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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...write them down or express them creatively, to find role models, to clean up personal social media and to identify supportive groups and communities can all be of help. Gender biases are just one example of judgemental bias. You will go on to learn more about this in Week 5 on overcoming stigma and Week 6 on social and cultural dimensions of mental health in learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...creative way, and, at their same time, they are commenting on the flag and are challenging stereotypes. What do you think? Gil Mualem-Doron: I am not sure if this answers your question, but I am a bit wary about what assumptions art or creative projects have in ‘giving’ people the opportunity to express their ‘experiences’ or their identity. There have been...
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Article 5 mins
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...write to him in a letter that ‘There is none of your opinions that my soul, gentle and tender as it is, shrinks from as much as that murderous and cutthroat view you maintain in the Discourse, that deprives the brutes of all life and sense’ (quoted by Wilson 1999, p. 495). As we shall see, it is not quite right to say that Descartes denied life to animals; that he...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...writes Dr Helen Owton...With the Men’s Rugby World Cup in the news currently, the shining a light on the sport of rugby shows it appearing to be making strides to tackle homophobia in sport. The most recent TV advert from Guinness stars Gareth Thomas telling his story about coming out to his team. A longer video features an interview with him about how he felt as a gay...
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Article 10 mins
Student-Parents: It’s a juggling act
Education & Development

Student-Parents: It’s a juggling act

...writing by exploring helpful web resources (An example of a study skills resource at the OU), and was able to combine student-parent life much better than in my first year, with the support of my friends that circled round my daughter and me. Funding is often high on student-parent’s agenda. I recognise that the Higher Education landscape was quite different in 2005...
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Article 10 mins
Saving capitalists from themselves?
Society, Politics & Law

Saving capitalists from themselves?

...write about southern Africa, where former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza took an incredible $2 bn in secret loans. Credit Suisse was a main lender and Christine Lagarde called the loans "corrupt". Faced with such a shameless elite, voters have turned to Recep Erdogan in Turkey, Narandra Modi in India, and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines - big men who promise to...
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Article 5 mins
Can you learn a language with an app?
Languages

Can you learn a language with an app?

...writing and speaking. Among the most popular language learning apps are Duolingo and busuu. Research has mainly found positive results on the use of both Duolingo and busuu. But most of this research concentrates on studies with learners who are also signed up to language courses – learners are using the apps for extra practice – so the results don’t provide a good...
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Article 10 mins
From space to laboratory in four days
Science, Maths & Technology

From space to laboratory in four days

...writing, there was still much to learn about the Winchcombe meteorite, with the bulk of the rock carefully curated at The Natural History Museum in London ready for further analyses. For Ross, it was certainly a whirlwind and surreal couple of weeks. Out of all the groups of meteorites, of which there are over 40 in our collections on Earth, the Winchcombe rock was almost...
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Article 10 mins