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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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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...psychology tend to be more focused on the individual, while other social sciences like sociology or economics tend to focus on relationships between groups of people. This is not a hard and fast distinction, for example there is a branch of psychology called social psychology. This week you will: explore how social science sees families and relationships revisit the cycle...
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...psychology is incorrect). (Source: After Lakoff and Johnson, 1999, pp. 552–557) The third ball is concerned with how a systems practitioner puts particular systems approaches into context (i.e. contextualizing) for taking action in the ‘real world’; that's the juggler's C ball. One of the main skills of a systems practitioner is to learn, through experience, to...
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...Psychology, 1(1), 58-78. Matthews, D. (2023) ‘The amazing tale of Englishman Will Still, Europe’s youngest boss who cut his teeth playing Football Manager and is now on a stunning unbeaten run with Ligue 1 Reims’, The Daily Mail. Available at:
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...Psychology. Furthermore, the cross-over with Engineering and Scientific disciplines also coincided in the later decades of last century with the formation of a new discipline now known as Computer Science. The following is a brief, decade-by-decade timeline of prominent events within the relatively recent history of AI (not including 2020’s, since the course was...
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...Psychology, vol. 10, issue 2, pp. 121–44. Hackman, J.R. (1990) Groups that Work (and Those that Don’t), San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass. Hackman, J.R. (2002) Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances, Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press. Hill, L.A. and Farkas, M.T.(2001)‘A Note on Team Process’, Harvard Business Online (for educators). Ingram,...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...psychological control, measures taken to prevent or deter escape, force, threat of force or coercion, duration, assertion of exclusivity, subjection to cruel treatment and abuse, control of sexuality and forced labour’ (para. 77). Many of these factors were present in Ms Mani’s case. The Court expressed the view that the chief of the tribe had a clear intention of...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Psychology, 91, p. 612. Bentham, J. (1823) Truth versus Ashhurst, or, law as it is, contrasted with what is said to be: written in December, 1792 and now first published. London: T. Moses. Blackstone, W. (1827 [1765]) Commentaries on the laws of England. New York: E Duyckinck. Cohen, F.S. (1935) ‘Transcendental nonsense and the functional approach’, Columbia Law...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs