1,944 search results
The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...communities or communal living situations where a space is set up along certain principles and people who share those values are encouraged to join. Of course the recent economic situation provides one important reason why there may be an increase in people looking to live in such ways. An alternative to adult children remaining at home, or retired parents moving in with...
View article The importance of alternative household arrangements
Article 5 mins
The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...communication technologies, there’s been speculation in some places that language as we know it may become obsolete in the near future!...This short animation examines how social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture...
View video The Future of Language
Video 5 mins
Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...communities may respond in variety of manners. And whilst there may not be the same need to search for bodies as there would be after a terrorist attack or natural disaster, the risk of contagion from the dying and deceased affects how mortuary and funerary practices are done, including a reduction in visitation and public memorial gatherings. - Erica Borgstrom The text...
View article Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Article 5 mins
Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Society, Politics & Law

Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards

...community who would “share as partners in promoting the success of that school, in all its life and work, and its good relationships with parents and the wider community”. Yet with breathtaking arrogance, the government’s new white paper dismisses the role of elected parents as “tokenistic” and their role as purely “symbolic”. It looks to relegate them to...
View article Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Article 5 mins
Applied social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applied social work practice

...community. The material forms part of the course K216 Applied Social Work Practice... Applied social work practice A short introduction to this album. From Home into Care Three residents reflect on their decision to move to Drummond Grange. Staff work with residents to make the transition as smooth as possible, matching each individual's needs with the activities the care...
View audio Applied social work practice
Audio 33 mins
Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...Community Members of the Findhorn community in Scotland talk about their holistic approach to health and healthcare. Quality of health Homeless people share personal views on what the quality of health means to them. Doctors' views Four doctors share views on health and their own interpretation of what it means for their patients Health and policy Two community workers...
View audio Working for health
Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...communities. Kerrie - School governor and Chair of the PTA [Kerrie] “My volunteering is an investment in my community and an opportunity to model the values I want my children to have instilled into them.” Kerrie has been a school governor at a primary school near Llanelli for the past five years, and has recently put herself forward for a second four-year term of...
View article Volunteering in the education sector
Article 5 mins
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...communicate appropriately and effectively with people from different backgrounds in your native or in a foreign language. Such attitudes include for example a strong sense of self, curiosity, respect and open-mindedness towards ways of being that are different from what you understand as ‘normal’. An ethno-relative instead of an ethno-centric mindset is also crucial:...
View course An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs