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Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...writing about “primitives”, they were also intrigued by elements of their own culture, in particular “wild” and “primitive” practices and cognitive operations, based not in some far-off distant shore or in some time before time, but right in their midst, in the delirium of Romanticism, superstitious “folk” traditions and more. All kinds of anxieties about...
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: Photo by Silvia Trigo from Pexels...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...write down a method of arithmetic for a calculation they can do in their head. Nor should they have to: mental calculation is a perfectly good way of working out the answers to number questions, so encourage its use...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: 3 Developing formal written calculation methods - This course mainly focuses on teaching children...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...write CVs and covering letters, and prepare for interviews and their aftermath. You’ll note from Figure 1 that the blocks can be thought of as a continuous process involving taking stock, exploring opportunities, setting goals and taking action. [Described image] Figure 1 The process of planning for a better future Together they amount to approximately 15 hours of study...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...creative interaction around texts is likely to be heard, constraining personal responses to reading. In the Teachers as Readers project, teachers’ talk about self-chosen children’s books was initially dominated by a professional focus: they concentrated on what literacy objectives the book was good for (e.g. teaching character, plot, setting and specific language and...
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...write this course, the context for work with young people continues to change. A change of government can bring new priorities, but so too can other events. For example, funding for work with young people is being reduced at the time of writing due to austerity measures, and increasingly being concentrated on targeted work with young people. These three issues suggest...
Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...creative director who was apparently given unlimited power to design advertisements on whatever he wanted and which bore no relationship to Benetton Clothing. And he decided to undertake a series of advertising campaigns to promote social awareness on topical issues, which ranged from the Catholic Church, illegal arms to Africa and oil pollution. And one that particularly...