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The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...double belongingness. The example used by Merleau-Ponty is touching – for instance, our right hand with our left – and the way in which this is always reversible: when one hand is touching (that which is perceiving) then the other is touched (the object of perception) and vice versa. Neither is reducible to the other and both are of the same order of meaning. He draws...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...et al., 2004, p. 10). Assess the effectiveness of your teaching: use evidence about the effectiveness of the teaching decisions that you take (approaches, resources, tasks, activities, timings and so on) to inform modifications within lessons or sequences. Without the process of adapting teaching and learning, the assessment is not formative – it is merely frequent....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...et al. (1996) argue in favour of presenting learning strategies in a meaningful way within a communicative context for language learning. On the other hand, Dörnyei (2005, p. 174) has pointed out the advantages of explicit learning strategy instruction, as it not only raises learners’ awareness about language learning strategies, but also offers a wide menu of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...et al., 1987, pp. 51–2) Miller and Bennett were satirizing the philosophical trends of their time, but their sketch illustrates two views about philosophy that are still fairly widespread. One is that philosophers are out of touch with everyday life and the concerns of ordinary people. The other is that philosophical debates are very abstract and often come down to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...double game here. While robustly demystifying Orland’s adoration (as ‘Ganymede’ pretending to be ‘Rosalind’), she is herself passionately in love with him. How seriously, then, can we take anything she says in the exchange? There are many different possible answers to this question for readers (and theatre directors). As throughout the play, Orlando’s is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...et al., 2013, p. 306). In the context of the voluntary sector, voluntary organisations are often perceived to be particularly value-driven. Organisational values may be similar to the types of personal values you have explored so far this week such as helping others, showing compassion, making a difference and so on. They are usually expressed in a more collaborative way,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...et al., 2008) and it embraces OpenCourseWare but would also include any educational materials, technologies and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licences to remix, improve and redistribute. OpenLearn is an example of a collection of OERs. The term ‘open content’ was first used by David Wiley, an academic now working at Utah State...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...et al. (2015) and Norton and Dalrymple (2020) note that the definition of employability continues to shift and be challenged, in the next activity you will hear directly from employers. Regardless of slightly differing perceptions, employability should be considered as a lifelong journey, rather than something that only happens when people are studying or in the early...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs