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The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the run-down of metal manufacturing in the Black Country. The enterprise zones set upin 1981 were seen as a means of halting economic decline in certain areas. Looks at...
In the 1970s the Black Country town of Wolverhampton was one of the most prosperous in the country. The foundation of this prosperity was the engineering industry. Reliance on manufacturing meant that the...
1: Studies the high level of hunger and malnutrition in Sudan. 2: Looks at the relationship between the Western farmer and the peasants of the Third World and examines how decisions made in the US and Europe...
Part of a series following the progress of 18 children born in Great Britain in 1982. Looks at the the children as they exercise their new skills in communication and imaginativeness. Comments are made by...
Examines the beginnings of memory in the young child. An example of a sophisticated adult memory at work, using an extract from Marcel Proust’s ‘A La recherche du Temps Perdu’. Focuses on several young...
Looks at the first stages of a child’s ability to handle and manipulate objects, comparing the stages of progress to that made by robots. Explains the developmental framework behind the child’s ability...
Looks at how scientists working on frogs established that the genes in the cell of an adult organism are present in the embryo, and that some sort of differential expression of the genes, with some genes...
Looks at the work of researchers at the University of Edinburgh who questioned some of Piaget’s theories. Experiments are shown to test the understanding and use of language of children aged 3-5 years. The...
Conversations between people, either verbal or non-varval, depend on taking turns. It is known that these patterns of taking turns occur in very early infancy when a baby sucks from either breast or bottle....
Children are undoubtedly superior to adults in learning to use a computer. Using drama, this programme looks at different explanations for this in order to explore theories about the nature of learning.
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