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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...Research, has been studying the psychological processes behind self-inflicted death for over 20 years. “Did you see the news?” he asks when I meet him. The morning’s papers are carrying the latest numbers: 6,233 suicides were registered in the UK in 2013. While the female suicide rate has remained roughly constant since 2007, that for men is at its highest since...
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Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...researcher on corporate learning and leadership development, with a keen interest in how individuals learn and develop within organisations. In a lecture he gave in 2016, he discussed six essential elements of a lifelong-learning mindset: Focus on growth Become a serial master Stretch Build a personal brand Own your development Do what you love and discover your Ikigai...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...researchers to look for ways to explain the unobservable changes that took place when learning occurred. These developments were rooted in the work of Piaget, in the 1920s, and developed by others, including Von Glaserfeld (2002). Learning, according to constructivist theory, occurs when knowledge is constructed by the individual as a result of their experience in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...research evidence that they can make a difference to children’s learning, but then life often moves faster than the supply of research evidence. As we have indicated, volunteers are often invited into schools to assist teachers, and teaching assistants are employed without necessarily having any specific training (although, increasingly, in-service training is being...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...research evidence ‛For example, see Using Experience for Learning (Boud, D. Cohen, R. and Walker, D. (eds) 1993, Open University Press, Buckingham)” to show that understandings and knowledge that one acquires through discovery is retained and developed much more readily than the understandings one acquires through being told, or even shown. Taking responsibility for...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...research project in slums outside of DC, where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression and then provided six months of the experimental protocol. One of them, Lolly, came in, and this is what she said the day she came in. And she was a woman, by the way, who had seven children. She said 'I used to have a job, but I...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...researchers who have examined the topic in more detail, something you will look at later in this session. However, before you consider research within this field it is important to take a brief look at the theory that underpins the area. Developing an appreciation of relevant theory is very useful when looking at a new area, and in the case of transitions it can help you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...Research into how people study effectively suggests that it is important to pay attention not only to the content of what we are trying to learn but also to the process of our learning. Time spent on the process of how you are learning need not be a distraction from achieving your learning goals. It should support your efforts to achieve them. However, thinking about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs