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Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...everyday lives, and overestimate our capacity to identify and interrupt it. This is especially true in academic contexts where we tend to assume that if we simply accumulate more facts and information about the histories of colonialism and its contemporary impacts, this will then lead us to shift our actions away from reproducing colonial harm. But we cannot just read...
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...everyday life? Do you think the new technologies control crime, or control us? Why do you think that UK has the heaviest concentration of surveillance cameras ion the world? These are some of the questions that are currently preoccupying criminologists, especially those involved in ‘situational crime prevention’ initiatives and ‘governance’ theorists. Listen to...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...everyday usage). The term ‘model’ is used in a variety of contexts, even when there is a more commonly used term especially appropriate to its own context: models of terrain are usually called ‘maps’; models of electrical components wired together are usually called ‘circuit diagrams’; and models of the configuration of the planets within the zodiac are called...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...everyday life – often revolve around the value ascribed to participation by experts and ordinary people alike. Participation as a topic attracts a great deal of attention from social scientists. The political scientist Patrick Chabal (2009) uses the word ‘partaking’ to capture the dual sense in which participation is important in social science: the idea of taking...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...everyday needs was formalised in the mid eighteenth century. What this meant in practice is best demonstrated by the case of easel painting, which had become the dominant pictorial form by 1600. Unlike an altarpiece or a fresco, this kind of picture has no fixed place; instead, its frame serves to separate it from its surroundings, allowing it to be hung in almost any...
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...English equivalent. For instance, you will find Achilles as well as Akhilleus, Thucydides as well as Thoukydides. The reason is that there are different conventions for transliterating words from Greek into the English alphabet. This course tends to use what is often called ‘Latinised’ spelling, for example, ‘c’ rather than ‘k’, and ‘ae’ rather than...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...English edition of El País, the dire consequences of continuing to ignore the PISA results were underlined. The then state secretary for Education, Monserrat Gomendio, was quoted in an associated article on the presentation of the report; she said that what Spain needed was a “radical change in teaching methodology,” to move beyond “old-fashioned” models based...
Prifysgol y Plant – Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim
Education & Development

Prifysgol y Plant – Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim

...English. Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim Cymerwch gipolwg ar ddetholiad o gyrsiau isod, neu porwch trwy wefan OpenLearn fesul pwnc. Dysgwch am ein planed [Children Uni - Subject icons] Ydych chi’n awyddus i ddysgu mwy am y blaned sy’n gartref inni? Dewch i ddarganfod cyrsiau’n sôn am ecosystemau, daeargrynfeydd, daeareg, dŵr, y tywydd a mwy. Hefyd, mae yna gyrsiau’n...