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The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...articulate a corporeal feminism, where the female body is placed centre stage and recognised in all its difference as something both material and social. Grosz draws on a number of different philosophical influences to theorise a notion of sexed embodiment using as a model the Möbius strip – an inverted three-dimensional figure of eight (see Figure 1). With the Möbius...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...articulate voice, pronounced in a correct manner’). This acts as a motto for the allegorical figure, defining the meaning of grammar as it is understood in this tradition. In other words, the text supplies additional meaning to the painting, though in a slightly different way from the names in Figure 2. Adam Jaworski (2014), drawing on the work of Roland Barthes (1977),...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...articulated … It might come out quite emotionally and people can be upset, they’re difficult situations, and I think that’s when the social worker can try and unpick that and find out what’s going on, what the difficulty is, why is the service user upset about that or angry. And that will be, that can be, a kind of focal point for getting feedback. Even though it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...Le Mans 24-hour race to compete. Watch the video of Chris Hoy’s motor racing pit-stop but please be warned that there is some swearing in this clip so carefully choose where you watch it so as not to cause offence to others. In addition to Chris Hoy who is driving, there are two other main people interacting: the race engineer (coordinating radio communications) and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...Le Fevre. She's wearing a Court dress of white satin embroidered in gold with classical cameos at her waist, and in her tiara. The portrait includes a bust of Napoleon towards which Pauline looks and gestures. She was apparently his favourite sister, even though her scandalous behaviour was completely at odds with his expectations of proper feminine conduct. In 1803 he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...les loix … constitution’ (’Unity is strength / Live free or die / There is no true liberty without religion, laws … constitution’). Discussion This painting seeks to immortalise the union of Black and mixed-race slaves that allowed Haiti to defeat the French Republic and paved the way for Haitian Independence in 1804. But it also illustrates Haiti’s complex...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...articulate your position in relation to contentious or subjective issues is a fundamental skill...Marketing communications in the digital age: 5.5 Nostalgia - [Described image] Figure 7 Attractions like Blist Hill Victorian Town offer a taste of the way things were An increasingly common message appeal is the use of nostalgia, or what is sometimes referred to as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...Le Bardo, Tunisia. Photo: Musee National du Bardo/Bridgeman Images...Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid: 1.2 Virgil and his predecessors - Unlike Livy (a contemporary of Virgil, and author of a multi-volume history of Rome) or Ennius, who tell a series of stories that occur over a long period of time, Virgil chooses to focus on one individual, the Trojan hero Aeneas. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs