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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...migration and language use. There are examples in all these instances where currently and historically the argument would be made that ‘they’ could not be educated and were in some way too much of a threat or too vulnerable to be included...Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through: 4.2 Just for a change - This final activity is an opportunity to bring together a...
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...migrate and thus avoid the extreme cold for large parts of the year. At high latitudes, the Sun’s rays always strike the Earth at a large angle from the vertical so they travel through a thicker layer of atmosphere and are attenuated by the time they reach the ground. Because the Earth’s axis of rotation is inclined to its path around the Sun, there are large seasonal...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...migration. As people from the empire came to the metropole, they staked a claim to belonging. Ambalavaner Sivanandan (1923–2018), a British Sri Lankan writer and activist, argued that ‘Colonialism and immigration are part of the same continuum – we are here because you were there’ (2008). Debates emerged about how contemporary ideas of race, knowledge and culture...
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...migration, the emergence of large urban settlements. These were certainly not intended to bring about the labour movement. Yet the deliberate actions that created the labour movement were made possible and shaped by those processes, which were, in turn, shaped by the deliberate actions that established the labour movement. Much the same argument could be made about the...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...migration have reduced the workforce available to manage high levels of potential fuel build up in agricultural landscapes (Xanthopoulos, 2008). In addition, European Union funding for larger scale commercial olive groves to boost a declining agricultural sector was a contributing factor because under dry conditions such areas of monoculture are prone to spreading fire....
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...migration), and such distinctions are increasingly important given the fact that globalisation is having very uneven impacts on different state functions. So the idea of the EU or the regions as alternatives to the nation state would seem to be fundamentally flawed. The traditionalist limitations of this idea are well depicted by the metaphor of ‘Gulliver's fallacy’,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...migrated/ flooding/ statement-of-principles-england.pdf (Accessed: 29 September 2019). Chelmi, C. (2016) Building on the flood plain. Available at: https://www.groundsure.com/ news/ building-flood-plain/ (Accessed: 27 September 2019). Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (2013a) Managing the future financial risk of flooding: Impact Assessment....
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 439−59. Gergen, K. J. (1991) The Saturated Self, New York, Basic Books. Gergen, K. J. (1994) Realities and Relationships, Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Gibson, S., and Hamilton, L. (2011) ‘The rhetorical construction of polity membership: Identity, culture and citizenship in young people’s discussions of immigration in...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs