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Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...mental processes. Emotional intelligence is especially important for leaders due to the phenomenon of emotional contagion – the ability to “infect” large numbers of people with your emotions. Research shows that emotionally intelligent leaders are especially skilled at emotional contagion. This is a fundamental component of what scholars call charisma, the whole...
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...mental health, wellbeing and one’s ability to perform to their full capability. I know many Muslim women who have struggled to get time for themselves, especially after having children. When I had my first child, I couldn’t find a sports activity that would be easily accessible to me with privacy where I could take my scarf off. Wearing a scarf is like wearing any...
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...mental fog descend when we are asked to deal with them. This is because numerical information is information in a very condensed and abstract form. A number on its own means very little. You have to learn to read it. Numeracy (the ability to work with numbers) is a skill that we can learn. It is a very useful skill, because it allows us to understand very quickly the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...mental distress enforced body modifications, such as the amputation of pigs’ tails, the ‘clipping’ of piglets’ teeth, the castration of piglets or the partial amputation of hens’ beaks (sometimes called ‘debeaking’) increased incidence of injury or infections resulting from the farm environment, such as mastitis (a painful inflammation of cows’ udders)...
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...mentally, emotionally, because this case depends, everything – our lives depend on this case. It’s my faith that keeps me going, and the things that we do. And I think, all that is happening the church – the ESOL classes and all that stuff – it gives me something to look into, something to say, no, I have to do it, because if I don’t do it, who else is going to...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Mentally we’re quite strong. Put them straight up there. BETTY: Are you still trying to get through to Birmingham City Council? MONTY METH: No, I haven’t done that. We probably think that it’s been good for both of us to have outside interests -- that we’re not continually looking in on ourselves. We’ve never both sat back and wondered what we’re going to do...
Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...mental and moral character of the individual and by extension [wider] society’ (Vincent, 1989, p. 6). [This is a sketch of a line of ten boys seated on a bench at a long desk. Each of them holds up a slate, chalked with writing. A boy with a stick stands in front of them, inspecting the slates.] Figure 11 Frontispiece from Joseph Lancaster, The British system of...
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...mental distractions are created by our busy schedules – the frustrating meeting we have just been to, the daunting meeting coming up, the numerous matters needing our attention. Then there are the ways we can distract ourselves during a coaching conversation. We might find ourselves worrying about ‘getting it right’ in various ways, or wondering if the coachee is...