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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...out of context, or worse, use them in ways that cause harm. Even more uncomfortably, traditional research often puts all the vulnerability on one side. Participants are asked to open up, to share painful or difficult experiences, while researchers get to keep their professional detachment, taking notes but never really exposing themselves to the same scrutiny, maintaining...
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Article 5 mins
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...out about The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. On 10th December 2022, Morocco beat Portugal to reach the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup. Before this, Senegal qualified for the 2nd round, with Ghana, Cameroon and Tunisia also disproving the myth that African coaches are tactically naïve. So, what is the history of head coaches (in men’s...
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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...out about Ukraine and its people and wants to get a first insight into its rich cultural heritage. It is also for learners who interact directly with Ukrainian refugees, for example by hosting refugees in their homes, and who want to bring what they have found out – their knowledge and experience – to a space where they can engage with like-minded others and can find...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...out by scientific fact, just an idea that helps us to make sense of information’ (Rieser and Mason, 1992, p. 13). Writing with the experience of a disabled person, Mason describes how medical approaches to impairment have given rise to the view that people are ‘individual objects to be “treated”, “changed” or “improved” and made more “normal” (Rieser...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...out the multiplication of 934 and 314, as given in the Treviso arithmetic of 1478 (the first printed arithmetic book). Note that the result, 293 276, is reached in the middle configuration by adding the figures in the matrix along the diagonal bands, starting from the bottom right (and carrying a digit over to the next band where appropriate). The same multiplication...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...out loud’) or tl;dr (‘too long; didn’t read’) retain their popularity. But other than a handful of examples, language continues much as it ever has. Texting didn’t have a fundamental influence on English, or any other language. By the 2010s the moral panic over txtspk had mostly subsided, and the focus had shifted instead to emojis. Almost identical sentiments...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...out successfully, is part of the organisation’s activities to achieve those goals. Therefore the organisation, at the strategic level, typically needs to establish the governance structures for the management of projects. Organisations have corporate governance, of which project governance is a subset. Project management incorporates those aspects of project governance...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...out things like rights, goods, and well-being amongst people. Corrective justice, on the other hand, is about ensuring people receive their just desserts, whether that's punishment for crimes committed or reparation for harm suffered. Later, in ancient Rome, the philosopher Cicero and others took a different approach to justice. They argued that basic legal principles and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs