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On the inside of the rebellion against climate change
Nature & Environment

On the inside of the rebellion against climate change

...creative, playful culture akin to that espoused by metamodern writers such as Hanzi Freinacht, to change the game. On reflection, climate discourse is often driven by scientific arguments, where there is a significant element of climate denial aided by the production of pseudoscientific narratives and conspiracy theories. These are difficult to unpick by most people not...
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...creatively for action. You might think of food and housing as separate things. Taking a systemic view, however, sees them as closely connected. They are both global commodities produced and traded for investor profits, guaranteed by basic human needs. In fact, housing has become the most valuable asset on Earth – worth three times more than the total global gross...
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...writing this course I looked at key ideas and concepts that secondary music teachers at the beginning of their careers should know about. These include what is meant by musical knowledge, what there is to teach and learn in music and the different ways in which young people are taught and learn musically. It concludes by proposing key principles to underpin a musical...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...write their sum on the line below as shown. This process generates the next row of the triangle. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Activity 1: Pascal's triangle Using the hexagonal paper attached in PDF format below, write down the numbers in the next two rows of Pascal's triangle. Hexagon paper Can you spot any patterns in the numbers in the triangle? What do you notice about the sum...
Stamford College
Education & Development

Stamford College

...write the courses on the OpenLearn website but, as Caz explains, you don’t need to have an academic background, or work to a certain level to complete one of our courses. ‘We’ve found the introductory courses are suitable for all, such as Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis, they’re written really clearly. I don't think you need any kind of academic...
Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...Writing in 2015, before the publication of Go Set A Watchman, Professor Richard Gray shared some of the story...Every now and then, the writer Josephine Humphreys has suggested, our lives veer from their day-to-day course and become for a short while “the kind of life that can be told as a story – that is, one in which events appear to have meaning”. As the...
The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...writings evoke compliments, controversy, and contradictory responses from both critics and readers. Tales of childhood In his book Boy, which covers the tales of his childhood, Dahl declares his strong intention to rid his autobiographical narrative of all “boring” descriptions while redecorating it with more exciting and dramatic episodes. When explaining this, the...
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...writing...In this free course you will focus on how to be a critical reader. Reading critically is an essential skill at university. It means being aware of your own purposes and opinions as you read and being able to recognise the writer's purposes and opinions in their writing....How to be a critical reader: Introduction - In this course you will focus on how to be a...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs