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Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...climate in which critical reflection and valuable learning can take place...Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers: 2.2 Balancing support and challenge - As with any effective student-centred learning, development and progression in Initial Teacher Education is based on achieving the right balance between support, appropriate to the stage in their...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...changing nappies, cleaning up and so on. [So] there you are - there's nothing universal. Amanda Vickery: Like [Proust] wouldn't it - it would be sniffing a nappy, it would bring back the infancy of your children. If you were so inclined. Martin Rowson: I'm just remindedit may apply to the monarch but it doesn't necessarily apply to your lover. There's a wonderful line...
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Article 30 mins
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...change and social justice, it would be logical to assume that social workers would also have significant obligations to provide services to asylum seekers and refugees, who seek refuge from human rights abuses, disasters, wars and other forms of persecution in their homelands. Asylum seekers and refugees are often among the most vulnerable and the poorest sectors of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...changed from around 2005/2006 as higher interest rates in the US triggered a sharp increase in defaults among customers – many of them with low incomes – who had borrowed funds to finance home purchases. This was the so-called ‘sub-prime’ debt crisis, where the term ‘sub-prime’ relates to the poor credit standing of those who had borrowed money. So the start...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...changing over time. This helps him to make decisions about which words are more or less appropriate for a particular brand at a particular point, and it also helps him to explain certain attitudes that might be conveyed with words or expressions. In the case of ‘manager’, for instance, he was able to explain why customers generally do not have high expectations of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...changing that knowledge or finding new ways (methods) towards understanding the past. Sometimes new fields or areas of academic historical research emerge but, as you will see here, they still build on broader established traditions of knowledge construction. You are now going to explore how this works with landscape history. You will see how historians use cultural...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...changes without fear or delay. It is a joined-up strategy that challenges old ideas about the ‘inevitability’ of suicide, stigma, and the idea that if a reduction target is achieved, the deaths on the way to it are somehow acceptable. “Even if you believe we are never going to eradicate suicide, we must strive towards that,” Mallen says. “If zero isn’t the...
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Article 15 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...change her image to be more ‘male’ and therefore at that time more public friendly. ‘Any other way’, Jackie’s first full-length album, was released in October 2017 and was a collection of her previously unreleased hits. It was nominated for ‘Best Historical Album’ at the 61st Grammy Awards. Gladys Bentley12 August 1907 – 18 January 1960 It seems I was born...
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Article 20 mins