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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

...et al., 2018). How to implement ‘CARE’ Train facilitators to recognise and respond to signs of distress in children. Establish predictable routines and rituals that foster a sense of belonging. Use SELIC to prompt observation and dialogue – for example, ‘Do you feel safe?’ or ‘Do you feel comfortable?’ with response options ranging from ‘a little’ to...
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...et al., 2021). Many GPs refuse to refer children for specialist treatment, or to administer prescribed medication. Referral letters go awry. Even after a first appointment, children can wait months to be assessed and start receiving any medical treatment. Professionals often have rigid, binary notions of gender that mean young people need to perform a stereotypical...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...et al., 2012, p. 632) This free course is an adapted extract from an Open University course BB844 Marketing in the 21st century...Marketing in the 21st century: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate whether marketing is a process or philosophy think analytically, creatively and in an integrated manner about marketing ethics...
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...profiling is not already happening, it’s fair to assume that it will and should. It seems difficult to argue that whatever can be done to stop such outrages and threats to social cohesion happening should be done. But the day-to-day tedium of increased security pales into significance to the longer-term consequences of such acts. Governments flounder in the face of such...
How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?
Society, Politics & Law

How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?

...style interpretation of the royal prerogative and give Parliament at least some say in the process. How much that will be is still an open question, although things do not look good for reasons I alluded to above. Indeed, according to Polly Toynbee reporting on the first reading of the Art. 50 Bill: ‘The mad zeal of the Europhobes, still astounded that their small cult...
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...style. It was beneath the trees of the grounds belonging to our house, or on the bleak sides of the woodless mountains near, that my true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born and fostered. I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I could not figure to myself that romantic woes...
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...style of writing full of rich imagery. Du Bois famously commented in his collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” His writing makes clear that it takes two sides to create a “color-line”. Only once both sides recognise and act to cross the line can it be erased. Utilising Du Bois’s...
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...et al., 2022; Owens et al., 2023) or in other words, whether people have the capability to achieve the lives or outcomes they value, not just the right to do so. Activity 1 What skills do learners need? Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Watch the video below in which Sally Hayns, Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management...