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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...thinking about equality and human rights. And Locke argued that these natural rights were shared equally. But some were more equal than others. For Locke, it was men and in particular men who owned private property who he envisioned sharing in these rights. Women were seen as living in the private sphere of family life and the home and were not assumed to require the same...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...think about - both what to do and what not to do. What happened at the weekend and last night needs a thought-through response. That is what is happening. In the worlds of politics and policing they know what the dissidents want. They are not going to give it to them. [Photograph and handwritten statement of Dawn Purvis. See details below for text transcript.]Dawn Purvis...
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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...thinking of drama in a more general sense, we might be avid watchers of TV soaps or films. But, as a student of literature, you are sitting at home with a book open in front of you. It contains the text of a play. What, then, are you to make of the words on the page before you? If the script you were examining was intended for a film or a TV play it would look different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...think that mental health services for children and young people are inadequate, a survey has found. The survey of 1000 UK GPs found that 99% feared that young people may come to harm while waiting for specialist mental health treatment from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The survey, conducted on behalf of a mental health charity, found that 78% of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...thinking about ancient Egyptian art and culture is one element of an extensive, and resolutely contemporary, endeavour...Week 1 The influence of Egyptian art: 2.1 Gustave Flaubert – novelist - The French novelist Gustave Flaubert famously travelled with the writer Maxime du Camp through Egypt and the Holy Land in 1849. Modern critical scholars, notably Edward Said, have...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...thinks of ‘equality’ in education What do you see as the dimensions of equality which you consider important? Now think about an educational context with which you are familiar. This might be the institution in which you practise or an institution you attended, or one which a member of your family attends. What does achieving equity for learners need to look like in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid. The first play was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where,--instead of the metre of Shakespeare, whose secret is, that the thought...
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English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...systems of speech that the human race has developed throughout its history, risen to such a position of prominence? Figure 2: The use of English around the world The emergence of English as a global language is not the end of the story, though. The fact that English is now established as an important linguistic force in countless communities around the world does not mean...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs