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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...class solidarity. The Timex workforce, who felt valued, who had real skills and were predominantly women, were suddenly finding themselves facing the fact that their bosses did not care about them. If they weren’t going to make a profit, then they would be discarded and cast aside. And it was that sense of injustice, and a belief that workers should have dignity that...
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Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)
Science, Maths & Technology

Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)

...variables. Very little heat is generated, so there is no thermal distortion and/or HAZ. The high energy density of the jet stream can cause a slight temperature rise which may lead to melting of some plastics, particularly at slow cutting rates. Design: Thickness of material which can be cut depends on the material itself, the cutting rate and the quality of cut, but...
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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...classes. At the same time, the dissemination of cheap, seditious literature, such as Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791), suggested to the ruling elite that the acquisition and use of the skills of reading and writing needed to be controlled. A growing number of philanthropic individuals and groups sought to combat poverty, radicalism and crime by teaching the poor and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...involve student teachers watching and copying their mentor’s approach to managing a class. Enquiry orientation In this paradigm teachers act on ethical, political and pedagogical issues in a considered, skillful and reflective way to construct their own knowledge from a range of sources. The enquiry-orientation is concerned with problem solving. For example, each learning opportunity is used to try different approaches, to......
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...class voters. Previous Republican nominees such as John McCain, who embraced generous immigration policies, and Mitt Romney, who advocated free trade, never managed to connect with blue-collar voters in the Great Lakes region. But Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist trade policies gave him a unique opening with white working-class voters, and he made the most of...
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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...class political reform movement, carried banners on their mass marches, but sadly, there are no surviving examples. In the early twentieth century, women in the suffrage movement carried hand-crafted banners in demonstrations. Religious processions involving banners used to be common on important dates in the Christian calendar and some still take place nowadays. Recent...
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...of the war - the Belfast republican Brian Keenan; a man the Canadian General John de Chastelain only ever referred to as ‘O’Neill’. Not once did I hear him call him by his name. It was part of the confidentiality of decommissioning - part of not telling its detail, and the IRA, at all times, was pushing back unionist demands for a published inventory and photographic proof. None of this happened. Nor was the DUP’s ......
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The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...class women, but eventually joined the campaign for women’s suffrage. You will also spend some time with the prominent suffragette May Billinghurst, as well as looking at the ways in which the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and the First World War shaped and affected the battle for the vote. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs