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National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...writing, could be prosecuted by the state for ‘sedition’. Authors often sought to avoid prosecution by using a pseudonym. The pseudonym in this case is also significant: Hibernia is the Latin word for Ireland, and ‘Hibernicus’ means ‘of or pertaining to the Irish people’. Although England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales had long shared a monarch, in 1801, for the...
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...writing and the way they’re engaging with a particular text that they’ve been taught. The most important thing when I came into teaching was that I had to have the attention of the pupils, and that I think you have to lay down the guidelines. So that was a challenge. I think just the day-to-day planning a lesson – education had changed hugely since I’d left...
Ageism and age discrimination
Society, Politics & Law

Ageism and age discrimination

...Write to the company telling them that ageism is the reason they’ve lost your business. Online reviews can be a powerful way of making your views known and can sometimes get a more favourable response from the company if they fear losing more business...Ageism and age discrimination: 3.2 Case studies and helpful resources - Case studies and lived experiences The Centre...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Cultures
Languages

Cultures

...write an introduction and a conclusion...Cultures: 1 En avant la musique! - Dans cette session vous allez aborder la question des musiques traditionnelles et francophones et examiner la place qu’elles occupent dans le monde de la création artistique. De la chanson normande au slam bordelais, en passant par le rock louisianais, vous goûterez à la diversité de ce que...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...write the truth with the blues… You see, I tell you, you gotta feed your mind with something all the time, you think about something all the time. Sometimes you can have a good feelin’, sometimes you have a bad feelin’. But now in the blues line, it’s always being up on somebody you love or somebody that quits you’ (Oakley, 1987 (1976), p. 46). An even tighter...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...writing of this course: Ed Cope (The Football Association), Steve McQuaid (ActionProvoked), Andy Bradshaw (UK Coaching), Jay Roper (UK Sport), staff and students at the University of Chichester, and Stuart Armstrong, Lucy Moore and Sion Kitson (Sport England). Images Figure 1: Dusit; Shutterstock.com Figure 2: faithie; Shutterstock.com Figure 4: subin pumsom;...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...writing his thesis, this was many years ago, and I like this story because I was writing my thesis at the time I found out about him. What happened was he was actually wanting to write the final version of this thesis, and this was back in the day when people used typewriters. So he went up to the shops to purchase some new ink for the typewriter. He came back home and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...writing about Roger Federer: He just seems to have been born to play the game. His physique – his DNA – seems perfectly adapted to tennis … You get these blessed freaks of nature in other sports too. (Nadal and Carlin, 2011, p. 13) There is a tendency for some to gravitate towards ‘nature’ (i.e. fixed, born or genetic) as an explanation of champions’ successes...