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By the end of this unit you should be able to:

• explore ideas about place and identity using our concept of ‘geographical imagination’ by examining the images that represent a place to reveal how those images came about;

• explore ideas about place and identity by examining the images that represent a place to reveal two sets of relationships that are important in understanding the character of a place: power relations and local-global relations.


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Arrangements for care and support which people manage for themselves or have organised for them privately or informally tell us something about the shifting borders between funded and non-funded care, between health and social care, and between paid and unpaid care work. They also demonstrate how the reality of the mixed economy of care is played out in the arrangements which people make for care and support in their own households.
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Arrangements for care and support which people manage for themselves or have organised for them privately or informally tell us something about the shifting borders between funded and non-funded care, between health and social care, and between paid and unpaid care work. They also demonstrate how the reality of the mixed economy of care is played out in the arrangements which people make for care and support in their own households.
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The aims of section 1 are to:

• provide you with a clear idea of what the unit is about and how it is structured

• help you understand the importance of the word ‘skills’

• start you thinking about your own learning.

By the time you have reached the end of section 2 you should be able to:

• understand that valuable and important learning goes on all the time

• appreciate that learning can involve thinking,
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