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Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...communities by the state and individuals. * cartographer Map maker * chattel A legal term for property * civilising mission One of the rationales for the European imperial projects. The idea was that colonised places would be 'improved' by contact with what Europeans considered to be their 'superior' civilisation (political and legal system, culture and religion). *...
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...communities. You might like to make notes as you watch, and you can pause the video as many times as you wish. Once you have finished viewing, answer the questions that follow. Write your answers in the box on the screen, then click on ‘reveal discussion’ to see if that mirrors your own thoughts, or offers you further ideas. Video 2 What did the children gain from...
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...communities. But on reflection, doing development means a whole set of other issues, too. This could mean involvement about cycle routes in the local area. It could relate to issues of knife crime and youth clubs that fill the local papers. Or any number of time-consuming projects, like working with local schools to engage children to learn about and campaign on...
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...communications system to its users. For the engineers who set it up and maintain it, it is a technical system (that is linked to an employment system – a job – in their view). Similarly someone who designs telephone switches considers each switch as a system in its own right – a switch can record usage data as well as route your calls. As Example 3 shows, there is a...
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...community centres, voluntary movements such as Girlguiding, faith-based projects, education or training related projects, those linked with arts or sport, and, importantly, the street. You might be aware of organisations that work with people of all ages but wish to acknowledge the particular contribution of young people. Alternatively, you may have experience of spending...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...communicate. And that’s the way things which are social out there in the social world are used by us. We don’t internalise but we work with and make our own the ideas that were once social and become part of our inner world. Become part of, in his terms, our inner speech. So it’s not a copying of the outside world. This is a tool for working with ideas which are...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...communication process, toward the attainment of a specific goal or goals (Tannenbaum, Weschler and Massik, quoted in Bogenschneider, 2016). Leadership occurs when persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality (Burns, quoted in Bogenschneider, 2016). Leaders are those who consistently make...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...communication. New technology developments can make this access easier, but they can also raise new barriers. These barriers can often be removed by considering the needs of disabled users when designing and implementing electronic or online educational materials...Accessibility of eLearning: 1.1 Why is accessibility important? - [Described image] Figure 1 Neon sign As...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs