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Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...educational purpose for child readers. In the next activity, you’ll look at what children’s literature is traditionally considered to be for. [Described image] Figure 3 Writing for instruction or delight?...Approaching language, literature and childhood: 2.1 The key questions - During the rest of this section, you’ll read and reflect on some academic material over...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...education sector, and the NHS as well. It’s important in everybody’s life. Woman I don’t know. Woman I don’t know. [Inaudible] Woman Yes, I think it is. Woman Yes [Inaudible]. Interviewer Tell us why. Woman Because the government decides about what money goes to certain places. I don’t know, really. Man Well, of course politics is important, but there’s got to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...education, social care and local government for example – and voluntary organisations, from churches to neighbourhood action groups, who help get things done in the community. The phrase ‘partnership working’ is used to describe a wide range of arrangements and ways of working, from informal networking between individuals, to formally contracted service partnerships...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Geological Society and the Society...
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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...education in that process. That is interesting and useful. However, the traditional emphasis on the importance of social reformers and legislation should also not be ignored. In fact, this presents an opportunity for work on finding out what happened in Victorian Britain. Such an exercise is suggested in Activity 4. The point about Activity 4 is to direct attention to:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...education or culture, we are part of these things, for we live, think and communicate within them. Social science has to wrestle with the problem of human beings creating explanations about themselves and their society when they are part and parcel of that society. Even when social scientists think about and describe their theories and findings they use words, analogies...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...education. Supporters of internal marketing highlight its potential to achieve organisational objectives, improving both customer and employee satisfaction. Grönroos (1981) distinguishes between strategic and tactical approaches to internal marketing. At a strategic level, this can include the adoption of supportive management styles, e.g. human resources policies and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs