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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...psychology E232: Exploring childhood and youth...Race and Youth Policy: working with young people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how issues such as knife crime and terrorism inform ‘policy’ and ‘work with young people’ practice analyse some of the assumptions that underpin youth policy evaluate some of the ways...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...psychology, a volunteer for the Samaritans (a UK charity that provides support for people in distress) and another American academic (a sport business negotiator) describe active listening. How does what they say apply to sport and fitness environments? Discussion The Samaritans volunteer gave the clearest summary when she talks about asking open ‘what/why?’ style...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...psychological stressors. However, recent research has indicated that there are other factors involved in the development of the condition, including alterations in gut permeability, immune response and gut microbiome. It is thought that dysbiosis leads to inflammation and increased permeability of the gut wall. Often this is triggered by an infectious episode of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...psychology of change, specialist tools and frameworks to design the human change process. Alongside the project manager, the team, and in consultation with the business, they also plan and advise how to integrate the project outcomes into the organisation. More specifically, a change manager focuses on who the stakeholders are, such as employees and customers; the context...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...psychology (Janis, 1982) and means a group has eight supposed symptoms: a sense of invulnerability moral superiority explaining away things that are contrary to the dominant view a stereotyped views of others self censorship of deviations from the group consensus a shared illusion of unanimity putting pressure on dissenters a collective, protective set of beliefs that...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...psychological effects of capitalism such as Hebert Marcuse (1998, 2002). Returning to Ellul: faced with capitalism’s demands for increased efficiency and the economic rationalisation of systems and institutions such as those of law and equity, Ellul’s claim is that justice will wither and die because it is too uncertain and unpredictable to effectively meet those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...psychology should be scientific in its approach. Answer Thorndike, Watson and, later, Skinner, Eysenck and others argued that psychology should be scientific in its approach. Select the answer for Question 1b here Fact Opinion a. Fact b. Opinion The correct answer is b. Question 3 Greer et al. developed a form of computational model called a ‘connectionist network’....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum. Doyle, W. (1983) ‘Academic work’, Review of Educational Research, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 159–99. Fehér, J. (2010) ‘The essence of creativity’, TeachingEnglish [Online]. Available at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ article/ essence-creativity...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs