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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...trouble’ (Haraway, 2016) current narratives, images, metaphors and practices, and generate different stories and alternative possibilities that enable people (individuals or organisations) to practice differently. As Haraway (2016) states, ‘… it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with … It matters what stories make worlds’ because ‘they propose...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...trouble. Were fuel cells to become the standard, the firm's future could be bleak. (Adapted from The Economist, 21 July 2001, p. 86) Question This case study describes the situation facing car manufacturers as they develop new technology for the ‘hydrogen economy’ of the future. How does BMW's decision to use hydrogen in an internal-combustion engine illustrate the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...troubling to her. Within a few weeks she was writing that she felt she had been making better progress at home. (Holton, 1999, p. 87) Despite being allowed a sympathetic nurse (a fellow campaigner for votes for women), Clark left the sanatorium, and subsequently recovered. Even when ill, then, patients maintained a degree of independence over whether to seek help, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...troubling circumstances. In this sense they represent the condition of many whose financial position as single women is precarious. The challenge to feminism is to analyse how gender is cross-cut by other sources of inequality in the ways policies shape personal lives. To Marxist feminists, it is the combination of their class and gender that unite Mandy's and Tamarla...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...trouble acknowledging the value of difference and diversity: By ‘city life’ I mean a form of social relations which I define as the being together of strangers. In the city persons and groups interact within spaces and institutions they all experience themselves as belonging to, but without those interactions dissolving into unity or commonness. City life is composed...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...troubled when the scope of what counts as knowledge is narrowed, and so I think having these kinds of opportunities in classes and developing other opportunities that we still might not have articulated yet or imagined is important for us to remain fresh, and creative, and critical as educators, but then also training scholars and practitioners who come out of our program...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...trouble surviving at that altitude. Interviewer Well, talking of dizziness, that brings us to your work really. You're studying bar-headed geese to find out how they make these journeys and how they use oxygen, how they conserve resources on those journeys, so can you sum up what your work has been about? Lucy Hawkes So our work is trying to find out what strategies maybe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...trouble to make sure it was fair for everyone involved… FADE OUT It did take a few reminders Video 2: Well, I can’t agree to this See how Lisa copes with Michelle’s frustrations. MARK Well, I can’t agree to this without talking it over with my colleagues. There are just far too many compromises to be made. MICHELLE We’re all making compromises, Mark, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs