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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...physical or sensory impairment or a learning disability. This is what is meant by common knowledge. Common knowledge in Health and Social Care is something that is so well known that it’s obvious to you and your readers. Once you begin to dig more deeply into issues, however, you quickly get beyond common knowledge. Take the example of disability. Disability is not a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...physical remains, theatre, films, books, words or ideas. This course has two main parts: How to explore the Classical world will discuss what it means to ‘explore the Classical world’. Much of this section will be taken up by the crucial issue of sources: what sources about the Classical world do we have at our disposal and how best can we use them? Beginning to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...physical contact in the makeshift hut, and the indication in the stage directions that they are ‘squashed together’ is emphasized in a speech: ‘You're sitting on my leg’. Later in the scene Kit says: ‘You're sitting on me’. So, despite the sparse stage directions a director would know how the girls should be placed onstage. Even within the confined space of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...physical courage, he wasn't evidently the most clever of Napoleon's Marshals, but his physical courage was a by-word, and of course Browning's poem, you know, "We French Stormed Ratisbon" mentions him, at the storming of Ratisbon. Now MacLennan at the battle of Auldearn between the Royalists under Montrose, and the covenanters, the Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth was on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...physical threats, majority rule, or disregarding the claims of the other person. This form of conflict management usually results in hostility and resentment and is an extreme example of a win–lose strategy. Nevertheless, sometimes it is necessary – in matters of health and safety, for example, or at times of crisis. In contrast, accommodating satisfies the needs of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...physics. It is possible for children to use scientific words correctly in scientific conversations, but then find it difficult to express all the complex ideas behind the concept when asked to define or explain what they mean. Exploring their ideas through talking and observing can help to dispel some of their confusion or identify under-developed ideas. As you answer the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...physical appearance, social status and relationships, and, in Catherine's case, her likes and dislikes, her accomplishments and pastimes. You will probably have noticed that this extract comprises a single, extremely long paragraph and is mostly concerned with describing the young Catherine Morland. This amount of detail at the start of the novel suggests to us that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Social psychology: sense-making in crises
Society, Politics & Law

Social psychology: sense-making in crises

...physical movements in the video as representing something sentient and purposeful. In fact, 19 of the participants reported a ‘connected story’. The following quote is a response from a participant that Heider and Simmel described as a ‘common interpretation’: Then the two men have a fight, and the girl starts to go into the room to get out of the way and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs