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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...physical move literally from one place to another. But it was also a vertical transition, as it involved a change of experience, a moving ‘up’ into primary school. In Figure 7, Lowri remembers her first day at school and the feelings she had about being left in a strange setting. Her teacher played an important role in making the transition easier for Lowri. The...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ (WHO, 2006, p. 1). This definition therefore goes beyond ‘scientific’ biological conceptions of health, and emphasises the wide range of contributing factors, such as social and environmental influences on health. This emphasis on the influences on health is also in the...
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...physical or mental condition that limits a person’s ability to undertake normal daily activities. Before the 1960s, society’s understanding of disability was largely shaped by the medical model. The model, rather than defining disability, influences society’s psychological, political, and economic responses to it. In this model, disability is seen as a problem that...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...physical or chemical properties of the materials in the body – for example, between bones and soft tissue, or between normal breast tissue and breast tumour. Functional imaging, in which, for example, a substance can be injected into the body and its distribution tracked and monitored, to assess the functioning of a particular organ or system. You will focus on the...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...physically which it has long held morally with us. One learns in the north not to look for the beautiful color of the south and west; but in Manchester the average faces were intelligent and the figures good. III With such a journal as the Manchester Guardian still keeping its high rank among English newspapers, there cannot be question of the journalistic sort of...
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...physical manifestation of ‘social noise’, Lucia aimed to communicate how we strive to manifest our individuality and be heard whilst at the same time adding to social and media noise from the outside world, the recording booth structure plays with notions of public and private space, self-reflection and self-representation, and the juxtaposition of the desire for...
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...physically recreated in the panorama’s rotunda, to form the viewing platform, as is the case in the 1829 Colosseum Panorama of London from St Paul’s Cathedral. The structure of the model of the cathedral tower is evident in a contemporary engraving by Rudolph Ackermann. [Detail from Bird’s Eye View from the Staircase & the Upper Part of the Pavilion in the...
Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...physically demanding labour of a tinplate works...Aberdulais Falls: A case study in Welsh heritage: 1.4 The economics of maintaining a heritage site - The National Trust operates within a complex web of funding. This comes from annual membership fees and from visitor receipts at individual sites. Each National Trust property is responsible for raising the income necessary...