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Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...adapt or hone our skills in particular ways. [Photograph of a boy, on the left, shouting through a megaphone at another boy, on the right, who is covering his ears with his hands.] In Session 1, you watched the video clip of the Headteacher talking about the Listening Project at her nursery school. The teachers involved said that as a result of the project they found they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...adapted from EQF (2014) Footnotes (*) defined as ‘involving the use of logical, intuitive and creative thinking’ Footnotes (**) defined as ‘involving manual dexterity and the use of methods, materials, tools and instruments’ Footnotes Full listing of descriptors available at: https://ec.europa.eu/ ploteus/ en/ content/ descriptors-page Footnotes For more on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...adapted by Philpott. We will ask you to consider the implications of this model in the work of a secondary music teacher...Teaching secondary music: 2.1 Philpott/Reid’s typologies of musical knowledge - Philpott (2007), drawing on Arnaud Reid, posits a framework that identifies three inter-related types of musical knowledge: knowledge about music (the facts of or...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...adapted from A Handbook for Governors of Schools in Wales (Governors Cymru Services, 2018) and form part of the Principles of Conduct for Governors in Schools in Wales. More information can be found on the Governors Cymru Services website. Each statement is applicable to the role of a governor, and illustrates that, as a governor, team working plays an important role in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...Adapted from McGuinness, 1999)...Extending and developing your thinking skills: 3.1 Thinking in a higher gear - While we can all think, it is important to recognize that the thinking skills we have looked at so far are not all required or equally valued in academic work. Common to all subjects and levels is the concept of higher and lower order thinking skills. Higher...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...et al., 1997) advises that you should ask yourself these questions: What is the table about? The title of the table should tell you what it is about. Where has the information come from? The source of the information should be stated. What do the rows and columns represent? The labels for the rows and columns should tell you what they represent. What do you want to know?...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...adapted extract from the Open University course T213 Energy and Sustainability. ...Transport and Sustainability: Introduction - Transport has considerable environmental impacts. It creates problems of urban air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. There is also the problem of determining who is the most important urban road user; the private car, public road transport,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...a range of scholarly perspectives on music. Transcript This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 _MA Music part 1._...Introducing music research: Introduction - This free course gathers together a range of materials to enable you to explore some of the many possibilities for research music. It gives you a series of snapshots of musicology, emphasising both the breadth of musical topics ......
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs