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Have you ever wanted to write?
History & The Arts

Have you ever wanted to write?

...language, exploring grammar and learning why we say indefatigable but not unfluffabluable! You will hear from literary agents, educators and translators about what creativity means in the context of ‘creative writing’, explore the psychology of crime villains, and learn about the relationship between reading and empathy. You’ll learn about the healing power of...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...language is used to cover up historical tragedies, such as proclaiming the westward push across America in the nineteenth century as ‘manifest destiny’, not as genocide of indigenous peoples. So we must be very clear when we talk about going into space as being our human destiny. Space! The ‘final frontier’! Let’s found a colony on the Moon! We don’t have to...
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The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...language not as accurate reflections of the of the world but more as an artefact of interaction. In this way, the disabled body and mind is not a permanent state but rather a fluid representation produced through a multiplicity of histories, structures, and discourses. Disability knowledge and meaning are not then to be taken as an all-encompassing and accurate reflection...
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Ta, cheers, much obliged: A brief history of 'thanks' in English
History & The Arts

Ta, cheers, much obliged: A brief history of 'thanks' in English

...Language qualification. [Bright pink thank you note with yellow words in an orange envelope.] The practice of saying ‘thank you’ – of expressing gratitude to someone for an act of kindness – is a fundamental element in the way we interact with one another. One of those small, embedded traditions which make up the everyday stuff of human relationships, and help...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...language, and identity: Voices from an online course’, Computers and Composition, 19(3), pp. 251–271. Freire, P. (2006 [1970]) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Continuum. hooks, b. (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York and London: Routledge. Ladson-Billings, G. (1998) ‘Just what is critical race theory...
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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...Languages, cultures and communication courses. Folk music is music that is rarely written for profit, music that has endured, often passed down by oral tradition, investing a sense of identity in artist and listener alike. Folk music has imitation at its core. Its narratives and characters are usually already known to listeners, and they often refer to real-life people...
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Ceramic mould casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Ceramic mould casting

...courses and qualifications [Diagram to demonstrate ceramic mould casting] [Diagram to demonstrate ceramic mould casting] [Diagram explaining ceramic mould casting] Manufacture: An alternative to expendable pattern investment casting (“lost wax process”), and shell moulding. Permanent patterns of metal, wood, resin, plaster or rubber eliminate several stages of the...
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OpenLearn Wales
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

OpenLearn Wales

Learning for life, for work, for free. The home of bilingual, free learning in Wales. Ewch i OpenLearn Cymru am gynnwys iaith Gymraeg.
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