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The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...et al., 2011). They found clear similarities in the domestic play of all the children – for example, in the use of natural materials and everyday items (pots, pans, wraps, bags, buggies and dolls) in their games. The children also often used one object to symbolise something else in their play, like Selin in Turkey whose cooking pot became a hat, much to the amusement...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...articles about the Salamanca Statement 25 years on, and a recent study by Hernández Torrano et al., (2020 p. 1) noted that research into inclusive education was ‘a global phenomenon’...3. Transforming learning: 3.4 The work of Amarya Sen - The work of the economist Amartya Sen (1995, 1999) has contributed to developing the ‘rights’ approach and influenced...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...article in the New York Post decrying recent trends in communication, the journalist Kyle Smith (2015) argued that ‘Tens of thousands of years ago, humans communicated in pictures. The thoughts they sought to convey weren’t complicated. That’s why we call them cavemen’. The broader argument he’s making in the article is that the way people communicate today...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...the perspective of a model used to train negotiators handling a crisis situation (Vecchi et al., 2005). The Behavioural change stairway model (BCSM), represented in Figure 6, claims that five steps can lead to a desirable change in behaviour. [Described image] Figure 6 The Behavioural change stairway model This model suggests that each step is one part of a sequence that builds on another. For example, it is claimed ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...article reports the consequences for a number of experts who fabricated evidence in civil trials. Accident Exchange Ltd was a company that provided replacement hire cars for cars damaged in accidents. The experts worked for Autofocus and gave misleading expert evidence about rates for hire cars, often far below the actual rate. This saved the insurers a lot of money, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...et al 2016). There is an importance about thinking creatively about which professionals in the child’s network might be best placed to achieve this. This raises a number of key issues - how far will loyalty to parents or fear of talking inhibit children? Will older children be more reluctant to disclose what they see, hear, feel and experience than younger children? Key...
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Video 10 mins
STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...et al., 2020). The Institute has given approval for a new occupational role and associated Level 7 (postgraduate) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship (STPA) and the OU launches its own STPA programme in 2022. Led by ASTiP, the Open University was able to celebrate this unique pioneering tradition of fostering STiP capabilities for lifelong learning and managing...
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Video 10 mins
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...article the late John Ziman revisits the ‘CUDOS’ norms that were initially outlined by the American sociologist Robert Merton. As you read this short article, please make notes on the following questions: To what extent do the ‘social norms’ of Robert Merton – encapsulated in the acronym CUDOS – apply to science as you have experienced it? Ziman (writing in...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs