Out on Nursery Due to COVID has Affected Children’s Development – New...
By Catherine Davies, Alexandra Hendry, and Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
Nurseries can be noisy places. A clutch of three-year-olds gathered round a book shout excitedly. Across the...
Japan’s Path to Becoming a Leader in Western Science: An Asian Perspective on Science...
By Anthony Poole
Several well-intentioned efforts seek to incorporate mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) into science in New Zealand. These include a pilot National Certificate in Educational Achievement...
Black Girls are 4.19 Times More Likely to Get Suspended than White Girls –...
By Andrea Joseph-McCatty
Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines disproportional school suspensions...
How Uncertainty Can Impair Our Ability to Make Rational Decisions – New Research
By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Aleya Aziz Marzuki
We make decisions every day, many of which are so straightforward that we hardly notice we are...
Geo-Tracking Apps: How Are Parent-Child Relations Bearing Up?
By Yann Bruna
Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids, Google Family Link and Apple’s FindMy are fast growing in popularity, handing parents unprecedented powers to monitor their offspring. But...
Designing a Corporate ESG Programme that Attracts, Nurtures, and Retains Women
By Chaitra Vedullapalli
Inclusion is the new kid on the block that every company interested in advancement is courting. And one of the best methods...
ChatGPT Can’t Think – Consciousness Is Something Entirely Different to Today’s AI
By Philip Goff
There has been shock around the world at the rapid rate of progress with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence created with what’s known as...
How a 400 Million Year Old Fossil Changes Our Understanding of Mathematical Patterns in...
By Sandy Hetherington and Holly-Anne Turner
If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of...
Pandemic Babies Behind on Communication at Age Two – But Other Developmental Areas Remain...
By Susan Byrne and Jonathan Hourihane
The world changed for all of us when we were suddenly plunged into a pandemic in 2020. COVID sent...
How You Can Future-Proof Your Career in the Era of AI
By Elisabeth Kelan
Ever since the industrial revolution, people have feared that technology would take away their jobs. While some jobs and tasks have indeed...
Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Award for Iranian Women’s Rights Protester Highlights Fight Against Declining...
By Leïla Choukroune
One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi...
Climate Crisis: What to Consider if You’re Questioning Whether to Have Children
By Jasmine Fledderjohann and Laura Sochas
The warnings about the disastrous impact we are having on our planet are becoming more dire. The UN Environment...
The Millions of People Not Looking for Work in the UK may be Prioritising...
By David Spencer
Around one in five British people of working age (16-64) are now outside the labour market. Neither in work nor looking for work, they...
Heinz Junkermann – A Daughter’s Perspective
Nicole Junkermann learnt about business at a young age. As a girl, she’d be taken into meetings by her father Heinz Junkermann and offered an insight...
We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism
By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez
Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about race,...
American Millennials and the World
By A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner
The 9/11 attacks have been the defining event of the American millennial generation. The article discusses how American...
Is a Languages Strategy Essential for Britain’s Economy to Prosper Post Brexit?
By Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Britain hopes to draw on the trade relationships of the former Commonwealth to grow its economy post Brexit. Could this place too...
The Plight of Children in a Neoliberal World
By Peter Koenig
The NYT wrote yesterday, Christmas Day, that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy died in US Border Control custody. The circumstances are not...
Tips for Thriving in Your Career During the Pandemic
The Covid-19 virus has caused a global economic crisis, and the US hasn't come out the other side just yet. You may be worried...
How to Handle the Next Lockdown and Christmas – Some Tips for Recently Separated...
By Dr Susan Kay-Flowers
The impact of lockdown has made many of us reflect on what’s important in our lives and in our personal relationships....
How Technology Is Rupturing the Minds of Our Younger Generation
By Samantha Kaylee
The Millennials and those belonging from Generation Z have experienced a lifetime on this planet where digital technology was made available to...
What psychology can tell us about why some people don’t wear masks – and...
By Helen Wall, Alex Balani and Derek Larkin
While the world is eagerly waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to bring an end to the pandemic, wearing...
How the pandemic may damage children’s social intelligence
By Professor Barbara J Sahakian, Dr Christelle Langley, Professor Fei Li and Jianfeng Feng
Do you remember the excitement and anticipation of your first...
How to choose educational apps for pre-school children
By Joanna Kolak and Gemma Taylor
Lockdowns and school closures have pushed more aspects of our lives online. This has encouraged parents and children to...
New Year’s Resolutions – if the Future is Preordained Can We Really Change?
By Matyáš Moravec
Many of us set ourselves New Year’s resolutions hoping to form better habits. Some of us might want to be more environmentally friendly....
Individualized Learning in Executive Education Accommodating the Modern Learner
By Mandy Hübener, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams
ESMT Berlin is the highest-ranked business school in Germany and Top 10 in Europe. Founded by...
Happiness Is A Place Between Too Little And Too Much
By Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen
School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”. Alongside Sweden; Finland is one of...
Influential Books About Women Empowerment and Being Your Own Boss
Since the 1700s to the 2010s, there has been a steady and healthy abundance of fictional, theoretical, and critical literary works all revolving around...
How to make teaching more women-friendly, post-COVID
By Katy Marsh-Davies and Suzanne Brown
For women, teaching is often seen as a welcoming profession. The greater flexibility and work-life balance that the job...
How Students Can Use Storytelling to Bring the Dangers of Climate Change to Life
By Katie Persons, Florence Halstead, and Lisa Jones
With the stark “code red” warnings from the world’s climate experts in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental...
7 Reasons Why You must Consider Studying in the UK
By Harshita Anand
The UK proudly holds the reputation to be the ultimate academic excellence. With over 130 eminent universities, many international students aspire to...
COVID-19 Threatens the Already Shaky Status of Arts Education in Schools
By Ryan D. Shaw
Parents can watch their kids draw and paint at home or perform in school music concerts and dance recitals. But...
5 Reasons Video Games Should be more Widely Used in School
By André Thomas
In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during...
6 Courses that Are Sparking Students’ Interest in 2022
By Harshita Anand
Finding a course of study that fits your interest along with a high employability rate can be a challenging aspect of...
