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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
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...simple story: the number of Christians from some minority ethnic backgrounds has been increasing, and equally, someone might tick ‘Christian’, but not have attended church for years. The broader trend of falling numbers of Christians isn’t due to immigration: Muslims still only make up 4.8% of the population, a rise of less than 2%. Nor is it due to a rise in new...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...simple and reflective tone of the narrator’s rueful observation – ‘It have men like that in the world, too’ (p. 52) – concludes this section with what Ramchand calls ‘acceptance and a quiet awe’ (1985, p. 11). Clearly, Bart falls prey to the shattering of at least the first two of the illusions outlined by Dabydeen and Tagoe-Wilson. The falsity of the belief...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...simple process though. An interesting example of this is evident in a study from Malta, in which a practitioner describes running a session with a mother and child online: I saw that the mother of Child 3 was getting frustrated that her son was distracted. She was telling him‘Attenzione Maestra!’ I tried to tell her its okay and not to worry and that it is normal to...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...simple greetings and saying your name, you will progress towards understanding more complex language in a variety of different scenarios. The course includes interactive activities, explanations, exercises and tips about language learning. It is a good idea to keep notes either on paper or electronically so that you can keep track of your progress. Before you start, just...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...simple, preventative steps themselves in order to protect themselves, their family, and their businesses, right up to and including joint coproduction of services, whether that be through the delivery of restorative justice within communities or wider community safety initiatives, including the likes of neighborhood watch, but elevating that, bringing it into the digital...
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Level 1: Introductory 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
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