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Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...paradox that, legally speaking, these items of property were human beings who, like free people, took part in ordinary life. They had families and friends. They could be doctors, actors, teachers, bookkeepers, bankers, agents, farmers, actuaries, philosophers. But they did not have the legal standing of free people: the capacity to have rights in law, to own property, to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...paradox of him being able to evade the conditions of subject formation that he claimed were all-encompassing. Foucault simply posited resistance as the inevitable (but unexplained) complement to power. For Marxists and feminists committed to the radical transformation of existing social relations – and many of the art historians involved in this debate claimed...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...paradoxically, makes us suffer more. At this point you are invited to read a chapter from Mad or Bad: A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology(2017). Chapter 16, ‘Mindfulness’, was written by course authors Meg-John Barker and Troy Cooper for the Open University course DD310 Counselling and forensic psychology: investigating crime and therapy. Click...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...paradoxically, Mandy's history epitomises the benefits of welfare to work. It is because there are sanctions with painful consequences that NDYP promises success. Aged 16, Mandy was a dependent who had her own flat – a ‘perverse incentive’ her peers might envy and emulate. NDYP removed the artificial protection of unconditional welfare and exposed Mandy to work and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...paradoxically, both those campaigning for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and those wishing to limit them (including the UK Government) agree that the Convention no longer speaks to the current global situation. The plethora of legislation and social policy since the early 1990s is widely understood as successive attempts to ‘stem the flow’ of refugees. They...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...Paradoxically, research has found that strategies to improve pain management and encouraging greater engagement from parents can result in more complaints from parents (Simons 2015); this may be the outcome of parents being more informed, confident and having higher expectations of what can be achieved. Empowering parents makes considerable sense, as they are their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...paradoxically an ancient secondary source can also be a primary source. That’s why we tend to use the terms ‘ancient’ and ‘modern’, rather than ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’. Whatever the terminology used, it’s becoming clear that sources are far from straightforward. Let’s pause for a moment and consider what we mean by a ‘source’. [Figure 1] Figure...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...paradoxical discovery that some patients in vegetative states can be awoken with a sedative, zolpidem. One of the best-known cases is the South African Louis Viljoen, who had been left vegetative by a road accident. One day in 1999, Wally Nel, a GP working near Johannesburg, gave Louis the drug to ease the way that he clawed at his mattress. Instead of being relaxed,...
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Article 15 mins