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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...et al., 1999). The main currents of policy debate that have responded to these changes put citizens at the centre. They assume, at a rhetorical level at least, that citizens will be engaged in the democratic regulation of local, national, regional and global environmental governance. In other words, they will practise all sorts of citizenship. Activity 4 The citizen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...motive has called us forth in time to witness this heavenly change, as of a new creation— The miracle of diuturnity Whose instancy unbeds the lark, that all the days of my life on which I had not witnessed it were wasted days! O that unbedding of the lark! The world that was so still before now all at once had a sound; not a single song and not in one place, but a sound...
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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...motivated and self-interested, if we don’t bring to light the absolutely critical and pressing threats that the natural world face we would be left without anything to make a film about, unless we’re happy making films in sets, unless we’re happy making films based on archive. So, I think that of course audiences can vote with their finger and can turn a television...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...motivated people and wound people up and got them really caring, if you like, with the modern form of storytelling as well, of sort of beginning, middles and ends, heroes, jeopardy, separation, all these things that make amazing stories, once you’ve got people caring, what then, what next? And I think we’re on that curve now and I think that is the agenda, is what...
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Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...motivate and inspire pupils in their understanding of music. You may find it helpful to share your experiences of using images with your peers, perhaps through a short presentation to your department...Using film music in the classroom: References - Thomas, T. (1991) Film Score: The Art and Craft of Movie Music (Burbank, CA, Riverwood Press) p. 293. Daubney, K. Max...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...motivated by hatred, bias or prejudice against a person or property based on the actual or perceived race, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation of the victim. Key theorists Key theorists who have conducted research or written about crimes of the powerful include: Stanley Cohen; Hazel Croall; Frank Pearce; Edwin Sutherland; Steve Tombs; Dave Whyte (Source:...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...et al., 2015). Hopkins and colleagues theorise that these social psychological processes are not especially exceptional or exotic; rather, they can be understood as continuous with our everyday ways of living in the twenty-first century. They demonstrate that events such as the Magh Mela both enhance well-being and revivify social identities. Attending the event enhances...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...motivation behind the money. So purple is fighting and red is giving money away and green is profiteering. And what you can see straight away is you start to have a different relationship to the numbers. You can literally see them. But more importantly, you start to see patterns and connections between numbers that would otherwise be scattered across multiple news...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs