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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...everyday professional practice. Activity 2 Theory and practice Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes Think about the work that you do every day, whether it’s in education or with children or young people in some other context. Now think about some of the ways in which you are aware that practice has changed in that context over (say) the past 20 years or so. What are...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...everyday processes and conflict can make even the simplest task difficult to achieve. Team working has benefits, however. It provides a structure and means of bringing together people with a suitable mix of skills and knowledge. This encourages the exchange of ideas, creativity, motivation and job satisfaction and can extend individual roles and learning. In turn, this...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...everyday contexts, and we may not often notice when and for how long we are reflecting. It may seem unfamiliar, even strange, to reflect as a specific and planned activity. The reason for doing so is because a more strategic use of reflection – giving yourself time to do it regularly and building it into your study methods – enables you to monitor progress, learn from...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...Everyday units for length (such as metres) are just as inappropriate for these tiny objects as they are for defining the vast distances between stars. When measuring the scale of the Universe it's necessary to consider the smallest and largest objects and distances and how they're defined. The physical quantity of interest is length (it may be the diameter of an object or...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...everyday 1950s advertisements contribute to the construction of identities ‘fuelled’ by the consumption of ‘animal products’. The affective dimension of the AIC is crucial to its survival. The social harms outlined earlier are indeed ‘partly opaque’, in that the plight of ‘livestock’ receives scant media attention (Freeman, 2016), despite these harms being...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...everyday conduct rather than consequences. Utilitarians believe that the consequences of one’s actions are the important thing, and that organisations should work to deliver the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. This approach can lead to a dispassionate evaluation of actions, comparing the number of people that benefit with the number of people who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...English traveller to Egypt. She wrote a lively account of her journey up the Nile in 1874 (first published in 1877). As a result of her growing interest in the place, she went on to found the Egypt Exploration Society and to fund a Chair in Egyptology at London University. Activity 2 Amelia Edwards – traveller Read the quotations below and then answer this question:...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...everyday scientific events into a compelling cultural narrative, says Stephen Casper, a historian of neurology at Clarkson University in New York. “It has all the ingredients of something that I think physiologists and neurologists in the early part of the 20th century were looking for and hoping they would find, something that would bring together heredity,...
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