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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...Research shows that working-class children: … go into lower sets … … are set less challenging test items … … and therefore they have to answer more ‘realistic’ test items … … so they achieve lower test results than they deserve … … so they are confirmed as being appropriately placed in lower sets … … so they may experience a less rich curriculum,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...centre) and Empress Taitu (bottom left) leading their troops to victory against the Italian army. You can find out more about this history in Session 3. Image: British Museum....Introduction: Introduction - How did empires begin? How were they experienced and maintained? How did they end and what legacies have they left behind? This course will help you to answer these...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Research Group, 2010)...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.1 What do we mean by stress? - We tend to think of ‘stress’ as a state of demand that is likely to stretch us to breaking point, and hence as a bad thing, to be avoided. An image of stress this brings to mind is pulling on a chain with increasing force: sooner or later the chain will break at the weakest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...children, for example), while the state may have a general duty to protect and to aid. Therefore, universal rights do not presuppose universal duties; there can be a division of labour on the side of duties. For instance, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises that ‘it is governments that have the overarching duty to ensure a...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...researchers such as Brian Wynne and Alan Irwin. From your own experience, have you sensed that, in Miller's words, ‘a new age of public understanding of science’ has been entered? Bodmer's deficit model approach, though now largely superseded, put particular emphasis on imparting science information to the public. Part of the reason this model was increasingly...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...researched ‘race’ and ethnicity...Race, ethnicity and crime: The US, Australia and the UK - The relationship between race and ethnicity and crime and criminology is characterised by conflict, dispute and contestation. The focus of explanatory concern for critical criminologists is the wider structural, cultural, political and historical contexts and divisions in which...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?

...researchers have to decipher when a lucid dream is happening so that they can compare brain activity during the lucid dream with that of non-lucid dreaming. Ingenious studies examining this have devised a communication code between lucid dreamer participants and researchers during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, when dreaming typically takes place. Before going to sleep,...
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Article 5 mins
Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...research project about how a group of Arabic-English bilingual sojourners in the UK manage their use of two languages in their everyday interactions. Let me begin by explaining ‘code-switching’. Code-switching is the practice of going back and forth between two or more languages or dialects, and using them in the same sentence or conversation. This is something my...
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