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

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...caring for this style (as this style is often considered incorrectly as ‘dirty’ and about not washing hair or allowing it to just become matted) are Locticians. [Lux advert - text: 'Lux won't shrink wool', illustration is a black woman pouring the product on a black child's hair]Nineteenth-century US advertisement. Show me the money Madame C.J. Walker, the first Black...
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...caring for children and other dependents and less regular and non routine house maintenance and DIY work. However, our focus here is a more limited one which will nevertheless introduce you to some of the key ideas and debates involved in studying family life. We will begin with a summary of how work in the home has changed over the last fifty years or so, and look at the...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...adult education. The definition also notes the importance of phonological short-term memory (verbal memory) and reveals a significant correlation between the speed of naming letters and digits and reading ability. Specific learning difficulty: the third sentence defines dyslexia as a specific learning difficulty, not an intellectual deficit. Traits like poor working...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...Careful financial planning not only helps us to keep on top of our finances today; it also helps to make sure we're matching our resources to our personal objectives in the future. Over the next two weeks, you'll look at household income and expenditure - the two component parts of a household budget. This week, you'll look at income, wealth and assets. You'll examine the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...care in the monotremes are distinctly mammalian. Neither monotreme species is genuinely primitive or unsuccessful. They are specialist feeders; the platypus feeding on invertebrates (e.g. 'freshwater shrimp, an insect larva or a small mollusc' [p. 18]) living in the bottom of streams, while echidnas are terrestrial carnivores. The word 'primitive' implies a similarity...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...care not to get too absorbed in the fine details but to ensure that you take away the important overall messages. Those are, of course, listed as the learning outcomes at the beginning of the course. Look now at the first one of those and bear it in mind while you are reading Section 2. You might find it useful to highlight or to make a list of the 'common features' as...
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...adult and child households were most likely to fall victim of burglary, as well as some form of violence’ (Social Trends, 2002, pp. 154–5). One of the most intriguing pieces of evidence, combining quantitative and qualitative evidence, comes from an earlier British Crime Survey (BCS). For the first time in 1982, the BCS asked people how at risk they felt from street...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...adults that all they have to do is repeat that which they were not able to learn.’ (Loris Malaguzzi) Despite a vast literature on the topic of creativity in educational settings, most research indicates that educational institutions rarely promote the creative process. Many schools tend to focus on enculturating students into existing school knowledge, driven by a...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs