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Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...et al.’s (2014) research. The researchers found that children often associated play with toys and games and saw play to be very much part of their social interactions and relationships with other children. Laughing and having fun featured strongly, as did being able to choose how they played and what they played with. Many of the older children interviewed also...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...et al., 2007, p. 95). Ancona and her colleagues (2007) suggest that the idea of an all-round complete leader is a myth, and it is important instead to acknowledge that any leader will have their strengths and weaknesses. They suggest that the ‘incomplete leader’, having recognised their own strengths and weaknesses, knows when to let go, and will find other people to...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...et al., 2006, Kuhn, 2000, Kistner, 2010). Being metacognitively aware as a teacher, involves understanding how your thinking (and therefore learning) is developing. Finally, Ixer highlights how, through metacognition, and conscious control of your thinking and learning, you will be more equipped to transfer your learning between different contexts and situations. This is...
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...et al., 2021). While your attraction towards heroic characters in fiction is easy to understand (they are pro-social, positive characters whom you may see as being role models), the attraction that you feel towards your favourite villain is perhaps harder to explain and has been something which psychologists, alongside authors of fiction, have been interested to explore....
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...Institution of Chartered Surveyors. So that’s good. Lynne Johnson Great and that’s the accreditation you need, isn’t it, to actually call yourself a professional chartered surveyor in the end and is that normal that a company in construction would help fund your training? Daniel Morrissey Yeah, yeah. It is in the construction industry. Lynne Johnson Great. Thank you...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...institutions which make laws through the authority of the state. The laws have sanctions which are recognised by the state and enforced by state-authorised bodies. This is quite a wordy definition but it highlights some of the important factors in law-making: the authority of the state is needed only certain institutions can make law the institutions that make law have...
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...et al. (1998) Immunology, 5th edn. Mosby International Ltd Audio Visual Video 1: Immune defence: © The Open University. Diagram: adapted from Male. D, et al (eds) (2020), ‘Immunology 9th edition’, Elsevier Video 2: Apoptosis: ‘Immunology Interactive 3.0’ by Professor David Male, Professor Jonathan Brostoff and Professor Ivan Roitt. Copyright © David Male....
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...Institut, um eine für ’ne… Ja, es ist ’ne gute Sozialsphäre dort im Institut. Und von dem her ist es auch generell für mein gesamtes Wohlbefinden wichtig, dort zu arbeiten. Ich lebe um zu arbeiten, weil die Arbeit mir Spaß macht, aber ich arbeite auch, um zu leben, weil man braucht ja schließlich Geld zum Leben, und ich habe auch ’ne sehr interessante...