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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...religions have this attitude that we are somehow sacred. I once said that I don’t see human beings as fallen angels but as risen apes, and I believe that unless we can look at human behaviour as part of natural behaviour, that we are a serious risk. If we don’t control our population growth, if we don’t accept that there are limited resources on this planet, then...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...religion has declined in most Western societies, recent years have also seen an upsurge of interest in issues of spirituality, with Eastern and ‘new age’ spiritual practices increasingly popular. In this context, the notion that faith and spirituality might be useful resources in developing individual and community wellbeing has become popular among policy makers. A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...religion (The Bible, John Knox, Foxe’s Book or Martyrs), and from history (Macaulay, Hallam) to books on civil law. While living in the parental home in Edinburgh, Stevenson’s reading shows his interest in the wider world beyond Europe, seen in books on America and Japan. Stevenson read widely, but he has also been widely read. Because of the popularity of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. This is referred to as ‘anti-discriminatory practice’. There is a growing body of law that seeks to prohibit and punish a range of discriminatory behaviours in various kinds of social settings, for example in the provision of services and in employment...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...religion or their organizational affiliation. War, even a ‘low level’ conflict such as Northern Ireland, disrupts the daily patterns of people's lives, making children's families and homes part of the conflict. The Good Friday Agreement of 1999 was supposed to bring a formal end to much of the terrorist violence in Northern Ireland. However, several people have been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...religion or turn to religion to decide what’s right and wrong for them, and have other people make the decisions rather than have to make it themselves, or look for different points of reference. Peter: Just to be neutral about this, right now for instance would you sell your house or would you wait until the market’s settled down? Frank: I won’t, I just bought my...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...religion – I think it’s founded on the fear of the body and in particular the female body. I felt completely crushed by it. And also crushed by the practice of sitting in church listening to a priest who was very angry and particularly with young people, rant on Sunday after Sunday about our sins and our evil and our inequities. And I think as a very angry young woman...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...religion has increasingly come to take the place of biology in that process of construction and justification. Islam and Muslims are the ‘new black’, the new aliens who cannot be part of ‘us’, when ‘us’ means ‘the white majority’ or ‘the civilised world’. The next activity provides an opportunity to look into what has come to be called
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs