1,813 search results
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...writing in Subjectivity2009, 25, pages 432-445 The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change Angela McRobbie, published by Sage I discuss this book in a review published in Feminism & Psychology Reclassifying upward mobility: femininity and the neo-liberal subject Valerie Walkerdine writing in Gender and Education 2003 15, pages 237-248 Why more and more...
View article Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Article 10 mins
Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...writing a book examining movements for independence in Corsica, Poland, America, France, Ireland, and Haiti. Rather than treating each revolution separately, I focus on how contemporaries thought about the legitimacy of independence: what made a claim to self-rule valid, and how they justified separation from foreign domination. By placing these movements side by side,...
View article Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...writing for the BBC in this period, I used this sentence to contextualise these developments: Republicans will view this as "military Brits out" - that is its real significance. And I added these thoughts: The past few days have given us the stuff of history - words and actions that point towards a better peace than the one we have had so far. But there is another...
View article Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
Article 5 mins
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...write down at least ten of them here. Comment Here are just some of them: blog body language email eye contact Facebook letters physical gestures pictures podcast radio sign language Skype speech telephone text touch TV Twitter voice-simulator and many more...Good communication: 1.1 Barriers to communication - Good communication is vital in social care. It enables us to...
View course Caring for adults
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...creative with this and sometimes culturally they - there are provisions within Muslim jurisprudence to accommodate what is generally acceptable in the surrounding culture. And this was especially important when Islam spread out of the Arabian Peninsula into the Indian subcontinent, into Africa, into Southeast Asia, and so on. So there was that flexibility to accommodate...
View course Diversity in religion: Islam
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...write a sentence or paragraph that aims to capture your view of what a leader is. Discussion You could have approached this in different ways. Did you focus on the personal skills and qualities required by a leader, or consider the process or tasks of leadership? These perspectives reflect the different ways that researchers have conceptualised leadership, as you’ll see...
View course Leadership and followership
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity....
View course Investigating psychology
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...Write brief notes to outline your thoughts. Type of observation Likely purpose of the observation Characteristics of the observation Characteristics of the feedback Absent To check that the teacher is carrying out school ‘non-negotiables’ and the level of student engagement. Unannounced, short, drop-in style observation, less than 20 minutes in length – could have...
View course A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs