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Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...geography who lived in the second century CE. Pausanias travelled to lots of different Greek cities and wrote his Description of Greece based on his travels. One of the places Pausanias visited was Oropos and its sanctuary of Amphiaraos. His account provides us with one of the most detailed literary descriptions of the city and sanctuary which survives from the ancient...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Geography, Race, Religion, Age, Ability. The second column consists of the following: Appearance, Class, Culture, Caste, Education, Ethnicity, Economics. The third column consists of the following: Spirituality, Sexuality, Sexual orientation.] Activity 2 Social GRACES Timing: Allow 30 minutes for this activity The following video was developed by Camden Social Services...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...Geographies, 10(3), pp. 249-264. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2012.693376. What conclusion do the authors come to about the ‘newness’ of this approach, and how do you think it relates to the discussion about positivism and interpretivism?...Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth: References - Biesta, G. (2010) Pragmatism and the philosophical...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...geography, sub-Saharan Africa, awash with fires. Western Europe, ablaze with lights. Well, not all those lights are powered directly by industrial combustion, but you can bet industrial fire is somewhere fundamental in their chain of creation. And they all substitute for open flames. Or a finer grain but more politically radical example, North Korea, distinctive by the...
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Geography...A Europe of the Regions?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the varieties of region and sub-state nations that exist within Europe explain the growth of regionalism critically assess the view that what is evolving is a ‘Europe of the Regions’ engage better with debates about the future direction of Europe, and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...geography’ (Wood, 2014, p. 211). In the upper registers of the two main walls, Rivera depicted the four races that between them comprised the ethnic diversity of the Americas: white, yellow, brown and black, with each one holding a particular mineral essential to the production of iron, which is itself central to the development of industrial modernity. The tracing of...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...geography of the Bloody Code …’ on p. 166 to ‘… the capital sanction than the Welsh (Table 1)’. What do you notice about this map and what did they measure? Tip: Consider the distance of places from the capital. Discussion King and Ward can be called post-revisionist historians; they have counted executions and compared them to population rates. You can see that...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...geography and so on in precise and more academic ways (for example, they need to be able to talk about the rise in humidity and heavy precipitation rather than about raining cats and dogs). In technical fields this is particularly useful, since so much activity revolves around measuring, comparing and ordering...Grammar matters: 7.1 Subject learning in schools - In the...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs