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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...concepts. Emotions and feelings drive behaviour, are essential to maintaining good relationships and have close connection with mental health and wellbeing. Emotions stem from key structures in the limbic system of the brain and stimulate chemical reactions in our body. They are essentially unconscious processes designed to promote survival in instances where...
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Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...concept of health. Activity 3: Thinking about your own health Timing: Allow 45 mins Take a few minutes to think about your health or the health of someone close to you (such as a friend, family member or partner). Write notes to the questions below in the word document provided. If you’re thinking about somebody else’s health, think about the questions from their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...concept of the dynamic unconscious, surveys and general qualitative approaches that assume that what people say (or write) provides a reliable indication of their views and likely behaviours, and critical discursive approaches that propose a more complex relationship between people and their language practices. The approach you adopt will probably follow in large part...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...concept of Reading for Pleasure and its significance in children’s education considered the connection and distinction between reading instruction and promoting reading engagement been introduced to the wider personal, social and emotional benefits of being a childhood reader started to consider representations of equality and diversity in children’s texts. [Line...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...prompted for you. If you feel comfortable doing so, you could share your list of emotions with a trusted friend, family member or colleague. Part 3 If you’re an educator, in the broadest sense of the term, reflect on the extent to which you feel equipped to support your learners in coping with emotions related to the climate emergency and any strategies you’ve used to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...prompt questions to spark your thinking, but write down whatever you remember about it. Record your thoughts in your notebook. The ‘facts’ of the interview … What was the interview for? Who led the interview? How many people were involved? How long was it? What kind of place was it held in? The ‘feel’ of the interview … Was the interview a good experience for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...concepts used in analysing poetry...Approaching poetry: 1 Approaching poetry - What is the point of analysing poetry? One simple answer is that the more we know about anything the more interesting it becomes: listening to music or looking at paintings with someone who can tell us a little about what we hear or see – or what we‘re reading – is one way of increasing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...concept of ‘bounded rationality’ (Simon, 1957): that is, there are limits to the cognitive and information-processing capacity we can devote to any judgement. Both perspectives also focus on individual behaviour rather than social processes. This is the starting point for the third sociological perspective identified by Tetlock: people as naïve politicians. In this...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs