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Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...economic and social power causes homelessness and human misery. Well, as through this life I’ve rambled, I’ve met lots of funny men, Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen. Well, as through your life you travel, As through your life you roam, You won’t never see an outlaw Drive a family from their home. Tom Joad [Woody Guthrie playing the...
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Article 5 mins
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...economic climate is enormously challenging for any parent, especially in the context of ongoing cuts to disability support services. However, our research has demonstrated that intersecting forms of oppression faced by Black mothers consolidate and significantly exacerbate such struggles. This is why ‘Mothering at the Margins’ calls on researchers, policymakers, and...
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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...economic, societal or political. In addition, the failure of a project might itself be ‘risky’. The important thing is to recognise what is meant by risk and, as a result, plan for it as much as possible. Section 1 examines what is meant by risk and why it is important. Section 2 includes case studies of major accidents to illustrate some important aspects of risk and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...economic situation. Examining some of the different forms that approaches to poverty take in different parts of the world allows us to draw out the important commonalities between them. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Social Sciences...‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...economic and administrative records, literary, religious and scientific works, word-lists, and mathematical problems and tables. Nearly all of the texts that give us our fullest understanding of Babylonian mathematics—indeed, of any mathematics before the Greeks—date from about 1800—1600 BC. During this period, King Hammurabi unified Mesopotamia out of a rabble of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...economic injustice. That year, while campaigning on behalf of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, King was assassinated, sparking another wave of urban riots across the country. There were uprisings in over a hundred cities, including Washington D.C., New York City, Detroit and Chicago...The American Civil Rights Movement: 9 ‘Black Power’ - By this...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...economic and social decisions taken by the government? For example, Iceland prosecuted several bankers as a result of the 2008 Global financial crisis, but few other countries did so. Is it always against the law to take another life? What about conduct in wartime, in military or policing service or assisting euthanasia? Activity 3 Is it a crime? Timing: Allow about 10...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...economic contexts. This makes development management rich in complexity and sometimes rather messy! You will recall that in Week 1 it was noted that development actors often see development quite differently from the communities they are working with. In the next section you will start with watching a Ted Talk that seeks to explore how low income groups address life’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs