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The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...system humans had subjected them to. Fables work by casting animals as characters with minds that are recognisably human. This superimposition of human minds and animals serves as a medium for transmitting and teaching moral and ethical values, in particular to children. It does this by drawing on the symbolic connection between nature and society and the dilemmas that...
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Article 15 mins
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...system we live in, and states that capitalism is the reason she must engage in this type of work in the first place.This, according to Nordic Model Now!, who advocate for its introduction, “decriminalises all those who are prostituted, provides support services to help them exit, and makes buying people for sex a criminal offence, in order to reduce demand.” However,...
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Article 10 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...systems...Democracy? You think you know?: 1 Is democracy really such a good thing? - Politics is vital to all of our lives. The way our schools and businesses are run, how we travel and make a living, even how we see ourselves – it all depends on political decisions. And we are all democrats today. We have elections, parties compete, we vote, and the winners govern us....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...system, where girls were taught different subjects from boys, and reading books mostly featured male protagonists with women usually shown in domestic roles (Haralambos and Holborn, 1991, p. 284). These roles were accepted as correct and reinforced by society. They were restrictive for all genders and very difficult to challenge, as to go against the norm could bring...
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Article 10 mins
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...systems such as speech recognition software, but it can include low-tech solutions such as arm rests or wrist guards. (Banes and Seale, 2002, p. 2.)...Assistive technologies and online learning: 1.1 What do you know about assistive technology? - In this activity, you will explore a number of different assistive technologies, including IT hardware, non-IT hardware,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...system are tied to employment status. So if you don’t have full employment status in terms of a wage earning record that has bought you contributions for the social security system, then you are outside that core contributory benefit system, and either have to end up relying on means tested benefits or relying on a working partner, and that in my view is incompatible...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...systems, the linkages that are foregrounded by reapproaching the question of piracy in terms of the infrastructural implications of its practices. The centrality of infrastructural and logistical registers to piratical practices cuts across public/private distinctions and calls for a parametric sense of the political, rather than the fall-back on a public sphere model...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...system so it is better for all: this includes teachers, students and everyone in the educational institution. Inclusive education is about participation and learning from each other. Inclusive education is not a fixed state but an evolving one. Some of the key words that we noted were: rights, participation, process, values, equality, diversity, and change...2. Models of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs