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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...everyday lives, and how can practices and practitioners support and perhaps even enhance wellbeing? Activity 4 Understanding resilience and wellbeing Timing: Allow about 30 minutes Considering Mind's description of resilience from the Activity 3 feedback, plus your own ideas generated in response to previous activities, spend some time now reflecting on your understanding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...everyday life away from school but can affect and shape children’s lives and well-being. Divorce would be an example of this sort of change...Developing and managing relationships: Learning outcomes - By completing this section and the associated quiz, you will: gain an insight into the importance of the attachment of secure relationships in the development of children...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in connections that link different places, different people and their livelihoods across the globe; connections that are brought to life in the course through rich audio-visual material and interactive activities...This free course, ‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?, explores how environmental problems are entangled...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...English and Guidance teacher and lifelong political activist. During the 1993 Timex strike, she was part of the Timex Support group and continues to campaign on issues of anti-poverty and international solidarity. She spoke to Stella about her experiences of picket line solidarity and the legacy of the 1993 Timex strike. [Mary McGregor]“Everyone in Dundee had an...
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Article 5 mins
Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...English Dictionary as “the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy”. There is a lot of information about wellbeing and how differently it can be measured. If we look at wellbeing from the angle of experience of health, happiness and being comfortable, and how we feel in terms of our sense of meaning or purpose, managing our stress levels, having good mental...
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Article 10 mins
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...English riots of 2011: A summer of discontent. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 45–64. Pirbhai-Illich, F., Pete, S. and Martin, F. (2017) Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism. Switzerland: Palgrave McMillan. Taylor, S.V and Sobel, D.M. (2001) Culturally responsive pedagogy: Teaching like our students’ lives matter....
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Article 10 mins
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...English composer, conductor, and author Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) was a close contemporary of Chaminade. She wrote and published a wide range of works: six operas, a Mass, chamber music and songs. Smyth’s opera Der Wald (1901) made history in 1903 as the first by a woman to be staged at the New York Metropolitan Opera. But Smyth wasn’t only a composer. She was also a...
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Article 10 mins
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...English language (e.g. IELTS band 6 or higher), and effective academic writing skills are crucial – we will look at this in Session 2. Tutorials, seminars and day schools. You will be expected to prepare for tutorials, seminars or day schools (which may be online or face-to-face), and demonstrate initiative and personal responsibility for your own learning (having...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs