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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...central way in which distance learning works. They provide an opportunity for you to stop reading and start thinking, working things out for yourself and deciding what you believe. They are a good opportunity for you to make notes. Activity 1: babies are … Timing: 0 hours 10 minutes For this first activity you should read the following comments about young babies. You...
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...central province Aragon, a place of almost lunar emptiness. This is his birth village, Fuendetodos. This is the house in which the artist was born, its now the centre of a small birthplace industry. But perhaps his real spiritual home, was the ancient city, and capital of Aragon, Zaragossa, fifty five kilometres away. Here his father worked as a gilder. Zaragossa is not a...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...central argument for the conclusion that it is overwhelmingly likely that animals do not have thought is that language use is the only sure sign of rational thought and no animals other than humans use language. Indeed, many people think that the only known sapient creatures are also the only known language users and that this strongly suggests that only language users...
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...central aim is to change the persons’ beliefs or interpretations (judgements) about panic attacks (think back to Stanley Law). The whole idea behind this is that the person has made a serious mistake in their understanding of what panic is and what it could do to them. If these mistaken beliefs or interpretations can be corrected they will be less afraid of panics and,...
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...central to life. Our hearts beat, trees pulse, the tides pull, the sun rises. But why was it that so many educated, sophisticated men, some of them scientists, sought to silence a simple rhythm instrument? This drum, a circle of wood and skin, that speaks to life, speaks of life to life. Here is my story. I hope it will inspire you. [NON-ENGLISH SINGING] Hi. [APPLAUSE]...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...central to its development is an intentional or unintentional restriction of sufficient energy to effectively fuel training, recovery and health. For some athletes this stems from a belief that restricting the diet and losing weight will improve performance, while for others it is about conforming to socially constructed body image of attractiveness. The third cause is...
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Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...central to commanding public confidence in the legal system. The useful and often quoted tenet is that “Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.”Along with the holding of trials in public and allowing access to court documents, this principle can be conceived as including public education on the legal system and the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...central aim of this course is to give you the intellectual tools to cope with the challenge. This course provides an introduction to software engineering. Assuming you already have some experience of software development, some of this material will be familiar to you, though your existing knowledge will be consolidated and will begin to be extended to more advanced areas....