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Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...et al., 2022; Larkin et al., 2023). The ‘Tips’ you are developing about planning ahead well in advance, having an emergency care plan in place, thinking about options and taking time over your planning will be useful to you. As mentioned above, you can add to them as you work through the rest of the course and after you have completed the course, for example, when you...
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...et al. 1999, and I thought wow! I was wrong to be sceptical, this is really scary, because it’s clearly unprecedented, it bears no relation to what’s happened at the Medieval warm period and that kind of thing, and so when in the following years I’ve discovered – RH: So you wrote about it at that point? MR: No I didn’t, I wasn’t writing about climate change...
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...et al., 2016, p. 443) You can see from this example that listening to children through their learning stories, can support them to make meaning with others about their identity as learners as well as develop an understanding of the role they might adopt in different settings. Summary points Boundary objects are physical items that can be carried between the boundaries of...
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...et al., 2008) Activity 3 Recovery groups for employment Timing: Allow about 1 hour 10 minutes There are two tasks in this activity. You’ll start by thinking through how you could put recovery principles into action to meet Nick and Louis’ needs before looking at a real-life example of a recovery group. Part A Timing: Allow about 30 minutes Working from the recovery...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...change. Listen to the following audio to learn more about the pronunciation of ‘Et-Tāʾ al-marbūṭah’ Audio 5 ١- سَيّارَة ٢- اشْتَرَيتُ سَيّارةً جَدِيدَة ٣- مَدْرَسَة ٤- زُرْتُ المَدْرَسَةَ القَديمَة Activity 3 Timing: 15 minutes Rewrite the following words and connect ‘At-Tāʾ al-marbūṭah’ with the pronoun ي as in the example. Example: حَقِيْبَة حَقِيبَتِي ١- مَدْرَسَة ٢- طَاوِلَة ٣- وَرَقَة ٤- مُعَلِّمَة ٥ –شَجَرَة ......
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...modes of political ordering, and the contingent and always unfinished nature of state claims. And by looking more specifically at political murals in Northern Ireland, we can also focus on the important visual and symbolic elements of such issues. As with all the visual evidence you have come across so far in this course, it is important to remember that the murals in...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...et al., 2005, p. 30) Figure 1 Categorisation of customers by cost and profitability For a commercial organisation, the extent to which it should enter into a relationship is likely to be determined (in large part) by the potential profitability of the customer. Customers can be categorised into four groups: Sleeping giants: these customers generate a lot of profit, and...
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...et al. (2012), Alexander (2009) and Wiggins and McTighe (2005), Mary Mendenhall and colleagues (2015) used a framework of ‘core elements’ of learner-centered education to observe teaching and learning in refugee schools in Kenya: meaningful and active pupil engagement inclusive and respectful learning environment differentiated instruction constructive classroom...