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What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...economically supported this culture but also directly through cultural contributions, most prominently in music and dance. These contributions are racial in character – that is to say, they are cultural contributions whose significance can only be fully understood when they are placed in proper context as emerging from a racialized people. It does not seem necessary,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...economic cost) energy security (i.e. not being dependant on energy supplies from politically unstable or unfriendly nations) health (for example, the effects of local air pollution or obesity brought about by lack of physical exercise) a whole range of environmental issues (such as the land take for new transport infrastructure, global warming etc.). Appreciating the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...economic practices and their associated meanings (Lefebvre, 1991). A valuable tool for exploring spaces is the notion of ‘boundaries’. This is partly because we come to understand who we are by comparing ourselves to others and other groupings, but also because boundaries are the spaces in which different practices, values, knowledge and resources come together. It is...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...economic classes, between men and women, and so on.) All in all, therefore, sadness and anxiety have the same biological bases in all humans, and are experienced in fundamentally similar contexts – thus bad feelings are reliably aroused by losses, threats of losses, and the inability to reach important goals (Emmons, 1996). However, culture does have an effect. It can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...economics and ecology. DR. DAVID ROBINSON I think the Interest about the Malaysian example is that they have a very particular problem that they are trying to solve there, and they're solving it with the use of fundamental research. And they're trying to pioneer techniques not only for changing logging practices in the country, but also for reclaiming areas which have...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...economic system are examples). In general, such systems are based on widely shared perceptions. While this popular naming of recognised systems may be convenient and useful where the situation is merely complicated or its purpose is largely uncontroversial it can often hide the fact that the situation is very complex and that different people have very different...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...economic advantage and personal freedom of expression free from social scrutiny. Ultimately, open access and online sharing relies on an understanding and respect for what is acceptable to others (netiquette). Houghton and Joinson (2010) identify the importance of co-owned information and boundaries within which sharing occurs. However, they highlight the difficulty of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...economic life’ (2012, p. 1). In the case of Britain, he argues ‘the period between 1956 and 1973 witnessed unprecedented rapidity in the fall of Christian religiosity amongst the British people’ (2001, p. 188). Critical to this decline was a fall in female piety (which had also undergirded the churchgoing habits of men and children), which came with a rupture of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs