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Rethinking Society at Exeter: Talking About Fostering Empathy and Critical Thinking with Ande McClintock

January 24, 2025January 23, 2025 By Veronika Parfjonova

For Ande, a final-year Politics, Philosophy and Economics student and president of Rethinking Society, this student group offers something extraordinary: a space for

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