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Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...change is often a little overwhelming, with a vast array of information and advice available. However, it’s worth remembering that you are in the driving seat and whilst external factors can change, the most important influence on your career development is you. This session is designed to offer an interesting introduction to employability and how your engagement in...
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...changing needs. She keeps in touch with staff at Anabelle’s school and with the specialist medical team based at the hospital. Anabelle’s social worker also supports us as carers. She assesses our needs so that we can support our daughter, and helps us claim any benefits we are entitled to, such as the carer’s allowance. We have social care workers who come into our...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...change in the behaviour of the learner. It originated in the early part of the twentieth century from the work of Watson, Thorndike and Skinner (e.g. Skinner, 1974) and is based on the premise that learning can be broken down into discrete elements, which can be separated out, taught, practised and fitted together again. This type of learning might be considered...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...changing as they get older. We do intergenerational with residents and children once a month and then with the residents once a week during growing times. So they're getting the residents down. I'm preparing everything ready for that activity. I can come up with a project idea and go to Alistair, who's head of activities, obviously, see if he's got any budgets. But same...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...changed in 20 years. There is now overwhelming evidence that by far the most common cause of narcolepsy is an autoimmune attack, where the body’s immune system mishandles an upper respiratory infection and mistakenly wipes out the estimated 30,000 neurons in the centre of the brain. In an organ of up to 100 billion cells, this might not sound like too much to worry...
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...change in one person given a specific treatment is not as valid as noting the same change in two or three people and ideally in a much larger group. The clinical trials that occur today to test new drugs may consist of hundreds of participants. The number of participants or sample size of an experiment is the number of identical observations (replicates) that can be made...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...change of settings to foreign places. Significantly, it is the transnational wanderings and the experience of foreign cultures which help locate Cajun culture. As suggested by their titles (Conte cajun: L’histoire de Télesphore et de ‘Tit Edvard, L’histoire de Télesphore et ‘Tit Edvard dans le grand Nord, and Les aventures de Télesphore et ‘Tit Edvard au...
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...changes direction (as in making a rapid turn to avoid an opponent in hockey). In the next section you will further your understanding of speed by exploring biomechanical principles...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: 2.1 The mechanics of speed - In this section you will investigate the biomechanics of speed in order to buttress your understanding of speed...