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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...de Ruiter, an environmental scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, and colleagues. At present, two-thirds of all cropland needed to produce the UK’s food and feed is located overseas, while 64% of associated carbon dioxide emissions are emitted abroad. The report concludes: “These results imply that the UK is increasingly reliant on external resources,...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...de Beauvoir and the Feminist Revolution, Introducing philosophy and she's currently working on Exploring languages and cultures... as she said, there’s been plenty and quite a variety too. ‘The great thing about OpenLearn is that there’s no pressure, I can just pick a subject and study as I like,’ Charity added. ‘Some I’ve covered entirely within a couple of...
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Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888.] Picture of "El Negro" ("Negre de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888 During the ages of European exploration and colonial expansion, the west delighted in...
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Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf

...de-lis’. Bu’n gweithio ar y gerdd tan y funud olaf. Yn gynnar ym mis Medi y flwyddyn honno, daeth criw mawr o bobl ynghyd i wylio seremoni’r cadeirio ym Mhenbedw. Roedd y prif weinidog ar y pryd, sef David Lloyd George, yn eu plith, ac yntau’n siaradwr Cymraeg. Heb wybod ei fod wedi marw o’i anafiadau sawl wythnos yn gynharach, roedd y beirniaid yn unfryd unfarn...
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Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...De: Y plac glas a osodwyd y tu allan i adeilad PCYDDS Dinefwr yng nghanol dinas Abertawe i'w choffáu, © PCYDDS. Roedd ei ffrindiau'n newyddiadurwyr, yn gaethweision a ryddhawydd ac yn ymgyrchwyr megis Frederick Douglass ac Ellen a William Craft, a'r gweithredwyr gwleidyddol William Lloyd Garrison a Harriet Beecher Stowe. Roedd y gerddoriaeth y byddai Jessie wedi clywed...
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Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...class, white-collar crime and political economy (Rusche and Kirchheimer, 1939; Sutherland, 1949) In a similar vein to Bonger’s work on social structure and crime, Peter Kropotkin’s ‘Law and authority’, published in 1898, attacked the criminal law and those who held the power to create it. He argued that processes of criminalisation were heavily skewed in favour of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...class of ‘things’ that are seen to be the greatest expressions of culture promotes, in turn, narratives about the set of values that are seen to be the most worthy in the preservation of a particular form of state society. The heritage list, like the literary or artistic canon, is controlled by putting the power to establish the canon into the hands of experts who are...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end of course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. ...Session 8: Adults and lifelong learning in the primary school: Introduction - You have nearly completed this course. Hopefully this final session will be useful to your thinking and your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs