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Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...et al 2001; 2010). They may embed this practice within the wider school culture by encouraging colleagues who work alongside them to work in these ways and seek to build processes that enable it to happen more widely. Another example is the way leadership can arise by showing respect for other people’s perspectives. In another course within this series (see Leadership...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...articles and debates on social media have shared alarming statistics, which suggest that children and young people in the United Kingdom are increasingly unhappy and that their wellbeing is potentially at risk. An article published in The Guardian (Weaver, 2019) suggested that children and young people in the UK are some of the unhappiest in the industrialised world....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...article in Italian...Beginners’ Italian: food and drink: 1 Learning the names of drinks in Italian - In this section you find out what some common drinks and snacks are called in Italian, and hear a waiter taking an order from a group of customers. Activity 1 Look at this list of drinks and match each drink with its corresponding picture, as in the example. Start with...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...et al. (2015, p. 602) use the following definition: ‘sustainability, for a business, is the ability to keep operating successfully’. To these authors, a sustainable business is a business that can keep on doing its business. Anderson (2006) defines sustainable development as ‘development that meets the need of the present world without compromising the ability of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...et al., 2007; Collins, 2008). If social work is such a stressful occupation, what helps social workers to survive, and even thrive? This is a question which researchers have been keen to explore. According to Beddoe et al. (2013, p. 102), research indicates that resiliency is supported by: factors that reside within individuals factors that reside in the organisational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...et al., 2014) These perspectives are interesting to consider when looking at the ways legislation develops and how the role of the state in family life changes over time. In turn, these changes impact the role of professionals working with families...Applying social work law with children and families: 2.2 From parental authority to rights of the child - Previously, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...that menstruation, as a dramatic difference between the sexes, took on a lot of other cultural meanings which were then extended to any other sort of blood loss – if it was a woman doing the bleeding. [The Conversation]Watch Helen on these - and another - myths about periods Transcript The text was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Convoy to Calais
Society, Politics & Law

Convoy to Calais

...knowing whether there would be anybody here or what kind of protests there would be. But as you can see, hundreds of people and dozens and dozens of vehicles have turned up to show solidarity with the refugees, to make a demand on the governments to act in the face of a humanitarian crisis. And I think to evoke the Dunkirk spirit. Read more articles from Geography Matters...
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Video 10 mins