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Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...research. This is not to say that everything that was argued or written was productive or ‘correct’. There was a lot of verbiage, fashionable silliness and toeing the line. Other arguments were often marginalised as off-message and some immensely significant thinkers were treated as ‘dead dogs’, only to return later full of vigour. Aesthetics was treated as...
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...children in a class. Chart to show favourite drink chosen by customers in a shopping centre. Chart to show the temperature on each day of the week. Chart to show percentage of each sale of ticket type at a concert. [Described image] Figure 1 Different types of charts and graphs Answer Chart to show the heights of children in a class. The best choice here is (d) the bar...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...research 20 minutes Arranged and led a planning meeting about forthcoming garden open day 45 minutes Helped move some boxes 10 minutes Talked to passers-by about the front garden 10 minutes Listened to a fellow volunteer’s concerns about the new expenses system 30 minutes Measured up space for a new shed 10 minutes Comment You may have found from doing this activity...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...research evidence ‛For example, see Using Experience for Learning (Boud, D. Cohen, R. and Walker, D. (eds) 1993, Open University Press, Buckingham)” to show that understandings and knowledge that one acquires through discovery is retained and developed much more readily than the understandings one acquires through being told, or even shown. Taking responsibility for...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...centres and theme parks, where job roles are fairly tightly defined and employees actions are carefully controlled. Efficiency is also still a very important aspect of management and working life. Nevertheless, modern management thinking is that efficiency, which is related to the speed and volume of output a process produces, needs to be balanced against effectiveness,...
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...Centre méditerranéen du cinéma il y a une cinquantaine d’années. Et puis Paul Carpita qui au lendemain de la guerre a tourné un film dont le titre est “Sur les quais” qui racontait l’histoire des grévistes dockers de Marseille. Et puis celui qui aujourd’hui est très connu, qui est Robert Guédiguian, qui a lui aussi montré la vie des gens, la vie, la...
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...researching any topic on the First World War. To learn more about the historiographical debate discussed in this section, you could explore 1914–1918 Online and read the article by William Mulligan: ‘The Historiography of the Origins of the First World War’. Discussion Hopefully you found this article useful and also took time to explore some other articles in the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...research and policies tend to be based on the assumption that people are rational and that their behaviours therefore reflect what they know about what is real. Communication policies aimed at encouraging change towards more sustainable behaviour have therefore tended to follow an information-deficit model whereby it has been assumed that given the facts, people will act...