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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...learning difference’ or ‘neurodiversity’ means that people can assume it is about the brain and therefore primarily impacts the brain – but what about other parts of the body? Here, we explore four examples of how ADHD can also impact someone’s body and reflect on these in relation to school and workplace accommodations. These examples are taken from personal...
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Article 5 mins
What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?

...learning and memory are particularly susceptible to change with age (prefrontal cortex and hippocampus). This is why many people report it feels harder to learn new things in later life than as a child and remembering and paying attention to information can feel harder with age. These changes are due to more than one thing: changes in neurotransmitters and neurones (the...
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Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion
Nature & Environment

Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion

...learn new skills, which are some of the 5 Ways to Wellbeing. The Parks Trust has been supported by volunteers for many years, and were recently awarded with Investing in Volunteers accreditation. Volunteers support in different ways. Many people choose to support by carrying out biodiversity conservation tasks such as vegetation management, creation of habitat and...
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...learning environment, engage all students with varied case studies, position Britain within a colonial context, and has the potential to help narrow the degree awarding gap. This is supported by Johnnie McKinley (2010) who believes in raising students’ achievement through culturally responsive teaching, as unsatisfactory attention is being paid by educators to...
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Article 10 mins
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...learning journey, I can identify that my engagement with the concepts and theories relating to adult learning has occurred at different levels, ie, personal, professional and philosophical. For example, when I recall my decision to ‘return to learn’, I am now aware of how personal and circumstantial factors at the time affected my access to learning opportunities. As...
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Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...about how allele frequency can change rapidly in a population in response to selective pressure by considering how evolutionary change can occur in insects that are exposed to insecticides. This free course, Mosquito resistance to insecticides, further demonstrates how traits that are advantageous in one environment can have effects that are disadvantageous in other
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...fictional character in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) who begins the story released on parole from prison, and ends the novel as a fugitive social activist. The performers [Leadbelly with Accordion.]The performers who tell the stories of these outlaws are: Mississippi John Hurt (1893–1966), who apart from two recording sessions in 1928 did not...
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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: describe concepts underpinning peace education understand pedagogical approaches to building peace in the classroom be aware of the competencies that can be developed through peaceful education practices with children and young people begin to develop self-reflective practice as a reflective peace...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs