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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...physical mobility, foreign and domestic investment and increased racial, communal and political unrest, especially after the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh on 16 December 2012, three weeks before my fieldwork began, which was followed by national and international outcry and unprecedented protests. The mediatisation and public imagination of this event...
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Article 5 mins
Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland
History & The Arts

Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland

...physical or mental ill-health. Nevertheless, his belief about its ability to influence was strong enough to justify establishing a rich musical life in the early years of the Crichton. Patient and staff concerts at the Crichton One of the most important innovations during the early years of the Crichton Institution was its introduction of concerts organised and performed...
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Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...physical dexterity. Others are less obvious, such as how children make sense of the information in their environment. Social scientists try to understand every aspect of children’s development, including how children learn, think and interact with those around them, and how their personalities and temperaments emerge. Watch the following video to get started. Nathalia...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...physical capacities, life experiences and ability to do things without help are limited at this age, it has only been in the last 30 years or so that researchers and others have fully explored just how much very young babies are able to do – that they can express a range of emotions, communicate with adults in quite sophisticated ways, and play a full part in family...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...physical design, such as postage stamps, products and architecture. Understanding the principles of composition will help you make better designs. This part of the course guides you through the principles of composition using a wide range of examples of design outputs. There are a number of exercises to help you apply your learning and to experiment with variations in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...physical activity or healthy food supply, such as lack of safe walking and cycling options and lack of healthy foods in some parts of cities, and near schools living and working conditions that promote stress, job and housing insecurity, and don’t support home food preparation interacting with all these factors, the very widespread promotion (marketing and advertising)...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...physical tools (hammers, levers, screw presses, and so on) are objects that allow humans to increase the physical force they can exert, or to apply it in a more convenient way. Such tools are often referred to as machines. The whole history of technology is one of machine building. Humans have limited strength compared to many animals, and traditionally we have used...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...physically meet the people we interact with. Profile photos remove anonymity and provide information about your gender, age and ethnicity that can be helpful to provide a visual cue to you as a person. It is also useful to remember that people will also form an opinion of you based on your photo. As an experiment, I uploaded two profile photos of me to Photofeeler, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs