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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...psychological human need to be competent, autonomous and related to others, and enhances self-motivation and mental health. Talk and informal reader-to-reader conversations play a key role in nurturing children’s interest in reading as they recommend books to each other and build reading networks and relationships. In the next section, you will bring together what you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...psychological threshold: The theatre was like a lunatic asylum, with rolling eyes, clenched fists, hoarse uproar among the audience. Strangers fell sobbing into each other's arms, women tottered, half-fainting, to the door. It was a universal disruption into chaos, out of whose mists a new creation is emerging. (Hampson, 1968, pp. 201–2) The movement also emphasised the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...Psychology Monographs, cyf. 75, tt. 43–88. CliffsNotes (2015) Piaget’s Model of Cognitive Development [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn http://www.cliffsnotes.com/ study-guides/ sociology/ socialization/ piagets-model-of-cognitive-development (cyrchwyd 29 Ionawr 2016]) Cole, M. (1998) ‘Culture in development’ yn Woodhead, M., Faulkner, D. a Routledge mewn cydweithrediad â'r...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...psychology at University College London, but in 1944 left it incomplete to join the army. He saw service as a company commander and in intelligence in India, and stayed there until 1947, leaving the army with the rank of captain in 1949. He realised that OR, so successful during wartime, also had immense possibilities in peacetime. Appointed to a management position in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...psychological capacities and a positive ethical climate, to foster’ four key attributes: Greater self-awareness. Leaders should be aware of their own strengths and weaknesses and correct themselves accordingly. An internalised moral perspective. Leaders should be driven by a strong sense of their morality and stay true to this. Balanced processing of information....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...psychology, and law. It was a little bit like an Open University course in a way. And you had to do a little project. In psychology she did it. And I've got her handwriting here because it's from the archives of The Open University. And it's called 'An Experiment in Prejudices.' And what she did was to ask - because she was also studying to be a teacher, studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...psychological implications of the rapid, often drastic changes that we impose upon our own lives and those of our domestic animals. Antarctica has been isolated from other continents since the Mesozoic supercontinent Gondwanaland broke up and the fragments that became India, Australia and New Zealand drifted away. The rich fossil record in Antarctica shows that a diverse...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...psychological and social ideas opened up by the Enlightenment’s consideration of such places gave way to the application of those ideas to a process of artistic self-exploration and self-expression. And yet, as we shall see, Delacroix was not always so clearly on the side of Romanticism. His 1832 journey to Morocco would be a crucial, transforming influence on his...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs