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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...intelligence. A 1970 study of 850 teachers confirmed that West Indian children were perceived as being aggressive and creating discipline problems. These generalisations were severely damaging the lives of Black children. And for their parents, staying quiet was no longer an option. PAUL WARMINGTON Increasing numbers of Black parents, Black teachers, community workers,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...artificial needs (O’Shaughnessy and O’Shaughnessy, 2002) but, to support a sustainable business, a product or service must serve a genuine purpose. The fads and fashions engineered by some marketing activity are by their nature short-lived. Successful organisations, whether commercial or not-for-profit, understand customer needs sufficiently well to be able to satisfy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...intelligence, along with things like how much you trust the people you know and how strong those relationships are. We can do all of this really well. And again, it doesn't come from what you might think of as obvious information. So my favourite example is from this study that was published this year in the Proceedings of the National Academies. If you Google this,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...intelligence’ and allows higher-order thinking. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Figure 4) is a system for classifying levels of learning behaviour. ‘Creating’ is at the top of the classification. The intentional use of verbs in the classification highlights our understanding of learning as being an active process (Tarlinton, 2003). Creativity is a process and you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...intelligent and understand complex ideas. The internet, Facebook, YouTube has opened up an opportunity for people to engage with really serious challenging material, shareability has meant that people love to share stuff that makes them look like they really understand some interesting ideas. So I think shareability of quite highbrow content is something which is an...
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Video 30 mins
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...intelligent and we can put things on radio which are different to television. So, for example, we’re just coming to an end of a 60-episode landmark on Radio 4, called Shared Planet, which really does try to look at the future, as to how people and the natural world are going to negotiate the same space and share the planet in order to survive. And that’s a very...
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Video 30 mins
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...intelligence and intercultural sensitivity that can be applied to other situations beyond Chinese-speaking cultures. You have also heard a testimony from someone who worked in China reflecting on how speaking a little Chinese helped establish common ground in their dealings with Chinese people. If you wish to explore how hierarchy in Chinese culture affects business...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...intelligent and accomplished, the prince was also highly emotional, duplicitous, painfully susceptible to flattery, wildly extravagant, greedy for excitement and personally theatrical. The Princess Lieven, wife of Tsar Alexander I's ambassador and a notable judge of character, described him as he was in the 1820s, as having ‘some wit, and great penetration’: he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs