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Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...de Baryshe and Ramsay, 1989)...Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach: 2.2 Children's violence - There has been a great deal of work done by psychologists on violence and aggression in children, looking at whether this is part of a normal and natural developmental process or whether it is pathological. Cole and Cole define...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...education and economic life’ (2012, p. 1). In the case of Britain, he argues ‘the period between 1956 and 1973 witnessed unprecedented rapidity in the fall of Christian religiosity amongst the British people’ (2001, p. 188). Critical to this decline was a fall in female piety (which had also undergirded the churchgoing habits of men and children), which came with a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...education was within the Australian system. She was taught that Australian history started in 1770 when Captain Cook discovered Australia. She learnt about the first convict settlements, the first settlers, the explorers who trekked across the outback, opening up trails and discovering Australia. This was the history that all Australian schoolchildren grew up with and it...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...de Janeiro. [Figure 5] Figure 5 The lines of longitude (in red) and latitude (in blue) on planet Earth as viewed from above the North Pole. In Figure 4 you can see that the blue lines of latitude are always the same distance apart, whereas Figure 5 shows the distance between the red lines of longitude decreases towards the North (and also the South) Pole, where they...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...educational and training establishments. The lack or weakness of regional political structures is increasingly seen as having a debilitating effect on regional economic performance. This ‘new regionalist’ argument (see Section 3) is widely used by regional groups seeking more autonomy or self-government. To further these political objectives, regions have increasingly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...education play an important role in facilitating our personal diversity and inclusion journeys and the impact we can choose to have in our workplaces. As has hopefully come across clearly throughout the course, we all have biases and privileges, and we shouldn’t be afraid of admitting that. The key is to acknowledge them, try to understand them and make an effort to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...education systems (particularly the university sector), banking and finance, and national, regional and pan-national political and governmental systems and situations (e.g. the EU, OECD, etc.). This course begins by explaining the genesis of the capabilities approach – which lies in the resource-based view (RBV) of organisations – before moving on to discuss...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, for reasons other than seeking redemption or specifically religious benefits. But music and pilgrimage routes are also carefully designed and presented for the benefit of religious people. In these and similar experiences, religion and culture inform each other...Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture: 2 Either/or or...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr