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What is biomedicine?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is biomedicine?

...systems (physiology), in particular to understanding mechanisms like the heart, arteries, nerves, brain and so on. Health is seen as a state where all the parts of the body function normally, like a new repaired car. If bits go wrong—if the body is struck down by a virus, internal changes damage it, or parts wear out—it goes in for repair by specialists. This view...
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Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...system, a view he claims is perceived as ‘nakedly sectarian’ by the Catholic community. In response, the First Minster replied that the Bishop had ‘somewhat lost the plot’ and the phrase used by Robinson in 2010 to describe the separate schools system, 'benign apartheid', has entered the debate again. This exchange is unusual in that both the Bishop and First...
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Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...systems. In early studies the problems of solving the structures of molecules in living systems were immense, because of their sheer size. Dorothy Hodgkin was a key early pioneer in such studies. After graduating from Oxford, she went to Cambridge and studied crystallography with J. D. Bernal, but shortly returned to Oxford, where she worked for the next 33 years. She is...
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Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...systems is sort of supreme in the West. And I think what the important thing to recognise in this sort of conversation about Blackness and its construction is that this isn’t good science. It’s easy for us to say that in retrospect. But at the time, it was perceived as being, you know these are taxonomies. This is how we talk about humans. But they’re always...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...think about what can be discovered in research literature about different practices and about different benefits to young children. To begin with, take a few minutes to listen to the following audio in which Joanne Josephidou, Session 1 author, introduces the content. JOANNE JOSEPHIDOU: Approximately, 385,000 babies are born every single day. Each will have their own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...system consisting of a set of sounds, written symbols and signs. It describes how we share norms, values, meaning, culture and perspectives of the world with others who understand the same language system. All languages are fluid, taking on new words, meanings and grammatical rules throughout their existence. However, society’s relationship with language is complex,...
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...think should be added, then arrange the reasons in order of their importance. Of course, there is no one ‘right answer’ here. Next, listen to the audio clip of part of a conversation with an Oxfordshire teacher, below. Note the reasons given for including a global dimension in science. Discuss which reasons are most important in your own context. Click play to listen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...thinking about crime? The Maximum Penalty column is the give-away. All of the offences carry fines or the possibility of imprisonment. So there is an assumption that crimes are acts that are codified in law; in this case a law that has been created, policed and enforced by the UK state (the police, the criminal justice system, parliament, the Home Office, etc.). Crimes...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs