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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...
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...
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...psychology, their humour, their friendships, their hates, and these were qualities which the later Greeks appreciated and developed very much in their culture. Paula James voice-over Compared with these poems, what survives on the ground is scanty, but we look in particular at some remarkable decorated pots designed as funeral objects. These and other artefacts found in a...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 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...
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...
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...Psychological Processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. Wenger, E. (2006) Intro to Communities of Practice, [online] available at http://wenger-trayner.com/ theory/ (accessed 10 December 2013)...Teachers sharing resources online: Acknowledgements -...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...Psychological Bulletin, vol. 63, pp. 384–99. Tuckman, B. and Jensen, M. (1977) ‘Stages of small group development revisited’, Groups and Organization Studies, vol. 2, pp. 419–27. Turnlund, M. (2003) ‘Distributed development lessons learnt’, ACM Queue, vol. 1, pp. 26–31. Wenger, E. (2009) Communities of Practice: A Brief Introduction,
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...Psychology Today, 30 December [Online]. Available at http://psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201012/why-we-love-bad-news (Accessed 5 November 2015)...Successful IT systems: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Magnus Ramage, Joyce Fortune, Neil Murray and Mustafa Ali. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions),...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs