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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...le lingue e la traduzione, perche’ pensi che queste siano questioni importanti? In che misura il tuo multilinguismo è importante per la tua arte? E in quale lingua pensi che il tuo lavoro stia comunicando con il pubblico? Laura: Thanks for this question about language, translation and the relation between my own plurilingualism and art. When we have to define what is...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...Le cou Maintenant, écoutez et répetéz bijou caillou chou genou hibou joujou pou Now this is a very interesting list of words. We all learn all these words by heart because in the plural they end in x instead of s. now your turn. You read the words first then listen to my recording. Remember you can pause my recording at any time. bijou caillou chou genou hibou joujou...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the standardised efficiency of the motor industry with the inefficiency of the building trade.) CIAM's early attitudes towards town-planning were stark: "Urbanisation cannot be conditioned by the claims of a pre-existent aestheticism; its essence is of a functional order… the chaotic division of land,...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...le ma?) was actually one of the common greetings amongst neighbours. An appropriate response is to say ‘Chī le’ for ‘Yes’ or ‘Méi chī’ for ‘No’. Zăo ān (lit. morning peace), a common greeting in the morning in Taiwan. When parting from people, you say: Zàijiàn (lit. again see) Goodbye Note that although there are expressions in Chinese for ‘good...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Get your FREE human body augmented reality postcards
Science, Maths & Technology

Get your FREE human body augmented reality postcards

...and point the camera at the print out to scan. Follow the instructions on screen. Don’t forget to try the selfie mode; hold the image to your body to see the organ outside of your body. If you like, you can share an image on social media. (If you haven’t got access to a printer you can try scanning directly from your computer or phone screen). More on the human body...
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Activity 10 mins
Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...modes of learning. We may be encouraged to attend a course to ‘fill a gap’ or to undertake professional enquiry to ‘solve’ an issue. In contrast, appreciative approaches (Cooke and Saunders, 2023) ask us to focus on what is working well, not just what needs fixing. In doing so, we explore what has powerful potential and imagine what could happen by changing...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...modes of creating knowledge and meaning. Today, governmental institutions and commercial agencies are demanding and developing new methods to gather and interpret data. The trend has been exponential with electronic forms of data collection, creating ‘big data’ which can – and must - be analysed in new ways. These data and attached methods aim to know and generate...
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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...temps au petit pour accepter cette nouvelle vie et la perte des liens affectifs avec les personnes qui l’ont élevé. Que pourrait imaginer l’institution scolaire pour aider ces enfants ? En Finlande, l’école a obligation d’organiser des cours de langues pour les migrants dès qu’ils sont trois issus du même pays. On en est loin ! Supposer qu’un enfant...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs