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Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...adults are affected by mental health problems, so too are children. The Cheltenham Holistic Health Centre have identified a number of psychological problems in children which can manifest in a number of ways including, but not limited to: anxiety depression behavioural difficulties eating disorders anger self-harm under-performance at school difficulties with friends....
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...adult or you move away from it. And I certainly moved away from it. I didn't get married in a church, I got married in a registry office. I was estranged from my parents at that stage, so they didn't come to the wedding. I was married for nearly 20 years, and then I gave up that life completely when I was 40 in order to fulfil my dream of having a child, and I moved away...
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...Adults, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 132–49. Billett, S. (2006) ‘Constituting the workplace curriculum’, Journal of Curriculum Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 31–48. Burgess H., Sieminski, S. and Arthur, L. (2006) Achieving your Doctorate in Education, Sage, London. Bush, T. (2002) ‘Educational management: theory and practice’, in Bush, T. and Bell, L. (eds) The...
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...de Cervantes's hero Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza encounter one: The last questioner was Sancho, and his questions were, 'Head, shall I by any chance have another government? Shall I ever escape from the hard life of a squire? Shall I get back to see my wife and children?' To which the answer came, Thou shalt govern in thy house; and if thou returnest to it thou...
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...adult by working as an assistant teacher in his father's school. From 1818, when he was 21, until his death ten years later, he led a precarious existence as a professional composer, depending for income on friends and patrons, and the small amount he earned from publications of his works. The Vienna in which Schubert lived in the early nineteenth century was full of...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...De re publica) and ‘On Laws’ (De legibus), inspired by Plato’s similarly named Republic and Laws, along with a great deal of new technical vocabulary for expressing philosophical ideas which until that point could only be expressed satisfactorily in Greek. Much of this work took place in a short burst of productivity during the years 45 and 44 BCE. We can only...
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...systems for managing change. You were introduced there to a distinction from De Laat and Simons (2002) between learning in social interactions (where the learning process happens within a social context, but the outcome is an individual one) and collective learning (where both the learning process and outcome take a social form). The PFMS heuristic was used to look at the ways in which you can orchestrate systemic ......
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...adult female leadership. This is hinted at again a little later. But when the purpose of the research is stated later, it only includes the understanding of female adolescent opinions on the matter with no extension. And not much further on, the next stage is stated as being an evaluation of the educational practices needed to develop female adolescent leadership. So...