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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...religion) as crimes or even deviant , although the UK now recognises such actions as criminal. Killing people is usually thought to be both deviant and criminal, but societies vary in the exemptions they permit (it may depend on who commits the act: agents of the government often have some immunity – think about soldiers in wartime or deaths in police custody; deaths...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...religion, political affiliation, trade union membership) is considered ‘sensitive’ and need to be processed more carefully. For more details on what is considered ‘personal’, see the UK Information Commissioner’s guidance on ‘What is personal data?’ Starting from these principles, GDPR also establishes a number of rights for individuals in relation to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...religion to fantasy – with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland seen as a kind of anarchic, liberating turning-point. One problem here is that childhood was very different 200 years ago, especially in terms of what we would now call media input; children had fewer things to entertain them, and different mindsets. […] Which leaves us with deciding what we mean by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...religion in nineteenth-century Wales. This extract is from Programme 8, Crisis, of the BBC Radio Wales Millennium History series, The People of Wales (1999). Audio 11 (duration 0:49)...Welsh history and its sources: 3.8.1 Public houses - Neil Evans describes the function of pubs in Wales in the nineteenth century. This extract is from Programme 9, From blue books to white...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...religions, like Islam or Christianity (in which a god creates the world). Or you might have included scientific stories like the Big Bang. If you have a special interest in cosmology stories and the way they vary among different groups of people you may have thought of the stories about how Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva create the world, from the coils of the great snake...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...religions hold beliefs that mean they do not recognise mental health issues as an illness. Instead, the causes of behaviours in children that are outside the norm are sometimes attributed to other explanatory models, a contentious example being that a child is possessed by evil spirits. Now listen to the following audio in which Liz Middleton, one of the course authors,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...religion, economic status, ethnicity and disability. And we also know that girls' limited access to education is underpinned by pervasive gender inequality. This research gives us a unique opportunity to match the program to the girls' needs. We need to know about these particular girls, and one way that we can do this is to involve girls in the research process. For this...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...Religion, I was on, I think these tables, we were talking about religion a little bit. I was born Catholic, but then my mom’s Muslim, my brother’s Muslim. And I believe in a lot of things. With these kinds of conversations, it takes a level of vulnerability for the staff engaged in these kinds of conversations. Because you put yourselves at the scrutiny of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs