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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...climate change prompted her to begin a school strike, leaving her classroom to sit outside the Swedish parliament. In the column, Thunberg made the point that: If I live to be 100, I will be alive in 2103. Adults often don’t think beyond the year 2050. But by then, I will, in the best case, not have lived half of my life. What we do or don’t do right now will affect...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...climate change or genetic engineering. Arguably, including critical contemporary science topics in the school curriculum would help the ‘conscientisation’ of science students, enabling learning to occur through dialogue between the teacher and the student. Contemporary scientific knowledge is therefore constructed as the result of solving problems that relate to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...climate change fund. Americans are incredibly generous people. Over 300 billion a year donated to charity every year compared with the amount of foreign aid given by the top 17 industrialised nations at 120 billion. And then, of course, the Iraq war predicted to cost just 60 billion back in 2003, and the mushroomed slightly Afghanistan and Iraq mushroomed now to 3,000...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...climate change or nuclear non-proliferation the day-to-day activities of the European Commission in Brussels, which drafts proposals for new European laws debates and votes in the UK Parliament on government policy or proposed legislation or citizens voting in the general elections to choose their next government. Figure 5 Voters in the US marking election ballots, c.1970...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...climate change, and that passion led her on a leadership journey which was to take her right across the world and into the consciences of millions of people. She illustrates why caring is such a fundamental element of leadership and a driver for getting things done. Her concern for the planet and her care for her peers and future generations underpins her actions. In her...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...climate change (that is, caused by human activity) (Garnett, 2013). By contrast, a recent research review concluded that plant-based diets could sustain the global human population from half the agricultural land currently in use (Chai et al., 2019). In terms of water, ‘livestock’ farming often depends on irrigation using finite fresh water supplies. Animal-protein...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...climate change, pollution, and overexploitation. Invasive species thrive because they often escape their natural predators, parasites, and competitors, allowing them to outcompete native species, alter food webs, change ecosystem processes, and in some cases drive native species to extinction. Their impacts are particularly severe on islands, freshwater systems, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...change and development that brought the language to this position are not still happening...English in the world today: The beginnings of English (Part 3) - In an essay written towards the end of the twentieth century, the linguist Michael Toolan suggested that the English that is now used as an international language around the world – that’s spoken, for instance, by...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs