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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...classes, they’re having to use up even those areas where we managed to get natural playgrounds for children, which is tragic. So why does it matter? The trouble is if you don’t know what it’s like to be cold, if you don’t know what it’s like to be tired and weary, if you don’t know what it’s like to paddle in mud, these things tend to be just pretty...
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...class males in Arizona’s secondary schools’. Journal of African American Males in Education, 1(2), pp. 125–43. Bonilla-Silva, E. (2019) ‘Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions’. American Sociological Review, 84(1), pp. 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122418816958 Gordon, J. and Johnson, M. (2003) ‘Race, speech, and hostile educational...
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...De Fine Licht (1968). Figure 10 Front designs of the Pantheon. Drawing by Mark Wilson Jones. Figure 11 Comparison of the hypothetical original project for the Pantheon (left) and the building as executed (right). Drawing by Mark Wilson Jones. Discussion The Pantheon as we see it today has inspired architects for almost the last 2,000 years. It is a well-studied monument,...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...variables such as race, nationality and even skin colour have been used previously as input into such procedures for assessing the risk of recidivism etc. Even if such overtly discriminatory variables are not used, such algorithms reveal themselves to be nevertheless discriminatory on the basis of race or ethnicity, as pointed out in Harcourt (2015). The material in this...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...class’, ‘poorly educated’ and ‘old people living in backwaters’ being implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) contrasted with the more dynamic, highly educated young people living in cosmopolitan areas. They also fit uneasily with voting patterns outside England and Wales. The question posed here is, however, a rather different one – namely whether the divisions...
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...classes to help parents come to grips with the challenges of this modern age?...Week 1: How different is a digital childhood?: 2.1 Introducing ‘digital natives’ - [Described image] Figure 5 Digital natives and digital immigrants. The idea of a generational divide between children and adults has been a popular topic among psychologists and sociologists. This has...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...and case studies - [Described image] Figure 6 The exemplary city: damage to the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in 1871, following the collapse of the Paris Commune. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Paris is a basic reference point for modern urban theory There is a clear relationship between causal generalisation and the use of empirical case studies underlying Harvey’s explanatory narrative. The explanatory analysis ......
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...class tradition: Tony Harrison, Douglas Dunn and, latterly, Don Paterson and Paul Farley. Activity 3 Consider what has been said so far, the comments of Jackie Kay, Paul Muldoon and W.N. Herbert and your own views of what a poem might be. Write down your thoughts on the following remarks, by poets past and present, about what poetry is and how it works. If I feel...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs