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This masters-level module, which can also be taken as a stand-alone short course at our London centre, provides an introduction to the principal research findings and theories concerning race and ethnicity in education - no previous experience of sociology is necessary.
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The importance of effective communication is well documented in health and social care. Poor communication has serious consequences in increasing client's suffering and undermining their well being. Extensive work, including that supported by the Department of Health and NICE, calls upon health educators to urgently provide additional skills-based training in an attempt to relieve this suffering.
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Contemporary approaches to language learning and teaching emphasise the development of communicative competence, a concept which requires an understanding of how language is used in real social contexts. This module introduces you to the main approaches and key issues involved in analysing spoken and written discourse.
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Would you like to learn more about counselling, including the key skills and background theories involved? If so, this course is for you. Different pathways to counselling training will be considered to allow you to consider whether counselling is for you.
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To introduce delegates to theories of individual differences in driver behaviour and enable them to apply this knowledge to the understanding of drivers who offend, re-offend and the rehabilitation of drivers.
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Everyone in their working lives, at some time or another, has to have a conversation that is challenging or difficult, with someone in authority. This may be with colleagues, managers or bosses. Being prepared and able to have effective difficult conversations is a key skill of managing ourselves and bringing about improvement in the workplace system and climate.
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A brief introductory workshop aimed at those intending to facilitate team development.
The workshop includes a range of activities that participants can adapt to meet the needs of a particular team.
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Conceptions of ideology, discourse and subjectivity help us to think about the relation between the individual and the language, conventions and expectations of the political and social world. These concepts can also help us to explore aspects of identity such as gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality, and the ways in which these dimensions of identity are regulated or performed within social and educational institutions.
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All organisations have objectives. For many decades, a strong argument has been made by economists that business firms have a single responsibility, which is to their owners, to make an economic return on investment.
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To introduce delegates to theoretical approaches to driver stress and fatigue on driving performance and evaluate technologies for accident prevention.
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You will learn how to increase your knowledge base about your own self, skills and values as well as your reactions to change processes from an organisational perspective. This will provide you with the tools needed to market yourself in the workplace and general career life planning.
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This unit will have two major foci, which are interlinked. The first focus is the social and cultural context of English language education.
