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Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...system (Kindt, 2015, p. 37). This means that the ancient Greeks did not consciously distinguish between these two terms as we do today in their everyday religious activity. As such, we can usefully look for elements of both ‘polis’ and ‘personal’ beliefs and practices within the same cult. This is the approach which will be adopted in this course, using the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...system. I understood him to say that the effect was almost physical! "He said that he found it much easier to understand children, to get his mind into correspondence with their minds when he was fatigued with other work. Personally, I did not understand little children, and they seemed quite outside my experience, and rather incautiously I asked him if children never...
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Article 10 mins
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...system waiting to go off. Eventually the distortion is enough to cause the rock to break and move, releasing energy in the form of an earthquake. The break is called a fault. It starts as a small fracture (Figure 2c), but grows rapidly (Figure 2d). In general, the larger the area of the fault, the greater is the size of the earthquake. The fault length (the length of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...systems of beliefs, values and ideas influencing the way they did things. In this way we can see the cultural beliefs and practices behind the things we do with our bodies as ‘cultural scripts’. This is a term that comes from linguistics and has a very specific meaning in that discipline, but here we mean something very similar to Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’. However,...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...System, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 175–81. Nuffield Languages Inquiry (2000) 'Languages and the next generation, final report', London, The Nuffield Foundation. Cited in Hawkins E. (2002) ‘Drop out from language study at age 16+: a historical perspective’ in Swarbrick A. (ed.) Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in Secondary School, London, Routledge Farmer/The Open...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: datblygu sefydliadol

...system gyfan Mae’r sefydliad yn cydnabod bod pobl yn rhan o system gynhwysfawr, a all gynnwys llawer o elfennau fel offer, man gwaith, a’r amgylchedd ffisegol, cymdeithasol a sefydliadol y mae pobl yn gweithio a byw ynddo. Mae’r elfennau hyn yn rhyngweithio ac yn ddibynnol ar ei gilydd, ac mae’r sefydliad yn deall hyn a gweithredu yn ôl hynny. Sicrhau bod iechyd,...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...system 30 minutes Measured up space for a new shed 10 minutes Comment You may have found from doing this activity that it is sometimes difficult to explain what your job actually is. You may have so many different responsibilities that it is impossible to sum up your job succinctly; for example, the list of activities you undertake may often go beyond your job...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...systems and structure Focuses on people Focuses on control Inspires trust Takes a short-range view Has a long-range perspective Asks how and when Asks what and why Imitates Originates Accepts the status quo Challenges the status quo Is a classic ‘good soldier’ Is his or her own person Does things right Does the right thing (Source: Gill, 2006, p. 27) The same? Other...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs