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Vacuum Forming (Thermoforming)
Science, Maths & Technology

Vacuum Forming (Thermoforming)

...everyday products, including disposable drinking cups, cream containers, margarine tubs, meat trays, egg cartons, picnic plates, and canoe and boat hulls. Large, thin-walled parts with generous radii, draft and flowing contours are best suited to the process. Lengths vary from a few millimetres to several metres (up to 7 m). The majority of parts are in the range 0.3–2...
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Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...everyday family life – these include language, food, music, dance, books, poetry and films. I use thematic discursive analysis to explore the rich data my participants provided in the interviews. The aim is to better understand the changing social representations related to parenting and gender roles, but also how migrant parents can be supported to deal with the...
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Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix
Miscellaneous

Why school is bad for us - an inaugural lecture by Professor Jonathan Rix

...everyday examples from around the world to show how a negative schooling experience still dominates the lives of many. "Education as we know it, is about dividing us up; the subjects we study, the classes we study with, the practices that teach us" Jonathan Rix, Professor of Participation and Learning Support Following his lecture, he will be joined by a panel of experts...
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The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...everyday lives. These are multiple in form, i.e. environmental, societal, conceptual. Disabled people have impairments i.e. physical, sensory, learning difficulties, mental health issues, chronic illness etc., but if given the right support and if society were more inclusive, the experience of disability would dissipate. Furthermore, disability is argued as a form of...
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History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...English Bible Charles Dickens and his readers Jane Austen’s readers A famous novel and its readers: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) Childhood reading in the 1870s and 1880s: the recollections of Molly Hughes Reading and World War I Reading places Reading while travelling Samuel Pepys: diarist, book collector and reader Robert Louis Stevenson’s reading Reading...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...English word immediately suggests something big and grand. For example, if someone describes a Hollywood film as being an ‘epic’, I’d assume that the film deals with important and world-changing events, perhaps over a prolonged time period, and probably that it goes on for a long time. The idea of theme and scope is also relevant to ancient epic. Epic poems are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG001 Beginners German 1: fang an! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Week 1: Hallo!: Introduction - At the beginning of this week we’d like to say hello and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...English people don't know their own history. They didn't know that the English, I mean the British were in India for so many years. They don't know. INTERVIEWER: So that that was in the 1980s. Now, how do you find the atmosphere now, in 2000? PUSHPA: Actually, my son has married a white girl. He was seeing this girl behind my back. So, when I said, ‘you have to get...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs