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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...determined’, English in Education, 50(3), pp. 255–269. Morrow-Howell, N., Jonson-Reid, M., McCrary, S., Lee, Y. and Spitznagel, E. (2009) Evaluation of Experience Corps: Student Reading Outcomes.Washington, DC: Center for Social Development. Orkin, M., Pott, M., Wolf, M., May, S. and Brand, E. (2018) ‘Beyond Gold Stars: Improving the Skills and Engagement of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...determine physical wellbeing, but feeling physically well means different things to different people. If you have a long-term medical condition, for example, your personal sense of your physical wellbeing may differ from what’s considered medically ‘normal’. As modern life has become more and more hectic, and the COVID-19 pandemic introduced a whole new set of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...determined by the increasingly exclusive propaganda cult of Napoleon. The painting Gros produced instead, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken of Jaffa (see Plate 3), testifies to the authoritarian nature of the new regime on a number of levels. For one thing, it was not commissioned by means of the democratic system of the competition, which had become the standard...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...determines whether a child’s brain will provide a strong or weak foundation for all future learning, behaviour, and health. During this important period of brain development, billions of brain cells called neurons send electrical signals to communicate with each other. These connections form circuits that become the basic foundation of brain architecture. Circuits and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...determined opposition from powerful quarters. Exercise 1 So far in this section you have been introduced to the main mission of the Enlightenment. Try now to stand back from the detail of the section, and summarise in about 50 words what you see as the main characteristics of that mission. Discussion The main characteristics of the Enlightenment's mission were: a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...determine different aspects of a research project. Look, now, at another researcher, Meera, who is working in a school context with older children. In this short video, you will see her talking about how she sought to hear, understand, and value the views of her students. Activity 5 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes. Bearing in mind what you have been considering in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...determining the areas where guinea worms are endemic and the areas where they have spontaneously disappeared. Answer Even in endemic countries, dracunculiasis does not occur in urban areas where piped water is supplied, and it is rare in rural communities where the principal sources of drinking water are fast-running streams or deep wells, because the intermediate host...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...determine the ways and the extent to which donors continue to give their support. Imagine you are working as a fundraiser: the whole asking–giving relationship is often formed and developed at a distance. That distance means that your work with donors and supporters can be difficult. To be effective you must be able to relate to each and every donor and supporter as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs