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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...English writers in popularity in the 1790s. Literary historian Christina Morin has made a case for the importance of first-wave Gothic writers such as Regina Maria Roche, Thomas Leland and Elizabeth Griffith, who used Gothic fiction as a vehicle for drawing attention to specifically Irish themes and concerns. The nineteenth century saw a fuller flowering of distinctive...
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Article 45 mins
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...everyday learning. It will also provide case studies – that is, some examples of real or imaginary people – so that you can look at the issues they face and the ways in which they may learn, before thinking about your own learning. While studying a course, it is good practice to keep notes and to have these in a fairly ordered way. So why not start now, keeping them...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...English word 'history' comes from). Explore how Herodotus puts together his enquiry and learn how he makes the problem of finding out what happened to ours too...With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...English medium school which offers students the chance to enter some of the best universities around the world, reflecting the increasing internationalisation of the educational marketplace. YUAN LIU Now the majority of the Chinese students who wants to go abroad, they pick up American universities rather than UK. And from my school's practice is about something like, you...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...everyday conversations between Black mothers became a rigorous, community-rooted method that reveals insights traditional research often misses...The research study that would become the book Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK began on WhatsApp. As my academic colleague Claire and I shared yet another voice note conversation that...
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Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...English translation, cover up the French and try to translate the English back into French. Check as you go along. Then reverse the process. Close your book and, from memory, write out all the examples in French on a piece of paper. Then look at your book in order to check back. As you progress through studing a language, why not collect examples in a notebook for each...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...everyday lives, and that can help us with emotionally and physically painful experiences. The next section will allow you to experience mindfulness for yourself...Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings: 1.1 Experiencing mindfulness - To really grasp what mindfulness is, it’s important to have some experience of mindfulness practice for yourself. You can’t...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...everyday lives, and how can practices and practitioners support and perhaps even enhance wellbeing? Activity 4 Understanding resilience and wellbeing Timing: Allow about 30 minutes Considering Mind's description of resilience from the Activity 3 feedback, plus your own ideas generated in response to previous activities, spend some time now reflecting on your understanding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs