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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...changes over the past century, re-defining its objectives as our understanding of abuse has changed. Now it includes not only neglect, economic exploitation, and cruelty, but emotional, psychological, and sex abuse as well. So child protection enters the 21st century with a substantial depth of good – but often painful - experience of welfare and law. It must attract...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...change, like comparing learning outcomes of students taught through a standard classroom book versus simulations. In this strategy, participants are randomly assigned to a control or experimental group (for example, the classroom book or the simulation group). The non-experimental strategy is used when you don't aim to change a situation, but still measure outcomes in...
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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start their academic careers. I had a wife, I had two children, I had a mortgage, so the actual...
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Free tech tools to help you study
Digital & Computing

Free tech tools to help you study

...changing settings or experimenting with features, there are a couple of really useful starting points to consider. Apple For those of you using Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads, or Macs, under ‘settings’ you’ll find a menu called ‘accessibility’. Here you’ll find a range of options which you can experiment with. The resources will cover some of these...
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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...change can you see between Anderson's emphasis on the need to distinguish between the deserving and the undeserving poor? What does this tell us about the process of social construction and the importance of history for understanding the present? Consider how the programme highlights the need and access to welfare are socially constructed and contested. Consider how the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...changes colour when bound by O2, oxygenated blood is often depicted as bright red, whereas deoxygenated blood is shown as blue in colour. This course doesn't explore how blood circulates around the body, but it is important to note that the lungs differ from other organs in that deoxygenated blood is carried to the lungs via arterioles (and larger arteries), whereas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...changes affect meaning. For example, if we left out the apostrophe in Let’s, which indicates that the u in us has been left out, there would be no loss or distortion of meaning. In this case, incorrect grammar would only be a superficial problem: it might make us question the attention to detail of the text producer, or even cause the reader to make negative social...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...change. It started one way, and it continued that way. Obviously, as the time goes by, things get better with yourself. You get more and more clean. So things obviously go off a bit with testing, et cetera, et cetera. But generally, it was the same experience the whole way through. What worked really well with FDAC is they keep you busy, they keep you very, very busy. So...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs