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Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs
Languages

Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs

...health. Reveal answer Practical considerations and religious devotion 3. Reflect: Which version of the video is easiest to watch? Can watching a German video with English subtitles help you increase your German vocabulary? What about German captions alongside the German voice – does this help you to learn German? 4. Share your thoughts and comments with others in the...
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The Eagle has landed within the OpenLearn community
Money & Business

The Eagle has landed within the OpenLearn community

...Health Care, Climate and Nature, AI, FinTech, Games and Digital Security sectors, giving them a facilitated environment to collaborate and innovate. Want to join our vibrant community, or explore what Barclays Eagle Labs have to offer? Connect with us though the Open University dedicated webpage and join our network of UK entrepreneurs. Whether you’re a start-up,...
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Not intervening as a form of care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Not intervening as a form of care

...health care? Perhaps on television, or if you’ve been caring for someone undergoing treatment. Even if it is said with genuine sympathy, the problem is that it can suggest resignation or failure. However, we have identified this as a moment not when everything suddenly stops, but when a different form of care can be offered. Over the last few years, we have been doing a...
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The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...mental health therapist, because there I used all sorts of theoretical perspectives in my work, but the one I favoured was the humanistic approach, where you’re trying to look at, kind of taking a holistic view of the person, the individual, trying to understand their, their feelings, their needs, their potential. Trying to empower. And these are the kinds of messages...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...wellbeing scales (Impact Ed, 2022); additionally, daily reading is linked to better behavioural adjustment at the start of adolescence (Mak and Fancourt, 2019). Furthermore, OECD data consistently show that ‘engagement in reading is strongly correlated with reading performance and is a mediator of gender or socio-economic status’ (OECD, 2021). So, finding effective...
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Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...health risk for consumers.” Read in full at The Grocer: Chlorinated chicken explained: why do the Americans treat their poultry with chlorine? What do the public think? A 2012 piece in the journal Food Control exploring how consumers in the UK reacted to various approaches to reducing the presnce of Campylobacter in food discovered a lack of support for chlorine...
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Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is childbirth a medical procedure?

...Health Organisation recommends that the caesarean rate should be no more than 10 – 15 per cent, the average caesarean rate across the UK is 22 per cent. Indeed, many hospitals in the UK now have caesarean rates that exceed 25 per cent (BirthChoice UK, 2005). Justification for the medicalisation of birth Several explanations have been put forward to justify the...
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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...Health Service is rather an odd one. I seem to remember Michael Gove wanted to privatise it, Boris wanted to charge people for using it, and Iain Duncan Smith wanted a social insurance system. The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python. The issue of the safety of the NHS, and the ‘leave’ campaigners’ claims that money sent to...
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