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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...become a regular in the media since her impressive US Open win in 2021 at the age of 18 years, where she was the first British woman to win a Grand Slam event since 1977. One recent topic of conversation has been Raducanu’s ‘carousel of coaches’ (Fuller, 2022) and discussions of how she has worked with four coaches since Wimbledon last year. There has been...
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Article 5 mins
Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five tips on how to plan new self-care routines

...become widely acknowledged as being critical to all of us, helping to protect us from mental ill health. But what exactly do we mean by self-care and what does it look like in practice? Although this may seem obvious for maintaining mental health, it is something we can all be prone to forgetting to do, especially as we struggle to cope with the changes and uncertainties...
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Article 15 mins
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...become global religions? Hilde Capparella, a PhD research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article...Transcript African and African-Caribbean religions and the issue of stigmatisation [George Baxter, The Reverend Robert Moffat, 1 April 1843] The Reverend Robert Moffat by George Baxter (1843) Historically, African...
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Video 15 mins
A future for languages in schools?
Languages

A future for languages in schools?

...OU’s specific expertise in teaching practice and pedagogy has been utilized to provide training for teachers in various topics including dyslexia and language learning, listening skills, and teaching translation. A library of free open educational resources (OER) is available through the OpenLearnWorks project website offering language teachers the possibility to...
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Article 5 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...become popular. The resultant prizes (a Friday film and popcorn, for example, for the class with the highest percentage of parents’ signatures) are positioned as incentives, but such extrinsic motivators rarely work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves....
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Article 10 mins
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...students’ ability to recover from adversity, learn from experiences, and respond constructively to life’s challenges. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) supports this by helping children understand emotions and build the self-confidence needed to cope with hardship and grow stronger. For SEL to be effective in crisis contexts, it must be rooted in children’s...
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Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...OU volunteers say about why they started voluntary work...Using Voluntary work to get ahead in the job market: 2.1 Introduction - 'All experiences count and are valuable and no one should push those aside. It really doesn't matter where that experience was gained. It's about what you learnt from it… don't devalue yourself. Recognise the importance of what you've done.'...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...student Andreas Wernecke explores Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions. ...I am a PhD student at The Open University and I am currently in the extraordinarily lucky situation that a part of my research is published and gains quite some attention from the research community and media alike. The study has been led by one of my supervisors, Tamsin...
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Article 10 mins