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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...work and we’re not there yet, it’s this rich combination of outcomes and engagement that seems to have been the key to the 91 primary schools who’ve signed up so far (we need 100 – all are welcome!) I’ve spent many early mornings listening to head teachers’ concerns about their young people’s disaffected attitudes towards writing. The way in which they...
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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry. So this place is just full of...
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Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...working in a world where knowledge is always relative to a perspective or method but no less valuable. In fact, such relative knowledge actually becomes more valuable. Much of 20th century European philosophy has grappled with what they saw as our brave new existential situation, and variations of relativism are increasingly recognized also in the natural and social...
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Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...work on international human rights treaties would reveal over fifty different treaties, conventions and protocols (instruments which effect an amendment to a treaty or convention). Box 1: The verdict on public international law As this course (and the other W100 courses available on OpenLearn: Europe and the law, Judges and the law, Making and using rules) examine rules,...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...work that analytical concepts can do to make sense of complex environmental issues such as the issues of rights to land and food prices...‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?: 1 Analytical concepts used in this course - In this course you will touch on how three sets of analytical concepts – first, time and space; second, risk and uncertainty; and third, values,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...working through difficult subjects or feelings. [Negin Farsad] Negin Farsad Over the years, researchers have built a substantial body of evidence that some types of comedy – including sophisticated satire, which is growing in popularity – perform a potent social function, from breaking taboos to holding those in power to account. Avner Ziv, who has written numerous...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...working as an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques Area at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-Indore). He has a PhD in Statistics from North Carolina State University and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center before joining IIM-Indore. His primary research interests include...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...work of the aid effort. Some of the grandest assistance schemes produced the most meagre results. Everywhere you look are prefabricated huts left over from the aid effort. They have turned the town and the valley blue, an unfamiliar colour in an area where people normally build in stone and wood. A decade after the distribution of temporary shelters, these glorified tin...
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