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Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...change, on winning votes, or on taking over dominant social structures. Rather they work by creating the change they wish to encounter, building and forging new ways of experiencing social and political life. (2014, p. 2) As with the law, equitable ideas often concern private property and how, for example, it is held (possessed, owned), used and (re)distributed in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...changed. One day, in late 2007 or early 2008, a sympathetic-seeming scientist with a proposal before a committee she was serving on made a startling confession. As Lyerly recalls: “One of the researchers said, ‘You know, I understand where you’re coming from… but I gotta tell you, I just don’t like including pregnant women in research. It’s just my bias.’”...
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Article 15 mins
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...change from verse to verse but not from chorus to chorus, which is visually demonstrated by the darker box at the intersection of verses/words. [Described image] Figure 1 Distinguishing verses and choruses As Figure 1 suggests, certain kinds of sameness or difference matter more than others when determining the form of a piece of music: in Western pop music, it is often...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...change of mind: ‘No, that won't do’. We are then given a very specific setting, not just Bombay – a city perhaps exotic and unfamiliar to many readers – but also the name of the Nursing Home and an actual date and time: midnight on August 15th, 1947. The narrator tells us that the time ‘matters, too.’ Is the implied significance of time and date enough to make...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...changing the way in which some courses are offered, resonates with wider shifts in an open landscape surrounding teachers, trainers, students, learners and educational institutions. This openness reflects wider political changes in priorities, particularly in reforming access to research and data where there has been public funding of the underlying work...Networked...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...change to one aspect of the system can have disproportionate, far- and wide-ranging impacts on many other components. To put this in terms of your own work and commercial awareness: the value that you are able to add to a system of production or service delivery impacts on, and is impacted on by, the values added and costs incurred by others across the organisation. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...changing levels of Lake Chad in Saharan North Africa. Lake Chad disappeared completely in about 20,000 BC, during the last ice age. In about 11,000 BC, it reappeared. Today, its level is about the same as it was in AD 1000.’ Students were asked, ‘why has the author chosen to start the graph at this point?’ This was considered a rather difficult question. In fact,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...change in someone’s knowledge, understanding, skills or attitudes (and the meaning of each of those terms and the relationship between them is complex and contested), but a neutral idea of ‘change’ is not good enough. The change must be seen as valuable, as moving in a positive direction, as progress. This raises the question: who decides what is valuable? The...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs