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Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...centrality of knowledge of music in music education. Section 3 looked at how and where musical teaching and learning takes place. You noted how important it is that secondary music teachers recognise how much musical learning takes place beyond the school gates and take this into account in their own teaching. Finally, drawing on the previous three sections, Section 4...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...central to a child’s development, wellbeing and achievement. A partnership involves parents and carers responding to practitioners’ ideas. A proven way of increasing goodwill, understanding and a sense of partnership between practitioners, parents and carers is by providing courses and workshops. These can take many forms, but essentially they involve proving a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...Central Review, Vol. 6 No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 88-104. http://www.jstor.org/ stable/ 3189558 Marder, H. ‘Virginia Woolf’s “Conversion”: Three Guineas, Pointz Hall, and Between the Acts, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol.14 No. 4 (Spring, 1988) pp. 465-480). http://www.jstor.org/ stable/ 3831560. This essay draws on the genesis of Between the Acts. Schulkind, J.,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...central part of a smoothly functioning market economy. This approach assumes that human beings can and should act in terms of their own self-interest, and that if all individuals are left to their own devices the consequences will be the best possible outcome for everyone. In particular, Saunders recommends that all council house tenants should take out mortgages or loans...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...Central and Southern America. They aim to address big complex issues such as poverty, lack of access to health facilities and education, and food insecurity, all issues that are linked to global economies and political systems. An underlying assumption of such interventions, based on the experiences of ‘developed’ countries, is that progress and prosperity for all is...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...centrally concerned with personal meaning; it is best understood in terms of usefulness than ‘truth’. In addition, it will be argued that best practice clinical psychology formulation and formulating has the following characteristics: it is person-specific not problem-specific; it draws from a range of models and causal factors; it integrates, not just lists, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...central USA should damage to the local community only be considered, or should rising sea levels that affect communities in (say) Asia be taken into account? If this question can be solved there are several ways of determining costs such as: equating the damage cost to the cost of capturing and storing the carbon dioxide generated equating a given emission to a given rise...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...central to it, the amount of Rubisco present in plants worldwide has been estimated to be 25% of all protein globally. You shouldn't have any doubts now as to the importance of the photosynthetic process!...Biofuels: 3 Wood as an energy source - The use of wood as fuel for cooking and heating has a long history. In developing countries, 50-90% of fuel used for such...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs