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Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...manageable. They help to mark out personal space in a shared office, or indicate the extent of someone’s home and garden. Boundaries are often physical, represented by partitions or walls or fences, to show who is allowed in and who is not (and under what terms). [A photograph of two pairs of shoes either side of a painted line.] Figure 1 The sorts of boundaries we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...project of bombing and sanctions in the cause of great power interests’ (Chandler, 2002, p. 15)...Rights and justice in international relations: 5.8 Review of criticisms of international rights - Activity 1 Review the four criticisms of rights at the international level discussed in the previous sections. Identify which of these criticisms are objections in principle to...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...projected and demanded an observer situated at an exterior, elevated point; it was a way of making sense of the large space and depth of a city view. The viewer of the picture needed to occupy this ideal viewpoint, imagine themselves into the landscape, while they read the image. From the late eighteenth century the panorama modulated this scopic regime, by immersing the...
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Article 5 mins
Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...projection; musicality; timing; emphasis; expression. All of these aspects are connected to the way in which a dancer interprets the movements and the meaning of a dance. Some of these may be prescribed by the choreographer, for example where the focus should be at a given moment. These skills can be taught in class through the medium of the simple dance combination. If...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...project. And so the data they produced was of nations that were being subjugated and that the colonial governments would have to deal with. Implicitly, they produced a categorisation that was based on Christianity. So for example, in the case of Hinduism, Hinduism was presented as something that took place in temples, had priests, had a trinity, and holy texts just like...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...managed, though, all the while smirking at a member of the local paramilitary who would shout homophobic abuse at us as we walked by. The swagger was gone today. I was grilling him and he didn’t have the answers I wanted. “How can he be dead?” “He killed himself. Apparently he escaped from the hospital. They found him in the grounds.” I don’t remember much of...
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Article 15 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...manage our lives effectively. For children exposed to an endless stream of new information and novel input, such processes of simplification are necessary in order to make sense of the complex world around them. Activity: What’s in your gender schema? Allow about 20 minutes This activity will help you to explore your own use of gender schemas. Do you make any automatic...
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Article 15 mins
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...management, assessment, becoming digitally ready, and effective engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be a distance learner. After studying this course you should be able to: identify areas of study strengths in preparation for becoming a distance learner explore and reflect on skills...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs