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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Families, 2007) Next, click on the link below for the second article ‘What Is “Brain-Based Learning”?’, which looks in a little more detail at brain research and links this to learning and teaching. It suggests ways in which educators could enhance their practice by drawing on this new information. Look particularly at the Twelve Design Principles and at the ways...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...families up over several years, if not decades. As was the case in our most recent study. John Oates Now attachment is generally seen as a really important outcome of the very earliest months of life. Would you say that research is still supporting that idea? Elizabeth Meins Yes, on the whole, and actually I think attachment as an outcome variable itself is very...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...history where, for the first time, humans are dominant in shaping Earth processes and systems, giving rise to a shift in thinking about human–environment relationships. In 2011, The Economist noted this debate on its front cover. The Economist also produced this short video of an interview with the ecologist Erle Ellis where he gives his ideas and examples about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...family friend, Walid Choucair, a very experienced day trader of financial securities. Choucair was able to make a profit of approximately £1.4 million with the information he gained from Abdel-Malek. In 2019, a jury at Southwark Crown Court decided that Abdel-Malek and Choucair were both guilty of insider dealing under section 52 of the CJA 1993 and the judge sentenced...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...family of change that I think has been the most impactful in policing is definitely in the kind of digital and technological arena. And when I think about this, I kind of conceive it as being about the augmentation of policing. So innovations like ANPR, body worn video, the ability to process big data, and to be able to turn that to an investigative purpose, or to enhance...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...families may feel, or what should be done in response to what has happened. In The Sociological Imagination (1959), Mills states that the sociological imagination includes ‘a quality of mind’ that offers ‘an understanding of the intimate realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities’ (p. 15). ‘The sociological imagination enables us to grasp...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...family. An important issue here is 'source credibility', i.e. the extent to which a source is perceived as having knowledge, skill or experience relevant to a communications topic and can be trusted to give an unbiased opinion or present objective information on the issue (Belch and Belch, 2009). Consistency of messages Given the many potential sources of communication,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...family, or all your compatriots to go to the same place? Click to view Reading 1A. (2 pages, 0.08MB) These are emotionally charged issues, and perhaps you are being asked to think about things which are so life-changing as to be almost unthinkable. However, these are also questions or dilemmas that some people, including the islanders of Tuvalu, have to live with in an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs