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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...et al. in Wall, Beck and Scott, 2020). This is the form of inquiry that borrows language and processes from research (including assumptions about the nature of this). Adopting an appreciative approach to inquiry arguably straddles both these definitions. We can adopt an appreciative stance towards our practices as a constant process of identifying opportunities to build...
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...et al., 2020). Constructive dissent can be more or less public. When it happens privately, it is usually within small groups of people who are committed to improving the organisation through dialogue. However, such attempts to provide constructive dissent are sometimes not acknowledged or listened to. Under such circumstances, dissenters need to decide how far they are...
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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...et al., 2011). Figure 2 The footprint as a powerful image of treading on or occupying the Earth. A UK individual’s carbon footprint arises mainly from home energy use and personal travel, including flights, and from consumption of food, goods and services...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 1.3 Individual and household carbon footprints - There are different...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...et al., 2014). The city of Arezzo can be seen to the southeast of Florence in the map of Italy in Figure 2. [Described image] Figure 2 Detail of Italy, showing Arezzo southeast of Florence One of the advantages of staff notation is its ability to communicate the octave in which a note is located. Remember that each named note on the keyboard appears in more than one...
Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle

...et al., 2020) ac, yn 2021, roedd 214,256 o erthyliadau yng Nghymru a Lloegr (Swyddfa Gwella Iechyd ac Anghyfartaledd, 2023). Ac eithrio'r gwaith a wnaed gan Fiona Bloomer a'i chydweithwyr (2017, 2023) yng nghyd-destun Gogledd Iwerddon, ychydig a wyddys am erthyliad yng nghyd-destunau gweithleoedd y DU. Yn ogystal, mae stigma mawr ynghlwm wrth erthyliad ac yn aml mae'n...
How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...et al (2020) COVID-19 The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/the-effects-self-isolation-and-lack-physical-activity-on-carers Vseteckova J (2019) Depression, mood and exercise
Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...et al, 2020;; Gov.uk, 2019; London.gov.uk, 2020) US England & Wales Black and Latinx drivers were stopped and searched roughly two times more than White drivers (from analysis of data from 100 million traffic stops across US police forces) From April 2018 to March 2019, there were 38 stop and searches for every 1,000 Black people compared to 4 stop and searches for every...
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...et al., 2000) publication ‘Institutional Racism and the Police: Fact or Fiction’ which challenges the utility of the concept and emphasises its vagaries. Lea (2000) critiques Macpherson’s definition and use of institutional racism as conflating individual and intentional racism with unconscious racism and bias. Lea argues that individual actions are highlighted over...