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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: California University Press...Session 2: The rise of the prison school: Further reading - Bartrip, P.W.J. (1982) ‘British government inspection, 1832–1875: some observations’, Historical Journal, 25(3), pp. 605–26. Forsythe, W.J. (1987) The Reform of Prisoners,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...working out to wider social factors relevant to each person. Take a moment to consider how this model might apply to you yourself. Discussion As we are all individuals with our own experiences, social connections and different circumstances, this model helps us appreciate how people in seemingly similar situations can experience quite different mental health outcomes. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...work and lifestyle. Make sure you also set aside time for friends, social activities, hobbies and other personal interests – you do need time to unwind and re-energise. Focus on your goals. Focus on your immediate goals (a deadline, activity, assignment) and your longer term goals (the end of your course or your graduation), and consider where your studies are leading...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...social framework in which citizens live and work. This money is raised and spent collectively. It reduces the need for private expenditure. Without it, the costs of health, education and much of the infrastructure on which we depend for the smooth running of our lives would have to be funded entirely from private individuals and organisations. Our society would be very...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Social housing and working class heritage
History & The Arts

Social housing and working class heritage

...Social housing and working class heritage An introduction to this album. Social housing: winners and losers Iconic status or demolition? Social housing estates have had widely differing fates - which way will it go for the Carpenters' estate? Social housing: fighting for survival Shows campaigning by the Carpenters estate and the Excalibur estate to save their ......
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Audio 1 hr 30 mins
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...social scientific research. Although theory works at a whole series of levels, there are common characteristics which can be identified in the things we do, from the most abstract to the most ordinary everyday levels. For instance, when you awake every morning you engage in a complex series of tasks of varying levels of complexity, ranging from brushing your teeth to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...social media work in Higher Education is designed to help you do this, it will help you reflect upon the decisions you make about how to use social media as part of your Higher Educational journey...Introduction and guidance: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the personal impact of social media and make informed choices...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...working through er of the idea of things being socially constructed and the fact that what we deal with in studying social policy in this way, is a field of social constructions, is important. In the same way I want to pick up one little phrase that Esther used, which is when she was talking about Book 1 she said, ‘and the case studies that are in Book 1’, and I think...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr