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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...social divisions and tensions surrounding who can afford to live and work in cities where rental prices are soaring, and working-class communities are being pushed out. Thinking geographically about changing places Developing the skills to understand and analyse how places are changing is a central theme running throughout the new Open University module D225 Changing...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...worked away at crafts like dyeing and soapmaking. Secret recipes, refined by trial and error, were handed down from master to apprentice, and from father to son. Soap was largely developed for use in the cloth industry, to prepare wool for dyeing, and not for personal hygiene. By the 13th century, soapmaking in Britain became centred in large towns like Bristol, Coventry...
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What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...working children nomadic groups ethnic and linguistic minorities children and young people affected by crisis those with special learning needs and disabilities. If we consider education outside of school settings, we can also add other groups to this list: adults with low literacy skills, for example, those who have been excluded or prevented from completing the level of...
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Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...social technology, depend on many people working with it, developing and refining it, using it, taking it up, recommending it, and above all finding it useful. But not all technologies that succeed are the best – it depends on who builds the better networks, particularly of practitioners. As you experience the use of a particular systems method and strive to make it a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...work these writers were producing, but the social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in Ireland. You will be looking specifically at two examples of this writing: the short story ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945) by Elizabeth Bowen and the play The Weir...
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Article 45 mins
Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave
Society, Politics & Law

Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave

...Social Attitudes survey reveals that scepticism about the EU is widespread. Yet at the same time, many are not sure about the wisdom of actually pulling out. [Exit sign in many languages] Heading for a European exit? In the survey, of five different possible options for Britain’s relationship with the EU, the most popular by far, backed by 43%, was that Britain should...
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What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?

...social vulnerability.” For the past few weeks, RefettoRio chefs have been serving up nightly dinners for 108 from the surplus of ingredients donated to them by the catering company that feeds the Olympic Village. These are not leftovers or table scraps. “RefettoRio is going to work only with ingredients that are about to be wasted … like ugly fruit and vegetables,...
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Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity
Nature & Environment

Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity

...Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), refers to ‘indigenous peoples’ as “a global movement fighting for rights and justice for those particular groups who have been left on the margins of development and who are perceived negatively by dominating mainstream development paradigms, whose culture and ways of life are subject to discrimination and contempt and...
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