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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...adults in the school care about their learning and about them as individuals.’ It draws on research to describe how such schools ‘… have seen benefits to student satisfaction and personal development, reduced violence and exclusions, and higher grades’ (Peace at the Heart, p. 15). Attentive care to wellbeing might be developed in any and all aspects of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...caring is so habitual, that we often fail to recognise it, even when it’s right in front of our eyes. Our love for some animals even seems to excuse us from complicity in industrialised killing: In a previous KFC TV advertising campaign, pairs of friends undertake the ‘KFC Friendship Bucket Test’: one has to answer a question about their friend, and match their...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...cared for by parents who are very erratic in their pattern of child care. The same child will be well suited to parents who are more regular in their routines of eating and sleeping. This suggests that the impact of temperament on development has to be analysed as an interaction between the child’s characteristics and features of the environment including parenting....
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Article 15 mins
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...care of residents in a residential care home unless supervised by an adult. Local authorities are further able to regulate other matters such as intervals for meals and rest. They can also require children to be in possession of a work permit issued by the authority once it is satisfied that the nature of the work to be undertaken is appropriate and the child’s health...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...care home for people with learning disabilities and now has been given a full-time job at the project – case study, CSV website. Listen to what some OU volunteers say about why they started voluntary work...Using Voluntary work to get ahead in the job market: 2.1 Introduction - 'All experiences count and are valuable and no one should push those aside. It really doesn't...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...adult relationships – is one of the most active areas of research in psychology...Attachment in the early years: 1.1 The needs of immature young - Human infants, and indeed the newborns of any mammal species, cannot survive alone. They need the feeding, attention, care and protection of more mature individuals to enable them to grow and develop. By definition, newborn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...care whether our favourite food and drink is lovingly crafted by the friendly people who run that small but perfectly formed local enterprise? Are sell-offs always a death-knell to independence, in which distinctive products and services are reduced to brand identity, mass-produced and ultimately undermined by the distorted commercial logics of a remote and unaccountable...
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What does the Queen's Speech tell us about the next two years?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the Queen's Speech tell us about the next two years?

...care funding reforms to grammar schools. Some have gone as far as suggesting that a “zombie parliament” lies ahead, in which no significant legislation is passed before a new election takes place. Negotiations with the DUP have dragged on for much longer than expected, leaving May without a firm commitment from the smaller party to prop up her minority government. And...
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