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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...simple spray diagram, or mind map. These concepts do not represent alternative – let alone conflicting – views of ‘institutions’ and ‘institutional development’. Rather, all identify dimensions that you need to keep in mind as you develop your understanding of each of these two terms. I do, though, want to emphasise that it is essential not only to recognise...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...simple family men who have arrived in France must be transformed into a collective fighting machine, and he must achieve this end through oratory. In the first scene of the play the Archbishop of Canterbury has extolled the King's rhetorical skill; here we have a chance to witness it for ourselves. Activity 6 Using the annotations in our example to help you, pick out some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...simple choice between adopting one of two alternative positions and that the debate about which paradigms should underpin research remain...Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth: 3.6 So, is there a resolution to the paradigm wars? - Despite the paradigm wars, as Gage (2007) predicted, no one paradigm has ‘won’ and the influence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...simple-seeming expression of an extraordinarily complex combination of thought and emotion. The ‘dogs and wolves’ are the speaker's ‘unwritten poems’. Why ‘unwritten’? One infers that other matters take priority over love poems. But – ‘unwritten’ – their latent presence assumes nightmarish form, as if the frustration of being unwritten makes them...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...simple as a brick wall. It might be something that’s more sympathetic to maybe a historic environment. So concrete, but faced with local stone, sandstone or something like that. It might be a natural flood measure. So you might go kind of further up the river and speak to farmers and landowners, and see what they can do about their land management to make sure that you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...simple equation to calculate density in fresh water, the equivalent for saline water is very complicated. What is the density anomaly of seawater with a temperature of 15 °C and a salinity of 35.0? Using Figure 12 the density anomaly of seawater can be determined as σt = 26.0 kg m−3...The oceans: 3.5 The water properties along the Atlantic Ocean - So far, you have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...simple jacket is an amalgam of different parts manufactured all over the world. It has a lining made from polyester and viscose - two different synthetic materials which are likely to have been manufactured at different sites. It has plastic buttons and is held together by cotton threads. The cloth has been dyed an attractive olive colour - the dye will have been...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs