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Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...and allowing officers/staff to access opportunities fairly and have control over their work and their decisions is vital. Collaboration: Encouraging a collaborative and open approach through supervision and wider efforts of communication among all team members regardless of rank fosters a sense of trust and good, fair and participatory leadership. Empowerment: Empowering employees to open up about their welfare needs and......
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...work together with this thing we call language – the powerful mind-manipulation tool that I am using right now to get these ideas from my head to yours without the need for surgery. Despite language being an extraordinarily complex system of sounds, grammar and meaning, children the world over have mastered many of its intricacies by their fifth birthday. By calculating...
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What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...worked, lived and studied across cultures or because they had mixed heritage. A lot of distress also came from either feeling like they didn’t fit in (‘separation’) or from feeling disconnected from both the new culture and the one they formerly felt affiliated with (‘marginalization’). The process of adapting to a new culture has been referred to as...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...working-class readers were particular fans of Dickens. East-Ender George Acorn was punished by his parents for wasting 3½d on a second-hand copy of David Copperfield, but later changed their minds by reading the saddest passages aloud to them (UK RED: 2368). Arthur Harding, a Victorian professional criminal, enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...work through the course, the key terms discussed are highlighted in bold. Definitions for these terms are provided in the glossary at the end of the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...What is poetry?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the common techniques underlying...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...work of a mathematician in your everyday life? If you are reading this article then you are at the computer: designed and programmed by mathematicians. Perhaps you like the cinema. The largest employer of mathematicians in the world is Pixar animations. Shrek just isn’t as funny when he’s flat. Maths makes his tummy round and his face comic. And it isn’t only...
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Article 10 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...working with pupils in school libraries...As adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...work and others from the 1920s and 1930s, a era sometimes called the golden age of detective fiction, always fascinated me. The wickedness of the poisons, the cold calculation of the poisoners in the stories, all influenced my own non-fiction book, The Poisoner’s Handbook, which takes a narrative look at forensic toxicology in that same time period. In an earlier...
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