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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...adults is judged by different yardsticks, fluency will seem different for different people and different contexts. To be ‘fluent’ while shopping is different from being ‘fluent’ when undertaking university studies; to be ‘fluent’ as a supermarket check-out operator is different from being ‘fluent’ as a university student. Overall, the key point here is...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...adults but led by the children themselves. One of the schools Duncan works with where this process has proven specially effective, is Shirehampton Primary School in Bristol. Louisa Munton My name is Louisa Munton. I’m the head teacher at Shirehampton Primary School in Bristol. We serve a large catchment area where a significant proportion of our children come from...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...adults. The idea is usually that these groups demonstrate some capability or property that we find morally significant in our own case, and that in virtue of this the marginalised group deserves moral consideration. But healthy human adults are complicated creatures, with a range of morally relevant capacities and characteristics. Healthy human adults are sentient, they...
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Understanding Fitness to Practise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Fitness to Practise

...care professional. [Witness to harm - Video 1] Transcript Animation 2 The usability of websites when raising a concern This animation talks about how easy it is to raise a concern with a professional regulator using their websites. [Witness to harm - Video 2] Transcript Animation 3 What is meant by vulnerability? The term ‘vulnerable’ is often mis-understood. This...
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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...care impact on a carer’s experience? Let's look at how attention to detail can make a huge difference...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. While feedback can inform service improvement, many sites do not have the processes in place to engage bereaved carers in how to improve such spaces. Claire Henry MBE, and Marie...
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Article 5 mins
Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...Care courses and qualifications. Walking the Walk is an experienced-based approach to quality improvement. It has previously been successfully utilised in acute hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries. It draws on people’s lived experiences to provide settings with feedback and recommendations about the care environment. It involves three stages: scene setting, the...
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Article 10 mins
Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...adults. Coping with prison life is a tenuous, relative and fluid concept that ebbs and flows over time. The real pains of imprisonment are to be found in the denial of personal autonomy, feelings of time consciousness, and the lack of an effective vocabulary to express the hardship of watching life waste away. It is also clear that custody is experienced differently by...
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Video 10 mins
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...adults do not ‘hijack’ their play and experiences (Fisher, 2016). Careful observation is a key skill for those working with young children and it is important to know what the learning needs of the child are and then how the environment could be enhanced to meet these. The uniqueness of each child and how they develop at their own pace is essential, yet careful...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs