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What is socialisation? The one minute guide
Education & Development

What is socialisation? The one minute guide

...children come to be able to function as members of their community'] Basically, socialisation is a general term for the many different ways and processes by which children come to be able to function as members of their social community. It is in part a process of learning and in part a process of being taught, but modern views of socialisation also stress the active role...
TESSA: Active Learning
Education & Development

TESSA: Active Learning

...children create a drama for the school open day. They argue but the leader (Major) pulls them together so that they can finish the production even when one of them falls ill. TESSA - The Town Meeting Ezekiel is trying to host the town meeting but his children are too noisy. He is angry and goes to punish them but Njideka persuades him not too. She quietens them with a...
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Centre for Research Methods online learning resource. If you’re interested in finding out more about Maggie Charles’s use of corpora in EAP, read her paper: Maggie Charles (2014) ‘Getting the corpus habit: EAP students’ long-term use of personal corpora’, English for Specific Purposes, vol. 35, pp. 35–40. This article is short and very readable. It includes...
Auftakt: intermediate German
Languages

Auftakt: intermediate German

...of the German Reunification Living in Leipzig Living in Leipzig Wine from Styria Wine from Styria Going on holiday Going on holiday Hiking Going hiking The Leipzig boys’ choir The Leipzig boys’ choir German weddings German weddings Carnival in Germany Carnival in Germany German Bier German Bier The Euro Info Centre Graz The Euro Info Centre Graz Hand bikes Hand bikes...
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...children and young people’s mental health problems in the media, and we often hear this issue referred to as a ‘crisis’. But what does the evidence say? Are rates of mental health problems rising? In this course you will explore these important questions as well as delving into a case study of a young person with anxiety who is refusing to go to school, which is...
What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...Researchers have been predicting a teacher shortage for some time now, and the number of children entering reception classes has been rising in relation to population over a number of years. The ability to plan locally has been severely compromised by the undermining of resource and statutory powers of local authorities, not least in the areas of school planning. This led...
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...centred on the needs of children and young people, services need much better coordination so that it is clear what is available and how to access it. In 2018, the CQC recommended: joint action across government to make children and young people’s mental health a national priority a clear ‘local offer’ of the care and support available to children and young people...
Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?

...Centre (C) Wing Defence (WD) Goal Defence (GD) Goal Keeper (GK) The aim is to score more goals than your opponents across a match of 60 minutes divided into four quarters of play. Players are assigned one of the positions shown above with each allocated areas of the court in which they can move. Only two players on each team are able to shoot and score a goal – the Goal...