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Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...et al. (2002) argue that social marketing is often used to influence an audience to change their behaviour for the sake of one or more of the following: improving health – health issues preventing injuries – safety issues protecting the environment – environmental issues contributing to the community – community-building issues. Lazer and Kelley (1973, p. ix)...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...et al.’s (2014) research. The researchers found that children often associated play with toys and games and saw play to be very much part of their social interactions and relationships with other children. Laughing and having fun featured strongly, as did being able to choose how they played and what they played with. Many of the older children interviewed also...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...et al., 2007, p. 95). Ancona and her colleagues (2007) suggest that the idea of an all-round complete leader is a myth, and it is important instead to acknowledge that any leader will have their strengths and weaknesses. They suggest that the ‘incomplete leader’, having recognised their own strengths and weaknesses, knows when to let go, and will find other people to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...et articulata debito modo pronunciata’ (‘A literate and articulate voice, pronounced in a correct manner’). This acts as a motto for the allegorical figure, defining the meaning of grammar as it is understood in this tradition. In other words, the text supplies additional meaning to the painting, though in a slightly different way from the names in Figure 2. Adam...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...et al., 2007). Practitioners taking this approach do not assume that social work knowledge can be simply applied to practice. Instead, assumptions about knowledge, power, practice and role of self are scrutinised and explored (D’Cruz et al., 2007), and this informs action. This idea is arguably especially important in a context of rapid social change, when new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...et al., 2006, Kuhn, 2000, Kistner, 2010). Being metacognitively aware as a teacher, involves understanding how your thinking (and therefore learning) is developing. Finally, Ixer highlights how, through metacognition, and conscious control of your thinking and learning, you will be more equipped to transfer your learning between different contexts and situations. This is...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...et al., 2013, p. xii). These ‘products’ refer to everything from physical products to services, ideas, and processes, etc. Critically, however, the way that these ‘products’ are generated can vary substantially from context to context. Activity 1 Are you creative? Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Do you consider yourself creative? Reflect on the times that you have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...et al., 2021). While your attraction towards heroic characters in fiction is easy to understand (they are pro-social, positive characters whom you may see as being role models), the attraction that you feel towards your favourite villain is perhaps harder to explain and has been something which psychologists, alongside authors of fiction, have been interested to explore....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs