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Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below (including any Proprietary material referenced in the course) is Proprietary and used under licence and not subject to Creative Commons Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...writing are: Headspace Stop, Breathe, Think The Mindfulness App. If you don’t want to use an app, the following websites are run by some of the major mindfulness researchers and practitioners in the UK and the USA. These pages include a number of audio meditations that you can play: Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World mindful: taking time for what matters Pick...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...writing of Percy Shelley might have a message for the UK right now, believes Mark Summers...Imagine discovering a new set of string quartets by Beethoven or a large canvas by Turner that was thought to be lost. In either case, the mainstream media would have been agog, just as they were for the discovery of an original Shakespeare folio in April 2016. So it’s remarkable...
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Article 5 mins
Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...writing of Frankenstein in the town. Plaques are frequently placed in locations where the notable person spent but the briefest of times. The Shelleys stayed only two months at the Nelson Square address and just a few weeks at Marchmont Street. If these fleeting residences can be memorialised, perhaps we could go one further and memorialise the street corner from which...
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Article 5 mins
Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...writings of Herodotus. These authors and their surviving texts provide invaluable evidence concerning the culture of ancient Greece. I want to look at a topic which is of great interest to students and scholars of the classical world – namely Greek women – and to consider some of difficulties involved in reading what are essentially literary texts for historical...
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Article 5 mins
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...write a brief statement explaining what a retailer does for its customers: Figure 2 Zara – a multinational chain of fashion stores, Wood Shop – a small independent shop selling locally made merchandise, Galeries Lafayette – a chain of French department stores. Activity 1: Defining retailing Timing: Allow 15 minutes for this activity Purpose: to get you to start...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...writing about slavery, we usually talk about ‘enslaved people’ rather than slaves. This language is important because it acknowledges the humanity of enslaved people, instead of using the description forced on them by their enslavers. This course also uses language that accurately describes people’s experiences and complex identities within their own political and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...writing of various early childhood pioneers. The next section includes a timeline of some key thinkers and their ideas about young children’s engagement with nature and the outdoors...Session 1: Taken for granted practices with young children and the outdoors: 1.1 Voices from the past - Those who work with, and study, young children often look backwards to think about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs