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Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...psychological timbre as well as a physical expression in all kinds of literature from poems to thrillers. Icarus also regularly represents the alienation of the artist and the consequences of breaking out of boundaries, both cultural and social. If you typed ‘Icarus’ into an internet search engine, this no doubt yielded a fascinating but random range of Icarus-related...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...Psychology, 2, 108. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00108 (Accessed 26 July 2024). Hougaard, R. (2020) Four reasons why compassion is better for humanity than empathy. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rasmushougaard/2020/07/08/four-reasons-why-compassion-is-better-for-humanity-than-empathy/?sh=723ab146d6f9 (Accessed 26 July 2024). Krznaric, R....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...psychologically responsible in the sense that they’re in control of what they’re doing, they understand what they’re doing. They can certainly be legally responsible, they can have legal duties. The question of moral responsibility is trickier and more controversial. You hear about the ideas of moral agencies, moral personhood and moral responsibility and they all...
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Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...psychologically in terms of mixing with the right kind of social groups suited for their species. Laying hens might be suffering for their entire lives, more than a year or so. Breeding sows might be in stalls also for pretty much their entire lives. And then you have to say, what do we get out of this? Well, we produce food a little more cheaply. I don’t think...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...hair on ratings of Black women's dominance and professionalism', Front. Psychology, 6. Randle, B.A. (20150 'I am not my hair: African American women and their struggles with embracing natural hair!', Race, Gender & Class, 22(1-2), pp. 114–21). Thompson, C. (2008-9) 'Black women and identity: what's hair got to do with it?', Politics and Performativity, 22(1). ....
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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...psychology and mysticism than anything else. You will look at some of the common myths of creativity next...Making creativity and innovation happen: 1.4 The common myths of creativity - Think of the way in a which a ‘genius’, like the late Steve Jobs of Apple Inc., can come up with creative and innovative products in an apparently effortlessly manner, almost as though...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...psychological difficulties of operating in a lingua franca are emphasised, along with the physical strain of maintaining the concentration levels required for successful interaction. The next part of the discussion strikes a more upbeat tone. Activity 14 As you listen to the next conversation, make notes on the liberating and constraining aspects of speaking English as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...psychologically fragile. While these problems affect both adults and children, children’s physical and social vulnerability and dependence on adults means that poor children’s rights are at greatest risk in the face of climate change. Acknowledging these inequalities means looking at climate change as a problem of social injustice, as well as ecological degradation....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs