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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...de-criminalised’ them in 1967). Second, though, some people performing those behaviours are identified and labelled as deviant (or criminal), but perhaps not everyone who acts in these ways is identified and labelled. Becker also argued that labels could have powerful consequences. Drawing on the social interactionist approach in social psychology (from the work of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...health problems Figures Figure 1: Maria Iglovikova/Shutterstock.com Figure 2: Olivier Le Moal/Shutterstock.com Figure 3: adapted from the determinants of health (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1993; in Dahlgren and Whitehead, 2007) Figure 4: wutzkohphoto/Shutterstock.com Figure 5: ©The Open University – for full list only Figure 6: De Agostini Picture Library\Universal Images Group Figure 7: courtesy: artwork by......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...de Janeiro, with 1 million people attending over the extended holiday weekend. The carnival has about 40,000 volunteers helping out and usually about 9,000 police. The carnival creates a huge surge in demand for both private and public services. In a normal year about 270 licensed food, drink and merchandise stalls temporarily appear. The organisers also provide support...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...de-emphasizing their individual sufferings and deaths’ (Dunayer, 2004, p. xii). The disciplining of nonhuman bodies in the AIC is resisted in the ways in which ‘livestock’ express their distress at confinement, pain and overcrowding, or the ways in which fishes attempt to evade or escape capture (Wadiwel, 2015). Some of the harms documented in Section 2.1 are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...de vivre when speaking English – in both cases invoking images of French culture to enhance the meaning of what is being communicated. Other loanwords, however, become completely naturalised, until speakers of the language no longer notice their ‘foreignness’ at all. Below is a short selection of words of foreign origin which are in use in modern-day English. As you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...de Oliveira Andreotti, 2016). This means individual educators having an active involvement in challenging and changing harmful wider cultures and systems. Activity 4 Describing your own individual actions Timing: Allow about 20 minutes 1. Make some brief notes about one individual action that you have taken in connection with climate change or the environment. 2. Try to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...mode or alert and engaged. Things are very close together. The neurochemicals mix up. And if you’ve got more of one than the other at one point in time, you might be tipping towards, say, rest and digest. Are you going to move into a more alert state of mind? It’s happening unconsciously, and other people are doing it around me. It’s not just me regulating my state...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...modes of presentation that can seriously hinder the investigation of changes over time. How important these failings are depends upon the purposes for which the statistics are to be used. A second set of problems that needs to be taken into account in the use of available statistics is the fact that the availability of particular sorts of data (and not others) may shape...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs