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Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...communicate both to young and older readers, drawing on examples from the classics, such as Beatrix Potter’s Tales of Peter Rabbit, and from contemporary children’s authors such as Anthony Browne, author of Gorilla...Many people have fond memories of the stories they encountered in childhood, perhaps especially of those wonderful picture books and illustrated tales...
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...communal, in as much as it is often pulled together based on what several other people researching, writing and thinking about the same subject have said in previous years. Professional knowledge is sometimes explicit but often people know more than they can articulate. They know with their hands and their bodies. It is usually expressed in action. It is communal, in as...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...communities and individual species. (3) Provisioning functions, such as the production of raw materials that are used for any purpose other than food. (4) Cultural functions, such as the extent and variety of natural landscapes. Humans exploit these ecosystem functions, which have a monetary as well a non-material benefit to society. For example, humans rely on ecosystem...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...community, and the role of the European Union and the United Nations in fostering this. In addition, the same document charges Key stage 4 citizenship teaching to deal with how the economy functions (including the role of business and financial services), the rights and responsibilities of consumers, employers and employees, and the wider issues and challenges associated...
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘swine’ come from the English-speaking farmers, while the a la carte versions – ‘beef’, ‘mutton’ and ‘pork’ – come from the French-speaking toffs, beginning a long running trend for restaurants having completely indecipherable...
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...community. Woolf called Between the Acts ‘Pointz Hall’ while she was writing it, the name of the ‘middle-sized’ (p.6) country house where the Oliver family live. The novel has no main character; instead interest is diffused among generations of that family: Old Bartholomew, his sister Mrs Swithin, his son Giles, Giles’s wife Isabella and their small son George....
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...communicate with? This might be something that, for instance, followers of Shamanism could consider to be a possibility. c.It is not clear what support Mandy has in place. She does not have much contact with the couple who raised her (i.e. her adopted parents) and she has reduced the time spent with friends in favour of more solitary activities. d.What suggestions did you...
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...communicating focus on opportunities run productive meetings think and say ‘we’ rather than ‘I’. (Source: Drucker, 2004) The first two practices give managers the knowledge they need. The next four help them convert this knowledge into effective action. The last two ensure that the whole team or organisation feels responsible and accountable. Most of the practices...