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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...perceptions of surveillance and discrimination in Britain’s Muslim communities. Recurring concerns with Prevent relate to the strategy’s disproportionate focus on Muslim communities, the heavy role police play in overseeing the strategy’s delivery, and its close association with coercive approaches to counter-terrorism. A police-led intervention program, Channel, is...
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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...perception that intersex competitors are getting an unfair advantage isn't a new one - in an interview with The Science of Sport, Joanna Harper described what was happening in the 1930s, and how little has changed in nearly a century: While DNA hadn’t been sequenced in the thirties, scientists knew about “hermaphrodites” back then. Prior to 1936, there were two...
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Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...perceptions that people resort to in relation to national flags. Taking into account imperial histories and devolving struggles, these range between egalitarianism and dominance, openness and tolerance, nationalism and patriotism, dissensus and collectivism. For Gil, the aim was to recreate a sense of home and community; while the re-appropriation of the Union Jack in its...
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Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...perceptions and beliefs about fun and learning will be useful to promote engagement and enjoyment with distance education. What are students’ views about fun in learning? To explore students’ views about this topic, an anonymous mixed‐method research study was carried out with students from an introductory online module offered by The Open University (OU). In this...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...perceptions totally novel’: he was no longer in the laboratory, but ‘in a world of newly connected and modified ideas’, where he could theorise without limits and make new discoveries at will. After an eternity he was brought back to earth by the sensation of Dr. Kinglake removing the breathing-tube from his mouth; the outside world seeped back into his...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...perceptions of the Irish community in the United States. Both the Union and Confederate armies, anxious to attract recruits, formed all-Irish units. Most Irish recruits, an estimated 150,000 men, served with Union forces while about 20,000, generally those who lived in the southern cities such as New Orleans, served with the Confederates. New York’s famous 69th Infantry...
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Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability

...perception within the public that young people with complex disabilities, one, aren’t interested in sex or that sex isn’t relevant to them. JUNIOR Never let a disability stop you from being you. TOM Sex can be challenging in any relationship. CHARLOTTE This is our challenge, this is people that own it. LEAH It’s OK to ask questions and sometimes you might get a...
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Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...perceptions of basic school teachers as to the transformational leadership conduct of head teachers who had received training under the LFL model were collected and reviewed. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to determine from teachers’ perceptions how the conduct of head teachers related to transformational leadership. From the study results, the findings...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs