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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...everyday talk, public discourse and political debates sometimes treat the concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘work’ as separate spheres of activity, or even binary opposites: welfare or work. This can occur in different ways, for example: an explicit connection is drawn between welfare and work, as though they were directly dependent upon one another: welfare and work,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...everyday life. However, he is largely remembered for one dramatic piece of work – the obedience studies. The best way to get inside this study is to imagine that you are one of the participants taking part in Milgram’s experiment. So read on with that in mind...Psychological research, obedience and ethics: 1.1 The set-up - It’s 1961 and you are arriving at the doors...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...everyday for the past six years. Er I do still love jam and, and have jam on my toast or porridge most mornings. A successful jam-making business Discussion Based on the evidence of the video and blog, you may have noticed that Fraser Doherty has a number of personal attributes that appear to have been useful in developing his jam-making venture. For example, he is able...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...English and do some private tutoring as well. And there's talk of my teaching developing and expanding, and I'll be teaching A-level English shortly as well. The particular institution I work for uses a system of synchronous lessons. So the students log in at the same time as I do, and we have a class. We use software, which is called Electa. And within Electa, my...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...Everyday Life, Penguin Press, London. Houghton, D.J. and Joinson, A.N. (2010) ‘Privacy, social network sites, and social relations’, Journal of Technology in Human Services, vol. 28, no. 1–2, pp. 74–94. Ince, D.C., Hatton, L. and Graham-Cumming, J. (2012) ‘The case for open computer programs’, Nature, vol. 482, pp. 485–8. Joinson, A.N. and Paine, C.B. (2007)...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...everyday arithmetic and for more complicated calculations that use the function keys as well. Key sequences, which describe which keys to press, are included in all the activities, so you can try out the ideas straightaway. Due to the wide range of scientific calculators available, for the purposes of this course we will be concentrating on the Casio fx-83ES model. Other...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...everyday life, it can create difficulties for the people who make the law; it is difficult, if not impossible, to make laws that apply to every family when every family is different...Applying social work law with children and families: 5.1 Why does understanding ‘family’ matter? - While precision about family structures might be required for legal reasons (for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...everyday life. It affects how we engage with each other. It affects with how we engage with the world and, importantly, how the world engages with us in return. So, for me, I see gender as a social construction. Yes, we’re born with the bits- all the physical attributes and pieces that dictate our sex, but all that other stuff about how men and women should act, how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs