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David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...mental note of how much of the essay you now more or less understand. When you have finished, recall your reaction to the exercise on p. 179. I hope this will reveal the extent to which an apparently obscure piece of writing may in fact contain a carefully constructed discussion, which careful study can render accessible...David Hume: 5.1 The reception of Hume's views -...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...mental characteristics – size, development or immaturity, and so on – which are common to all children, or by local, cultural decisions. This second idea of childhood changes with time, place, commercialism, politics, and even with individuals; in the West, it has been commonly associated with lack of responsibility. Consequently, how do we categorise children’s...
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...mental health therapist, because there I used all sorts of theoretical perspectives in my work, but the one I favoured was the humanistic approach, where you’re trying to look at, kind of taking a holistic view of the person, the individual, trying to understand their, their feelings, their needs, their potential. Trying to empower. And these are the kinds of messages...
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...mental image of an interview. Perhaps, the word conjures up a picture of an intense, confrontational television interview between a TV interviewer and a politician, or maybe you think of a chat-show host, or a short snippet of film such as a vox pop, as a TV reporter gets a comment from the ‘ordinary people in the street’. [Figure 4 Jeremy Paxman] Figure 4 Jeremy...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...mental health and well-being, and engaging young people. Are promotional material was designed. And we brought our proposal to all areas of the community to share our ideas to get community buy-in from a very early stage in the process. We delivered awareness-raising sessions and workshops right across the district electoral area. And we laid out the process to be...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...mentality is, no, nothing is going to stop us. Keep ploughing ahead, even though everyone else around you is looking at you going like, that's probably not the best approach because we don't think oftentimes in terms of those scenarios and possibilities. Funnily enough, we do a pretty good job of thinking like this in our personal lives. Think about the time when you went...
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...mentality currently particularly – the arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak, when you’re present in the current moment, when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing, when you are fully alive. An anaesthetic is when you shut your...
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...mental disturbance) Example: el mar tranquilo Synonyms: pacífico, relajado, calmado Meaning: free from disturbance; calm Example: her tranquil gaze Synonyms: peaceful, restful, reposeful, calm, quiet, still, serene, placid, relaxing, soothing, undisturbed, idyllic, halcyon, mild, pleasant Pronunciation: [traŋˈkilo] Pronunciation: [ˈtræŋkwɪl] Both words come from...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs