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Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...multiple perspectives in which knowledge, evidence, policies and practice are critically evaluated. Being able to take action in this sense is supported by a reflexive stance to practice, another element of critical practice noted in Figure 1. There are different ways of understanding reflexivity, but in this context it can be defined as a questioning approach to social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 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

...multiple representations of migration in the tales. First, I will analyze how such elements as landscape, language, and the past contribute to a Cajun sense of place and belonging. Significantly, two characteristics determine the Cajuns’ lives today: self-assertion in a dominant society which is markedly different and a memory of the past. In emphasizing the singularity...
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Article 15 mins
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...multiple perspectives - The sociocultural thinker Barbara Rogoff (2003) maintains that any child makes an active contribution to the environment or social community of which they are a part. Adults learn from them as much as they learn from us. Therefore supporting children’s transitions should not only draw on other people’s perspectives it should also involve...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...multiple crises – environmental, economic, political, social and health-related – ‘An Introduction to making political and social change’ gives you a grounding in some of the key citizenship skills and information you will need to intervene in the world as it changes around you. This free course explores how you can make change politically and socially, giving...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...MULTIPLE IN METRES MULTIPLE IN MICROMETRES metre (m) 1 m 10 to the power 6 micrometres, or 1 000 000 micrometre centimetre (cm) 10 to the power minus 2 metres, or 1 over 100 metres 10 to the power 4 micrometres, or 10 000 micrometres millimetre (mm) 10 to the power minus 3 metres, or 1 over 1000 metres 10 to the power 3 micrometres, or 1000 micrometres micrometre (µm) 10...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...Multiples on grids View document Click 'view document' below to download Nets View document Click 'view document' below to download TV View document For each activity you attempt: Try to do them in your heads before you look at anything. Shut your eyes if it helps. Try them individually and then talk in a group, but do not give any answers away – help others to see what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...multiple parallel synthesis techniques can have an impact at many stages in the drug discovery process – although the balance may be shifting to more focused libraries with better properties in the earlier stages – and to compounds designed with the aid of computer graphics in lead optimisation. Historically, adverse drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic properties have...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...multiple and sometimes conflicting perspectives about what the nature of the problem and its possible solutions. Systemic failure often happens as a result of inaction as established ways of thinking and acting become unsuitable in rapidly changing world. Change that is managed purposefully can also lead to systemic failure unless certain things happen. Some of the things...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs