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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...educator and political writer. Over the course of an eventful life he lived through the English Civil Wars, the violent overthrows of two kings (Charles I and James II) and the rapid expansion of English colonialism and slave-trading across the Atlantic. As well as producing the foundations of a new philosophical approach to knowledge based on experience (later called...
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African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...education and a form of primitivism, to Comte’s fetishism represented the ‘positive’ starting point of all developments for humankind the ‘childhood of humankind’ as he put it (Böhme, 2014). Edward B. Tylor (1871) and Émile Durkheim (1912/1915) in their works similarly rejected Hume’s thesis of fetishism as the foundation of all religions and replaced the...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...Education and Language Studies faculty, focusing on bereavement within racially minoritised groups, I’ve had the privilege of listening to many personal stories of loss, resilience and ‘healing’. The people behind these stories are diverse in their heritage, traditions, upbringing and generally how they deal with loss. Through those stories, I’ve learned a few key...
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Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...educational projects of many sorts, in schools, colleges, local history societies, evening classes and universities are discovering new material and making it available in digital format via the Internet or on DVD. But as with all types of primary historical source material, the evidence does not “speak for itself”. It requires historical interpretation in order to...
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Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Hybrid working: skills for leadership: Introduction - It seems that there has been a shift in acceptance of hybrid working since the pandemic, with mixed-location working here to stay for many organisations. For years many employees had battled with bureaucracy for the right to work wherever they felt would be the most...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...education affect your attitudes to language? Were there any experiences related to language from your school days which have left a strong impression on you? How have the activities you’ve engaged in since school (e.g. work, family life, pastimes) affected your language use? Comment Here is a short selection of extracts from English speakers from around the world who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...education or schooling) leaders are elected by popular vote (the institution of democracy) people with insufficient income receive benefits in cash or kind (the institution of welfare) people have a choice as to how and from whom they obtain goods and services (the institution of the market) although not only characteristic of liberal democracies, wealth is distributed...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...Education (published weekly on a Tuesday) – you might feel this tends to give an air of authority. The data was taken from a Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) publication, called Excellence in Schools, and published in 1997. Therefore, the UK Government published the data. The data relates to the amount of homework and television that children in their last...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs