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Current conversations about ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Current conversations about ageing

...social changes, such as work becoming more centralised in cities, more people going to college or university and increased access to family planning, have reduced family sizes in many countries. Fewer births means the number of people aged 60 and over is increasing and in some countries is already larger than the number of children in their population. Much of the current...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...work. Emma Sutton uses Woolf's story A Simple Melody to explain...[Virginia Woolf in 1902] Virginia Woolf As Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries amply record, music was a central part of her social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall...
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Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...work: social pedagagy and the SPRinG project Professor Maurice Galton talks about the Social Pedagogic Research into Group Work or SPRinG project, designed to improve the effectiveness of pupil groups in classrooms. A SPRinG teacher's perspective Secondary science teacher Jane Brine talks about her involvement with the SPRinG project and the benefits is has brought for...
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Audio 1 hr 42 mins
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving around and so on - depend on relations between people and material objects...This free course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2
Education & Development

Black and Minority Ethnic Network Podcasts - series 2

...work happening within the institution in relation to race and ethnicity...Anita Pilgrim Katherine talks to Anita about the intersection of BME and LGBTQI identities. Transcript Many years ago, somebody saying to me, oh, where are you from? And I was like, well, I was born in Scotland. I'm from Scotland. And as he went off into the building, he said, oh, you speak English...
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Audio 1 hr 30 mins
Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...social systems around them, such as family and work, which might be where the client's emotional problems come from... The Therapy Relationship What’s more important, finding the right therapy or finding the right therapist? There are a wide range of therapeutic approaches out there in the health marketplace, so how do you know which one is right for you? It turns out...
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Audio 7 mins
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...work part time. Social scientists suggested a number of explanations for this: economic changes, bringing with them more, and different, employment opportunities increases in educational opportunities for girls the re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s. Figure 2 Mary Wollstonecraft – an eighteenth century feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...work’ but what about social ventures, which have a distinctive mission beyond profit-making (e.g. in areas like health and social care) – how can they be protected against corporate capture? How might the era of corporate takeovers of independents be reversed (i.e. is it possible for corporates to be broken up in order to spawn a new generation of independent...
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