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Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...education, and defence? Whether we should generate electricity using nuclear power, solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini political system...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) bias in social science research, systematically excluding the very people it is supposed to benefit. Ruzycki and Ahmed (2022) quote ‘Researched to Death’ – a synthesis of 11 studies examining violence against Indigenous women in Canada – which found that all asked similar questions and produced similar...
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Article 25 mins
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...technology. In this course you will be introduced to the essence of FEA; what is it and why do we carry out FEA? As an example of its use, we will look briefly at the case of finite element analysis of the tub of a racing car. Finally, if you have access to FEA software, you can try out the two exercises where step-by-step instructions are given to help you carry out a...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...educator, social work tutor and, more recently, as a self-employed researcher. I’ve worked in residential childcare, schools, hospitals and community mental health, in the third sector as well as Scottish local authorities. Throughout my career I’ve been curious about the basis on which social workers make decisions about whether, how and why to intervene in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...education, and generally have been perceived as fundamentally different. Are men and women equally free to create themselves, and to be who they want to be? The existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir addresses these questions in The Second Sex...Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution: 1.1 Who was Simone de Beauvoir? - Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...education and economic life’ (2012, p. 1). In the case of Britain, he argues ‘the period between 1956 and 1973 witnessed unprecedented rapidity in the fall of Christian religiosity amongst the British people’ (2001, p. 188). Critical to this decline was a fall in female piety (which had also undergirded the churchgoing habits of men and children), which came with a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...education was within the Australian system. She was taught that Australian history started in 1770 when Captain Cook discovered Australia. She learnt about the first convict settlements, the first settlers, the explorers who trekked across the outback, opening up trails and discovering Australia. This was the history that all Australian schoolchildren grew up with and it...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...technology makes it possible for large global online firms to distribute worldwide, and again, most of these companies – Netflix, Amazon, iTunes/Apple – are US-based. Does all this matter? Maybe. Maybe not, as long as audiences get the mass entertainment they want and there are some British films in our cinemas and opportunities for British talent. However, it’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs