'Its not like anything Joe and I have experienced before': Family workshops at Tate Modern

Supporting Children's Learning in the Early Years is aimed at early years practitioners who are developing their knowledge and understanding of professional practice through studying at undergraduate level. The book encourages readers to consider their professional development as reflective practitioners, building on and supporting the government agenda to provide quality provision for young children and their families. Combining theory and practice, and bringing together current research and thinking in a broad range of areas, the book covers: Learning environments: young children as learners, assessment of learning, well being and children's rights, diversity and inclusion. Learning and development: children's development including social and emotional development, literacy and mathematical development, the potential of ICT, fostering creativity, musical development and knowledge and understanding of the world. Reflective practice: the learning environment, safeguarding and wellbeing, the reflective practitioner. Throughout, the contributions in this book encourage the reader to consider the diverse range of experiences which young children bring to early years and early primary settings and suggest ways in which they can be supported. The book will also be a valuable and unique resource for training providers of a range of courses at further and higher education level that prepare people to work with, and lead in, early years settings in the UK

Investigating the geochemistry and microbial ecology of heap bioleaching systems at the agglomerate scale

Heap bioleaching is an alternative processing method for low-grade copper ores. Microbial iron oxidation produces ferric iron which solubilises copper-bearing minerals while microbially generated acid maintains a pH consistent with copper solubility. The microorganisms can inhabit the liquid within the heap or attach to the ore particles. Temperature, pH, and iron content of the heap effluent (leachate) are typically monitored to examine heap health, however, the leachate has recently been disproven as an accurate analogue of the cell distribution within the ore-bed during microbial colonisation. Three ore-associated phases are now recognised, the interstitial, weakly attached and strongly attached. This dissertation examined the cell distribution, community structure, and the distribution of iron and copper between the four phases past heap colonisation. 150 g samples of non-sterile low-grade enargite ore were used to create agglomerate-scale ore-beds that were inoculated with a mixed mesophilic culture and monitored over 192 days at 27ºC. Cell distribution was at least 2500x higher in the ore-associated phases in comparison to the leachate. Leptospirillum ferriphilum was the dominant species in every phase. Iron and copper concentrations were 10x and 100x higher in the ore-associated phases compared to the leachate, respectively. Batch bioreactor tests using enargite-concentrate provided an analogue to potential conditions in the ore-associated phases in a functional heap, as only 6% of the total copper was solubilised from the agglomerate-scale beds. Microbial growth and copper dissolution decreased with pH and growth rates decreased at iron concentrations over 20g/L. On a large scale, a better understanding of the microbial environment with regards to cell and metal distribution leads to improved heap modelling and sampling procedures which examine all phases within the heap instead of the leachate only. Improved bioleaching technology then has the potential to provide a feasible method for mining refractory low-grade, large-scale deposits.University of Exeter - Tuition Waive