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Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...class rules about whose voice should be heard, and how those voices should be heard. And we came to a agreement within the classroom that everybody’s voice should be heard through given a set of particular rules, such as respecting each other, trying to show that you were listening, when you are talking to be able to face the class. So a lots of discussions are held at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...class differences, misogyny, stereotypes and outdated views. I felt a little shocked and wondered if it was the right sort of book to be reading to my daughter. It has pictures and a small boy as a protagonist. It was originally published as a book for children by an author considered to be a children’s writer. The writing and structure is simple. There are sections of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...de Janeiro’, includes references to Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Hercules, Artemis, Hephaestus and Zeus; and modern programmes such as the Rio 2016 Culture Festival remind us of Classical associations between sport, poetry, music, and prose composition. This course highlights the similarities and differences between our modern Games and the Ancient...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...de la Mare, 1982) Measured checklists This method is almost identical to the previous one but instead of various aspects being rated on a scale that stretches from ‘unacceptable’ to ‘most favourable’ they are scored numerically. An example of a measured checklist, again for an R & D project, is shown in Figure 12. [Described image] Figure 12 A measured checklist...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...FAQs), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: Images Figure 1: Desk, © javaturtle on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...classes may seem unrelated, they represent evolutionary variations on the same theme - the molluscan bodyplan. Three classes, each of which range from Cambrian to Recent, are particularly important, both as fossils and today: the Bivalvia - bivalves (e.g. cockles, mussels and oysters) (Figure 1e); the Gastropoda - gastropods (e.g. slugs and snails); and the nektonic...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...classes, ruling classes. And there was a great interest in knowing what was the scale of the problem. Charles Booth was interested in the question of how many of this increasing number of poor people were there. This wasn't about causes. Poverty was taken very much for granted as part of the natural order. But how large was the problem? And so the significance of his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...class are surely the books we read as children’. The vast cultural influence of Robinson Crusoe was noted by a number of commentators in the nineteenth century. George Borrow, for example, writing in 1851, regarded it as ‘a book which has exerted over the minds of Englishmen an influence certainly greater than any other of modern times…a book, moreover, to which,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr