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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...conception represents the milieu in which development can take place. Citizens feeling secure that the three legs are in place, that their country has robust democratic principles, equitable distribution of resources and strong cultures of peace can be educated, productive and creative. A secure seat also provides the environment in which a government can receive funds...
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Article 10 mins
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...concept of moral economy. The second part links the Sulawesi archipelago to Norfolk, a county on the UK’s East Anglian coast, and explores the different meanings of liminality. Liminality is a term used to describe the places in between places, like intertidal zones, which are neither land nor sea. Coping on the Coast Part 1: moral economy In this first part, I am going...
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Video 15 mins
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...concepts of the Resilient Learning Ecology into practical steps for programme design, intervention and formative assessment. [CARE-KNOW-DO graphic to enhance children includes words: zone of emotional safety, embodied dialogue and graduated agency ] The Zone of Emotional Safety (ZES) provides the foundation where children feel secure enough to learn. ZES is vital for...
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Article 5 mins
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...conceptions about other cultures that were themselves symptomatic of the dawning age of Empire (with roots, of course, going back into the Renaissance, if not before: the ‘Pharaoh’ of the Bible itself is a sort of prototype of the ‘oriental despot’). The next section contains an activity on some views of the nineteenth-century German philosopher G.W.F....
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...concept of resilience can support athletes on their athletic development journey. You will examine how resilience can act as a buffer to protect against the challenges that might be faced by athletes and coaches. The protective qualities of resilience make it an important consideration for wellbeing and performance in sport, with strong links to the topic of mental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...concept of happiness as something that even years ago could be classified as a psychiatric disorder (Bentall, 1992). It is abnormal (or disorder-like) in the sense that it is not commonly experienced as ordinary and everyday for the majority of people. There are, of course, dangers in extending the boundaries of abnormality ever further, and the absurdity of classifying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...concepts, including justice, fairness and even equality. It is therefore heterogeneous and embraces a plurality of different legal and non-legal worlds. Important for the following discussion is that it is in part due to this diverse or heterogeneous character that equity is able to operate beyond narrow legal considerations and penetrate wider socio-political and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...conceptions about learning a language and do this whilst challenging our own assumptions and conceptions about language learning. We've developed this unit for secondary MFL teachers at the beginning of their careers to help with all of these points of view. It looks at some key ideas and concepts to be used in an MFL classroom. It explores some ways in which target...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs