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Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...adults who overwork, though, is it? It's children, too. I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s, and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they race around with more homework, more tutoring, more extra-curriculars than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago. And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...adult to child, from generation to generation. These invisible or ‘intangible’ practices of heritage, such as language, culture, popular song, literature or dress, are as important in helping us to understand who we are as the physical objects and buildings that we are more used to thinking of as ‘heritage’. Another aspect of these practices of heritage is the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...adults (e.g. college students), these being the highest risk groups. The programme was strongly promoted by the government, health professionals and independent bodies such as the Meningitis Trust. Even though meningitis C is a rare condition – around 5 cases annually per 100,000 children aged under 5 years – parents saw it as such a serious disease that there was a...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...Adult Smoking Habits in Great Britain: 2014 [Online], Newport, Office for National Statistics. Available at www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/adultsmokinghabitsingreatbritain/2014 (Accessed 18 September 2016). Oxford English Dictionary (2016) [Online], Oxford, Oxford University Press. Available at...
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...adult children of Harki parents demanded an end to their marginalised status. [A black-and-white photograph of a man sitting at a table.] Figure 3 A Harki resident of the transit camp at Bias, France, August 1975. Answer the following questions: Based on close observation of the photograph, what might you expect were some of the main concerns that the Harki protestors had...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...adults in the UK, the rest of Europe and the USA who are very overweight and diagnosed as obese in medical terms through use of the body mass index. However, there are once again debates about what all this really means. Questions have been raised about the relevance of the BMI as a measure of obesity as it does not distinguish between fat and muscle; so, for example,...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...adult. A daily menu might have consisted of swede soup for breakfast, swede ‘chops’ for lunch, and swede cake for dinner. Even coffee was made of dried ground swedes or turnips. A note on terminology – the German term for the root vegetable consumed in huge quantities is ‘Steckrübe’. This is a yellow root vegetable and in the UK more commonly known as a swede,...
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...adults (daughters of immigrant Muslims) are assuming a public Islamic identity by wearing the hijab […] despite the fact that their mothers have never dressed Islamically’ (2007, pp. 253–4). She argues that many women have donned the hijab in response to and resistance against ‘Islamophobia that took hold as a consequence of the propaganda for the war on...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs