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Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate
Languages

Brexiteers and Broflakes: how language frames political debate

...become as flexible and influential a term in political discourse as ‘Watergate’ has been. And that it would likely get adopted and adapted for any number of political ruptures and upsets in the future. (Most recently it’s been used for speculation that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may soon resign, resulting in a Rexit.) Certainly, Brexit has already spawned...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...becoming physically active. Feeling low impacts on our motivation and often puts us off from being active. However, research has consistently shown that regular physical exercise can boost our mood. It might be the last thing we would think of doing when down, but it is something that certainly works. Another solution or intervention to assist us in our modern world is...
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...become so deeply engrained that gender identities and gender differences seem fundamental to who we are? As Rosalind Gill has written, "how it is … that socially constructed ideals of beauty or sexiness are internalized and made our own, that is, really, truly, deeply our own, felt not as external impositions but as authentically ours?" This is one of the important...
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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...becomes active rather than passive, and helps you to remember what you have read. This section explores in a different way what managers do. It considers managerial tasks and roles. As you read, consider the main day-to-day tasks in which you are engaged. Then take note of how Mintzberg categorises managerial activities into roles. Which roles are dominant in your job, or...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...become more proficient at using manipulatives, the teachers will begin to link the manipulatives to pictures, and to use pictorial images to represent number. As the children become more proficient at using images, they will be carefully introduced to more abstract ways of representing a number problem. Whenever children need to make sense of new knowledge, teachers will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...become a very important issue again. Mary Ruth Lister talks about citizenship in relation to membership of a community, but are we all equal in the community? In recent years there have been many challenges to the idea of universal citizenship, the idea that we are all equal before the law, but what about our access to the social benefits of welfare provision for example....
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...STUDENT 60. BOY 2 Higher. A lot higher. BOY 1 Higher. [MUSIC PLAYING] BOY 1 Each one of these turbines powers 500 houses, which is 2500 total. BOY 2 Solar group, if you want to gather around here. LIZ ROTHSCHILD We’ve got this fantastic team of student environmental educators who we’ve been working with in the local secondary school. BOY 2 It’s called an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...becoming perhaps defensive, dependent or argumentative. Awareness of both our state of mind and the other person's can help to achieve more effective communication and to develop more positive relationships...The importance of interpersonal skills: 3 Roles - Quite often in work situations we are asked to work with a group of people we have not met before and with whom we...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs