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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...social development: Mathematics education supports the growth of critical citizenship. It has the potential to develop a distinctively valuable set of tools that students can understand and use to interrogate many elements of the social and political worlds around them. Mathematics as an intellectual pursuit: An aim of mathematics education must also be the continuance of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...social relations are relations of power.’ The module team felt that the important point is that power is not static within a relationship and can vary between situations and contexts and the life/duration of the relationship. Throughout a relationship the power is moving along the continuum and at some points the power can balance when both parties are working towards...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...social. If you typed ‘Icarus’ into an internet search engine, this no doubt yielded a fascinating but random range of Icarus-related themes with plenty of examples from popular culture as well as more traditional ‘high’ arts. For example, popular contemporary music boasts a long list of Icarus references, from Joni Mitchell’s lyrics about airwoman Amelia Earhart...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...social impact of transformation processes, both locally and globally. For example, in the United States, manufacturers of sports footwear have come under fire for employing child labour and paying low wages to workers employed in their overseas factories...Understanding operations management: 3.4 Transformation processes - A transformation process is any activity or group...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...social and natural processes. Water, for example, which is present not only in the estuary but also on and in the land and as water vapour and droplets in the atmosphere, does not just stay in any one of these three elements but can also move between them. Box 1: The hydrological cycle Water in the estuary can transfer to the atmosphere by evaporation from the water...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...social and psychological phenomena. Key factors impacting on the success of an evidence-based approach include: Misconceptions about the idea of evidence-based practice Sources of bias Professional fads and fashions Power, politics and careers...Exploring evidence-based policing: 5.1 Misconceptions about the idea of evidence-based practice - Several common ‘myths’ and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...social pact made ‘good progress’ this time on 1979 election countdown. 88 days until the election: In 1979, Labour MPs said charitable status of public schools amounted to 'subsidies by the state'. [Rubbish piled up ] 90 days: Rubbish piled up during dustmen's strike this time in 1979. Discover more about how this happened in this short video. 91 days until the...
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Activity 5 mins
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...social processes. We call it the 'three C's' in terms of how people feel in terms of their competence, how much control they have over their behaviour and how it impacts on their health and, also, how much companionship and relatedness that they have with other people. Those three things seem to be quite important for mental health. If we feel competent about what we do,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs