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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...be responsible about military materials. We do not want to see a Northern Ireland awash with weapons and plagued by the misuse of those weapons and we are looking at that issue responsibly. Download the archive (PDF, 37MB)[Image link to download of full archive in a PDF file] Acknowledgements With thanks to project photographer Marie Therese Hurson, Stills Photographic....
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Article 5 mins
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...project, establishing clothing lines and other business operations. Given these changes, the portrayal of the outlaw as ‘bad man’, ‘social bandit’ or ‘everyman’ would inevitably be subject to new influences in the music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. References Brown, C. (2004) Stagolee Shot Billy. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press....
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Article 5 mins
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...project which is part of a ‘global colonial power matrix’ that privileges knowledge from certain cultures above others (Grosfoguel, 2011, p. 10). This underpins, and is central to, debates about the need to decolonise institutions and accompanying curriculums. These ideals are framed by notions of inclusion, race and racism. For some this will be regarded as simply...
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Article 10 mins
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...Project My name is Desmond Morris. I am a zoologist by training and I moved into television in 1956, having left my researches here in Oxford to do so. Wildlife: my first memories As a child growing up in Wiltshire I spent a lot of time in the countryside. I was very lucky because my grandmother owned a lake and I was able to build a raft to float on this lake. I didn’t...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...projected on to young people, who then symbolically (and in some cases literally) ‘embody’ them. For example, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia might be seen as ways of ‘acting out’ societal anxieties about consumption. [A black and white image of a person with their head in their hands.] Together, the three theoretical perspectives offer a challenge...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...project running tea parties for elderly people. The whole idea is just er to have a great afternoon. It is completely free for the guests. We have live music, dancing, scones and clotted cream and jam. And you know hopefully it would put some smiles on, on a few people’s faces. Female 1: This is wonderful because I can’t get out very much. But this has been great...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...projects and funding was greatly influenced by ideas of modernisation and modernisation theory. These ideas position technology as a key driver of social change and at the heart of economic growth and progress. In this way of thinking, all countries should aspire to follow the path of industrialised countries. The economic historian Walt W. Rostow likened
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...manage the regular mortgage payments. Ability to save for a deposit and to manage mortgage payments are both likely to be heavily influenced by household income. Therefore a widely used indicator of housing affordability is the house price-to-income ratio...Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing: 2.6 The house price-to-income ratio - The house price-to-income...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs