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Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...communities) and those which are ‘public’ (that is, to be handled through forms of social intervention or regulation). One factor that may make a difference to whether things are perceived as private troubles or public issues is scale or volume. If only a few people experience some form of trouble, then it is likely to remain a private matter and not attract public...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...community believes that relationships with the deceased continue after their biological death...An introduction to death, dying and grief: 1.1 Talking about death - The meanings people ascribe to death (i.e. what is important to people, or what matters to them) are not static. They change over time, within and between cultures. In the west, death is sometimes considered a...
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything to study. They differ from...
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...community figure who is found murdered in a locked room. There is a closed circle of relations and associates with potential motives for the killing. Hercule Poirot, the series detective familiar to the reader, is necessarily on hand to assist the police and in the absence of his established sidekick (Captain Hastings), a local doctor – and our narrator – has stepped...
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...communities of people who use the gym partly to change how they look in terms of bulking up by lifting heavy weights, some of whom may use steroids. These steroids are known as IPEDs (image and performance enhancing drugs, mentioned at the start of the course). In the next activity you are going to compare a media perspective and an academic perspective by examining two...
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...community, for example decision-making and agenda setting undertaken by small elite groups a third dimension, where power is largely invisible and shapes agendas, perceptions and preferences, for example the power of advertising or the media more generally. Lukes’ dimensions deal with the application of power by individuals, but power is also closely tied to the notion...
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...communal fighting spirit. Click to view annotated excerpt as pdf. Discussion You may have chosen different examples, but these are some of the rhetorical devices that are used: repetition (‘Once more … once more’, ‘On, on’) apostrophe or direct address (‘dear friends’) imperatives or commands (‘imitate’, ‘Stiffen’, ‘conjure up’, ‘Disguise’,...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...community and then everyone else as our special partners to this treaty. So these ideas underpin our national early childhood curriculum, Te Whariki, which we would describe as being bicultural and bilingual in nature. This means that any teaching practices guided by Te Whariki are already informed by both Maori and Western or English concepts, including this big idea...