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Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...social scientists, designers, engineers, environmentalists, technologists and computer scientists. It has however been particularly designed to sit alongside and feed into postgraduate (level 7) accredited modules in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education, Languages and Sport. Click on these links to find out further information on the Masters in Education and Masters in...
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...social dimension of the Reggio community that is paramount: Reggio Emilia schools, Gardner concludes, are schools that ‘suit the entire community: teachers, parents, the physical setting, the region and above all the growing children working together to create a creative whole.’ You can read more of Gardner's views in The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...Socially things are changing very rapidly and, if anything, geography needs to change significantly to keep up with these changes. David But if we are going to prepare young people for a rapidly changing and complex world we have to introduce them to the fact that facts themselves are contingent – I mean, we had the foreign secretary on this program on Friday talking...
Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol

...social workers’, Community Care, dydd Gwener 27 Ebrill 2012 [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn http://www.communitycare.co.uk/ 2012/ 04/ 27/ what-service-users-want-from-social-workers/ #.U6naPJRdXAk Cyngor Gofal Cymru (2014) Y Gweithiwr Cymdeithasol, Caerdydd, CGC http://www.cgcymru.org.uk/canllawiau-ymarfer-i-weithwyr-cymdeithasol/?force=2&bc=4143:4147 (cyrchwyd 24/06/2014)...
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...social action and of how people construct their own representations of particular places. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Who belongs to Glasgow?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of ideas about place and identity using our concept of ‘geographical imagination’ by...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...social psychologists of his generation, who undertook a variety of studies that explored social psychological aspects of everyday life. However, he is largely remembered for one dramatic piece of work – the obedience studies. The best way to get inside this study is to imagine that you are one of the participants taking part in Milgram’s experiment. So read on with...
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...social development. In a second experiment, Max sits in a curtained-off booth facing a screen that displays a 15-minute loop of video that includes trippy abstract animations and sounds, as well as still pictures and videos starring PhD students as stand-in children’s TV presenters. He’s completely mesmerised, and his eyes dart from object to object on the screen....
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...social media communication and stand-up comedy...This free course, A short introduction to the English language, will look at the role language plays in our lives, with a particular focus on the English language. It will examine the history and the future of the language, from the Anglo-Saxons and Shakespeare to social media communication and stand-up comedy. It aims to...