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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...social enterprise: Global education as lifestyle brand. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 6(1), 18-30. Jimmy, E., Andreotti, V., & Stein, S. (2019). Towards braiding. Musagetes Foundation. Shotwell, A. (2016). Against purity: Living ethically in compromised times. University of Minnesota Press. Stein, S. (2020). ‘Truth before reconciliation’: The difficulties...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...social, political, economic, technological, cultural, etc. – to emerging socio-technical networks such as the Internet, web and social media vis-à-vis reproduction of world systemic power-relations the persistent yet masked illiberalism of Western conceptions of liberal political and economic order under colonial modernity. Underlying this project is a concern to...
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Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...sociales passées ou actuelles afin d’informer ou de faire réagir le spectateur. Le cinéma engagé existe sous différentes formes telles que les documentaires, les longs métrages, ou même les films animés et expérimentaux. L’une des initiatives locales mettant en lumière des thématiques sociales est le « Printemps du film engagé », ayant lieu chaque année...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Social Care 4.2.3 Maths, Computing and Technology 4.2.4 Science 4.2.5 Social Sciences Feel free to focus only the subject areas you are interested in studying, or are studying...Developing good academic practice: 4.2.1 Arts - You have been advised that there is no need to provide a reference for a piece of factual information that is deemed to be common knowledge....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...interactive application below allows you to simulate a transit light curve. The sliders at the top allow you to choose the radii of the star and planet, the orbital period and the orbital inclination. You can also use the arrow keys on the keyboard to amend the values. What does the term ‘orbital period’ mean? Answer It is the time taken for a planet (and its star) to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...social, cultural and historical factors all influence the ways children learn and how teachers teach. In comparative education studies it’s important to keep an open mind, to reserve judgement of what’s ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in favour of taking a clear look at what is similar and what is different. Key questions in any comparison are what makes education...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...social consciousness, and are each sensible of being a centre, with a metropolitan destiny; but the strange thing about Liverpool and the like English towns is that they are without any social consciousness. Their meek millions are socially unborn; they can come into the world only in London, and in their prenatal obscurity they remain folded in a dreamless silence, while...
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Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...Social World’ where Butcher and Morris (2015) explore the role of power in defining place, mobility and migration and the cultural significance of the nation as home. This is further explored in Conway and Staples's (2015) examination of symbols of nationalism and the creation of ‘Homelands’. Butcher, M and Morris, A (2015) ‘Mapping Home’ in Murji, K (ed)...
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