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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...code, but instruction alone is not enough – children need to be able to read, and they need to want to read. Thus, the pedagogies, classroom practices and educator characteristics that support children to become engaged readers have the potential to enhance children’s educational attainment, their social and emotional wellbeing, and to enrich their lives. This session...
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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
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...code. Two of the boxes in each line are shaded grey. The tick has been placed in one that is white. It’s highly possible that Charles has just saved someone’s life. Charles is an African giant pouched rat, a species endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. He’s also a pioneer, one of 30 of his species that live and work here in Morogoro, a few hundred kilometres west of...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...simple scale (Hickman, 2020). However, she cautions about using it too rigidly or in an overly clinical medicalised way. This is a shortened version of her scale. Mild Some feelings of upset, but not constant Reassured that others have the answers Little disruption in cognition/thinking Medium Feeling upset more frequently (e.g. weekly) and more strongly Fundamental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...simple fact of being alive is something shared with plants, but we are looking for that which makes humans special. We must therefore set aside nutrition and growth, those activities that are simply for the purpose of living. Next, we could consider activities like perceiving and feeling, but these things too are shared with horses, oxen and most other animals. What...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...simples et courtes: écrivez entre vingt et cinquante mots par dialogue. Essayez d’utiliser: le nouveau vocabulaire que vous avez appris; le passé composé; des expressions exprimant l’intention; la forme interrogative; le pronom ‘on’. Deux amis ont regardé ensemble le défilé sur les Champs-Élysées: Le premier dit: ____________________ Le second répond:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...simple calculations. For example, in 1991, the total number of households surveyed was 22.4 million, so the actual number of four-person households surveyed is found by calculating 16% of 22.4 million, which is 3584 000 households. (Because 22.4 million is a rounded figure, this number of households will not be exact.) Since each column in the table should include all the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs