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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...adults and policymakers that I hear have heard quite a lot of people say, well, get them off Facebook or get them away from whatever social media or devices they're on. I don't think that's realistic. This is the world that we're living in. So it's really about understanding how do young people engage with those media and what kind of an effect might that be having on...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...adults keep up? The entertainment and interactivity of tablets and smartphones has made them attractive to children. Touch-screen interfaces mean that digital technologies are now accessible for children as young as 3. But do children find digital technologies exciting for reasons beyond simple entertainment? The amount of digital technology available to my young son is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...adults sharing a house and Tomos, at four, is beginning to play his parents and grandparent off against each other. Siân has decided to go back to work full time now that Tomos is moving on from preschool into mainstream schooling. Mali has been a very clingy baby and Siân is worried about how she will cope with being away from ‘Mummy’ and going into day care. Tomos...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...adult selections upon readers; their right to choose what to read independently must remain sacrosanct. Gathering formative information about young people as readers enables Reading Teachers to help the young make wise, successful choices that are more likely to satisfy their goals. A range of tools, such as surveys, reading rivers, reader identity drawings, reading...
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Article 5 mins
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...adult mind you, but spent a good 10 years just in his room watching TV, eating junk food and snorting cocaine. So his own experiences in that song kind of captured the contradictory nature… Laurie Taylor: The two functions – the positive and the negative versions of staying in one’s room. I think you first became interested in the subject of teen bedrooms as a...
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Article 10 mins
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...adults. Make notes in answer to the question that follows. Wafa Shaheen Most local authorities don’t want to see homeless people, and we’ve been working very actively with Glasgow City Council who are willing to assist if they get the right legal advice to say that they are not acting against the law. There is that huge confusion about ‘what does constitute a public...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...adult colour emotion association. The Journal of genetic psychology: Research and theory on human development. Vol 157, No. 3, p. 275-280 Hill, R.A., & Barton, R.A. (2005) Psychology: Red enhances human performance in contests, Nature, 435, 293 Kaya, N. & Epps, H.H., (2004). Relationship between colour and emotion: A study of college students. Colour Student Journal. P....
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Article 10 mins
Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...adult female Arabic speakers in their 20s and 30s. Five of them came to the UK from Libya as international students about seven years ago and are currently living in the city of Manchester. In addition to these five ‘late’ bilinguals, who learnt English later in life, the sixth participant is an ‘early’ bilingual and grew up speaking Arabic and English in the UK....
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Article 5 mins