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Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...techniques and new skills. (McCall and Lawlor, 2000, cited in Jones and Pound, 2008, p. 1) If you do not already have responsibility for aspects of the provision in your setting, as you become more competent, knowledgeable and experienced as a practitioner, you should find opportunities to exercise leadership skills in your work with children, families and the wider...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...techniques like advertising alone...Understanding your customers: Key insights from behavioural economics - Loss aversion: Research shows that people tend to prefer to hang on to what they already have, such as existing patterns of behaviour, even when faced with incentives to change for the better for example, to lose weight. The fear of losing whatever benefit their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...techniques and coping strategies when acquiring their second language that they can transfer to new language situations, especially those involving immersion in a new language such as moving to a foreign country. Research has shown that bilingual children’s ‘metalinguistic ability’ is more developed than that of their single-language counterparts, i.e. that they are...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...technique, and they draw on a wide range of sources, including contemporary writings and documents, in order to elucidate the significance of particular subjects and motifs. The leading proponent of the use of this approach to elucidate Dutch seventeenth-century painting, Eddy de Jongh, defines iconology as ‘the branch of art history that seeks to explain the content of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...techniques (McEvoy, 2001). Since different discourses can justify different actions by the state they can be seen as significant in the way that power is exercised, particularly over relatively powerless groups. As you will see, discourses of terrorism can be used to legitimate the deployment of extra security measures or even military force against relatively powerless...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...techniques fit the personal-developmental rationale. This interpretation is closer to post-structuralist theories of governmentality. These argue that it is through such encounters that relations of persuasion and power are enacted. Following Foucault's theories about the processes through which people's conduct of themselves is governed, Rose (1999) argues that: To...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...technique reveals that each male has sometimes fathered one of the twins; you may notice that LoM makes a contrary claim [p. 264], but I'm describing more recent research here. Without the assistance of both males and the older juveniles, the newborn twins are likely to die; thus there is survival advantage in this system of communal care. Activity 10 You will recall from...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...techniques for reading a text for orientation: skimming and scanning. Skimming: reading a text ‘diagonally’ at speed in order to decide whether to read (parts of) it properly in order to judge relevance. Scanning: searching for specific information; looking quickly through a text searching for something specific – usually a piece of information (= ‘scanning’)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs