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Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...perceptions (taste, sight) of the individual scrutinised, or, more accurately, its absence. We have moved away from physical appearance into nothingness. Overall, Jaques offers a sombre, perhaps even a tragic, vision, and hints at the potential seriousness of the play we are studying. The play as a whole invites us to consider Jaques on a number of levels. On the one...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...perception of not having that. We don't really micromanage. We don't – there isn't a check in, you know, like the traditional office where you where you check in your time, there's a timesheet. There's nothing like that. I remember being in my little office at home because we were digitally native, so we didn't have an office space back then. So it was it was strange. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...perceptible ecological aspect to the globalisations described. As I flew into Trabzon, I sat next to a marine biologist who was travelling the Black Sea region, exploring what appeared to be the devastating impact on the fisheries, and hence local economies, of an ‘alien’ North American species of jellyfish that had been released into the Black Sea via the bilge tanks...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...perception, language and thought (NAS) Autism An overarching term used to refer to all conditions on the autism spectrum (NAS) EAL learner Anyone who has been exposed to a language other than English during early childhood (British Council) Asperger syndrome A person with this condition has difficulties with social communication, social interaction and social imagination...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...perceptions of shell shocked men. Some sort of change takes place after the war as there was less sympathy for wounded men, generally. Whereas the poor, nerve-wracked boy is a sympathetic figure, a mentally disturbed man is a frightening one. Later, you will explore how attitudes towards the condition changed after the fighting had finished...Week 1: Physical and mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...perception of cultural extremity can be just as important as the reality. Activity 6 Read the Source 3. Can you identify the author of this article? What are the problems of modernity that concern the author? Specimen answer The author is Joseph Goebbels. You might already be familiar with the name, and know him as the propaganda minister under the Nazi government from...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...perceptions about notions of risk from young people themselves or from the practitioners within the youth justice system, which may be completely at odds with what seems to be indicated by quantitative research. So, in other words, it generalises probabilities to specific individuals and, as I’ve said, it may create a high number of false positives: in other words...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...perceptions, or to understand feelings different from our own. A simple input/output model will not take us very far with this kind of learning. Nonetheless, in spite of its flaws, the acquisitive model is often implicit in the way we teach and learn. It has been used to produce effective learning opportunities for some purposes, and it can be modified in a number of ways...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs