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Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...concepts that teachers might look to to support infant's and toddler's engagement in the outdoors, I'll just share a little bit about our context so that there is an understanding of where these ideas come from. So New Zealand itself, is a small island nation. We have about 5 million people now. It's a very multi-ethnic society, so there's a lot of diversity. We have a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...conception of the disembodied person with that of an embodied person TRADITIONAL WESTERN CONCEPTION OF THE DISEMBODIED PERSON THE CONCEPTION OF AN EMBODIED PERSON The world has a unique category structure independent of the minds, bodies or brains of human beings (i.e. an objective world). Our conceptual system is grounded in, neurally makes use of, and is crucially...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...concepts stand for and how they are used with regards to intercultural communication. The activities also aim to increase your cultural self-awareness, which is an important basis for building cultural knowledge, because if you start to understand how your own cultural values and beliefs are reflected in your behaviour, you can relate to and interpret the behaviour of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...concept central to all German historicism of the nineteenth century … The account of the artist and the works known as the biography of the artist has proven to be constitutive of itself in highly significant ways for art history writing. Perhaps this is because the genre mediates so well between the imaginary and the real, between the myth and the history, between the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...concept of environmental management accounting and analyse the impact of environmental costs and their implications for management accounting...This course is designed to provide you with a solid understanding of the principles and practices of cost accounting. Cost accounting enables managers to understand the true costs of products, services and processes in order to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...concept – a state of ‘wellness’ – rather than the mere absence of illness. Once again, there is an implicit criticism of a negative, medical focus on health ‘problems’. Third, the use of the word wellbeing represents an attempt to broaden the scope of what is meant by health, so that it includes not only physical and mental health but also what is here called...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...concept of innovation and how it relates to discovery, invention and design, using a series of case studies...First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship: 2.1 Distinguishing terms: discovery - The word ‘innovation’ usually implies novelty and its practical use. But how can we be more specific? We first need to distinguish the term from three closely-related...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...concepts, evidence and theories taking a distanced, critical stance towards subject matter, assumptions and explanations tackling issues systematically, logically, and effectively examining the adequacy of evidence and checking alternative interpretations of it demonstrating a thorough understanding of complex, abstract concepts within the discipline writing clearly and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs