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Early Years Nutrition: Setting the Standard for Change
No full textThe Early Years Nutrition: Setting the Standard for Change report, spearheaded by the Cross Party Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood, aims to improve nutrition standards in early years settings. The report addresses barriers to providing nutritious food, prioritizes training for professionals, and seeks to broaden the scope of early years strategies to include health and inequality concerns.
The Contributor Group that produced this Report is a sub-group of the Cross-Party Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood. The purpose of the CPG is to promote evidence-based discussion and produce reports on all aspect of children's health and wellbeing, to inform policy decisions and public debate relating to children and young people; and to enable communications between interested parties and relevant parliamentarians.
Key Goals and Focus Areas:
·Strengthening Early Years Nutrition Standards:
The report advocates for more robust nutrition standards from the outset to ensure children receive optimal nourishment.
·Overcoming Barriers:
It identifies and seeks to address obstacles that hinder the delivery of healthy food in early years settings, such as affordability and the marketing of unhealthy products.
·Professional Training:
The report emphasizes the importance of providing adequate training for all health and education professionals involved in early childhood care.
·Addressing Health Inequalities:
It calls for a broader strategy that tackles health inequalities and ensures that all children, regardless of background, have access to healthy food.
·Long-Term Impact:
The report aims to lay the foundation for a healthier, more resilient adult generation by prioritizing nutrition in early childhood.
Specific Issues Highlighted:
·Commercial Baby and Toddler Food:
The report examines the commercial baby and toddler food market, including the nutritional quality and marketing of these products.
·Food Provision in Childcare:
It investigates the quality of food provided in childcare settings for children under five.
·Family Food Consumption:
The report acknowledges that children's diets extend beyond commercial baby food and considers the nutritional quality, promotion, and pricing of food across the retail sector.
·Affordability and Access:
Affordability and access to healthy food are key barriers highlighted in the report.
·Marketing of Unhealthy Foods:
The report addresses the impact of marketing unhealthy foods on children's diets.
Relevance and Timing: The report is particularly relevant as new Department for Education (DfE) guidance on early years nutrition is set to take effect in September 2025. This guidance will replace existing 'Example menus' guidance and apply to various early years providers. Providers will be expected to 'have regard to' the new guidance, meaning they should follow it unless there is a valid reason not to. Overall, the report aims to create a more supportive environment for early years nutrition, contributing to a healthier future for children in the UK
Nature Connectedness and the Common Third within the Primary Curriculum - exploring sustainability through a cross-curricular approach
No full textThis chapter will explore the concept of connections: connections with nature and with each other. We will examine the theory of nature connectedness and its links to sustainability. We will explore how primary school teachers could use the common third to not only build connections and relationships between pupils, parents and school, but seek to work collaboratively to teach sustainability using a cross-curricular, holistic and measured approach. There will be a focus on teaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the foundation subjects as these areas provide ample opportunity to reconnect with nature within the primary national curriculum. Towards the end of this chapter, the discussion will focus on practical ideas for implementing common third activities within a primary school setting to nurture children’s understanding of sustainability
Comparative Analysis of Protein Extraction Protocols for Olive Leaf Proteomics: Insights into Differential Protein Abundance and Isoelectric Point Distribution
Get PDFPlant proteomics studies face two major challenges: limited databases due to the need for sequenced genomes and the difficulty in obtaining high-quality protein extracts. Olive (Olea europaea), a key species in Mediterranean flora known for its rich biochemical content, presents additional complexity due to its lipidic structure and high levels of inhibitory compounds that hinder protein extraction. Consequently, various studies have focused on optimizing the protein extraction methods for olives. While different extraction protocols exist for leaf proteome analysis, their compatibility with LC–MS/MS has been scarcely studied. This work was carried out to compare three protein extraction protocols for LC–MS/MS analysis using olive (O. europaea L) leaf tissue. Denaturing SDS (Method A), physiological CHAPS (Method B), and phenolic TCA/acetone (Method C) were evaluated with LC–MS/MS data. The quantitative comparisons of the three extraction methods revealed that Protocol A gave the greatest yields. According to the results obtained, Protocol A uniquely identified 77 proteins, Protocol B identified 10 unique proteins, and Protocol C identified 19 unique proteins. Similarly, the peptide sequence analysis showed that Protocol A uniquely identified 208 peptide sequences, Protocol B identified 29, and Protocol C identified 36. Moreover, reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) results suggest that Method A may be more efficient in removing and retaining hydrophobic proteins. Overall, Protocol A demonstrated greater sensitivity, efficiency, and reproducibility in LC–MS/MS analysis
Emotion and Paradox: Engaging with emotional dynamics that underpin organizational paradox
No full textIn this essay we develop the connection between emotion and paradox. We argue that existing thinking has favoured a cognitive view of the role of emotion based on the effort to make sense of emotions in context. This has created both limited comprehension of the impact of emotion in organizational paradox studies and limited opportunity for theory development. In response, we create a framework for the analysis of emotion and paradox based on systems psychodynamic theory. An assumption that informs our framework is that emotional dynamics associated with tensions are likely to be both defensive and receptive. Tensions connected with underlying emotions simultaneously both support creative purposes and create personal and social defences in organizations. We aim to encourage paradox scholar’s engagement with unconscious emotions and dynamics that underpin the lived experience of organizational paradox, particularly tensions between knowing and not knowing. Our framework helps to address problems that arise when emotions are positioned as either positive or negative, rather than both positive and negative. We share examples from Business and Management School learning opportunities and from well-known empirical papers to illustrate our argument. We then link this to a call for action to develop emotion and paradox learning, teaching and research
Petra Kuppers - Crip/Mad Archive Dances: A&E Accessibility and Environment Podcast
No full textPetra Kuppers talks about her film Crip/Mad Archive Dances which received a special mention in the first A&E Accessibility and Environment Film Festival
Maddi, Aaron, Steve, Hollie - Autistic Joy: A&E Accessibility and Environment Podcast
No full textWriter and producer Maddi Crease, Director Aaron Shrimpton, Sound designer Steve Pretty, and choreographer Hollie Dee, discuss their film Autistic Joy
Art, Work and Artwork—Lines of Inequality in Bhagwati Prasad’s Political Artivism
Get PDFThis article focuses on the works of Bhagwati Prasad, a New Delhi–based Indian graphic artist, with two book-length works—Tinker, Solder, Tap (Prasad, 2009) and The Water Cookbook (Prasad, 2011)— and several short graphic narratives to his credit. Prasad has recently also come into the picture for his internet zines, particularly for his Hashtag series, in which he showcases the political power of art. In his forthcoming project, titled Auzaaron ki chuppi aur Kolaahal (Silence and Clamour of Tools, unpublished), he attempts to chart a history of Delhi, through the eyes (or hands that use tools of construction) of migrant labour: labour that crosses over geographical lines or borders in search of ‘work’ and food. Basing itself on the mentioned artworks of Prasad, this article attempts to understand the relationship between ‘art’ with ‘work’. In doing so, it would look at how artwork in tandem becomes a tool of creating socio-political awareness and how such ‘conscious propagandizing’ of art (which I call artivism) becomes a final cry for change in structures that are deeply entrenched in hierarchy-ridden socio-economic or caste/ class disparities. Much of Prasad’s artistic expression is rooted in a characteristically Indian cityscape and what can specifically be termed as peri-urban sustenance in the marginal spaces, which the postcolonial, neoimperial and casteized Indian condition constructs. His artworks, besides being inspired by his own lived reality as a child that grew up in a Dalit, working-class habitat, forge the indispensability of a downtrodden workforce that builds and constructs cities with the clamour of their tools, yet remains invisible and silent to histories. In an atypical but exciting way, Prasad swaps the artist and the worker, dismantling the artificial divide between their societal positions. The methodological approach this article uses to interpret and assess Prasad’s activist art is through the notion of ‘lines’: the smallest unit of drawing out a sketch on a page. Lines, by definition, connect dots while giving these connections a semblance of shape, expression and meaning. These lines that connect also concretize into lines that divide and segregate. This article argues that the migrant physical labourer (often those belonging to the lower castes) or the shramik, twice removed beyond lines of inclusion/exclusion that society draws with the indelible ink of caste and class, remains unknown, invisible and hated perhaps, for the very work they do. The artist-asa-worker trope is fundamental to understanding the ways in which lines of art and lines of work together critique this discriminatory discourse and re-form political consciousness. In doing the intersectional critical analysis, this study will draw concepts from the multi-disciplinary theoretical traditions of Marxist humanism, caste studies, graphic art appreciation and culture studies
Constructing Culturally Safe Learning Spaces for International Students
Get PDFThis commentary explores the intersection of cultural safety and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to establish inclusive and supportive educational environments for international students in UK higher education. Reflecting on our transition from international students to educators, we share insights derived from literature, academic discussions, and practical experiences, including the development of a staff workshop for the Power of Potential Conference (2024). We propose a Model of Evolving Cultural Competence that underscores cultural humility and continuous learning as pivotal to creating culturally safe learning spaces.
Through an analysis of three UDL checkpoints—sustaining effort and persistence, language and symbols, and expression and communication—we offer actionable strategies for educators to foster engagement, representation, and participation. These include integrating diverse student perspectives, leveraging multimodal resources and providing inclusive assessment methods to empower international students. Our approach challenges normative biases, promotes cultural curiosity, and addresses power imbalances, emphasising the co-creation of knowledge and mutual learning. By combining cultural safety and UDL principles, this paper advocates for a dynamic and reflective pedagogy that enhances student belonging, inclusivity, and equitable engagement. These practices aim to benefit both students and educators, fostering transformative learning environments that support diversity and cultural competence
Understanding Accountability: New Perspectives on a Fractured World
No full textThis book brings clarity and understanding to the concept of accountability through the lens of conceptual political analysis. As the structure of the modern state has become more complex, the architecture of accountability has itself needed to evolve and re-orientate in an attempt to keep pace. This has led to an increased emphasis not on accountability per se but on different kinds or types of accountability. As such, it is argued here that accountability has emerged to become a concept with adjectives and there is a real need to properly understand accountability in an increasingly fractured world. The theoretical and analytical glue that binds all of the chapters in this collection is a commitment to working within the contours of the work of the philosopher, Giovanni Sartori. This is an approach that has been used to tease apart and interrogate a range of concepts including terrorism, governance, coups, gender equality, deliberation, warfare, clientelism, hybrid regimes, democracy, right through to art, love, rape and violence. It is also an approach that facilitates the cultivation of complex debates concerning the limits of conceptual flexibility. The volume consists of twelve chapters, grouped into three main parts. The introductory part provides the foundations for the collection. Part I on Power explores the normative dimensions of accountability as a means to control and regulate power. Part II on Politics focuses inter alia on accountability following a period of crisis and the emergence of new technology such as algorithms. The final part, Part III, on Particularities looks at concepts such as social accountability and what is meant by supplementary accountability. This broad-ranging collection increases the conceptual toolkit that social and political scientists and lawyers can use to interrogate change at a number of levels and in a range of sectors. Whether through a focus on moral, individual or gendered accountability, or through a shift towards clashing, stakeholder or social accountability, there is a clear flow and coherence through the chapters. The volume will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal and Political Theory, Legal and Political Philosophy and Accountability Studies