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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...human level and she spoke to them on a human level. She listened and she heard and she wasn’t afraid to talk about the pain and the suffering whilst also focusing always on the need to compromise and to listen to one another, in order to stop the violence and the killings. You had to treat everyone as a human being even if you disagreed with them, or they had committed...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...human being, especially a child or young person, to have a full quality of life, spirituality in all its aspects must be nurtured and affirmed. For children or young people who have been marginalised or who have suffered deprivation in every way, the need for such nurture and affirmation in human spirituality is all the more pronounced’. Children’s spiritual needs can...
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...human animals can be courageous is not confined to the ancient world: in 1943, Maria Dickin, founder of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, created the PDSA Dickin Medal to honour animals who played a role in World War II. According to the PDSA website, the Dickin Medal is awarded to animals that have displayed "conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...Human computer In the 1950s, the US government was continuing to develop its flight capabilities, for which it required computers. Not the super-fast electronic technology of today, or even lumbering mechanical valve-driven machinery, but people. Johnson became one of a group of human computers who calculated (using slide rule and log tables) the flight dynamics of...
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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...human decision making: people as naïve economists (rational perspective) people as naïve psychologists (psychological perspective) and people as naïve politicians (social perspective). Financial economics, for example, rests on the first approach. People are seen as making rational judgements in pursuit of maximum expected utility. In some variants people are modelled...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...Human Welfare in South Africa’ in: World Resources 2000 − 2001: People and Ecosystems, the Fraying Web of Life , pp. 193−205, Washington, World Resources Institute...Diagramming for development 2: Exploring interrelationships: 2 The role of diagramming - The diagrams in this unit are designed to help you analyse and reflect on situations, make decisions and plan...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...resources or universal design? - [Described image] Figure 6 Would universal design avoid situations such as this? In the field of accessibility (and in particular with relation to eLearning) there exists an ongoing debate about the value of universal design (also known as design-for-all) versus the creation of alternative (or special) resources to meet particular needs....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...resources. In Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) there may be no fee, no registration process (or a simpler process with less commitment when compared to other forms of education), access to reuse and repurpose the content, optional assessment, and expectations that the majority of learners will not complete the whole course through their own choice. This shift in...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs