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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...social constructivism (see, for example, Vygotsky, 1978), communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998, 2006) and the teacher as learner (see, for example, Cochrane-Smith and Lytle, 1999). In these ways we see teachers as learning together and constructing new shared knowledge. In doing so a community is developed around the learning, knowledge and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...social contact for those of us connected to suitable networks. Some people may find it difficult to imagine not having access to the information and services that play a crucial part in their daily lives. Others may feel that they have no part to play in the digital world because their network access is very limited or even non-existent. Some simply don’t care about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...social interaction. A positivist on the other hand sees the world as a set of ‘objects’, independent of our perspective, and believes that knowledge is accumulated through by conducting experiments in which variables are controlled. Interpretivists are more likely to conduct interviews and focus groups, make use of reflective journals and observe situations of...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...social regulation and processes of discipline. In Chapter 4 for example, in the early nineteenth century new kinds of institutions, the asylum, the workhouse, as well as the prison, were designed and built to promote social stability when traditional ideas and practices appeared outmoded. Innovations in prison design, such as Bentham's panopticon, were to instil values of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...social status a cut above the labourers who worked for Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd. Hardy's mother had been a maid servant. She was a great reader who enjoyed Sir Walter Scott's and Byron's poetry and had been allowed to read books in her employer's library. CHARLOTTE LILLEY When Hardy was 22 years of age he got an architectural job up in London. NARRATOR Over...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...Social Sciences who has spent most of his academic career at the Open University. And he has always had a strong interest in political geography, but he has also been actively involved in the field of environmental politics and policy making as a politician, government advisor and environmental activist. He was a member of the first Committee on Radioactive Waste...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...social scientists emphasise one kind of explanation rather than another. Feminism is a set of theories which in different ways analyse and explain gender divisions and inequalities. It is also a social movement which advocates and works for equal opportunities for men and women. Feminism originated in the late eighteenth century. During the latter part of the twentieth...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...interaction with academics right through the whole process. I set out the way we were working in a public lecture in Oxford in the early part, I think from memory it was January of 2006. So we’d been working for three or four months and I then stood up and shared with academic communities in the world, ‘This is where we’re going.’ Lots of working papers if you...
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