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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...communication, effective information sharing and clarity about roles can all positively influence the effectiveness of pain management as well as health care practitioners (HCPs) taking a proactive stance on the relief of children’s pain. However, nurses may not take as active a role as they could do in managing children’s pain, seeing it as the parents and child’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...community settings where there were opportunities for open and honest conversations. Rather than talking using political rhetoric and complicated jargon, Nenshi believed in sharing ‘big ideas’ for Calgary, listening to what the people of the city wanted. For example, to connect with the people of NE Calgary, Nenshi’s team realised that they needed to work with...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...communities, but also to the need to examine how the diffusion of emotional or moralised content in social media relates to other modalities that mediate narratives of identity and belonging at a crossroads. Certainly, the expression of emotion is key for the spread of moral and political declarations in online social networks. But what depth and impact do our projected...
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Article 15 mins
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...community’. This highlights how black women have been ignored and side-lined in these discussions. Between 2015 and 2020 in the US, forty-eight black women had been killed by the police, yet only two charges have been brought against their assailants (NYTimes, 2020). With this in mind, it has been suggested that the true number is not known due to the hidden nature of...
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Article 15 mins
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...communication is needed to reach people. Activities are designed to help go beyond a dry intellectual knowledge of climate breakdown to enable some familiarity with the psychological challenges of recognising it as a serious threat to humans and millions of other species. The climate and ecological crisis is situated historically in three ways: deep (geological) time, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...Community in Croatia – a state-recognised organisation – bluntly rejects any type of extremism and prides itself on representing the most successful example of integration of Muslims within a European culture. Of course conservative and right wing circles argue that the military should be deployed to the borders but the government has bluntly refused this suggestion...
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Article 5 mins
It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round
Society, Politics & Law

It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round

...communities affected by major mining projects, who are clamouring for better living standards and new curbs on the excesses of extractive industries. In addition, slow growth in China and recession in Brazil mean that the prospect of quick recovery of commodity prices and foreign investment looks uncertain. This means that the Argentine economy will struggle to return to...
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Article 5 mins
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...communicate in more than a single tongue, explains Ingrid Piller...Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect of teacher expectations on student performance is...
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Article 5 mins