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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...class Indian households living in air-conditioned apartments and owning a television, refrigerator and motor scooter, or perhaps a car (Figure 11(a)), and the household of a subsistence farmer, whose only fuel is dried cow dung for cooking, and perhaps kerosene for a lamp (Figure 11(b)) in Africa, the contrast between the elite, who may have a private swimming pool, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...class men, and later created the welfare state. In other words, they seek change, but are looking to bring it about within the existing system and accept its constraints. These ‘sustainability steps’ reformers are offering a descriptive account of what the world is like (flows of capital shaping, and being shaped by, social, political and environmental change)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...class will discover or invent the main postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory. There does not seem to be any recognition here that this theory is an enormous leap of the imagination, not simply a generalisation of observations from practical work. Not only would it be unrealistically optimistic to expect pupils to construct these kinds of scientific theories for...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...class’ (Rorty 1980, p. 1). It need not follow from this that we cannot make progress in answering the ‘What is..?’ question. First, there may be some very broad characteristics that all emotions share. For example, perhaps all emotions are psychological states or occurrences. This in itself does not tell us a great deal; but it does at least tell us something....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...class background in Port Arthur, Texas. As an overweight, acne-afflicted teenager who loved the blues (a black music genre) in the deeply segregated South, Joplin was bullied at high school. This sense of being an outsider never left her, and she still recalled her experiences as a troubled and ostracised teenager in interviews given at the height of her fame over a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...classes for local children, but it was also involved in violent clashes with the police. A number of members were charged with murder and arrested for criminal activities. Despite being deemed by J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI, as ‘the greatest threat to the internal security of the country’ (quoted in Murch, 2010, p. 184) in 1969, the Black Panther Party...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...And Companies House is a registry for over 3.2 million companies. We achieve world-class standards. But before you ask, how do we do this, well, we continue improving our processes and services to make sure they're efficient and effective for our customers. As a result, over the years, I've developed a specialism in continuous improvements as well as operational change management. I thrive on creating the right ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...De Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru. HERNANDO DE SOTO: There is never enough money to alleviate poverty. There’s just not enough in the world. People will end up creating their own wealth the same way Europeans created their own wealth. Nobody came and aided you, you had to create it yourself. That’s the only sure way to do it. NARRATOR: Many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs