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Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...attention away from precisely what needs examining if the differences separating philosophers, ideologies, and social movements concerned with freedom are to be understood. The corrective advised is to regard freedom as always one and the same triadic relation, but recognise that various contending parties disagree with each other in what they understand to be the ranges...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...attention to the constructed, engendered aspect of nationhood, and to the ideology of nationalism, in recent years. That is not surprising. For one thing, nations and nationalist movements are all unique in some way. Political theorists find nationalism difficult to generalise about, as opposed to a concept such as ‘legitimacy’ or ‘freedom’. Further, most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...attention back to the teacher. MANDY LEWIS It's my job to plan the lesson, to know what's going on in the lesson, and how the children learn best. But I share that knowledge with Keeley, because Keeley's got that knowledge as well. I want to make a circuit. [PLAYING DRUM] PETER WOOLSTON I was lucky to take a retirement seven years ago. My wife was a schoolteacher, and I...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...attention at his hands, and after the first surprise one came quickly to realise the convenience that his carefulness ensured. Before starting on a railway journey, for instance (and how delightful were railway journeys in the company of Lewis Carroll), he used to map out exactly every minute of the time that we were to take on the way. The details of the journey...
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Article 10 mins
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...attention to the training methods that may be used to develop speed. Plisk (2008) identifies three methods for developing speed: primary, secondary and tertiary methods. Primary methods focus on executing sound movement technique in a specific task. Initially primary methods of developing speed tend to be performed at speeds slower than those used in the real situation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...attention to the historical development of voluntary organisations is being pursued in a wider context now, with a call for voluntary organisations to consider preserving their archives and thus their history. As the Voluntary Action History Society (VAHS) explains: We cannot write the history of Britain without recourse to the records of voluntary organisations. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...attention to stone. One of the problems with stone is that it is brittle : it is easily broken by an impact, and will tend to break rather than just deform. Stone is an example of a ceramic material (see Ceramics below). The pottery mugs you have at home are also ceramic, and they break easily if dropped onto a hard surface; a metal saucepan, on the other hand, would not...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...attention to this in the next section...Week 1: Solving puzzles: 3 Understanding numbers - As part of learning about maths, you need to understand how numbers work – both whole numbers and decimals. Every number that we see around us is made up of a series of digits, such as 1302 (one thousand, three hundred and two). The value that each digit has depends not only on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs