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Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...student accommodation in association with a private company who have built the student facilities. Other areas of the suburb are still ‘work-in-progress’. Next to the new block of flats is an area of cleared land which is awaiting new house building, where children have started to gather to play football and socialise. On the border of the wasteland is an uninhabited...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: How do researchers know?

...become mothers, we developed methods that — moving beyond discourse — were sensitive to affect, embodiment and practices. Maternal identity transition was specifically chosen as an extreme case of embodied affect. A mother grows a new life within her own, dependent on her care and, in the process, creates a unique affective tie that — necessarily beyond words — is...
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Article 5 mins
Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...become architectural icons: the De La Warr Pavilion and Highpoint One are good examples. Conversely, there is more than a handful of buildings that have achieved iconic status for all the wrong reasons: buildings which are so widely loathed that they have come to symbolise what the public at large dislike about Modernist architecture: for years, Trellick Tower held this...
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Article 5 mins
Sara Kay Aloe
Education & Development

Sara Kay Aloe

...become more familiar with academic-level material beforehand. ‘I honestly think that investing your time in learning is the best way to spend time, as your knowledge is something no one can take from you,’ she told us… and we have to agree! OpenLearn has given Sara the belief and the courage she needed to pursue the career that she wants: ‘With the help of...
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Article 5 mins
12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning
Education & Development

12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning

...become a teacher of others.] "Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others." 12: [Chinese painting of a tree with a Confucius quote saying: "When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn"] "When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn." Want to learn more about...
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Activity 10 mins
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...becomes poorer. The crop of Brexiteer politicians currently dominating British politics as well as seeming surprisingly incompetent also appear to be low in integrity. Their actions across the Brexit landscape violate standards of democratic accountability, trust and fairness in the pursuit of the ideological goals of eurosceptics and UKIP. Their mission also seems to be...
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Article 10 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...becomes a development of that, and at its worst I suppose it's a series of repeats of the same idea without really developing it. Trevor Herbert Right George, at this point I think we have to come clean and own up to the fact that I've set you a task in which you are asked to... prepare a fairly short melody with very simple harmonies specifically in C major, specifically...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...becoming trivial occurrences in everyday life. Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of...
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Article 15 mins