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Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...health and spiritual wellbeing, finance and economics, land tenure and community governance. The outer layer of the flower has the following 12 principles: Observe & Interact, Catch & Store Energy, Obtain a Yield, Apply Self-Regulation & Accept Feedback, Use & Value Renewable Resources, Produce Zero Waste, Design from Patterns to Details, Integrate Rather than Segregate,...
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Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...health. Philosophers, politicians and academics offer differing perspectives on requirements for citizenship and the importance of citizenship ceremonies in the UK and Australia. In the two audio tracks, course team members Liz McFall and Sophie Watson put the ideas covered in the album into their academic context. This material is taken from The Open University course...
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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...Health and Wellbeing courses. Population ageing is a rising trend globally, with declining fertility rates and an increase in life expectancy. The UN estimates there have never been more aged people in the world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot showing lots of...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...health. In 2000, the State Council published a notice, joined by the Ministry of Culture and another seven administrative departments, decreeing the prohibition of manufacturing and selling game consoles in mainland China, claiming it “seriously jeopardizes young people and disturbs the social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice:
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...publicity and alarm amongst owners of neighbouring properties. These owners could often be relied upon to bail out quickly, allowing the blockbuster to acquire their properties cheaply; these, too, would be rented to black families. With a relatively poor section of society being asked to pay relatively high rents, the consequence was a sardine-can like squeezing of...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...public endeavour and a common good. Home education is a form of educational provision alternative to conventional schooling that might be seen as diametrically opposed to the UNESCO’s (2021) vision of a shared and public education for all. Simultaneously, the report seems to convey the idea of co-construction of the future of education. Everyone, state and non-state...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...public life. Many women composers – including Louise Farrenc, Fanny Hensel, Emilie Meyer, Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmès, Cécile Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger – actually flourished as composers during the nineteenth century and wrote many works alongside their male peers, although their works were not included within the classical music canon....
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...public places like schools. Religion in multicultural Britain is a community matter and should be respected by public institutions like schools. The education policy in each of the four UK nations is different, since education is a devolved political matter. There are many interesting points of comparison between them, as well as with other nation states’ approaches, on...
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