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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...cognition, and just over 1% on societal issues and explorations of people’s lived experience. These questions are particularly relevant in a consideration of inclusive education, because across a broad sweep of literature, inclusive Education can be seen as an ‘assault on oppressive vestiges of the past’ (Slee and Allan, 2001, p. 176). The call is for
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...cognitive ability; task knowledge. Or how about: energy; height (tall); weight (not too much); hair (baldness is out for leaders, apparently); clothes (business formal, naturally); aggression (you’re a winner!); enthusiasm (motivational speeches rule, OK); originality; sense of humour; sensitivity (presumably to compensate for the aggression); prestige; tact; judgment....
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...Cognitive stimulation – keeping your brain active. Social stimulation – connecting with others. We’ve based this part of the course around these five pillars. We’re going to show you why they matter and how they can boost your health and wellbeing. But before we do that, let’s start with a quick general health check: Activity 1: How healthy are you? Timing: Give...
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Cognitive Edge, written by Gary Wong. ‘When you finally come to grips you can’t solve today’s problems using present methods, you take the lead to venture to the Complex Domain’. You initiate a search, rally followers and try out these different things to see if you can change the paradigm. And again, it’s that same idea that at some point you get to the place...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...cognitive domains for deeper democratic engagement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 75, pp. 259–267...Introduction to making political and social change: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Dr Donna Smith (with additional content in Section 6 from D113 module team members Dr Peter Redman and Dr Dan Taylor). Thank you to the OU students who helped to...
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...cognitive behavioural style, but you're kind of thinking about changing people's gremlins in their head. Or whether it's a very humanistic approach with unconditional positive regard, over to you, anything goes. There the evidence actually would show us basically what it boils down to is having a quality relationship. It kind of really doesn't matter all that much what...
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...cognitive traits, that are characteristic obviously of humans, but of a very few other animals which we're beginning to think maybe we should give special rights to. So I think we need to think about that – these are difficult issues, but if we're going to give special rights to chimpanzees, we're not going to chop them up for meat, then I think the same arguments hold...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...cognitive processes. Learning enables and arises from leadership. Cultures, physical spaces, social spaces, tools and strategies, and having opportunities to reflect are central to creating favourable learning conditions. Dialogue about leadership should make practices explicit, develop shared understanding, shared values and explore different perspectives Leadership...