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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...account (Ferguson, 2026). Reflection or diffraction? If professional learning is often serendipitous and informal, this reframes ‘what counts’ as processes of professional learning. Reflective practices are commonly discussed across professions, where we look backwards and towards ourselves as a stimulus for future action. Current literature asks whether diffraction,...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...accountability to parliament, and the king championed the slave trade. To criticise or resist royal policy might be a treasonable offence. It would have been exceedingly difficult for Locke to openly criticise the slave trade. One person – Morgan Godwyn – who tried to challenge it mysteriously disappeared soon after. Perhaps Locke could have done more, but he lived in...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...account of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race, culture and religion in its design, undertaking, and reporting. The body of research evidence available to policy makers should reflect the diversity of the population.’ This consideration can only be guaranteed at this stage of the research process if it has been adopted in all the previous phases. Research...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...account the patient's general state of health and medical history. A wide range of herbs is used in this country, from all over the world. These range from common British "weeds" such as dandelion – a powerful diuretic and liver tonic; to exotics such as the bark of the South American Lapacho tree – an immune-system stimulating plant used for its antibiotic and...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...account of a spirit child’s journey between the spirit and the earthly world is given in Ben Okri’s novel, The Famished Road). When they are born, they remain in contact with this other world for several years, and may decide to return there if they are not properly looked after. So parents treat young children with great care so that they’re not tempted to return,...
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Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...accountable, consulted and informed) chart. Here the participation types are subdivided to show the following for each task: Who is responsible (R): the people who carry out the task Who is accountable (A): the single person who is answerable for the correct completion of the task Who is consulted (C): the people who need to be consulted in the carrying out of the task,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...account given by the person to whom you spoke for task 2 above. Discussion You may have thought about equality in terms of the resources allocated to education for different groups within society: for example, in England, a school usually receives a resource allocation with regard to the number of pupils who are considered to have ‘special educational needs’. Other...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...account and shape people's personal lives? This free course, Remaking the relations of work and welfare, looks at how participation in, and drop-out from, 'workfare' programmes are interpreted within different theoretical perspectives, and uses two case studies to connect the theory with the reality of people's lives...How do 'welfare to work' programmes such as the New...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs