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Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...education, take criminals and rehabilitate them, which was the goal – those are admirable goals, but they’re very hard goals. And it’s very hard to see, in a sort of measured period of time, how much progress you’re making. But if your goal is to build a prison, fill it with people and keep ‘em in there, that’s something government can do rather well. We’ve...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...education, or the next step in developing your career – can be exciting and scary. If it’s a hybrid organisation, and your first day is in a remote location rather than a physical workplace, that can be even more disorientating. This course aims to help you navigate your new organisational culture, build relationships with your work colleagues in a hybrid environment,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...de the / A PE / LE i a / DEO akh i / LE OS. You might have been able to hear that there was a change in the middle of the line. The third foot has been replaced with a spondee. So in the first line of the Iliad, we have two dactyls: Menin aeide the-. One spondee: -A pe-. Two more dactyls: -leia deo akhi-. And a final spondee: -leos. If you go back and listen to the Greek...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...educated in the western tradition, it is often hard to escape the trap of thinking that can be described as mechanistic, linear, reductionist and systematic, with all those attributes in service of certainty and control. It is necessary to practice so as to break out of this trap, but in doing so we must be wary not to steer away from one pitfall just to walk into...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...de corps with which to limit human recalcitrance at work. The rhetoric of control, coupled with a new vocabulary of teamwork, quality, flexibility, and learning organizations, constitutes culture management projects that seek to create culture as a mechanism of soft domination (Clegg, Kornberger & Pitsis, 2016). Figure 5 below shows how the mechanisms of control in some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...education … afford to spend on technology, arts, science? Afford to spend on our children and their futures? We could consider these steps: Integrating aging into all aspects of development, Involving the elderly more in major policy decisions, Fundamental reforms in existing pension systems, Making health care affordable to all And we can do this not just because we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...educational/moral content. Might this have something to do with the status of these cloths? Then reflect on the nature of proverbs and what these might suggest to western writers about the tradition of cloth-making in Ghana.)...Textiles in Ghana: 5.1 History of kente - Activity 17 Once you’ve watched the video, make a few notes on what you learnt about the history of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...de Hooch very clearly demonstrate a belief in cleanliness being next to godliness because you've seen there's a picture in one painting - a woman sweeping the floor while another's feeding the baby and the shadow of a cross is silhouetted on the wonderful clean floor. But tell me about this association which is going here between cleanliness and godliness. Adam Kuper:...
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