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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...climate change and Covid. These are issues that you may be discussing amongst your friends and making decisions about personally or within your community, or that your politicians are making decisions about through national and international policies. Let’s take the example of this tweet from Donald Trump. There are a few simple ways to check information online and on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...Climate change Law and justice Roads and transport Words: 0 Comment Table 6 lists the main government departments with responsibility for the areas in question. It is worth noting that sometimes more than one department or agency will cover the same territory. Table 6 Suggested government departments and their areas of responsibility AREA OF RESEARCH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...climate change. In the words of New York Times journalist David Brooks, hurricanes such as Katrina ‘wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities’ (September 2005, quoted in Strolovitch et al., 2005, p. 1). In these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...climate change, race, gender, class. All of the key issues, problems, questions that you have about the world around you, Religious Studies addresses those - because religion is implicated in all those issues. Suzanne Newcombe, Lecturer in Religious Studies: Our society is really complicated. What you learn in Religious Studies is how to use the best tools to answer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...climate change, religious and political conflict, resource depletion and over-population. Our collective unwillingness as human beings to address these challenges may prove our final downfall. But Anthropathology also challenges many assumptions about individual problems, for example, the view of mental health problems as caused primarily within families or by our own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...climate change induced by human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its physical environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so interdependent it is impossible to discover what the effects are likely to be by breaking the situation down. [Described image] Figure 5 Breaking situations down doesn’t always...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...climate change, human behaviour and the future. ...Desmond Morris Desmond Morris is an English zoologist, ethologist, broadcaster and author. He has a zoology degree from the University of Birmingham and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford on the reproductive behaviour of the ten-spined stickleback. In the 1950s he present Zoo Time on Granada ITV, and in the 1960s...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...climate change, and multiple perspectives associated with family therapy to international relations. The different traditions of systems thinking can be grouped together in different ways. Systems approaches can be grouped according to the emphasis given to the context or situation in which the approach was used, the practitioners or users of the approach, and the ideas...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs