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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...education and entrepreneurship. These practices developed out of earlier Black and Latinx traditions, for instance Mambo dancing, playing the dozens and participation in the Nation of Islam/Nation of Gods and Earths (Five Percenters). The emergence of hip hop in the South Bronx is inextricably linked to the socioeconomic disenfranchisement and cultural abandonment that...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...technology have dramatically changed the nature of communications and the ways of reaching target markets. This is particularly true of younger consumers which many social marketing programmes seek to target. The use of the internet as a complementary channel to television and other media was adopted in the UK in the ‘Get Unhooked’ smoking cessation campaign...Social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...education. You will look at the different sources of information university students normally read. University readings can be long and approaching them can be daunting. You will consider some of the challenges students sometimes face when approaching these readings and learn an active reading method which allows you to break a reading task in to small manageable steps....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...educational policy, creating international defence alliances, or developing a global transport system are forms of deliberate development. Such changes affect all of us, our livelihoods, and our wellbeing to a greater or lesser extent, depending on where we are located in the overall picture. The issues of deep concern associated with development, such as environmental...
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, particularly in Italy. In this free course, you’ll explore some of the different kinds of cultural encounters that fed into the Grand Tour, and will explore the role that they play in our study of Art...
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...technology to better effect making the service transaction more transparent keeping better records working demonstrably with standards, protocols or policies feeling professionally fulfilled in the work delivered. Is one or more of these important for notions of improvement in your healthcare setting? Make a note on why one or more of these might apply to your service...
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...technologies – as well as some of the tensions which modern life spawned. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A327 Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity...Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand ‘modernisation’, ‘modernity’ and...
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...educated, with athletes from private schools dominating in rowing and equestrian events (Vasagar, 2012). However, Activity 4 illustrates that research can only tell part of a story and that there will always be exceptions to statistics such as these. Many athletes come from backgrounds in which family resources are limited. This suggests that although environmental...