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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...writes: ‘If cultural theorists want to understand how Black women and girls view their worlds, it is essential to understand why hair matters to them’ (Bank, 2004). For the vast majority of Black women and girls, hair is not just hair; it contains emotive qualities that are linked to one’s lived experience and identification. Historically, hair has held significant...
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...write a sentence or paragraph that describes your own definition of mentoring. Comment Mentors come in all shapes and sizes. The relationship might be deliberately set up or develop organically. Usually, a mentor will have more experience than you in a relevant area, whether that’s your occupation, the organisation you work within or even a group or committee that...
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...Write down a description of how you felt and describe what was going on at the time...Week 1: The climate and ecological crisis and how we got here: 2 Anthropocene and growth - You’ll now take a step back to look at the Earth’s history and humanity’s recent history, for it is in these wider contexts that people can situate and grasp what is happening. The...
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...write. The muscle groups of young children can only mature successfully if each stage is built on the completion of earlier stages of development. This is gained through plenty of practise in play and activity. A missed or incomplete earlier stage will affect a later stage – a child who has not had time to develop shoulder, arm and wrist muscles will not be able to...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...writing a series of poems. His ‘one poem in many voices’ The Farewell Glacier sought to give a voice to people, places and other animals and things related to the region. Listen to Nick reading two extracts from The Farewell Glacier, related to themes of the first two sections of this course. The first is about Wally Herbert (1934–2007), the British polar explorer,...
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...write it down. Do not go and look it up or search online for the right answer – this is about guessing Write down an upper and lower limit that you are 98 per cent certain contains the correct answer. For example, how far is the earth from the sun? Estimate: 150,000,000 km Upper and lower limit: 200,000,000 km and 100,000,000 km What was the: value of Swedish exports in...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...write, and count and develop their mental and physical abilities so they can reach their full potential as adults. The right to food means that every child must have enough healthy food so they have strong and healthy bodies. The right to health means that children must be allowed to grow in a safe, clean environment so they can become healthy adults. They must be cared...
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...write them by hand, you should underline the name). My dictionary gives, at the end of the definition of the word 'lepton', the Greek word leptos meaning 'slender' or 'fine' and at the end of the definition of 'onyx', it gives onyx as a Greek word meaning 'nail' or 'claw'. So the name of the genus, Leptonychotes refers to the narrow claws on the flippers of the seal...