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Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...become somewhat diffuse and varied. This sort of caring environment can still lead to an infant feeling security in relations with others, but in a contrasting way to the single parent-infant bond situation. A second central premise of attachment theory is that IWMs arise out of the oft-repeated experiences of the specific nature of the early relationships between infants...
Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...become used to hearing of industrial action in the sector, not least involving staff working for the UK’s ‘flag-carrier’, British Airways (BA). However, the disputes taking place in summer 2022 are a continuing legacy of management attempts to undermine trade unions and erode pay and conditions over successive decades. They also reflect historic resistance by BA...
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...become an indentured servant; that is, he or she would agree to be bound to their employer, often a farmer, for up to seven years in return for their passage, clothing and lodgings. After their period of indenture had ended, the servant was entitled to so-called ‘freedom dues’ from their former masters such as capital or land. However, if the servant ran away and was...
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...become to the world we live in that it was both instrumental in the planning of, and the aftermath of, the Paris Attacks. First, Robyn Torok explains how ISIS used social media to plan the attacks; then Arnaud Mercier tells how the channels came to the fore after the horror unfolded. [The photographer says this is a "call to solidarity in prayer and to stand tall...
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...become smart or not. For example, the kind of policies that its local authority has, really crucial are the kinds of support and enablement that's offered or not. And also local innovation cultures. For example, some places have very lively tech innovation cultures, and that kind of enables engagement with digital data in the city in ways that perhaps other places without...
Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...become one of the Weimar Republic’s most influential politicians. Born in 1875, he was a self-made man, hard-working, ambitious, and with encyclopaedic knowledge, who became the youngest member of Reichstag at 28 for the Catholic Centre Party (Zentrumspartei). In November 1918, he ended up in a train carriage in Compiègne, signing the Armistice Agreement on behalf of...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...become “consumed by the wound”. And, in this way, a response to crime motivated by revenge can fail victims as much, if not more, than it fails perpetrators and society at large. There is no doubt that when serious harm occurs something must be done in response. There must be some attempt to realign the imbalance and the injustice that has occurred. But this should be...
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...become aligned that the potential for violence is greatest, all the more so when that alignment is fostered by a state for its own political purposes, as it did in Franco’s dictatorship in Spain (1936–75), which claimed the support of the Roman Catholic Church. [Rev Harold Good (left) and Father Alec Reid acted as witnesses for the decommissioning of IRA weapons.]Rev...