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What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...et al., 2021). A combination of techniques (known collectively as psychological skills training) that are often drawn on by sports psychologists may help commercial pilots maintain - or improve - their performance. Training to excel in any sport and learning to become a pilot both require copious amounts of time, effort, focus, and motivation. International travel is an...
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Article 5 mins
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...et al., 2020). Effective research dissemination is critical then, particularly when viewed through the lens of Black feminist theory, as it emphasises the role of research participants as both subjects and agents of knowledge creation (Collins, 2000). Bridging the gap between discourse and practice In the Mothering at the Margins study, we aim to use our positions to not...
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Article 35 mins
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...et al, 2009). Such improvements might directly enable the person with dementia to become mobile and carry out day-to-day activities including self-care independently or with little assistance. 2. Exercise is stimulation – outdoor & company is the best [senior man walking on the beach] When living with dementia, we need as much stimulation as possible. Outdoor exercise...
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Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...institutional and political forces. These forces can on occasions constrain and oppress individuals, groups and communities. As a consequence, social work is often involved in negotiating the space between whether individuals should be helped to adapt to society, or whether society itself should be held up for scrutiny and be judged as needing adjustment and repair. In...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...institutions: Lobster pots are designed to catch lobsters. A man entering a lobster pot would become suspicious of the narrowing tunnel, he would shrink from the drop at the end: and if he fell in, he would recognise the entrance as a possible exit and climb out again – even if he were the shape of a lobster. A trap is a trap only for the creatures which cannot solve...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Institution of Oceanography, 2023) It shows a continuously rising trend from about 315 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere in 1958 and reaching over 420 ppm in 2023. Measurements were taken simultaneously from other parts of the planet, including from Antarctica. These only differed very slightly, so the Mauna Loa figures can be taken to be representative of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...institutions, such as Sunday schools, directly connected with the church. Third, this period saw a great multiplication of the world-views accessible to those in their formative years. In the 1950s the main options had been Christianity, Socialism and Scientism – or some combination of Christianity and Socialism, or of Socialism and Scientism. Other possibilities...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...institutions which will serve their children’s needs most effectively. Practitioners, including school principals and teachers, make comparisons in order to improve the operation of their institutions. Policy makers in individual countries examine education systems elsewhere in order to identify ways to achieve social, political and other objectives in their own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs