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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...social media and the debilitating mood that prevents individuals and nations from doing enough, fast enough. What is needed is acts and arts which inspire more ecological engagement with a world worthy of celebration. The journey of the Totonac totem carving, called Latamat (Life), is part of the Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival of First Nations. This is a biennial...
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Article 10 mins
Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Epilogue – the slow death of heroism?

...work and settle. In November 1964 Ian Smith’s government of Rhodesia asked its mainly white electorate if they wanted independence, rather than accept the black majority rule that Britain demanded. More than 90 per cent did, and Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence on Remembrance Day 1965. Racial tensions were rising in South Africa too, and Commonwealth...
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Article 5 mins
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...social, economic issues and everything else. So it’s really kind of creating the ground work maybe for policy still because there are ideas that still need to get out there and float around. So there’s less of a direct applied element. Whereas other researches I’ve mentioned maybe has that more clearly. Discussion David Block was trying to understand how...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS

...Social Sciences and History courses [EIS banner. purple background, with EIS in white, edged in red]Founded in 1847, the EIS is the oldest teaching union in the world. As the largest teaching union in Scotland, the EIS represents more than 60,000 members across all sectors of Education. While going through the archives and past editions of the Scottish Educational Journal...
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Video 5 mins
Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...social, economic, political, and environmental issues of our times. You will learn about key global development issues such as migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and...
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Video 10 mins
Sanctuary Tales: Fighting Speciesism One Animal at a Time
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sanctuary Tales: Fighting Speciesism One Animal at a Time

...Social Sciences qualifications. In this film, we reflect on some of the reasons why animal sanctuaries are needed. Other animals are often victims of neglect or harm, due to how humans perceive and use them, such as for food and clothing. Sanctuaries such as Hillside provide us with a unique insight into how animals can survive these difficult circumstances, and go on to...
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Video 15 mins
Turn your bank holiday into a badged holiday
Miscellaneous

Turn your bank holiday into a badged holiday

...social media. 100% free online learning Earn a digital badge you can show off Flexible study in your own time So instead of chasing down missing screws in the DIY aisle or finding out you left the picnic at home, spend your bank holiday earning something future-you will thank you for. Free courses. Free learning. Free badges. Our most popular badged courses Not sure where...
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Article 5 mins
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...social stigma, with the exception that some professions would have been closed to him. He was a welcomed child and was raised in his father’s house, who married another woman. [Statue of Leonardo's Vitruvian man in Stockholm] 1460 Leonardo moved to Florence (see Florence), with his father. Florence In the 14th Century, Florence had been a city in decline. It had seen...
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Article 30 mins