Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you will know how to: describe places; give and understand directions; talk about urban transport; find your way around inside a building.
5.2 Technologies of help? Click view document to read: Technology, Selfhood and Physical Disabilty 3.1 ‘Race’, ethnicity and communication As noted in the Introduction, much of the debate about difference and diversity in health and social care has focused on issues of ‘race’ and ethnicity. It is perhaps the area that first comes to mind when there is discussion about issues of communication and difference in care services, but it is also an area where the arguments are most complex and contentious. As you saw in Section 1, ‘racial’ or ethnic diversity has often been constructed as a ‘problem’ for health and so 2.9 Experiencing prejudice and discrimination Look again at your answer to Author(s): 2.8 ‘Difference’, power and discrimination These first few sections have emphasised the point that differences are always produced in a social context, and that a key part of that context is power relationships. As pointed out earlier, a key element of Foucault’s social constructionist approach is that the way in which people are categorised in society (for example, by gender, ethnicity or age) involves an exercise of power that reflects the ideas and interests of dominant groups. One of the key arguments against essentialist views 2.7.5 Identities are negotiated In constructing their identities, people can only draw on terms that are available in society at that time, which have meanings and associations attached. However, people may attribute different meanings and importance to those labels. This means people always negotiate their identities, in the context of the different meanings attached to them. Taking this view of identity, as a social process that people engage in, rather than as a fixed essence inside them, is not to deny that partic 1.7 Establishing boundaries Imagine now that you are Marie's manager and you decide to call in at the unit on your way back from a day out. You ofte 2.4.3 abelling The term ‘informal carer’ is a label. It was coined to describe people who take on unpaid responsibility for the welfare of another person. It is a term which has meaning only when the public world of care provision comes into contact with the private world of the family where caring is a day-to-day, unremarked-upon activity, like reminding a young child to clean her teeth. Labelling yourself as an informal carer requires a major shift in the way you see yourself, a shift neither Arthur n 2 Background to the Annual Report of the Chinese Welfare Association (1998) The first Chinese families arrived in Northern Ireland in the early 1960s. Since then the Chinese population has continued to grow in number and economic strength to become the largest minority ethnic group. There are approximately 8,000 people and over 500 Chinese businesses across Northern Ireland. Most of these businesses are family-run restaurants and takeaways. Working in the catering industry involves long, unsociable working hours and few opportunities for integration into the wider co 1 The Chinese Welfare Association's Carer Support Project, Belfast This audio unit features a project that was set up in Northern Ireland specifically to support Chinese carers. It is one of several projects being run by the Chinese Welfare Association in Belfast at that time. The Chinese Welfare Association is a voluntary orga 4.3 Children and the armed forces The dual role of children as both perpetrators and victims of violence becomes very clear when looking at child soldiers. Despite international treaties, thousands of children worldwide fight in armies and paramilitary forces. Article 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) states that no child under the age of fifteen should fight; supplementary international treaties, such as the 1999 Maputo Declaration on Child Soldiers and the 2000 Optional Protocol to the U Therapy Dogs Visit Georgia Tech Library Maths Lesson: A Job at LEGOLAND Click here to download this lesson as a printable PDF worksheet Learning Intention: To calculate, C++ and Beyond 2012: Andrei Alexandrescu - Systematic Error Handling in C++ | Going Deep Andrei Alexandrescu presents "Systematic Error Handling in C++". This was filmed at C++ and Beyond 2012 Abstract: Writing code that is resilient upon errors (API failures, exceptions, invalid memory access, and more) has always been a pain poi Touchable Holography It does not get much more futuristic than this: a demo of holograms one can actually touch. The holographic tactile display uses ultrasound to exert a pressure field - for example, it will exert pressure on the surface of your palm when virtual raindrops fall on it. BusinessCast 240 Special Video Edition: Year-End Top 10 Countdown Rob Phillips: Theory of Bounded Self Interest 2.1 Some basic concepts Energy is defined as the capacity to do work, and Author(s): 3.5 Big dams in the future? Throughout the 20th century, reservoir construction to improve water resources was considered a key component of development. It was undertaken universally by industrialized nations, and by the later 20th century, increasingly by developing nations, building bigger and bigger dams. More recently the debate over the environmental impact of big dams and their questionable cost-benefit analysis has been universally recognized. In the 1990s the Narmada scheme caused the World Bank to rethink its
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Java, a labradoodle, Bogee, a standard poodle, and Brutus, a mastiff helped relieve a little stress by visiting Georgia Tech students during dead week at Price Gilbert Memorial Library. Lots of "awws" and cuddles. Learn more about all Georgia Tech's library and all they offer at http://www.library.gatech.edu/
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Olsson Senior Fellow and University of Richmond Professor Robert Phillips discusses his latest work using economic theory in business ethics. He looks into work motivations in the real world and concludes that traditional economic theory is too narrow to capture true motivations.
