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Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...writing this course I looked at key ideas and concepts that secondary music teachers at the beginning of their careers should know about. These include what is meant by musical knowledge, what there is to teach and learn in music and the different ways in which young people are taught and learn musically. It concludes by proposing key principles to underpin a musical...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...writes music down, taking his/her time, sketching and revising until the music is as near perfect as it can be. The improviser creates music instantly, without sketches or corrections. In the words of Willi Apel, an earlier dictionary editor, improvisation is ‘the art of performing music as an immediate reproduction of simultaneous mental processes, that is, without the...
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...writing, fairly recent examples in the United Kingdom include the ‘Horizon IT scandal’ and the crisis of funding for the National Health Service (NHS). The ongoing climate crisis provides a more global example of systemic failure. In all cases, these are not simple, isolated errors but complex failures with social, technical and political dimensions, with multiple and...
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...write novels of English high life, and do something to redeem myself a little from the disgrace I had fallen into with my fellow-plebeians by always writing of common Americans, like themselves, and never grandes dames or ideal persons, or people in the best society. But I did not want to go home at once, or turn back from going to Durham through that pleasant landscape,...
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...writing” history, our own identity and ideas from our own society are brought to bear. So issues of presentation and interpretation of the evidence are crucial to our investigation of culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire. Introducing the Roman World Discussion The answer to the first of these questions is that Rome saw its role as an imperial power with a...
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...Write them down in a list, and then consider the following questions for each of your examples. What was the impact, or is the likely impact, of the change in the external context on your organisation? Were you, or will you be, able to mediate the change? Did the culture, or might the culture, of the country or the locality mediate the change? Has the outcome, or likely...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...write good music for instance. What will be left are those areas of work that need the human touch. We will quickly move through the information economy into the care economy, exploring what it is we want from each other when we can automate most of the physical and mental bits of our work. […] Equipment for the roaming worker will have access to the network via...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...writing notes helps them to understand grammar points and to memorise vocabulary and expressions. Adding an example of your own to each rule, term and expression will help you fix them in your memory. Keeping a record of your learning Whether you keep your notes on paper or digitally, it’s important to organise them, so here is an idea that may help, based on your Week...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs