1,906 search results
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...education and training; environment; health and social services; housing; law and order; local government; sport and the arts; tourism; and economic development – indeed, all areas that were not expressly reserved to the UK Parliament at Westminster under the Act. Areas reserved to the UK Parliament in the 1998 Act include taxation, employment, broadcasting, trade and...
View course Social work law and UK regulation
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...education, commerce and philosophy, Owen had gained knowledge which he saw as ‘useful’ in educating and reforming the character of these workers, thus ensuring their productivity and, he believed, their happiness. For Owen, as for most Enlightenment thinkers, the creation of happiness was a rational business, with identifiable causes and effects that could be...
View course The Enlightenment
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...educator talking about visualisation and find out how personal views compare with those of some other secondary-school mathematics teachers identify some ways that visualising could be incorporated into a classroom and consider a number of resources that might be useful...Using visualisation in maths teaching: 1. A powerful force for perception and understanding -...
View course Using visualisation in maths teaching
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...education, healthcare, social work or youth work settings. However, you will also find it of value if you are planning to work in one of these fields, or if you simply wish to improve your understanding of services for children and young people. The course is structured around a series of activities which invite you to read an academic text, watch videos of a practice...
View course Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...technology could also be used for harm but was always optimistic that the benefits of universal, free access to the would far outweigh its harmful aspects; "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now...
View article John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Article 10 mins
Climate of fear: culture of hope
Languages

Climate of fear: culture of hope

...technology. So public opinion is vital, both in demanding action over change and in accepting the consequences of that change. Shifts in public opinion can result from activism, public awareness campaigns and propaganda. But one of the most potent agents for change is culture. Which is why the climate crisis is an issue that’s closely bound up with language, with...
View video Climate of fear: culture of hope
Video 5 mins
Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...technological miracle is ultimately only a moving statue. She is a simulacrum which in Latin can mean sculpture, substitute, likeness and ghost. When the vampire Spike commissions April’s inventor to produce a Buffy robot to satisfy his passion for the Slayer (his natural nemesis) it raises all kinds of questions about the dead, the undead and the never alive in the...
View article Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
Article 5 mins
The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...technology, is a boom activity and I know some very sane people who have become totally obsessive about it. Everybody has a history, not just the famous or the infamous. [World War I soldiers [Posed by actors]] In the last few years local history societies have sprung up all over the country. There is hardly a town or community that now has not had at least one history...
View article The nature of history
Article 10 mins