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Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...geography, and social policy, to name just a few. Often, these perspectives might offer quite different and sometimes contrasting views about the nature of crime and responses to it. Indeed, criminology is often a highly contested field of study marked by competing and sometimes conflicting views of what exactly criminologists should be studying. For some criminologists,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...geography, that was my favourite lesson at school and I loved learning about the world and so I had an interest in travel and seeing the world, but I think in the late eighties there were a series of programmes not just on the BBC, but Channel 4 as well, and I remember one in particular that was called A Decade of Destruction and I think having wanted to travel and having...
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Video 30 mins
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...geography or resource limitations. This aligns with former Chelsea FC and Ivorian player Didier Drogba’s long-standing advocacy: ‘African and Caribbean football associations must invest in human capital to be more successful.’(Mazars & ASCI, 2021) Yet, sustainability concerns linger. As Fadoju (2022) cautioned, it remains unclear whether this shift in recruiting...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...geographies that get mapped into development, the types of people that get mapped as development workers, and the types of people that get mapped as development educators. MYLES WICKSTEAD So I think development is different and viewed differently these days because I think the concept of development historically has been about the North helping the South to get on in its...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...Geography...Who are Europeans?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise that ‘European identity’ is a socially constructed attribute appreciate the basis for the unities as well as the divisions among Europeans understand the ways European identities are assessed and measured appreciate the key role of ‘culture’ in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...geography have been reduced to a cartoon of a vast slum inhabited by an alternately criminal or helpless underclass, whose salvation is the kindness of strangers in other, whiter cities. Inconvenient realities … have not been allowed to interfere with the belief, embraced by New Democrats as well as old Republicans, that black urban culture is inherently pathological....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...Geography, Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC Figure 13 Bernhard Edmaier/Science Photo Library Figure 14 Copyright © Popperfoto Figure 17 Photo by Winter and Kidson, courtesy Fairclough Civil Engineering Ltd Figure 21 © Reuters/Corbis All other material contained within this course originated at the Open University This resource was created by the Open...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...Geography", dated some time in the eighteenth century. How this ponderous work ever came to be out on the pampas, over six thousand miles from the land of its origin, is a thing to wonder at. I remember that the Stonehenge plate greatly impressed me and that I sacrilegiously cut it out of the book so as to have it! Now we know, our reason tells us continually, that the...
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