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How to celebrate Halloween with young children
Education & Development

How to celebrate Halloween with young children

...thinking about costumes, decorations and making the most of daytime activities. When it comes to costumes, encourage children to think about fun, imaginative ideas, such as superheroes, animals, or characters from books. Talk about the idea that costumes are only pretend, and that behind the mask or under the hat it is just a person. When decorating, avoid blood-stained...
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...think of a historian? Figure 1 shows Asa Briggs (1921–2016), an influential and successful historian, a Cambridge and London University graduate, former soldier, codebreaker at Bletchley Park and the third Chancellor of The Open University (1978–1994). Asa probably fits many people’s ideas of how a friendly historian might look. These days historians are more...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...system and proposing how it serves to provide security to individuals while also encouraging them to be active in the world. Research based on this theory is revealing the significance of the early years of life in the formation of attachments that go on to be central throughout life. This free course gives an introduction to this exciting area of contemporary study. This...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...Think about these issues in relation to another place or other places. What is being represented/promoted? Who gains and who loses? 3. The main points to grasp from this programme are: that ‘image and identity’ are central to our geographical imagination; that images and identities are socially constructed and are not neutral or objective: how we define a place...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...thinking about waves you may first think of ocean waves. These are a great example of a wave as they are regular, repeating movements of water and a wave may be defined as a periodic, or regularly repeating, disturbance that transports energy from one place to another. In this short course you will discover the difference between transverse and longitudinal waves and gain...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...thinking about the speaking and listening you do in your everyday life. How can you speak so that people understand you? Why is this course about listening as well as speaking? And just how important is body language?...Speaking and listening: 1.1 Speaking - Whether you consider yourself to be quiet and shy or bubbly and chatty, you have to do some speaking from day to...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...system installed. The five lorries are now uneconomic to run. Diesel and repair bills have become prohibitive, breakdowns and lost running hours are excessive. With more lorry capacity, better reliability and a faster service you could easily obtain more business. You decide to rebuild the depot with better equipment, full insulation, an effective sprinkler system and...
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...thinking about the same subject have said in previous years. Professional knowledge is sometimes explicit but often people know more than they can articulate. They know with their hands and their bodies. It is usually expressed in action. It is communal, in as much as one person may contribute a particular part of a whole process. Researching, writing and thinking all...