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Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?
Education & Development

Why are the bullied reluctant to seek help?

...thinking, and are unable to concentrate on their school work. It is clear they need help. Teachers routinely inform students that if they are being bullied at school they should seek help from a trusted adult, such as a teacher or school counsellor. A new two-part ABC documentary, Bullied addresses the question of how victimised students can receive help from their...
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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...think about things in the current context. There is no definitive image of a foster carer Foster carers are individuals from all walks of life, living in all different types of communities, across the country. Their role is to provide safety, support and care for children and adults for a variety of reasons and for varying periods of time. The contribution foster carers...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...thinks and behaves affects and is affected by how the other feels, thinks and behaves’, which highlights the importance of getting the relationship ‘right’. An ideal coach–athlete relationship is one that is: both ‘successful’ in terms of performance achievement and ‘effective’ in terms of personal growth and wellbeing (Jowett, 2007) In elite sport, such...
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How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...system at all the depots of a supermarket chain. Answer a.This involves a set of routine tasks that the organisation must be equipped to perform; hence it would be carried out by an operational team. b.This is likely to involve a project team structure. Inputs to formulating the strategy would be needed from various areas, plus professional and technical inputs. c.Inputs...
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...think of respect. In broad terms, we can describe respect as taking another seriously. In the terms of Immanuel Kant, we recognise them as ends in their own right and not just means. When we give money to somebody begging on the street or donate to a food bank are we taking seriously the recipients? Are we treating them as moral equals? Just to be clear here I am not...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...think goes without saying. However, one of the most interesting aspects of social media is the new way that it shapes how information is combined and presented to the electorate. This means that understanding how Social Media works does not only help explain the surprising electoral dynamics we have witnessed in the UK and US, it also has wider lessons for those...
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Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...think so, reported the BBC in 2010: "There are always small groups of people not accepting people who are different and in the first months after coming to Slovenia I felt that some people did not want to be with us," he said. "But for the last 10 or 15 years, I experienced nothing like that any more. I have no problems at all and I think people no longer see the colour...
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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...think it still offers us today? PO’S: The way geographers think about a range of related issues today from ethnicity and race to social inequality to issues of urban regional planning, to issues about the environment and how we produce and consume food, all of those are seen in Kropotkin’s writings and he was also very influential in the emergence of radical geography...
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