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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...family. Delacroix’s own (artistic) glory was to come later and he is often described as part of the ‘generation of 1820’ (Spitzer, 2001, p.9). This generation, coming of age between 1814 and 1825, had witnessed the disappointed hopes of Napoleonic empire, and it has been suggested that this sense of loss helped to determine their Romantic mindset (see Brookner,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the channel controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
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Video 30 mins
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...history to smuggle in broader environmental messages, or at least that would be the point of the show or the film, but if you said to the Channel Controller, ‘This is an environmental film’ it probably wouldn’t get green lit. I mean things have changed. I’m talking about a period in maybe up to five, ten years ago. There was then a moment where we all got more...
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Video 10 mins
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...history when at just 21 she became the youngest person to qualify as a train driver. She shares the story of her impressive achievement with Lois Nicolson...Find out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. [Nicole McLean]I first joined the railway in 2013 at the age of 18. I had successfully attained a hospitality steward job through an agency...
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Article 5 mins
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...History Month in order to persuade educators and researchers alike to look at his work across their curriculums and methodology discussions. Du Bois’s work offers great examples of how to represent reality (this is called mimesis); he used several different ways of doing this. He worked with statistics, and produced a major scientific study. He also found creative ways...
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Article 10 mins
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...family and in schools. It is not intended to be a comprehensive account of how children grow and develop. What it aims to consider are some of the experiences and challenges faced by children and their parents/carers in society today and introduces you to important theories of how children develop and mature. This section is divided into three topics: The importance of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...family and community in holistic ways...Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change: 1.2 Where would you like to be? - The experience of being within cultures underpinned by the values and priorities evident in Activity 1 will be profoundly different and produce very different teaching practices. In a Turkish study of more than 400 teachers for instance (Sonmez & Gokmenoglu,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...history and read about human impacts on one iconic group...Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common, which justifies the inclusion of diverse types within a single group. Although mammals evolved on land, a number of species have become adapted to spending part or all of their lives...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs