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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...projecting her own lucky situation as a financially independent, respected and successful intellectual, onto other women. In an interview with an American magazine in the early 1970s, Beauvoir said that only when writing The Second Sex had she ‘understood that the vast majority of women simply did not have the choices that [she] had had, that women are, in fact, defined...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...project which focuses on Australian contexts. They concentrate on historical examples of reading lessons in primary and secondary schools, and the resulting emergent themes related to current and global contexts. They make the point that when looking at pedagogy and practice historically, literacy has always been about more than just teaching reading skills. They also...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...managed to avoid her gaze. But she is an excellent teacher, and by the end of the class I have learned a lot about diagnosing elderly patients. Her university work complements her campaigning, because she has also set up a palliative medicine course there. Hundreds of doctors and nurses have now been through the training programme, according to Odontuya – helping to...
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Article 15 mins
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...manageable. One way to achieve this is to design assessment tasks or activities that students can do independently. This will leave you free to focus on the students that you are unsure about. No matter what the purpose or situation, if formative assessment is to promote learning, you need to: be aware of the intended learning objectives look for evidence or devise...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...manages hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms across Detroit, Ed Coffey, then the CEO of its Behavioural Health Services, remembers discussing Crossing the Quality Chasm, a report published that year by the US Institute of Medicine that called for sweeping healthcare reforms. The report had triggered a debate about the idea of ‘perfect care’, and Coffey wondered what...
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Article 15 mins
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...managed properly, thermal stresses can lead to distortions and cracks. However, useful engineering components and devices can be constructed that take advantage of 'gradual' thermal sensitivity. Box 4 Homogeneous body, uniform ΔT, external constraints The classic example of the buckled railway line (Figure 6a) is an easy geometry to calculate. [Figure 6] Figure 6 (a)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...manageable by introducing a larger unit to measure the volumes. The unit most commonly used for this purpose is the cubic kilometre, abbreviated to km3, which is the volume of a cube with sides 1 km long. One cubic kilometre is equivalent to 1000 000 000 000 litres, or one million million litres, which can be demonstrated as follows. To discover how many litres (each of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...managed to guess! You are attentive!...Week 1: Greetings: 5 How are you? - Asking someone how they are depends on how well you know them. In this section, you learn how to ask and answer this question. [Described image] Figure 7: A doctor asking a patient how they are feeling. [Described image] Figure 8: Two friends greeting each other with a hug...Week 1: Greetings: 5.1...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs