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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...motivates and underpins the life historical and experiential approach adopted in this study. Homelessness is seen as a life process and the lives of homeless women, and the stories they tell about their lives, are examined and specified in terms that are appropriate to a social understanding (Blasi, 1990). There is a concern in this approach to frame the issue of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...et al. and Kassem both focus on the human resources department, noting that this plays an essential role in maintaining an effective control environment. The human resources department should have adequate processes in place for conducting relevant background checks on relevant personnel before accepting them to the firm. The human resources department should have clear...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...motivation is to build capacity in poor countries and vulnerable countries, so philosophically we’d rather not be in the position of an outside consultant coming in and simply making up a bunch of spreadsheets and putting the narrative round and sending it to the minister, so we simply haven’t done that. And we’ve got involved with governments on the government’s...
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Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...motivation for tackling this course of study, it will take you on a journey looking at the challenges posed when you live in a rural environment and start you thinking about how you can use this knowledge to run a successful business of your choice. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course Q91 Business Management...Rural entrepreneurship...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...motives for learning, what we want from course study and the extent to which our goals are being achieved. The second kind of thinking that reflection requires is critical analysis of ideas and experiences, so that meanings are questioned and theories tested out. Such thinking may require a framework of questions or some problem-solving activities to help you compare and...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...motivations. Tarlo notes that supporters of the niqab often highlight the spiritual benefits of the sense of physical closure it creates: ‘The sense of physical closure attained by the face veil operates both outwards and inwards. It has the effect of people turning in on themselves, enabling them to concentrate more fully on issues of self-discipline, self-restraint,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...et al., 2014a). Even after music printing had been firmly established, repertory continued to circulate in manuscript. This was perhaps due to there being a lack of music printer-publishers in certain locations, the wish to deliberately restrict or retain control over the dissemination of repertory, or to assert the status of a specially prepared copy (Wyn Jones, 2005, p....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...et al., 2018) Total 6495 Recently extinct 96 Living 6399 Living wild 6382 Mammals have been around for a long time. Fossils of the shrew-like Megazostrodon have been found in strata in southern Africa that are 200 million years old. [Described image] Figure 4 An early mammal, Megazostrodon Rather than shuffling along, with splayed-out limbs in the manner of many reptiles,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs