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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...changing history of the making of kente and adinkra discuss the role of the market place in the changing history of kente and adinkra making...Textiles in Ghana: 1 The meanings and values of textiles in Ghana - This course looks at three kinds of textile used and marketed in Kumasi and its surrounding towns in Ghana – the hand-made textiles of kente and adinkra and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...changes in income levels or other financial variables over time, it’s important to know whether figures are in ‘real terms’. Figures that are expressed in ‘real terms’ have been adjusted to take inflation into account, so that we can compare like with like. Let’s look at inflation in a bit more detail. Inflation refers to a sustained increase over time in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment. Crafts and Harley formulated their revision of rapid, large-scale industrial growth in the late...
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Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...changing social and political climate during the 1950s also led to a move away from asylum-based mental health care. An open-door movement developed with the aim of unlocking the doors and literally opening up the institutions. It was partly triggered by the Second World War experiences of dealing with traumatised refugees and armed forces personnel. The closure of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...changes in the person you care for; feeling anxious about what will happen if there is a change in your own circumstances (e.g. if you become ill or when you die); being worried about starting discussions about future care with the person you care for because it might be too difficult to understand and/or might upset them; or struggling with planning for a move to living...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...change in occupational and social practices requires continual relearning and new learning for most adults, including those with higher education. Detailed knowledge in many disciplines has a very limited 'shelf life' and thus it is much more important to leave initial and higher education equipped with the ability to learn new knowledge and skills when required. A recent...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...change the game by enabling policymakers to make real-time decisions,” said Selamawit Desta, program officer of PMA2020 at Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health located at the US-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, during the meeting in Kenya on 27 June. The meeting involving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the...
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