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Othello and apartheid
History & The Arts

Othello and apartheid

...system of enforced legal racial segregation in South Africa that was imposed on the country's majority non white inhabitants by the minority white population. In 1988 actress and director Janet Suzman took the decision to defy the racist apartheid regime by staging Othello in Johannesburg with a mixed cast of both white and black actors. In these three films we explore...
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Managing for Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Managing for Sustainability

...systems. This material is taken from Open University course T867: Managing for sustainability... Source planning in waste Chris Murphy gives a brief overview of the waste industry from his experience. Source planning in occupational safety Joe Taylor explains the significance of planning from a Health and safety perspective. What is an environmental audit? Why is an...
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Video 23 mins
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...think it's a fascinating story because the climate is a complex system, and it's a difficult thing to understand. Climate models are getting more and more complicated as we understand them better, and we put more, and more science into the code, and they're getting better at reproducing the climate. But there's always going to be some things that we can do better, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...thinking about gender as something that’s flexible. So, how do children come to understand gender? When do they begin to think about gender as a stable trait? [Pink bikes for the girls, blue bikes for the boys: Gendered toys in a shop] Choose a toy, little girl or boy What is gender? We often tend to think about gender as the biological differences between men and...
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Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...system, but neither, says Eric Kaufmann, were driven by personal economic circumstances...[Nigel Farage addresses the US CPAC conference] Were Farage and Trump appealing to forces beyond the pocket book? For months, commentators have flocked to diagnose the ills that have supposedly propelled Trump’s support, from the Republican primaries until now. As in Britain, many...
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Article 10 mins
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material useful. Of course we, as scholars, have found it fantastically interesting, historians, geographers, environmental researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this material. There’s another category we didn’t...
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Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...thinking as a postgraduate? Here you will find a number of OpenLearn courses to help with the skills needed for postgraduate online distance learning...[Illustration of people studying, teaching and reading, books and digitally on laptops and mobile] Perhaps you work with children and young people or are a teacher thinking about taking your learning to the next level? Or...
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Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
Education & Development

Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths

...think it would be deemed socially acceptable – in fact, most people would be embarrassed to make that claim. So why is it okay to by openly negative about mathematics? Why do so many openly claim to dislike mathematics, and why is mathematics seen as a domain only accessible to an elite group of “smart” people? [An abacus] Research has proven humans are born...
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