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Education & Development
Supporting children's development
Supporting children’s development is an introductory course for anyone who is interested in children’s development, especially support staff in schools, such as teaching assistants. It builds on your knowledge and skills to develop a deeper understanding of children from the early years to school leavers. You will be introduced to some core ...
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Education & Development
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Mae Cefnogi datblygiad plant yn gwrs rhagarweiniol ar gyfer unrhyw un sydd â diddordeb yn natblygiad plant, yn enwedig staff cymorth mewn ysgolion, megis cynorthwywyr addysgu. Mae’n adeiladu ar eich gwybodaeth a’ch sgiliau er mwyn datblygu dealltwriaeth ddyfnach o blant - o’r blynyddoedd cynnar i oed gadael ysgol. Byddwch yn cael cyflwyniad...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The story of infection
How have infectious diseases, both their response to us and our response to them, evolved over the centuries?
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Education & Development
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Natalia Kucirkova, Professor of Reading and Children's Development, explores the work of Jerome Bruner, Catherine Snow and Kathy Sylva...
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Education & Development
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
In this article, Professor Teresa Cremin explores how talking about texts, their possible meanings and interpretations should be placed at the very heart of the reading curriculum
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Education & Development
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
In this article, Professor Teresa Cremin considers how discovering children’s intrinsic motivation as readers can build reciprocal communities of readers.
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Education & Development
Reading communities: why, what and how?
In this article, Professor Teresa Cremin considers the long term aim of developing readers for life and challenges us to consider effective strategies and practices to genuinely achieve this.
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Education & Development
Writing for pleasure?
Teresa Cremin, Professor of Literacy in Education at The Open University explores whether we nurture young people’s enjoyment in writing.
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Education & Development
Writing from the heart
Teresa Cremin, Professor of Literacy in Education at The Open University explores whether we offer young writers enough opportunities for ‘writing from the heart’
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Education & Development
Do children have agency as authors?
Teresa Cremin, Professor of Literacy in Education at The Open University explores whether children are given enough autonomy when it comes to writing.
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Languages
Why has English taken over academia?
If English is globally squeezing out teaching in local languages, the fault isn't with the language but with economics. Anna Kristina Hultgren and Elizabeth J. Erling explain.
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Money & Business
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Learn about the essential numerical skills required for accounting and bookkeeping. This free course, Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting, explains the fundamental rules of double-entry bookkeeping and how they are used to produce the balance sheet and the profit and loss account.