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Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...physical and biological world which we and all living things inhabit, interact in and share. The question is, what exactly do we mean by natural?...Working with our environment: an introduction: 2.2 We are part of nature - Take a few minutes to look around at your surroundings before you read on. What do you see? Obviously this depends on where you are at the moment: at...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...physics. And finally, what of the vibrating oscillococcus bacterium? We now know that influenza is a viral disease, not a bacterial one, and the oscillococcus bacterium was merely a figment of the French physician’s imagination; it doesn’t actually exist. Unfortunately, preventing and curing the rapidly mutating influenza virus is still challenging modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...physical space is thus inscribed by the sedimented experience of cultural otherness, manifest in both form and colour: ogee arches, gothic pinnacles, asymmetrical façades, overhanging balconies, narrow twisting streets, coloured marble and painted plaster. 16 Figure 4 Exterior view of the basilica of San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale from the Piazetta. Photo: Paul Wood....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...physical characteristics of organisms, including the development of the brain. It is used in two ways in psychology: Evolutionary psychology considers human characteristics and asks how they may have evolved. For example, an evolutionary psychology approach to Theory of Mind (ToM) in humans would be to ask what advantage ToM would have given early human ancestors – why...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...physical presence of an authority figure was therefore crucial. In another variation Milgram placed two ‘experimenters’ in the room. One told the participants to continue (as in the original study), while the other told them to stop. In this variation, all the participants stopped giving the shocks very early on. This showed that an absence of a clear authority figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...physically mobile) we can still, to an extent, practise our social skills, and our understanding of others by reading fiction. Activity 3 How writers bring readers up close Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes for this activity. Writers tell us what we should be thinking about ‘others’ (i.e., their characters) in very different ways, but it’s always a vital part...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...physical remains were still visible – one reason why Italy, with its ready supply of ancient ruins and fragments of sculpture, was the birthplace of the Renaissance. But by the late seventeenth century, it was increasingly possible for the educated elite to travel across Europe in order to witness the splendours of antiquity, alongside other cultural highlights,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...physical space. There are also a great many institutional opportunities for uncertainty. An interesting example arises from the profoundly contradictory messages underpinning formal requirement for responding to a diverse classroom. Practitioners for example, have to deal with policy makers, teacher trainers and organisations like UNESCO (2020) saying they need to use...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs