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Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...de-emphasise a relationship between literacy acquisition and wider power relationships or social inequalities. Programmes designed to develop functional literacy place the emphasis on the individual decoding text rather than on the wider social and cultural environment. In her paper, Perry critiques the functional literacy approach. She specifically highlights how it...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...de Vil, villains are often the most thrilling aspect of a story and can be more exciting than the hero. It is argued that ‘villainy is integral in narratives that reflect the innermost fears of the human psyche and is often a significant part of the construction of loss whether it is loss of innocence, loss of loved ones, loss of power, or loss of self and/or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...respiration, reproduction, growth, excretion, movement, sensitivity and nutrition’. Remember to tell your participants before the task that it is not a test and that you are only interested in what they think. Also remember that your role as interviewer is to prompt with non-leading questions and never to give hints. Write a list of students’
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...modes of formation can be deduced from the textures and other features visible in the rocks themselves – reading the rocks...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.3 The formation of igneous rocks - Igneous rocks are defined as having solidified from a molten state, either inside the Earth or on the surface at volcanoes...Practising science: reading the...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...mode of production. Activity 6 Can you think of any other features of contemporary social arrangements that are represented as ‘natural’ or non-social? Jot down any you can think of. List also any social arrangements in which people do not act in line with conventional expectations and which are identified as ‘unnatural’. Discussion We are not going to try to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...De Smet et al., 2021) states reinvention is needed, and proposes the following nine imperatives that future-ready companies will exhibit. [Described image] (De Smet et al., 2021) Figure 7 Nine organisational imperatives for future-ready companies The trends and imperatives may be areas you already consider, however, delivering such a strategy requires embarking on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...mode of thinking that persons engage with when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive ingroup that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action.’ Lau (2022) describes four symptoms of groupthink: Trying to evade conflict within the group wherever possible Having a know-it-all attitude and a lack of critical thinking,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

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

...des parties du corps animal [Treatises on the Sensitive and Irritable Nature of Parts of the Animal Body], 1756–60, in which he discussed the results of his investigations on the physiology of nerves and muscles. Vivisection on animals, as is shown taking place here, was a staple procedure of the research. Note also the collection of foetuses preserved in jars and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs