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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...account of change, local change and global change, and its very openness will carry with it a unique vulnerability. I will do my best as chancellor to see it through new phases of its history. Through demonstrating a continuing engagement with innovative pedagogy which placed the support of learning and learners at its heart, Asa Briggs helped the University of Sussex and...
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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...account based on her extensive experience as a nurse, therapist and manager working in hospice and palliative care for 40 years. I write this from the perspective of a white western European mother, and grandmother. I know there will be people and cultures that will have different views about how we should prepare for death, but in this series of articles, I will be...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...account for these patterns, and here the story model seems to struggle. Finally, there is a query about the role of stories themselves. Note that stories are not just factual models, but they are factual models with a very characteristic narrative form. That is, they feature stereotypical structures including characters with desires and intentions and so would be familiar...
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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...account for 52% of total Irish migration in the nineteenth century (Diner, 1984, p.31). This was unusual in comparison with other European groups where men predominated. Many Irish women found work as domestics catering to America’s growing middle class. Indeed ‘Bridget’, often portrayed in cartoons as inept and ‘manly’, became a typical stereotype of an Irish...
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Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...account - and we do need positive narratives from the past to add to our varied histories. Moving away from mainstream narratives is important, because without proper representation, we cannot ever form an accurate picture of society. For much of this we have to turn to local histories, and in order to facilitate that, the Welsh Government has funded extensive training in...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...account the patient's general state of health and medical history. A wide range of herbs is used in this country, from all over the world. These range from common British "weeds" such as dandelion – a powerful diuretic and liver tonic; to exotics such as the bark of the South American Lapacho tree – an immune-system stimulating plant used for its antibiotic and...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...account environmental factors - flora, fauna, animals, birds, plants et cetera - more centrally as part of the imagining and decision making process. Now this really feeds into what we are trying to do in block five of the module. One of the starting points for this module is a well-known theorist named Bruno Latour. And one of his main ideas that kind of informs what we...
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The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...accountability, and scalability are the watchwords of the day, together with high hopes for the educational technology that promises to make all those things possible. Against this backdrop, and early naysayers notwithstanding, the OU is a longstanding exemplar of how to serve nontraditional students who many don’t see as college material. From its revolutionary...
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