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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...world. Being a member of your subject’s association is an essential part of being a committed teacher of your subject. It enhances your professional status and identity, gives you access to a rich network for professional knowledge, development and enjoyment – and enables the association to continue to exist in order to support and develop good practice for all....
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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...world. The project of knowledge-making is, in part, reliant on questioning and critiquing the status quo (Said, 1994, cited in Russell, 1997). New knowledges and ways of thinking can be significantly advanced when accepted or conventional understandings of the world or a particular phenomenon are challenged or differently conceived. Focusing on crimes of the powerful...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...world in a particular way. Understanding identity, both your own and that of others, involves recognising the aspects of identity that have meaning for the individual and the effects of these on their lives. Our identities include many aspects of who we are and who/what we identify with, and these will change over time. Maybe you have previously thought about your own...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...heritage. It is also for learners who interact directly with Ukrainian refugees, for example by hosting refugees in their homes, and who want to bring what they have found out – their knowledge and experience – to a space where they can engage with like-minded others and can find and provide mutual support and advice. The course has been written by and developed with...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...world where there is widespread agreement that the history of technological and organisational innovation and change has been remarkable. Indeed, approaching this issue from entirely different ideological perspectives, Karl Marx in the 19th century and Joseph Schumpeter in the early to mid 20th century both recognised technological and organisational innovation as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...world of liquor, women and outlaws. The subject matter of his songs did not necessarily arise from his own personal experience but were part of a shared experience familiar to his audience The structure of the lyrics of ‘Hangman’s blues’ can be represented by the letters AAB. In this song, A is the repeating line and B is the new one. In performance, the singer...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...world where the history of technological change and innovation has been nothing short of remarkable, affecting our lives, the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industries, the well-being of societies, the sustainability of the environment and the prosperity of nations. Indeed, it has long been recognised that technological innovation is an essential...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...world. Music, on the other hand, enjoyed a special status since it excelled in inexplicit evocation. For the same reason, the sketch, as a means of artistic expression, came to enjoy a higher status: it was even less specific than a finished painting in its powers of evocation and in its ability to generate meaning. For Delacroix and the Romantics, this lack of...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs