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Is citizenship nationality?
Society, Politics & Law

Is citizenship nationality?

...think you have a right to your nationality and that the state will protect you, however, we hear from Ruth Barnett, a Jewish refugee, and Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee, about the stark realities. Perspective: Is citizenship nationality? In a roundtable discussion about citizenship, our experts discuss nationality from an activism point of view, and a theoretical...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...think about how birth is a lottery...Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?: 1 The world’s 7 billionth baby - On the occasion of the birth of the world’s 7 billionth baby in 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged the world to recognise the moral and pragmatic obligation to do the right thing for that baby. [Described image] Figure 2 The world’s...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...thinking about the world. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Social Sciences...Climate change: island life in a volatile world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the world is in the process of ‘being made’, right down to the earth beneath our feet consider how islands are shaped by a dynamic...
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...think well of a king if you are under him, just as it is not hard to think ill of him if you are not under him; but there is no use being bigotedly republican when there is nothing to be got by it, and I own the fact that his subjects like him willingly. Probably no man in his kingdom understands better than Edward VII. that he is largely a form, and that the more a form...
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...think about all the things you spend time doing across a week. Try to include everything you do to help you map out the time that you might have available for study. Inevitably, some of you will be incredibly busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Answer For a full-time apprentice, the average of 6...
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...Think back to your own experiences as a young learner. Identify one example of teaching (from any subject), which you think resulted in you being ‘altered’ as a person. What did the teacher do in terms of presentation (e.g. explanations, resources, questioning) that resulted in this learning? Why did this teaching have such an impact and remain in your...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...system, and she now sits in the House of Lords. [Described image] Figure 3: ‘I feel that our movement, the disability movement, is an emancipation agenda. I see it like apartheid. It’s not just ramps and access, it’s deeply rooted in attitudes.’ (Lady Jane Campbell, quoted in Birkett, 2009) Martin Luther King and Lady Jane Campbell both show how leadership is...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...think of the ways in which this mind-body dualism may be overcome such that we might recognise the importance of bodies in our lived experience of the world. After watching the following video clips, which will provide an introduction to the phenomenological perspective, work through the rest of the course to look at how this comes to be applied to a substantive topic:...