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Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...types of strategies have been used to get that young person to that point and with what effect. And that then would lead us into psychologically informed, or evidence-informed, next steps or additional strategies, for supporting, minimising the significance of that problem for the school in relation to that young person. Nathalia Gjersoe As well as generally working with...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...types of interview in the education sector, ranging from very formal to very informal. Here are some types of interview that are carried out in education settings: structured interview, with preset questions that do not change survey interview with a group, which asks ‘yes/no’ questions such as ‘Do you agree or disagree that the new school dinners are much worse...
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...types. We sometimes refer to the resilience of other people by talking about their ability to ‘bounce back’ or to ‘weather storms’, and may have our own personal metaphors for resilience. Activity 1 Picturing resilience Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Spend a few minutes thinking about what resilience means to you, how you picture it, and considering your own...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...type of learner and you can do different things.By having these things called open boundary courses, people can studying on a formal course (we do this with H817 at the Open University), but at a certain point get to mix with everyone. There’s a course out of Coventry called Phonar by a guy called Jonathan Worth. This is a photography course. He made it a completely...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...types of participation undertaken by people who are from different backgrounds, who live in different areas or who have different levels of income changing patterns of involvement of people in different sorts of participation over time. In this course you will learn how social scientists seek to describe and understand these related areas of participation. The focus will...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...types of demand placed on them at work’ (Weinberg and Murphy, 2013). It is important to note that resilience is usually conceptualised as a two-dimensional construct ‘including the experience of adverse conditions and the presence of positive skills in coping with these conditions’ (Beddoe et al., 2013, p. 101). In this sense, it is the experience of overcoming...
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...types of work. I think there were two specific jobs at Halcrow which I particularly enjoyed, and those were more technical based and analytical, and I think that was an indicator to me that I was more interested in that side than in project management. Then I went to join Rolls Royce, and in particular I was working in the stress office, which was involved in the design...
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...phrased. They might want to ask a few people from a group (or research population) some questions to narrow down the right questions to ask a larger group of people. In this case, qualitative interviews would be carried out first, and the data would inform the design of a second, quantitative stage of the research. In other cases, researchers may have gathered some...