MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Style Guide

The second edition of the MHRA Style Guide  is available for download free of charge at:

http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml 

This book is on the reading list for DRAM1102.

Great news folks. We now have PsycBooks available for staff and students. This is a collection of 1,566 full text books and 24,161 chapters relevant to anyone interested in psychology, mental health or learning disabilities. It also includes over 800 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology, and more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

And the really good news? Because they are all electronic books they are all available 24 hours a day from a computer near you. No travel to Peirson building, no library fines, no need to make reservations or renew. You can search for the topic you’re interested in and really widen your reading for an assignment or simply read books and chapters that are of use to you.

To access, get yourself to Resources Online (the library catalogue) and click on E-Resources. Choose your subject from the list, then select PsycBooks. And enjoy (party hat optional).

News on the Children and Young Person’s Bill

News from the Children and Young People website:

“The Children and Young Persons Bill had its third reading in the House of Commons last night, during which MPs debated several significant amendments.”

See the news item and link to the Bill here.

Anti-Bullying Week

Look out for Anti-bullying Week on 17-21 Nov 2008. Resource packs will be sent to schools, but loads of information can be found at the Anti-Bullying Alliance’s webpage: http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/Page.asp

Check Sarah’s Delicious site for more links: http://delicious.com/sarahoxford

Speech and language difficulties: effective use of resources

The Bercow Review: Effective and efficient use of resources in services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), was published on 31 July 2008 by DCSF, to support the Bercow Review (March 2008). Download the report here.

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How to study: one for the students!

This short piece from the British Psychological Society’s research blog offers “three unintuitive but very effective ways of studying based on findings from psychological research”. In short: space your study sessions out; text yourself regularly; and summarise and integrate before moving on to the next session. So stop cramming, take a break and find ways to summarise what you have just learnt! This doesn’t just have to be in note form – I loved mind mapping when studying for my degree. It works! (Any excuse to get the coloured pencils out…)

Every Disabled Child Matters

Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) is a campaign led by four of the major organisations that work with disabled children and their families – Contact a Family, Council for Disabled Children (CDC), Mencap and the Special Educational Consortium (SEC). EDCM wants all disabled children, and their families, to have rights to the services and support that they need.

nferdirect

 

Available now – the January issue of nferdirect containing all the latest news and events, projects and publications from NFER.

Early years foundation stage comments

 

From the Guardian’s Mortarboard blog 5th Feb 2008:

“Janet Murray’s article last week, Too much, too young, gave the impression that, following the introduction of the early years foundation stage (EYFS), children would no longer be allowed to dress up or bake cakes at nursery, and instead would be forced into academic learning. This is absolutely wrong, writes children’s minister Beverley Hughes.

The EYFS is not a “national curriculum for babies” and there is simply no such thing as what the article calls the “early years foundation curriculum”. On the contrary …”

Go to Mortarboard to read more.