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Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...concepts being mobilised, organised around what poverty means and therefore what you do about it, is that a reasonable conclusion to draw. Gail Lewis Absolutely. Let's think about an example from now. It's July 2001, and there's been a whole series of disturbances in West Yorkshire and Lancashire towns and most recently, and perhaps the most violent have been the ones in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...prompt parents to ‘contact the pain team if you feel your child’s pain isn’t as well controlled’. A consistent approach was deemed important in meeting or raising expectations although it was agreed that this was often dependent on the ‘individual nurses on the floor on that particular day unfortunately’. A pain consultant reported: ‘We can never...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...prompt’ questions below as a guide. What was the situation? How did it make you feel? Why do you think it occurred? How do you think this could have been prevented? If you can’t think of any personal experiences, think about why you haven’t experienced any discrimination and/or think of an incident you might have witnessed. Also, consider whether you might have been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...prompted to introduce him to the spaces and places where his skills might be applied and his interests fulfilled, so supporting his transition into his new environment. The value of using learning stories as boundary objects is highlighted in the following example from Carmen Huser, Sue Dockett and Bob Perry’s research which followed one group of children’s transition...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...concepts. As well as the course text, you will be using The Life of Mammals book (LoM) and related The Life of Mammals DVDs, as described in the introduction to this course. Before you go any further, watch 'The Social Climbers' on the DVD and read LoM Chapter 9. Unless stated otherwise, all the page references you encounter in this course will be to LoM. The social...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...concept of an information society is a key one in this course and the next section will give you a better idea of what it involves...Introducing computing and IT: 2 Some aspects of our information society - Timing This section of the course should take you around three hours to complete. If you don’t have time to work through it all at once, there are break points where...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...concepts of crime, social order and constructions of deviance. This generation of criminologists, influenced by a rapidly changing social world, denounced what they had come to view as the ‘mainstream criminological ideology’ (Taylor et al., 1973). It is here that the story of critical criminology begins...Critical criminology and the social sciences: 2.1 What does it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...concept of the gene as the unit of inheritance understand that sexual reproduction always includes two distinctive processes: the production of gametes, which involves meiosis, and fertilisation. understand that a particular phenotypic character is determined by the two copies of a gene that an organism possesses and these two copies are identical in a pure-breeding...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs