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Course design as a research project
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A Different Kind of Model
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SHAKESPEARE and school age = cognitive overload
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Rigour, Rites of passage, and Society
OLD SCHOOL Of course I am hypothesising, but it seems there may still be some higher educationalists who would have their students battle through an
