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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...working directly with them (Okada, 2025; Jones and Kahn, 2017). Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process through which children develop the skills to understand and manage emotions, build relationships, seize opportunities and make responsible decisions. SEL has been promoted by CASEL (1994) and conceptualised by scholars such as Dewey, Vygotsky and Goleman, all...
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...worked manual, service and precarious part-time jobs to support their families and were thus limited in their mobility. A few were women and their opportunities were severely regulated by hip hop’s hyper-heterosexual regimes, which I discuss throughout my book and in particular in Chapter 7, in the prologue and in the epilogue. What all my participants shared with each...
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...working life you may not play a direct role in financial risk management, but it is virtually inevitable that: Your organisation will, through its routine operations, generate or expose itself to at least some of the risks we examine. Understanding these risks is therefore essential for those wishing to develop well-rounded managerial competence. Your internal dealings...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...work the streets for very low earnings. These people also travel around the city all day long collecting any type of waste that has a resale value. Items which can be resold include cardboard, foam, electronic goods, paper and other metal goods such as scrap metals or wires. These collectors then take these items to larger depots and sell them on to larger merchants, who...
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...working at extremes they can endure altitudes and very low oxygen levels. Well, Lucy returned to Mongolia in July to retrieve heart rate monitors which had been fitted to 30 of the geese last year, and she's with me now. So before we talk about the geese themselves and the heart rate monitor work, let's talk about Mongolia, what sort of landscape were you working in,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...works range from the bitter dispute between Palestine and Israel, to the ongoing debates about secession which threaten to break up old multinational states like the UK and Canada. If you have any apprehensions about ‘doing political theory’, I would simply say: there’s no need! Just work through the text, and by the end you will find yourself in possession of some...
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...work by creating the change they wish to encounter, building and forging new ways of experiencing social and political life. (2014, p. 2) As with the law, equitable ideas often concern private property and how, for example, it is held (possessed, owned), used and (re)distributed in capitalist societies...Equity – law and idea: 1.1 The foundations of equity - There are...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...work that’s being done.” At the same time, the scientists who are trying to gather this desperately needed data often struggle to get their studies approved. Lyerly, Little and Faden decided that the cause needed more proactive advocates. So in the spring of 2009, the ‘troika’, as they call themselves, formally launched the Second Wave Initiative: a broad,...