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Health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Health and wellbeing

...health and wellbeing and the different strategies that can be used to support children and young people The range of factors which influence the mind and behaviour The term motivation and factors that affect motivation within Sport and Fitness [Banner for Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130) ] Click on the banner above to view other pathways...
Women’s sport: insights from a researcher’s journey
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women’s sport: insights from a researcher’s journey

...motivations to pursue a PhD in this field. Getting into competitive motorcycle racing Women can get into motorcycling through the influence of fathers, brothers or partners who introduce them to the thrill of the sport. Others can be drawn to the freedom and independence it provides, especially in areas with limited public transportation. Media representations and the...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...motivation as readers can build reciprocal communities of readers...In countries where the language of schooling predominantly focuses on measurable and often oversimplified notions of attainment, children can come to be viewed and discussed in relation to their current standards of performance, rather than as unique individuals. In such audit-driven cultures the vital...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...et al., 2019). Despite the use of multiple terms to describe resilience, there is consensus among researchers that resilience is best understood when examined in a particular context as models of resilience developed in other domains, such as business, might not be transferable, for example to sport (Wagstaff et al., 2017). In simple terms, resilience is ‘the ability to...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hadrian: The Roamin' Emperor
History & The Arts

Hadrian: The Roamin' Emperor

...motivated the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, to travel so extensively?...Let's go! Go on a journey around the globe with Hadrian and gain fascinating insights into the life and mind of this intriguing historical figure. Can you debunk some of the many classical myths around him, or will you fall into the same trap as others? [Image taken from the Hadrian: The roamin' emperor...
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...et al., 2001; Zamir, et al., 2014; Levett, & Devine, 2017). I'm now going to explain this theory and highlight a few queries about it. The Story Model The story model is most closely associated with Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie, though a number of other theorists have also suggested similar theories (Hastie, et al., 1983; Pennington, & Hastie, 1992; Anderson, et al.,...
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...motivated to do so. The complex factors which interact to develop young readers’ identities and the myriad of elements which characterise their experiences are inescapably ignored in such surveysHowever in the influential PISA and PIRLS studies which shape ministerial perspectives and drive policy making in many countries, reading is framed more as a measurable result...
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...et al., 2018). Estimates of the worldwide prevalence of ADHD are around 6 in 100 children and adolescents and 3 in 100 adults (Spencer et al., 2002; Moffitt et al., 2015). What do you notice about prevalence rates in the two age groups? Around twice as many children and adolescents have ADHD compared with adults. This difference in prevalence was initially thought to...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs