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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...hair on ratings of Black women's dominance and professionalism', Front. Psychology, 6. Randle, B.A. (20150 'I am not my hair: African American women and their struggles with embracing natural hair!', Race, Gender & Class, 22(1-2), pp. 114–21). Thompson, C. (2008-9) 'Black women and identity: what's hair got to do with it?', Politics and Performativity, 22(1). ....
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Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...class, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, mental health, etc. Some of these may be visible (ethnicity), others invisible (education) and many may be open to change (marital status); some refer to the characteristics of the individual (age), while some may be concerned with the beliefs, norms and values of a group (religion). (It may even be the case that...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...classes in particular were leading a trend towards a more egalitarian ‘symmetrical’ marriage relationship in which husband and wife shared tasks more equally. However, evidence also emerged during the latter part of the twentieth century that perhaps changes had not been as great as was originally assumed. According to one review of the evidence ‘none of the data...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...de Janeiro. [Figure 5] Figure 5 The lines of longitude (in red) and latitude (in blue) on planet Earth as viewed from above the North Pole. In Figure 4 you can see that the blue lines of latitude are always the same distance apart, whereas Figure 5 shows the distance between the red lines of longitude decreases towards the North (and also the South) Pole, where they...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...informal reasoning’, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 58(2), pp. 142–52. Harrell, M. (2007) ‘Using argument diagramming software to teach critical thinking skills’, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA). Orlando, Florida, USA. Harrell, M. (2011) ‘Argument diagramming and critical ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...de Bono, 1999) is another tool to help you think outside the box and make a balanced argument. The idea is to look at the plus (good) points, minus (bad) points and the interesting points. Activity 25 Use the PMI technique to look at the case for promoting smoking or another subject of your choice. Discussion If you chose smoking, you could put the points noted above on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...classed as a 'sudden' change, because it is how the property changes as you move along the temperature axis that is being described. Gradual changes are modelled in terms of the average thermal energy of the particles of the system. During a gradual change (of a property with temperature) doubling the change of temperature, say up ten degrees rather than up five degrees,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, for reasons other than seeking redemption or specifically religious benefits. But music and pilgrimage routes are also carefully designed and presented for the benefit of religious people. In these and similar experiences, religion and culture inform each other...Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture: 2 Either/or or...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr