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

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...social world. You will explore answers to two central questions: What is race? What is racism? Along the way, you will consider what the term ‘race’ means, you will critically examine the role of ancestry and power in determining someone’s race, and you will explore the idea of racial fetishes. You will also encounter the philosophical tools of thought experiments...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...work. In general, empathy is when you make yourself vulnerable to share the feelings of another, and you listen without judgement: for example, ‘Can you tell me how this feels for you?’. On your journey to building empathy skills, you might discover that you are actually being sympathetic rather than empathetic – be aware that they are different. When building...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably?
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably?

...social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair Designs don’t just have utilitarian or aesthetic functions they can also have economic, social and political ones. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses examples of designs that are driven by social responsibility. Semantics and form: Tom Dixon’s Crown Chair By the end of the 60s, modernist principles...
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Video 25 mins
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...work there includes the flagship and primetime titles: Costing the Earth, Countryfile, The Holiday Programme and They Think It’s All Islam. Prior to the BBC, he worked for World Television. Ade graduated from Cambridge University in the early 90s, where he was an early student of climate change. He then went on to help BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman research his...
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Video 30 mins
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...work in these services. (Department for Health and Social Care, 2018, p. 1) This statement acknowledges that promoting health and preventing the causes of poor health needs to start in the early years. Early years practitioners working with young children have an important role to play in working with children right from the start which will have positive benefits to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...social composition, its historical legacy, and its role in a changing national economic pattern. Synthesis The way in which places retain their uniqueness within wider systems of interdependence is an important methodological issue within geography and is approached through the method of synthesis. This is a way of explaining: how the different elements of society are...
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Activity 5 mins
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...work, not least because colleagues and I have written about civic cultures and the modalities of place-making, and I also wrote about the ways in which symbols of Afro-Caribbean, South American and British identities can speak of notional combined experiences often as digital and creative citizens. In a published conversation I had with Gil prior to the Tate Exchange...
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Article 10 mins
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...work is yours to make and you may wish to experiment with different methods. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Law...Starting with law: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why the law matters give some examples of legal rights and responsibilities understand how different reading styles suit different...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs