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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...human figures. Some of the smaller parts are more difficult to observe and identify. As in the poem by Saxe, your interpretations are shaped by what you can observe...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Production - This kind of observation (close looking) produces the raw material for the first stages of reconstructing an object’s biography, structured...
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...human rights to be heard and for their opinions to be respected (United Nations, 1989). The Italian philosopher and founder of Reggio Emilia nurseries, Loris Malaguzzi, reminds us in his poem, ‘No way. The hundred is there’, that children are born ‘with a hundred languages’ (Gandini, 1998). Even before they are talking, babies are subtly communicating their...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...resources, because we don’t get funding from no one. So we are very flexible – not only myself, but we, the teachers. GERARDO ARRIAGA GARCIA The moment you feel that you are free to teach the way you think you should be teaching, that moment you felt it’s your class, so you take ownership and pride of what you’re doing. It doesn’t look like he would be the...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...resource of interest to ICS students and professionals alike...Although ethics is often viewed as an academic specialism or an add-on to training programmes in technology and science, it is in fact an area of the utmost relevance to professionals and, indeed, everyone. This free course, Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences, draws upon examples taken...
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...human heart refuses to allow intuitive certainty to persuade the reason of that which it knows, I opened and read it in a tearing anguish of suspense. ‘Regret to inform you Captain E. H. Brittain M.C. killed in action Italy June 15’ “”‘No answer’, I told the boy mechanically, and handed the telegram to my father, who had followed me into the hall. As we went...
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...humans, though animal studies had raised some concerns. Like many women with chronic illnesses, she found herself facing an agonising decision. On the one hand, Heidi feared what the pharmacopoeia might do to her developing daughter. “It was a lot of medication to be taking, and it’s a risky thing to be doing,” she says. “’Cause everyone’s heard of thalidomide...
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Talking about the time: Introduction - In this first week, you are going to learn and practise how to ask and say the time. This will involve using numbers as well as practising your speaking and listening skills. Before you start, you might want to revise...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...resources). The war fulfils the condition of proportionality, that is, it is a proportionate means, which is to say that it does not create more mischief than it averts. The war also fulfils the condition of having prospects of success (in the sense of prospects of victory). The war is the last resort ( ultima ratio ), that is, there are no other promising alternatives...