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Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...change. Making such assessments requires both knowledge and particular skills. This includes knowledge of the impact of parental substance misuse on the family on parenting capacity and the requisite skills and approaches required to explore this. It is also important to gain access to the wishes and experiences of the children concerned and to understand the parents’...
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Video 10 mins
World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change within their communities. However, development in practice is very complex and sometimes controversial. The audio tracks delve into the dilemma of how to deal with the different values...
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Participatory development in action
Society, Politics & Law

Participatory development in action

...changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change within their communities. However, development in practice is very complex and sometimes controversial. The audio tracks delve into the dilemma of how to incorporate the value systems of...
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Audio 1 hr 36 mins
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...change teaching so that students are happy to be lifelong learners and users of mathematics understand how can mathematics be creative...Teaching secondary mathematics: 1 Key issue 1: Why do people learn mathematics and how can it be taught effectively? - As a teacher, you will have to deal with attitudes towards mathematics and explain the mathematics that you expect...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...changes to the way you live now. This album looks at various small scale initiatives which show that living sustainably may not be as unpalatable as you might imagine. Bedzed, Findhorn, Hockerton, Samsoe Island; these are all decentralised communities at the forefront of a major social and technological experiment. In our world of finite resources and massive...
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Audio 55 mins
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...changes in temperature on a variety of objects and looks at the problem of how to boil water...Engineering is about extending the horizons of society by solving technical problems, ranging from the meeting of basic human needs for food and shelter to the generation of wealth by trade. This free course, Engineering: The challenge of temperature, looks at the impact of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...changing climate, so that the ground is still covered with snow when the marmots arouse from hibernation (earlier than used to be the case), making food hard to find. Summary of Section 1 Hibernation is a physiological and behavioural adaptation whose function is to maximize energy efficiency in animals remaining in the same area the whole year round. It is an alternative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...change. ‘B’ or ‘R’ denoting balancing or reinforcing feedback loops, respectively. Conventions The words or phrases represent variables. The arrows represent links between the variables, with the assumption that when variable A changes, variable B changes. A relationship where a change in A leads to a change in B in the same direction is denoted by an ‘s’...
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