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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...family, schooling, faith, university, the state, law, democracy (or some other political system), or the market. Whatever you have chosen, though, it is likely that you will have chosen them because – using different means to enforce the ‘compliance’ that Brett speaks of – they will have governed your relations with other people in particular contexts and in...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...family’. Job families are groups of jobs that involve the same or similar kinds of work, and which therefore require the same or similar skills, attitudes and behaviours. Clustering jobs into families can make training planning and delivery more efficient, as well as being useful for other HRD activities, such as remuneration, reward and career progression. Individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...family, social group or fellow professionals. This is a means of conveying membership of a particular network of people and, thus, takes us back to the important role of language in the projection of identity...Exploring languages and cultures: 3.3.4 Features of technical language - Specialist vocabulary is not the only feature of language relating to a particular...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course could encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['Learning from sport burnout and overtraining' digital
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...trees, flowers, birds and animals thrive and where I can see the sky and rural landscapes.) I also wonder if my example suggests a value that has more to do with ‘experiencing nature’ than actively doing something about enabling it to thrive! Values that affect decision making may be collective as well as individual. The following set of values has been identified by...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...family, perhaps even to study for an Open University degree, and so on. However, this may be a sentimental view of what prison life is actually like for most prisoners. Several of the activities I have described, particularly studying, require a certain amount of concentration. For most of us concentration requires relative quiet. Here is one prisoner's account of trying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...family (for example the so-called ‘Bank of Mum & Dad’). Your lender will, in any case, need details of the other funds that you use to supplement the mortgage to buy a property. If you do use the ‘Bank of Mum & Dad’ – or similar sources of funds – the providers will need to confirm in writing that such money is a gift. Without this the lender may assume the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...family home (scan from p. 10 of Joy in People catalogue) Fundamental to the way all these works operate is that domains have particular discourse and text genres, which are composed of elements such as text organisation, font, colour, etc. The conventions associated with communication in these genres cue us into expectations about the meaning and function of the texts;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs