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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...physical difficulties that can limit what they are able to do, so that they may have to give up lifelong-loved activities. If we also begin to lose skills through cognitive difficulties, such as those associated with dementia, this can have an even more profound effect on our sense of self, as we have to ‘re-learn’ to live without being able to rely on memory or being...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...physical reflex that can be experienced whether or not an individual is expecting it. Also, the surprise response tends to be longer than the experience of the startle reflex (Ekman et al., 1985). Startle effect: the amygdala hijack The startle reflex is an uncontrollable and automatic response to a sudden, intense stimulus (Field et al., 2015) which is accompanied by an...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...physical acuity (drawing, hand–eye coordination, etc.). Some extrinsic aptitudes are: developing powers of description and analysis; extending intercultural awareness (icons, practices, symbols); planning and executing art projects; developing and supporting arguments and viewpoints; collaborative peer working, self-directed learning. Please now consider Activity 1....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...physical characteristics if they are required for the job willingness to travel team-building or administrative skills. Job descriptions and person specifications can be used for job advertisements, interviews and any other recruitment and selection procedures that might be used (for example, psychometric testing). Activity 2 Where the project manager has had little or no...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...physical quantity of interest is length (it may be the diameter of an object or its distance from us). Units, numbers and physical quantities Much of astronomy concerns quantities such as distances, masses, temperatures, etc. In all of these cases, units of measurement are important. Physical quantities are generally the result of multiplying together a number and a unit...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...physical Universe and the life within it. Scientists acquire knowledge by engaging in four fundamentally important and connected tasks. The first is observation: they observe the natural world and the space beyond it, and both describe and record what they see. Second, they construct hypotheses to explain what they see. Third, they carry out experiments where possible to...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...physical health and a lesser focus on things like mental health. And wellbeing, I think, sort of encompasses so many different things, which includes health but it can be about environment as well as individuals and practitioners. HELEN KING Right. So from an ancient perspective, that's interesting because for the ancient world really health is about everything. It's...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...physically, psychologically or in terms of longer term life-chances), and/or less able to challenge the political or economic system which may be underpinned by racism and other social inequalities, then they are affected by structural violence. Galtung (1969, p. 173) further argued that ‘[s]tructural violence is silent, it does not show – it is essentially static, it...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs