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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...work we will discuss in a later section. Vygotsky was among a group of psychologists and philosophers of language who emphasised the social aspects of learning. [Described image] Figure 3 Colour PET scan of language areas of the brain: a cognitive approach to language and learning A scholar who reacted directly against Chomsky was Dell Hymes, a US ethnographer and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...work on the body has – perhaps unsurprisingly – focused on this topic; and second, because health and illness have formed the site of a considerable corpus of literature that is critical of the ways in which the body has been constructed/positioned as the passive recipient of legal and medical interventions (but more on this below). Throughout the course we encourage...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...work that enabled you to be ‘socially mobile’? Social mobility looks at the ability or difficulty with which individuals are able, or not, to move up the socio-economic ladder. You will return to the issue of social mobility later this week. Next you will look specifically at how poverty and the lottery of birth can profoundly affect your chances in life...Week 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...work into the causes of rabies Rabies is a vicious killer, a virus transmitted through saliva. Any warm-blooded mammal is susceptible. Dogs can become infected through a bite by a rabid wild animal or fellow canine; in turn, a bite from an infected dog is the most common method of human infection. The rabies virus attacks the nervous system and causes humans who are...
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Article 10 mins
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...work just as researchers in academic institutions do; (b) to provide a more detailed explanation of the chemical background to the development of doxazosin; (c) to show in particular how the syntheses of new, hitherto unknown, compounds are reported, with details of the route(s) and experimental conditions employed, and sufficient data reported to establish unambiguously...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...work force? Is it the work force plus those they impact on? Nigel: And I suppose the shareholders as well could conceivably be thought of as part of an organisation like that. Alex: Absolutely, they’re the owners. Nigel: If there is this difficulty of actually identifying a location of a corporation, are they more like numbers in that respect; the number 3, where is...
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Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...work identification number or your house number? Listen to the audios that follow to hear how you would say these two examples. Enathu velai adaiyala elakkam ondru ondru naanku ettu. My work identification number is 1148 | எனது வேலை அடையாள இலக்கம் ஒன்று ஒன்று நான்கு எட்டு. Enathu veeddu...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...working, others unemployed, some retired and others still at school. It is not possible, using statistical techniques, to provide a complete answer to this one question covering such a big theme, particularly an answer which is valid for all these people and their varied economic and social circumstances; data and techniques both have to be used with common sense....
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs