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Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...et al., 2009) and note any similarities or differences in how these ten linguists define their field of study. Discussion Applied linguistics potentially covers a vast area, and both academic researchers and practitioners necessarily tend to focus on a small area of particular interest. Not all academics use the term ‘applied linguistics’ to describe their work –...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...et al., 2007, pp. 291–303). Earlier written evidence that works of art were recognised as offering visual delight quite apart from function and meaning is sparse but there is a little. In a treatise written sometime between 1227 and his death in 1254, Lucas, Bishop of Tuy in Spain, reiterated the medieval convention that the purpose of religious art in churches was both...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...et al., 2001), children need time and opportunities to explore and develop their conceptual understanding (Mooney, 2013). Across the curriculum, teaching should ensure that children reconstruct ‘faulty alternative’ frameworks and change their conceptual understanding, to restructure what has been previously learned. This is particularly the case in science, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...et al., 2018). Balancing this, the internet allows non-professionals to find evidence with which they can challenge health and social care practitioners. Professionals can no longer simply rely on the status of being a ‘professional’. Consumers’ rights and citizens’ rights imply that the services we receive or practise should be evidence-based. For all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...motivation involved in terrorism is seen as fundamentally different. Under UK law, for example, the clear differentiation is made that terrorism has the intention to influence or intimidate in the pursuit of a political, religious or ideological goal. Activity 7 Terrorism and militarism Look at the cartoon which follows. It depicts two acts of violence. Explain in your...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...et al., 1992). Medical journals were founded in rather smaller numbers in Europe at the same time – in France, Germany and Belgium, where the Scalpel (surely in homage to Wakley's Lancet) appeared. Even in Russia, twenty-three new journals were established around the middle of the century. Nineteenth-century medicine had a form and character that was unique to its time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...et al., 2011) across Australia, Canada and the UK found a broader range of criteria being used when 50 respondents in each of the three countries were asked to provide and to rank in order of importance the success criteria they had used to make a judgement about the success of a project they had recently worked on. In Table 2 you can see the success criteria they...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...motivation for tackling PDP now, but are there any other benefits? Mark Endean. Mark Endean There are two obvious benefits of reflective practice. One is about knowing what you're like as a person. Knowing the things you're good at is very important in working out how to achieve the goals that you set for yourself. The other thing is looking back over the recent past to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs