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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...simple definitions and models of educational leadership and management, we argue that these are contested concepts that can be challenged when you think critically. Key questions that help us to adopt a critical approach to thinking about educational leadership are those that ask what the theories presented have to say about individual agency, power, views of knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...code are also likely to be against the law; criminal law provides the obvious example of where morality and law often merge. The influence of morality in a very general sense is also implicit in a wide range of different laws. For instance, in the commercial world, laws criminalising bribery and the imposition of legal duties on company directors embody what would...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...coding. But guess what I’m called in England or the UK? ‘Other’. And it’s that otherness that is part of my identity, and I believe that mental health discrimination is that otherness which is sometimes indefinable. But you pick it up – this overt and covert discrimination. I call it ‘psychophobia’: fear of mental illness. And there are certain conditions....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...simple terms, when writing a description, the social worker is providing factual information. This could be information that has been directly observed by the social worker or has been provided to them directly by someone else. Here are some examples: Description: Rhiannon is 4 years old Anup informed me that she has lived alone at the same address for 18 months Mr...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...simple categories outlined in Box 2 are subject to debate and can be interdependent. For example, composting often needs added extra heat to speed up the process to create useful products more quickly. Similarly, if waste is incinerated with energy recovery, so that the energy recovered can be used for district heating schemes or fed into the electricity grid, then some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...simple question with an obvious answer. However, a number of related questions arise from this. The first one probably ought to be, are they customers at all? Here are some examples to illustrate: Customers are those that purchase a good or service. If you go to a vegetable supplier and buy a box of avocadoes for your ‘pop up’ café, you are being a customer, but not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...simple and so obviously beneficial that any thinking person could understand them. Owen evidently presented Place with a manuscript, asking if he would read and correct it for him, but whether this consisted of the first two essays or all four is unclear. Friendship apart, Place was incredulous that Owen believed he was the first to observe that ‘man was a creature of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...codes of ethics and statements of required behaviours (BASW, 2014, for example) are mechanisms for translating and codifying professional philosophies into practical guidance for deployment and use. Calder (2015) argues that the hallmarks of ethical competence incorporate a knowledge of ethical codes, principles and rules, combined with a capacity to engage in dynamic...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs