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The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...human impacts on the planet. ESD curricula usually include environmental studies and science content, but also often cover social and economic aspects of sustainable development. Sustainable HE teaching and learning models Few studies have looked at how the design of HE teaching and learning systems impacts energy consumption and carbon emissions (let alone other...
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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...resource allocation, curriculum design, or classroom practices – can either reinforce barriers to learning and understanding, or break them down. The socially intelligent leader is self-aware and focuses on understanding others, forging human connections, and fostering the talents of all. References Crawford, M. (2007) ‘Rationality and emotion in primary school...
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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...human dimension of sport. If you imagine a future when it were possible to engineer a bionic athlete let’s say in baseball, which is my favourite sport, who could hit every pitch for a home run of 600 feet it would be maybe an amusing spectacle but it wouldn’t be a sport. We might admire the pharmacists or the engineer but would we admire the athlete? We would lose...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...human rights abuses, disasters, wars and other forms of persecution in their homelands. Asylum seekers and refugees are often among the most vulnerable and the poorest sectors of society. However, statutory social work is limited by law, and in some respects, in its ability to address the obvious needs of this group. Legislation relating to immigration and asylum issues...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?
Languages

Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?

...humanity, dignity, needs or opinions of those with whom he disagrees. As the tape shows, he clearly talks this way in private, too. In a campaign that has epitomized the danger of this rhetoric, women are merely the latest to fall victim to this sort of “thingification.” Silencing opponents The history of American political discourse is riddled with the
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A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...human habitation. But, the story of the relationship between chough and people is more intimate than this might suggest and legend has it that when King Arthur was ‘killed’ he did not die but was transformed into a chough, the birds blood red beak and legs serving as a reminder of the act. Consequently, the tale also states that bad luck follows anyone who kills a...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...Humans are the only animals that create, tell, buy and sell stories, and fiction is big business (Nettle, 2005). The idea that fiction engagement might be adaptive, functioning to support empathic skills or buffer against a lack of real-world social contact has generated research and public interest over the past decade or so. In 2013, a series of experiments by...
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Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau
History & The Arts

Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau

...Human Traffic Justin Kerrigan (1999), fel y ffilm nodwedd Gymreig gyntaf i wir gefnu ar y gorffennol a chynnig ffordd newydd o ddychmygu bod yn ifanc ac yn Gymry wrth i ni nesau at y milieniwm. Nodwyd yr ymgais hon i gefnu ar bortreadau traddodiadol y gorffennol yn un o'r adolygiadau cynnar o'r ffilm: Just as Trainspotting makes a clean break with the traditional Scotland...
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