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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...Physical, temporal and social psychological contexts can seriously impact on a person’s identity, their ability to learn and to re-form their identity. ‘I’m at university now so I’m a student, I’m at work now so I’m an employee, I’m home now so I’m a daughter/son/mother/father’. Who we are, is very tightly interwoven with what we have learned (Bernstein...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...physical responses that show the reader her anxiety – shutting her eyes and then reopening them. Whether Bowen is exploring her character’s outer world or her inner psychological world, setting the scene is key to the frightening effects she creates in her fiction. [Elizabeth Bowen blue plaque]Elizabeth Bowen blue plaque - Wikimedia Commons (Optional) Creative writing...
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Article 45 mins
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...physical, but also moral, ruination such as history has never previously experienced. He represented an extreme pathology of modern society. He showed us the most radical face of modern inhumanity – how an advanced society can undergo a breathtaking descent into modern barbarity that’s quite without precedent. That’s what, with the passage of time, we can see was...
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Audio 45 mins
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...physics’ shows there are indeterministic (chance) elements in the universe. This undermines the premise in our argument that all events are determined. There are at least three replies we can make to this. First, the interpretation of quantum mechanics as indeterministic is disputed (indeed, some informed opinion holds that quantum mechanics is deterministic, while it...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...physical descriptions or signalment and signatures in an effort to make individual identification secure. Such means were far from foolproof and a range of schemes, including Bertillon's anthropometric descriptor of the ear, were developed in an attempt to secure more objective means of identification in advance of the widespread and effective use of photography. While...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...physical attributes and pieces that dictate our sex, but all that other stuff about how men and women should act, how they should dress, how they should speak, how much space they’re entitled to take up on a train, how they should move in the world, how tough they are, how strong they are, how competitive they’re allowed to be – all of that is dictated by society,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...physical positions the viewing can take place from. The effects of all these should be taken into account. In brief, there are three main types of viewpoint: High: the spectator is looking down on the artwork, as with Tracey Emin’s My Bed (Resource booklet Plate 3). This can give the spectator the feeling of being in control, or of having a complete overview of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...physical attack and murder – but also subtler forms of disempowerment, such as microaggressions, derogatory cultural portrayals of Black people in culture and the deployment of racial stereotypes. Even as overt structures of disempowerment are challenged and defeated through law, we know that covert and subtler forms of racism persist. It is important to understand how...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs