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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...geographies of exclusion’. Part of the process of exclusion is where the ‘bad’, the ‘mad’ and the ‘imperfect’ are deemed to be ‘other’ and, often in stereotyped form, are disregarded or rejected. Being the ‘other’ in mental health terms means being on the ‘them’ side of the normality/abnormality boundary. What does it mean to be regarded as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...geography of a particular airport, but the signage is an interface that directs them to their temporary destinations. It manages what would otherwise be a cacophony of movement, sorting people, designating routes, creating decision points, and generally regulating the conduct of passengers. [MUSIC PLAYING] The airport is home to contrasting forms of attachment. Airports...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...Geographies, 19(3), pp. 291–299. Espinoza, M.L. et al. (2020) ‘Matters of participation: notes on the study of dignity and learning’, Mind, Culture and Activity, 27(4), pp. 325–347. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1779304 Freire, P. (1970) Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: NY: Continuum. Ginwright, S. and Cammarota, J. (2002) ‘New terrain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...geography, as well as the three Rs. But there was also an emphasis on physical activity. Singing and dancing were on the curriculum as well as music. David McLaren Whichever Owenite community you look at whether its here or in the states, dancing features prominently. Now there’s a whole number of reasons for that, often Owen talks about the moral benefits of dancing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...geography and I tend to try and get topicality into my teachings. If there is an earthquake, sort of extreme weather conditions, flooding, I’ll be using that sort of footage. And then, of course, there’s good old YouTube, which you can use some extensive video clips there to enhance and to reinforce your teaching. Recently I have been doing work around flooding so...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...Geography always matters. And I believe that geographic information can make both you and me very healthy. Thank you. In this video, Bill Davenhall, a health and human services expert, presents his ideas about the way in which our location (where we live and work) affects our health. As you watch this video, make notes about the elements which make it effective. Think...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Geography, Politics, Psychology, Social Policy and Sociology – have each accumulated a vocabulary of reasonably well-established ideas. Some of these ideas may be considered as sufficiently accepted by academics working in that field not to require referencing, but they won’t necessarily be well established to you as a student. For example, ideas like ‘the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...geography. INTERVIEWER Yeah. What kind of work would that be? ESME Sometimes doing research. Like if you wanted to do like, say, the Victorians, and there would sometimes be a question sheet and you had to answer it from the internet. LUKE And sometimes when we have like Ms Orba, our teacher, she set us some recent homework which was the Charles Darwin homework, and we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs