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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...institutions that support and further harmony (Cremin and Bevington, 2017). When Martin Luther King Jr talks about peace as the presence of justice he is talking about positive peace. It is not just about the absence of something (in this case racial tension), but the presence of something positive (in this case justice). Activity 3 Positive and negative peace in schools...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...et al., 2015, p.5) The full College of Policing report outlines in detail the process taken and the conclusions reached. One useful approach for evaluating interventions such as this has been called EMMIE and this is summarised in the table below: Table 1 The EMMIE Model ​Effect ​Impact on crime Whether the evidence suggests the intervention led to an increase,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...et al. (eds)...Managing coastal environments: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Course image: Michael D Beckwith in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. The material...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) forecasting a sharp fall in sales as a result… Jonathan Hopper, managing director of Garrington Property Finders, which helps wealthy clients buy homes in the South-east, said: “…With both supply and demand falling, the result is a benign stalemate – with average prices creeping up as the number of sales falls. (Osborne,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...Institutes of Health NIH held a two-day summit in Washington D.C. over the matter. They could no longer ignore the evidence. At the end of the summit they released a statement stating that ‘the key to treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcer was detection and eradication of Helicobacter pylori.’ With that stamp of approval on his work, the majority of holdouts in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...institutions such as the Metropolitan Police Force. Black British writers since Selvon have continued to explore migrant experience against this background, and over the same period black British literature has asserted itself in a more central position in relation to the established canon...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: References - Berry, J. (2007) Windrush Songs,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...institution or place of work. For a more advanced understanding of ethics in research, including safeguarding, please see the OpenLearn course Becoming an ethical researcher: Session 3: 3.2. It is also important to remember that you, as a researcher, are consenting to the interview. If you feel uncomfortable or distressed during an interview you can draw the interview to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...institutions, schools, for training future scribes in the arts of writing, counting and accounting, and other necessary skills. (The attached pdf affords revealing glimpses into the scribal art and its training.) Scribal art and its training It is in this educational context that the problem texts seem to have been written and used. Some merely give the problem and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs