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Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...educational practice, as Touchstone comically riffs on the syllogism, the standard method of argumentation used in classical logic: because Corin hasn’t been at court, he has never seen good manners, so it follows that ‘thy manners must be wicked, and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation’. This sounds plausible enough, yet as Corin puts it in a balanced sentence...
Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...Education (ASE). DNA Sequences: from Gatesy, J., Hayashi, C., Cronin., M.A. and Arctander, P. (1996) Evidence from milk casein genes that cetaceans are close relatives of hippopotamid actiodactyls. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 13, 954-963. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...education to enable them to meet their expenses. With the cost of higher education increasing in recent years, the SLC has become a major lender. The alternative credit market consists of ‘sub-prime lenders’ aimed primarily at people on low incomes. Such lenders include some loans companies, door-to-door money lenders, rental purchase shops, ‘sell and buy back’...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...education in Britain – specifically as a result of the 1870 Education Act – also created a growing new market of young readers at that time. Later in the course you will learn more about some of the famous golden age illustrators such as Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, John Tenniel, Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway. However, in the next section we focus on the way...
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...are linked to inconsistent, unresponsive parenting (Belsky, 1999; de Wolff and van IJzendoorn, 1997). Although the associations with disorganised (Type D) attachments are less well established, Type D attachments are more common among abused and maltreated infants, and among infants exposed to other pathological caregiving environments (Lyons-Ruth and Jacobvitz, 1999; Teti et al., 1995), and may be consequences of ......
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their trilateral Syrian summit on April 4, the...
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Photo: © 1990, Scala, Florence. Used with permission of the department of Special Collections of the University of Glasgow Library. Whitney's text extracts a similar moral from the myth of Icarus as the opening Chorus of Doctor Faustus. In both cases, Icarus illustrates the dangers attendant on humans seeking ‘the thinges, to mortall men...
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...education and learning and pressures amongst peer groups to look and behave in particular ways. They also reflect on adolescence as a period that brings new and exciting opportunities to socialise and be more independent. Some of the most enlightening research of recent years has come from neuroscience and neuropsychology. You’ll explore many of these themes next,...