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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...Institute in the USA; partly because of a series of popular books; and the association of complexity with chaos research (Gleick, 1987). Horgan (1996), a sceptic and critic, describes the academic field as ‘chaoplexity’. A selected range of perspectives on complexity are provided in Appendix C. This appendix is background material if you want to explore the subject...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, suggests that, despite his overall conclusions, the differences between the amount of time men and women spend in domestic and paid work are narrowing. And this is attributable mainly to the changing behaviour of women. For men, he found, the amount of time spent doing housework and paid work remained...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...instituted the Games in 776 BCE (Pausanias 5.4.6 and 5.14.9). [Figure 9 Metope from the Temple of Zeus] Figure 9 Metope from the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, depicting Hercules and the Cretan bull (details of the story can be found here)...The Ancient Olympics: Bridging past and present: 5.1 Further resources - Reading Miller, D. (1969) Gods and Games: Toward a Theology of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...institutional religion was anathema to such thinking. All the old authorities, including the Church, were held to be subject to the authority of reason tempered by experience. Inevitably, there were exceptions such as Samuel Johnson, quoted above, but it is undeniable that pressure on the Church was growing in this period...David Hume: 3.4 Proving God's existence - Deists...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...et error. [Described image] Figure 9 Photograph of a statue of Ovid that still stands today in Constanta, Romania (the location of the town that was called ‘Tomis’ in Ovid’s time). The statue was put up in 1887 and is the work of an Italian sculptor, Ettore Ferrari. The same sculptor also made a copy of this statue which was installed in Ovid’s hometown Sulmo in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...et la question de l’école dite Italogreque’, in Μνημόσυνον Σ. Αντωνιάδη (Venice), p. 169–211. Chaztidakis, M. (1977) ‘La peinture des ‘madonneri’ ou ‘vénetocrétoise’ et sa destination’, in H.-G. Beck, M. Manoussakas, and A. Pertusi (eds.) Venezia centro di mediazione tra oriente e occidente (secoli XV–XVI). Aspetti e problemi,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...et al., 2004) and that student motivation aids progress (Hattie, 2012). Learner-centred approaches such as an enquiry approach or YPG are characterised by: students actively engaged in activities that may involve problem solving students having the opportunity to discuss their work with each other students deciding how to approach a task, with support and encouragement...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...et al. (eds) (2020) The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction, Abingdon: Routledge. Maurizo Ascari (2007) A Counter-history of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Richard Bradford (2015) Crime Fiction: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Stephen Knight (2004) Crime Fiction, 1800–2000: Detection,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs