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Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...social services and education have insights into the diverse roles and distinctive contributions of teaching assistants across the UK be able to identify some of the skills that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and that contribute to productive teamwork be reflecting on the value of the work of teaching assistants and on the support skills involved,...
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...social housing and deprivation. Even though it’s technically not the ‘real’ meaning, ‘banlieue’ might be better translated as ‘inner city’ in English. Love of reading: Translators are professional writers who need to be able to write well. Wide reading is a must for developing a really good writing style. Read good novels, good-quality journalism (great for...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...social and mental processes that have contributed to the ecological and climate crisis, and our responses and processes of adaptation to it. […] We draw on psychotherapeutic approaches, psychosocial studies, the arts, spiritual and philosophical thought, literature, systems thinking and ecopsychology, all in the service of unpicking our collective and individual...
Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...social media. Would we see the much anticipated new style of PMQs? Or would we see more blood on the carpet – specifically the blood of a mild-mannered 66-year-old from north London? [The Houses of Parliament] Is a new light being shed on politics at Westminster? In the event, Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of the opposition, put in a respectable performance,...
Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...social commentary on norms of gender, race, sexuality and class, set against a backdrop of homophobia, racism and socio-economic deprivation. Transcript Paris is Burning garnered widespread positive critical appraisal and won a Sundance Film Festival Jury prize. Its popularity was far reaching and it drew significant attention from feminist and queer scholars offering...
What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...social relations, including oppression and exploitation in the era of high technological innovation. At the same time, it underplayed the ability of sovereign nation states to address these problems through social redistributive policies. Instead, liberal cosmopolitanism uncritically justified economic liberalism that led to dogmatic policies of free trade and...
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...Social Lives of Networked Teens, too many students I met were being told that Wikipedia was untrustworthy and were, instead, being encouraged to do research. As a result, the message that many had taken home was to turn to Google and use whatever came up first. They heard that Google was trustworthy and Wikipedia was not. Understanding what sources to trust is a basic...
After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...social support is the single most important factor that protects people from the after effects of trauma. And this social support can be provided by anyone – a partner, family, friends, colleagues or members of the community. Essentially, any caring person can provide a basic level of emotional support. The best support you can provide is to offer a level of human...