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A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish
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A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish

...Social and political aspects of flamenco An exploration of social, political and economic aspects of flamenco. Whereas artists used to have a lowly status, that's now changed. They no longer have to jump for the person who "pays the piper". New flamenco New directions in flamenco: practioners talk about how it has assimilated elements from other cultures, from pop music...
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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...social progress that has since been achieved in this state. In the fog of misty-eyed reflection, however, there is a danger that this progress can be overstated. The absence of state and paramilitary violence is of course a precondition for lasting peace and reconciliation and remains the most significant reason why the Good Friday Agreement matters. However, the economic...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first decade of the...
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Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

...work impacts on people’s wellbeing. People often presume and create a separation between their work life and their private life. However, life events like having a terminal diagnosis, which may be considered private, can impact a person’s work. In this article, we provide several tips for supporting people with a terminal illness in the workplace...Once someone has a...
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Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
History & The Arts

Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk

...Social Sciences and has contributed to over 13 modules, been Director of Level 1 Teaching, Associate Dean (Curriculum), Dean of Arts, and interim Executive Dean of FASS, before returning to regular academic life. Richard addresses the three key themes of poetry, comparison and education. After exploring the ways which Elizabethans were taught, and their expectations of...
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What this hub is about
Education & Development

What this hub is about

...work as showcase for academic research and some of the university's high-quality teaching in this area, but also provide a necessary and important source of knowledge for this organisation as well as for the general public. These resources will help people to understand both historic and contemporary ideas of race and racism and how these ideas could inform our decisions...
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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...social desirability’. It is very easy to work out that high scores on this scale indicate high levels of ‘prejudice’. In turn, it is easy for individuals to fill in this questionnaire in ways that present a ‘positive’ image of themselves as unprejudiced. More subtly, this pressure to act in a socially desirable way may vary across different social contexts. We...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study of psychology. In particular, it will help you to think about how to use it when doing independent research. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D810 Critically exploring psychology 1 and D811 Critically Exploring...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs