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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...concept that assesses how an individual acts and behaves once they have been identified or categorised by society. It is a popular concept in criminology, particularly in studying how people become repeat offenders once they have been labelled ‘a criminal’. This principal of labelling can apply to what happens when a person is identified as ‘a patient’. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...concept of intersectionality...Human Resource Management and EDI: 1.1 Equality - Equality is considered to mean that everyone irrespective of, for instance, their age, ethnicity, gender and physical ability, has the same access to resources and opportunities. Equality means that a person is not discriminated against because of their characteristics. Many countries have...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...concepts, explanations, theories and interpretations) developed by social scientists contribute to actually making the social worlds we live in. In other words, social science helps to make visible (or describe) social phenomena, and make sense of (or understand) social processes. In doing so, it makes a difference to the social worlds it investigates (it helps to enact...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...concept that is being measured. Indicators are measured for a specific place and time and are typically used to represent, compare and monitor complex development issues such as poverty over time and between countries and regions.Indicators are therefore a key mechanism for measuring progress toward development objectives. To be effective they must communicate useful...
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Video 45 mins
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...concepts and ideas informed closely by the work of practitioners. It builds on some of the traditional foundations of the study and practice of leadership, such as the development of styles and skills based on well-established theory, while identifying the distinctive features and problems of leading in the public sphere. Chief among these distinctive features are the...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...concepts of objects. This approach uses a fairly standard set of development techniques. We take a broad view, and techniques are discussed fairly independently of exactly where and when they would be used. There has always been debate in the computing industry about just how useful any particular development technique is. We believe that the techniques introduced over...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...conceptions of science and views about whether science is for them or not. This is gained from their encounters with science outside school. These views and attitudes will also be influenced by the experience students have of science in school. Sadly too many students leave school feeling alienated from science so teachers need to engage their students in science by...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...concept of “self” and “the other” is able to distinguish between the two entities and, therefore, to recognize himself or herself in the reflection. The most interesting result arising from the confirmation of a consciousness of self is that, based on these results, other behavioral traits may be deduced such as, for example, empathy. In fact, the ability to...
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Article 5 mins