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My career goal: Social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

My career goal: Social care

...working in social care, a crucial societal structure that matters to everybody...Social care: changing lives This short video shows the impact that social workers have on young people. Transcript The following video clips explore various career directions within social care. Six people chat about their social care careers, what motivates them and ......
Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...social spaces should be inclusive in nature. Your thinking in this respect might, for example, encompass learning environments or workspaces, and the individual and social approaches that might be used to support inclusion within them. This article explores this thinking further with a focus on leadership and the socially intelligent leader. At its core, inclusive...
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...working in health and social care are vulnerable to stress, as discussed in the reading, some groups are more vulnerable than others. Compassion fatigue was mentioned in relation to people in these roles. You will explore this in more depth in the next section...The caring manager in health and social care: 2 Pressure, stress and you - This second section explores two key...
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...work. Many of these jobs are low paid with few employment and social security rights which not only creates poverty, but also stores it up for the future. (Oppenheim, 1993, p. 59) Although this says things about the people living in poverty (for example, that women are likely to be affected by low-paid and poorly protected employment), it does not treat poverty as being...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...social care practice, focuses on how digital technology and innovation changes the expectations and job roles for health and social care practitioners. You will learn about what these expectations might be on practitioners and also about common responses and criticisms that may arise from transforming practice through technology...This free course, Innovation in health...
Social media: opportunities, risks and impact
Digital & Computing

Social media: opportunities, risks and impact

Whether you're studying, working, parenting or simply scrolling, social media shapes how we learn, communicate and engage with the world. This collection covers everything from digital literacy and fake news to education, health, politics and online identity.
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...social; changing how something works in society, such as the rights a group has. [Described image] Figure 3: An example of political protest. Of course, these things overlap – campaigning for a social change may lead to political change. Change can be big or small. It could be a small individual action which leads to a much bigger change. There are lots of different...
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...worked with to become socially and politically empowered. These adults would then be able to act on and bring about changes and address injustices in the situations that they faced in their everyday lives. Activity 4 Timing: Approx. 1 hour 1. Make some notes on how you would explain the terms below: literacy illiteracy literacy difficulties functional literacy critical...