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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...interactive quizzes, of which Sessions 4 and 8 will provide you with an opportunity to earn a badge to demonstrate your new skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you should be able to: understand what career transitions in sport are identify the main challenges associated with career...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...social economy. It is rather a plea to voters to endorse him, and his choice to surrender, as a lesser evil. The Conversation asked nine leading academics what their questions were for a man who describes himself as an “accidental economist”. His answers reveal regrets about his own approach during a dramatic 2015, a withering assessment of France’s power in Europe,...
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Article 10 mins
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...interaction of theory and practice that brings knowledge and understanding of systems. The theoretical statements will lead you to practice certain concepts and techniques. And as you practice, and think about that practice, you will find yourself amending, refining and changing the theories with which you started. Those changed theories will then inform what you do next...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...social turmoil and transformation equally unprecedented, marked by revolution, war and the beginnings of industrialisation. The period saw the interface of two fundamental cultural movements: Enlightenment and Romanticism. The transition from the first to the second has been described as ‘the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. Article 12 Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views, the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...social sciences (see Stenner’s Methods in Motion Blog 3). Relativism does not mean that “anything goes”. It requires us to take other perspectives and methods seriously, since none can claim absolute authority. Therefore, if relativism (or perhaps better- perspectivism,) is increasingly acknowledged as underpinning our conception(s) of reality, it is only through...
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Article 5 mins
What is crime?
Society, Politics & Law

What is crime?

...Social Sciences courses and qualifications Crime is an essentially contested concept. There is no universally agreed definition of what a crime is. However, the most straightforward way of thinking about crime is to look at it in terms of a legalistic perspective - from this approach a crime is an act which is illegal. It’s against the law. Specifically it is against...
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Article 5 mins
The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...social propieties proscribed by Eusebia, Socrates angered many of the more important men of the city who could, rightly, accuse him of breaking the law by violating these customs. In 399 BCE Socrates was charged with impiety by Meletus the poet, Anytus the tanner, and Lycon the orator who sought the death penalty in the case. The accusation read: “Socrates is guilty,...
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Article 5 mins