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Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...Psychology in the Schools, 49(5), pp. 498–511. Star, S. L. and Griesemer, J. R., (1989) ‘Institutional ecology,translations’ and boundary objects: Amateurs and professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology’, 1907-39 Social studies of science, 19(3), pp. 387–420. Toulmin, S. (2001) Return to Reason Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Tyack, D. &...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...psychology, it commonly refers to the preoccupation with one’s own appearance or actions that’s typically heightened during teenage years. It also describes our concept of ‘I’ as a distinct individual. The term ‘self-aware’ might be used to describe some similar ideas; we’re aware of our own existence in a way that, for example, our television isn’t. We...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...Psychologies video from life coach Barry Ennis to hear a bit more about these two approaches and the value of using both to explore the options that might be open to you. INSTRUCTOR: Before we do, I would like you just to make a note of the real-life decision coming up for you that we can use as a case study throughout this four-week coaching programme. And we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...psychological research suggests are possible reasons why our estimates are often very inaccurate...Session 3: The big calculator: 6 Thinking fast and slow - In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011) argues the case for two types of thinking. ‘System 1’ is fast, instinctive, often unconscious, and requires comparatively little effort. However, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...psychology, maintains that organisations and sectors tend to choose leaders who are typical of the broader group (Hogg, 2001; Hogg and Terry, 2000). For example, if an organisation seems to value risk taking above all other things, then there is a good chance that it will select people deemed to be successful at taking risks as a leader. Our tendency to appoint leaders...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...psychology and background has just been given to the reader at some considerable length, over four pages. Pumblechook's shopman has no further role in the novel by Dickens, and although Pumblechook's association with seedcorn continues – towards the end of the book his mouth is stuffed full of flowering annuals by the journeyman Dolge Orlick (p.461) – his inner life...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

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

...psychology’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 44, pp. 397–410, 539–54. Lawrence, C. (1979) ‘The nervous system and society in the Scottish Enlightenment’ in B. Barnes and S. Shapin (eds) Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Beverly Hills and London, Sage, pp. 19–40. Porter, R. and Porter, D. (1988) In Sickness and in Health: The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...Psychology, New York, John Wiley. Welsh Government (2014) The National Youth Work Strategy for Wales 2014–2018, Llandudno Junction, Department for Education and Skills, Welsh Government [Online]. Available at http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/140417-national-youth-work-strategy-en.pdf (Accessed 15 July 2014). Williamson, H. (2007) ‘Youth work and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs