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Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...family tradition has evolved and now has a similar force to more widely known food practices. This will now be what this family will do – but they will know where the tradition began. This is intended to be a humorous story. But at its heart is the serious point that people (religious or otherwise) do not have to know the origins or rational explanation for any...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...family of sorts which raises questions for me as an adult reader. The fantastical elements in it – talking animals with almost magical abilities – are like a lot of children’s books and programmes (can’t think of any off the top of my head that combine the two but I know they exist!) Example answer #2: novelisation of Disney’s Hercules (1997) Hercules goes on a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...family dynamics to workplace situations or international issues like responding effectively to a pandemic, seeking joint action on climate change or trying to break through the barriers of organisational design and entrenched cultures. There are also different perspectives on who or what is involved and the multiple causes and effects identified. Hence the nature of an...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...family or country, for example. In the Aeneid, pietas is also associated with self-control, compassion and tolerance, as well as with good leadership. It’s hard to find an English word that has exactly the same range of meanings, and ‘piety’ is certainly not right, since its associations are primarily religious. Perhaps the closest might be something like ‘duty’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...trees, to a distant city and, beyond that, high mountains. Dürer’s achievement was to render an entirely artificial, symmetrically arranged, symbolic scene of the Virgin surrounded by flying angels, bestowing garlands on the pope and the Holy Roman Emperor as both spatially and colouristically unified and even credibly naturalistic. Its success was sealed when no...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...family trees, and quite a few references to people called John from places called Woodthorpe. This so-called ‘ego surfing’ or ‘vanity surfing’ is an interesting thing to do from time to time. Overall I haven’t found anything unpleasant or embarrassing, but I’m old enough for any youthful indiscretions to have happened long before they could have been recorded...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...families housed close to the industrial sources. The levels of pollutants that occurred regularly then would lead to prompt action now, at least in more prosperous countries and localities. Yet in spite of the harm to populations in the vicinity, the impacts of pollution generally remained localised, and by today's standards only a limited range of chemical compounds and...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...trees.’ Now it didn’t. It evolved a long neck, which enabled it, and you only have to change the wording very slightly, which enabled it to get to the leaves that are high up on the trees, it didn’t do it in order to get it wasn’t a purposeful thing, it was natural selection operating. When people use teleology they are ignoring the fundamental process...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins