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Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...families. Tesco will be judged on its success in terms of its volume of sales and what this represents in terms of profit. By taking a very different example, such as a hospital, then you can see that the situation is more complex. Certainly, a hospital exists to meet the needs of its customers, or more accurately its patients, but how is success judged? Tesco might...
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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...family. Starting during his first months in his relation to both parents, he builds up working models of how attachment figures are likely to behave towards him in any of a variety of situations, and on all those models are based all his expectations, and therefore all his plans, for the rest of his life.” Bowlby (1973, p.369) Thus, in typically bold fashion, Bowlby set...
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...family business in Chinese culture, especially when “one-child” policy is in practice. Not only do Chinese parents get involved in their children’s education, but they also take responsibility for their children’s academic success. They believe that they have the obligations and responsibilities to help build their children’s success in education. They take...
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...family, work colleagues and friends can result in ‘fat’ shaming ourselves. In fact, the desire to be thinner will result in many of us engaging in a diet at some point in our lifetime. Despite there being a lack of evidence to support the effectiveness of diets, one in four will diet in their lifetime. According to a poll conducted in the UK, the average person will...
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...families, communities and institutions Openness and honesty Forum for children to think for themselves while expressing their views – shared decision making Information gathering and sharing Effective interaction among children and with adults involved in projects or activities in a positive way Empowerment for children as individuals and as members of society Spaces...
The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...family and friends would hate me:” Anticipating vegan stigma as a barrier to plant-based diets’, Appetite, 135, pp. 1-9. Merskin, D. (2018) Seeing Species: Re-presentations of animals in media and popular culture. Peter Lang. Piazza, J., Ruby, M.B., Loughnan, S. et al. (2015) ‘Rationalizing meat consumption. The 4Ns’, Appetite, 91, pp. 114-128. Presser, L. (2013)...
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...family?’ Research in Higher Education, 58(6), pp. 672–97. Hamilton, B. and Manias, E. (2006) ‘‘She’s manipulative and he’s right off’: A critical analysis of psychiatric nurses’ oral and written language in the acute inpatient setting’. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 15(2), pp. 84–92. Heilman, M. E. and Caleo, S. (2018) ‘Gender...
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...family and managing expectations will be needed (Ebubedike et al., 2023). The effect of such observation in situations of power imbalance or in the composition of focus groups, within which groups normally separated in general society are contrived to communicate in a shared space, needs to be considered to enable contributions to be made in a fair and supported way. For...