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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...
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
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....
Level 1: Introductory 24 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...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...psychological effect on children. And we've met children the morning after they've spent the night in a police station because social services have turned them away. We've heard them sobbing over the phone. We've seen them mute and listless the next day. BYO There's no amount of explanation I'm going to give to him as a three-year-old. He's not going to understand it. He...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...psychological aspects of environmental management. It is also interesting to note that the term encompasses social aspects. The second part of the definition is perhaps more to be expected, but it is notable that it refers to managing human impact on the environment. Questions to raise might be: is environmental management only about managing human impacts on...
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...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...psychology (e.g. Schwarz (2000) and Ubel (2005)). Activity 2 Information constraints Read the extract below from March (1994) and complete the following activity. What are the four main information constraints that March believes face decision makers in organisations? In your experience, are these constraints also relevant in non-organisational settings? View document...
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...Psychology Review, 27(3), pp. 391–404. Ghaye, T. et al. (2008) ‘Participatory and appreciative action and reflection (PAAR) – democratizing reflective practices’, Reflective Practice, 9(4), pp. 361–397. GTCS ‘Professional Learning’. Available at: https://www.gtcs.org.uk/ professional-update/ professional-learning/ (Accessed: 2 September 2022). OpenLearn...