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Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...central objective of the RETOPEA project is to provide resources and encouragement to challenge this view of the past, and to help young people to see it as a source of ideas to think creatively about their present-day situation instead. Activity 2 Timing: Allow about 15 minutes for this activity Before you read on, pause to consider to what extent these broad...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...central masking, meaning that it occurred at a level where more complex information extraction was taking place. Another early researcher in the field (Kolers, 1968) described the effect of a central (interruption) mask by analogy with the ‘processing’ of a customer in a shop. If the customer (equivalent to the target) comes into the shop alone, then s/he can be fully...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...central ideas in work with young people is that of reflective practice. We try to reflect on our practice as teachers, and we want you to reflect on the practice of workers with young people – both your own practice (if this applies to you) and that of others. In practical terms, you will often be asked in your assignments to describe and to reflect. The most important...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...central factor in the way we express our identity – and how others interpret our identity. It’s one of the main ways we have of establishing and maintaining relationships, as well as communicating our emotions and feelings. Another important issue touched on in the video is that a crucial part of our experience of language comes from the relationship between language...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...central principle of liberalism, should be encouraged. However, these values should not be translated into rights and imposed by the state on everyone; the state should not be in the business of promoting particular goals for its citizens. We should accept that value pluralism is inevitably going to lead to conflicts, and that if all values are translated into rights,...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...central visual place is that it was built on the highest ground of the City, simply because it was there first. [Described image] Figure 5 St Paul’s Cathedral, City of London, from the Thames. Photo: © Vincent Abbey/Alamy The first church on this site probably dates back to around 600. The medieval cathedral which replaced a series of smaller church buildings was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...Central and South America. At one time the marsupials were probably much more diverse than they are today. The marsupials that you are probably most familiar with are the kangaroos, wallabies and koalas. [Described image] Figure 8 Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana [Described image] Figure 9 Wallaby (Queensland, Australia) [Described image] Figure 10 Koala bear,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...central ideas associated with inclusive leadership. In a systematic review of 107 papers which attempted to address the conceptual confusion about inclusive leadership, Korkmaz et al (2022) identified many of the characteristics from the New Zealand paper (see Figure 2), but also mentioned the importance of leadership impacting upon different levels of the system (e.g.:...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs