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Imagery and metaphor
Money & Business

Imagery and metaphor

...change... Imagery and metaphor An introduction to this album. Engaging the imagination Ways of solving problems using the power of imagery and metaphor at work. Group metaphor development Employees start to map their metaphors for the companyís work. Storytelling warm-up Techniques for a group to make up a story together, a powerful technique for working on problematic...
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Audio 44 mins
Heritage, whose heritage?
History & The Arts

Heritage, whose heritage?

...heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed. Perceptions of heritage Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage. Save Britain's Heritage How architectural heritage is fundamental to a sense of nationhood and identity and why it's vital to preserve it, according to campaign group Save....
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...change across space and/or time, which allows us to make comparisons across them. Typically, we might compare measures made at different locations at the same time, or at different times for the same location. When investigating particular sorts of development, we can use indicators to help us keep track of how particular concepts or ideas we associate with different...
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Video 45 mins
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...change over time. This requires them to move beyond synchronic ‘snapshots’ of human psychology in order to explore the lived experience and psychological functioning of individuals across their entire lifespans. From the time of Darwin’s first publication on his own child, children have been central to psychology. One of the most influential developmental...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...change things, either. I started seeing my now-husband in 2003 – a courtship unofficially sponsored by Stella Artois (lager; 4.8%) and Smirnoff (vodka; 37.5%). We’d go to a pub near one of our houses, get drunk on lager and then, when we should have been calling it quits, switch to spirits. None of this seemed particularly remarkable. I didn’t feel that I had a...
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Article 10 mins
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...climates throughout the world and mammals, birds, lizards and amphibians that survive there. It splits these animals into three groups according to their strategy for survival: evaders, evaporators and endurers, then discusses how these strategies work on a biochemical and physiological level...Animal life has adapted to survive in the most unlikely and inhospitable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...changes to life expectancy – up 6 years for men and 5 for women since the start of the 1980s – and the increase in the numbers of women with children who are in employment up 9% since 2000 – have added to pressures on households too. More families are having to care for both their children and their parents at a time when their free time is limited (ONS, 2019)....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...changes in the law in 2001 which strengthened students’ rights to a mainstream placement: Schools supported by local education authorities and others should actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude pupils with special educational needs. (DfES, 2001b, paragraph 7) The Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE), a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs