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What counts as professional learning?
Education & Development

What counts as professional learning?

...social media and emerging technologies for professional learning? Do we know ‘what counts’ as professional learning? Do we acknowledge the informal, the accidental, the in-practice critical moments that shape how we think and act? How do practitioners know about professional learning opportunities, and how can we facilitate them to lead their own professional learning...
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Diverse perspectives on health and illness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse perspectives on health and illness

...social backgrounds talk about their lives and experiences with growing old, including employment, family life and bereavement. Frank Richards Frank Richards was born in the Caribbean in 1931. He moved to England in 1955, and reminisces on his experiences as an immigrant and surviving ill health. Valuing people’s lives Tom Kitwood worked to develop residential care for...
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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Social Policy, University of York The biggest surprise of this budget is that the most significant factor that affected it wasn’t mentioned at all. Not only did the chancellor not mention Brexit, it is not immediately obvious how any of his announcements connect directly to it either. I would have expected a boost to regional development or support for new businesses...
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Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9, 44-49. Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(4), 1232-1237. Cheever, N. A., Rosen, L. D., Carrier, L....
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The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...social and cultural life of its members. They had a strong emphasis on provision for young people – organising play schemes, skills training and a Saturday Supplementary school in response to concerns about the underachievement of West Indian children in school The Family Advice Centre Elouise worked for many years at the Manchester University refectory and then at the...
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Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...social world. Interpretivist (or ‘critical’, or ‘post-positivist’) research focuses on understanding social phenomena. Such questions ask how a certain understanding of the world, set of social relations or array of practices comes to be. Implicit here is the sense that other ways of understanding and arranging the social world are possible, and perhaps desirable,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...social and cultural clubs may work this way, modern countries involve much more complex transactions and movements to be captured by this membership understanding of citizenship. People are actually or virtually much more connected than being a member of territorially sealed country. People also benefit from a much more complex set of rights ranging from civil, political,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...social workers who had been discussing a problematic case and the difficulty one of their colleagues had in identifying too closely with the particular people she was working with. And in talking about the colleague, one of them said ‘The trouble with her is she puts all her socialist cards before the horse.’ And that draws on a standard idiom, a standard phrase,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs