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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...Open University course T319 Environmental management 2...Organisations, environmental management and innovation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the connections between innovation and environmental management orientated organisations explain ideas about innovation and how it shapes organisational approaches to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...Open University course E304 Exploring English Grammar. Brief definitions of words in bold can be found in the Glossary at the end of this course...Grammar matters: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that grammar can be seen as a flexible and useful tool for meaning making understand how grammar and vocabulary choices together...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Open University course A344 Art and its global histories...Art and the Mexican Revolution: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: situate a key example of Mexican muralism within the post-revolutionary context in which it was made explore recent debates around the interpretation of Mexican muralism examine the concepts of ‘realism’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...source of conflict for many years. The Second Republic of 1931 to 39, blown to pieces by the Civil War which started with the military coup in 36, was partly torn apart by the opposing stances on religion in society and even more specifically in the public education system. Although the church going population has dropped since then to near zero proportions, with fewer...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would one day be called Buddhism. Well into the nineteenth century, Europeans divided the population of the world...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...sources of local financial backing and a significant volunteer workforce that keep clubs going. Without this type of historical support, the women’s game is often starved of both finance and voluntary labour to sustain female participation. This is exacerbated by the local County support for clubs mostly funded directly by the ECB, as one local ECB employee stated: …...
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Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...10.1037/1528-3542.5.4.476. Olson, M. A. and Fazio, R. H. (2002) ‘Implicit acquisition and manifestation of classically conditioned attitudes’, Social Cognition, 20, pp. 89–104, doi: 10.1521/soco.20.2.89.20992. Rudman, L. A. (2004) ‘Sources of implicit attitudes’, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, pp. 79–82, doi: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00279.x....
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Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism
History & The Arts

Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism

...opening, in 1866, of a railway connecting Lourdes to Paris that made the once-remote town accessible to the general populace. The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 900-mile journey around Japan’s fourth island to 88 Buddhist temples, was initially an ascetic journey embarked on mainly by young men. By the late 1940s, it had almost died out, but it was revived and transformed in the...
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