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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the relationship of behaviour to context, the influence of neighbourhood, cultural background, social and economic situations. A holistic approach to children’s needs balances...
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...think to have the right culture you need a mix of males and females, and you need people from different backgrounds. An athlete needs to see someone who looks like them - whether it’s colour, sex or gender. That’s always a good starting point. (Paula Dunn, first women and black women Paralympics head coach) [women playing volleyball] We’re at the stage where we have...
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...think, and act in different ways, and using reading to shape one’s writing. The pleasure of inner work: e.g., using reading to learn about oneself, to imagine oneself in different situations and consider options. However, this study of the young people’s perceptions, indicates that only their intellectual pleasure was directly fostered in school. Wilhelm (2016) urges...
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...system. Although you can use the alternative formats offline for your own convenience, you do need to work through the online version of the course for full functionality (such as accessing links, using the audio and video materials, and completing the quizzes). Please use the downloads as convenient tools for studying the materials when away from the internet and return...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...think about taking other courses. ['Personal branding for career success' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions...
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...thinking about what resilience means to you, how you picture it, and considering your own definition, image or metaphor for resilience. Note down your thoughts in the box below or in the interactive toolkit. As mentioned in the Introduction and guidance, there are places for you to make notes in the ‘Activities’ section of the toolkit. To open the toolkit, click this...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any shortcomings in jury decision-making lie, and, if possible, to overcome these shortcomings. We know from both everyday decision making and...
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...think of history as something that should be confined to books and school lessons, something almost alien. The author L. P. Hartley called it, ‘a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ But in truth, history is all around us. It is today, because without the recording of actions of people now, there would be nothing to study in the future. The way we...