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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...simple causes and effects taken from either the environmental or human worlds alone. Though each individual wildfire had a distinctive and specific trigger, it was the web of wider processes, circumstances, and events that was key to making this a major environmental event. In addition, using the concept of entanglement highlights the nature of fire itself as highly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...simple yes or no question, so we have to translate the grey scale of probabilities into a straight black-and-white answer. This is called the ‘standard of proof’ and in civil law context this standard is ‘on the balance of probabilities’. The balance of probabilities means more likely than not. Therefore anything with a probability of 50% or less is taken not to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...simple event. The commitment to working together in a multi-agency context stems from the belief that children’s needs cannot be boxed into health, social or educational compartments and should be viewed holistically. However, this presents a major challenge to traditional ways of working not only between those agencies but for individual practitioners in settings that,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...simple perspectives and approaches. The next section will therefore enable you to think about what these perspectives and approaches might. But first, you will think about strategies for dealing with emotive content. The next section ends with an opportunity for you to think about study where you may have other responsibilities...Mental health in society: 3
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...simple. The emphasis upon Mexican nationalism, which is so significant in the central wall and so pivotal in governmental attempts at winning support for their policies post-1920, is just part of a broader historical struggle rooted in class conflict. This is highlighted in the south wall by the detail of Calles being surrounded by the army and the clergy, and, to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...simple. We are poor because of misrule, because we are badly governed. What happened over the last 50 or 60 years, actually, is that we missed a lot of opportunities. And it is sad to go back and see that at the moment of independence of most African countries – and actually, the African Union celebrated, this year, 50 years of its inception – that countries like...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...simple group rules. Some of those might be about conforming to institutional requirements, about things ike copyright collusion etc. and obviously those should always be part of your group policies. Some will be about following your institution’s social media policy, and obviously there’s general things about just being decent human beings to each other. But don’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...simple conversation in Irish Gaelic. Even in Columba’s day (6th century AD), however, a translator was required for the Irish-born saint to converse with a Pictish king: the churchman’s language was Q-Celtic, whereas the Picts spoke a P-Celtic language. The difference between the two groups can be seen in words still in currency in modern Celtic languages. For example...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs