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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...analysis of what has gone wrong the members of the group, as representatives of their departments or subgroups, may adopt generally defensive postures. Once defensiveness has been established as the group dynamic, it will be virtually impossible to establish the sort of cooperative and free-wheeling dynamic that is required in a creative group. There will be a tendency...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...analysis of yoga and mindfulness meditation in prison: effects on psychological well-being and behavioural functioning’, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 60, no. 13, pp. 1–22. Barker, M-J. (2013) Mindful Counselling & Psychotherapy: Practising Mindfully across Approaches and Issues, London, Sage. Barker, M-J. (2016)...
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...analysis could be applied to many groups of young people who find themselves marginalised in learning situations. It is not only learners with disabilities or learning difficulties who find themselves excluded. Exclusion can be based on a range of factors and, as Ghuman (1999) has shown in his work with adolescents from South Asia, some populations find themselves the...
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...analysis. What kinds of skills would you need in order to be able to go to the toilet completely independently? And then, when you’ve got that skills analysis broken down, you can gradually start to build one skill at a time through a process called backward chaining, which is where you think about those skills as a linear sequence, start from the very last skill in...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...Analysis of the Discursive Practice of High-Performance Sport’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 219-234. Jones, R.L. (2009) ‘Coaching as caring (‘The smiling gallery’): Accessing hidden knowledge’, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 337–90. Loubert, P.V. (1999) ‘Ethical perspectives in counseling’...
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...data for 2020 shows that at the beginning of that year, 76% of the 6 million private sector businesses in the UK did not employ anyone aside from the owner (Barton, 2020). That means that there are more than 4.5 million other people like you, working on their own. Focusing on the creative sector, the Creative Industries Federation (2017) states that out of more than...
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...Data Center http://www.gnocdc.org © Copyright © Greater New Orleans Community Data Center http://www.gnocdc.org Figure 2 Map showing extent of flooding in New Orleans, 11 September 2005 Katrina's impact on New Orleans was one of the most televised disasters in recent history, generating twenty-four-hour news coverage around the world and considerable political debate....
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...data, which is something, in year one, they haven't looked at before. It's quite a hard thing, I think, for year one to get to grips with. Remember to only vote once. I'm going to leave this table and see if they can sort it out while I go across to these tables. OK, looking this way. Oh, we've got five people on this table ... As a high-level teaching assistant, I think...